UW 1A

Hello everyone, my name is Hao Lin and I migrated to USA five years ago.  I am outgoing and a little bit of humor, although some of my friends always though my jokes weren’t funny at all, but I enjoy my own style of humor. Same as most boys, I do like to play computer games, basketball and read some novels. I played computer because my friends are playing, and I enjoy the teamwork in the basketball game.  Reading novels for me just like to experience other people’s life story and see people views about this world.

It is a great chance for me to meet everyone in this class. Each of your come from different places, have different cultural backgrounds and of course some interest stories about your past.  I believe most of people in this class are new immigrants and you will agree with me that life for immigrants was not easy at all. I was started from the ESL class which refers to the English as Second Language.  I had problem to communicate with other native speakers or I did not want to getting in touch with them because I knew how poor my English was.  However, I realized that my friends did not look down at me because of the language problem, even more they are willing to help out and encourage me to express myself.  It is true that friend is the one who always supporting you.

And talking about friends, college is another great opportunity to make new friends. However, the life in college is totally different from the high school.  I expect my college life will be a lot of easier than high school, but from what I had experienced is it is opposite from my thought.  No one going to push you means if you don’t study by yourself the only result is failing.  It is more about responsibility and self-control.  I was so busy each week, which there is lot of readings in each of class and difficult exams coming up.  However, thing did not come out as I wished.  The grades for some course such as music is badly even i did study for it.  Hope things will get better during next few months.

The earth is one of the planets that move around the sun. Many people believe it is because sun is a really important existence for the earth. Sun has giving its warmth light to the earth so people feel warm when winter season is coming. I would like to be the sun to burn myself to give warmth light to the others. I see myself as a sun because I like to help people when many people need helps. I had been in the student club, services, and also had been my teacher’s assistant to help students and my teacher. I helped the student that had problem understanding the lesson.  I helped my teacher to check homework and grade some tests, and also helped setting up the ‘Smart Board’ so she could you it to teach the class. I help elders outside the school because I feel bad when they want to do something that hard for them to do. They become weak when they get older so I think I should help them if I have time. I am an enthusiastic person, warm as sun and want to help people to share my warmth. And I believe it is a right thing to help people because one day the trouble may happens me, and I hope someone could help me with my problems.

Hi everyone, my name is WenHao Liang. Some of my high school teachers used to make fun of  my name by calling “when” and “how”, and every classmates would laugh at me. Since I am a easy-going person, those kinds of jokes are acceptable for me. Indeed, I never mad at people. Because I think madness and hate can do nothing as we already living in the world that around with grief and pressure. I don’t want to be the one that add pressure to people. I want to be the one that helps people, put smiles on people. Also I am a persevering person, which means I always trying to overcome any problems I have. There is a saying “ out of difficulties, makes miracle”. I am strongly believe in it. I think whenever there is a problem, there is a solution. Remember I was in primary school, third grade. Our school was going to have a class to class basketball Tournament. I was really love to play basketball. Unfortunately, I was the eleventh man of my class. A basketball team normally forms by 5 fronts and 5 substitutions. That means I did not have a chance to play for my class in that year. I was deeply sad. From that day on, I started to aim for improve my basketball skill just for a chance of playing for the class in next year. I practiced basketball day to day, no matter how shining was the sun, how cold was the wind, and how heavy was the rain, you could always see my face on the basketball court. I did not became the best basketball player, but I finally gained the chance to play for the class with millions drops of my sweat.

As you see, I love sport, specially basketball. I like Kobe Bryant. I been watching him playing basketball for almost 10 years. He is the best basketball player in the world. Every move and every shot that he takes could be so attracted to me. I love popular music. I think music is kind of magic. With just a few limited notes, we human can create unlimited songs. And every single song represent a meaning, a feeling, or a story. I always try to get into the story of the songs while I am listening. Music takes me to everywhere, and it inspires and teaches me a lot of truth of our humanity.

Lets go back to class we have right now. I think it is a treasure to knowing each of you guys and become friends of each other. We from different countries and places, and we speak different languages. And now we just met here, in this country, this building, this classroom. We must all treasure this as a part of life.

Hi, my name is Naeun Kim. Im from Korea and have lived in New York for little more than 2 years.

Nowdays, my life in college is both interesting and stressful. I get lots of reading and writing assignments everyday and it gives me lots of stress for me because Im a very slow reader and my lack of English makes it more difficult. Although I studied very hard, I don’t think I did good job on my history test last week and it made me deppressed for a while. Also Im afraid of Anthropology test that is comming this Wednesday.

However, meeting new people and making friends made my college life intereting. Luckily, I met many nice people in Baruch. I think it is good to have block schedule because I could get closer to people who have same schedule with me and make good friends.  Also, I met some nice friends from the Korean Club.

Although I like to make new frineds, Im not a very outgoing person. It takes lots of attemps to say hi and act friendly to new people for me. However, after I get close to them, I talk a lot and get hyper. I really like texting so I text a lot to friends especially whom I like to get closer.  

I really don’t like to be alone. I oftenly feel lonely and always miss and look for people who think about and take care about me. I think that is why I text a lot. I feel kind of relief from texting when I am alone. I was thinking why am I so scared about being alone. I think it is because of my experience in my childhood. Im an only child of my family and both of my parents have worked since when I was a child. So I had to be alone in my home. At that time, I didn’t feel any loneliness or sadness about that since I was a little kid. I was just bored. However, I thinkt that experience hurted deep inside of my heart and remained as a trauma.

So,  I was so worried not only about studying but also about being alone without any friend before my college life began. And now I think it was one of the luckiest things in my life that I met good friends in Baruch.

Mae Ni.

I am an ordinary person, but I enjoy my simple life since living in this world is marvelous. I just think that without mundane people like me, others would never been showed how great they are. I’d like to describe myself as a wonderful piece of music which is composed by light and shadow.

“light” symbolizes the achievement in my life. When I was a little girl, my grandparent let me to learn the piano. I was unwilling and weary to play it at first. Over time, however, I had been affected by the wonderful music. Also, in order to prevent disappointment of my family and attain a higher level, I strived to practice more. Finally, I awarded certificate of Grade 8. From then on, music is an impartibly part of my life. In addition, I have been edified by soft music. I set up a good attitude towards failures and problems and try to deal with them with a calm mind. I became patient and placid because of each dancing notes. I realize college needs harder work than before, but music gives me confidence which supports me to confront all the difficulty.

Shadow is destined to appear where the light is. Failure, suffering and some bad things always flood the life. Once, I participated in a competition for commissary of entertainment of student council enthusiastically. I played the piano to show my talent and also prepared a video which introduced me, but the video could not be played properly. At the moment with all sights from teachers and students on me, my brain had nothing left but said something embarrassedly to end my speech. I did not become a member of student council in the end. However, I did not lose the confidence of myself. Conversely, I realized that I should learn how to accommodate myself to circumstances. Since I have been edified by music, I adjusted my frame of mind and walked away from the failure and shadow gradually.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Therefore, thanks for the piano filling my world with expectation. Working hard and getting good grade is my present goal. Follow the notes upon the journey, I would improve myself and become harder and more serious toward my objects. I would hear a piece of beautiful music; it’s the belief of my future.

As I’m writing this monologue, I think about what would get most of the reader’s interest. Perhaps my school? No, all of them go to the same school as I do. Then maybe I should talk about my arrival to U.S.? Too much of a cliche. What about my love for soccer? Surely they will be interested in such a beautiful game. But if they hate soccer, it will be very boring for them to read my blog. No, instead I will talk about my job.

I would say its not a common occupation, and it’s definitely not full-time. I’m a club promoter. Its kind of different from an event-planner in way that I do much less work but unfortunately I also get paid much less.  Typically my work week starts on Monday night or Tuesday morning when I get the latest information on NYC party scene from my boss. Venues, special deals, cover charges, time&date, dress code, themes – all those change on weekly basis. By Tuesday evening, I have my Facebook groups set up for upcoming parties. Contrary to popular belief, making a good FB groups that’s going to attract many potential customers, is not easy. It all starts with a name of the group. It has to sound sophisticated for authenticity of the party. It had to include the name of the Venue, projected age group and most importantly – promoter’s name. The last one is critical to the promoter as his salary depends on his guests’ ability to say his name at the entrance. Besides common sense information like address and time of the event, the group need to contain something that will separate you from other promoters. in my case, its the special deals i have exclusively for my customers. Whether its a special discount for girls or no wait on the line, special deals are very important for my business as they attract new customers and keep the old ones coming back for more. Last but not least, a flashy, eye-catching image is needed to represent the group.

After groups are created, the first text is sent out. Aside from FB, I communicate with my clientele through text messages. in them, I write a condensed version on my FB group and mass send them. First text specifies the date, time and location of the event as well as any special deals. The designated “party days” are Thursday, Friday and Saturday unless its a holiday weekend. Thursdays are popular among college students and referred to as “thirsty Thursdays” while the other two days are enjoyed by everybody so that’s when business booms. The second text is sent out the evening before the event. Some people text back asking for specific details and I gladly respond as my paycheck depends on their satisfaction.

Finally, on the day of the event, I go out and work along side the bouncer to keep the line under control and make sure that all my guests are taken care of. I enjoy numerous benefits as a promoter including free entrance as well as better discounts for my friends. I get paid well to go out and party, what can be better?

My name is Cindy Chu. I am not an outgoing person although I tend to get very noisy and loud after I truly get to know someone. I care about my academic grades a lot. I really want to do well in college and get a good GPA. I feel like I didn’t really do that well in my first midterms although I did study pretty hard for them. Maybe I still need some time to adjust to this high school -college transition period although college started 2 months ago. Maybe I need to study even harder and concentrate more in class.
My favorite leisure activity is going shopping. I like to buy new clothes, shoes, bags, and accessories just like any other girls. I think shopping and buying something I like make me really happy. I also really like to bake. Even though I don’t like the clean up process after I bake, I enjoy baking in general. I like to bake cookies and cupcakes because those are pretty easy to make and I like eating them a lot. I think that homemade cookies and cupcakes are healthier than the ones sold in stores because I can control what kind of ingredients to put in. I can use low fat butter and put less sugar, therefore it makes me feel less guilty when I eat them.
I like my college life so far even though writing papers and taking midterms can be very stressful. I think college is really different from high school and I hope my 4 year college experience will be fun and exciting. Hopefully, I can graduate with a good GPA ,get a stable job and then live a happy life.

Hi, my name is Ye In and I live in Port Washington, which is in Long Island.  I chose to attend Baruch College because I wanted to be a CPA, certified public accountant and Baruch College has a good program for accounting. By attending this school for two month, I realized that high school and college are very different.

First of all, I never really “commuted” in high school. For me, commuting takes a lot of time. At first, I hated commuting a lot but now I am getting used to it. In high school, it only took me 10 minutes to go to “commute” to my school but now, it takes up a lot more, which makes me more deligent and responsible person because I try my hardest not to be late for classes.

Also, I realize there are a lot more reading to do in college. In high school, I did pretty well without reading all my materials given. Actually, most of the times, notes in classes helped me more to get high grades in the test. But in college, I realized reading textbook helps me a lot more than notes that I take from the class. Even today, I was studying for Anthropology test and I barely looked at the note but read a lot more, taking notes and highlighting the important parts from the chapters.

Lastly, I find that college classes move a lot quicker than I thought. For example, I took calculus in high school ( even though I did terrible in AP test) and it did not move as fast as college. I feel like if I didnt take the Calc class in high school, I would have VERY hard time in college because of the fast moving class.

I am still adjusting to my new school and its getting better and better everyday. I try to forget about my habits in high school and adjust more to college. Even though the work and commuting is hard, I will overcome all these obsticles to obtain my goals.

Hi, my name is Jianjun Mo, most of my friends call me JJ. But I am not that JJ who is a popular singer in China, I am me .  I have been  here for more than two years. I am very clear to remember which day I came to here. It was May 12, 2008, because it was the earthquake of Sichuan (Szechwan). Since I have been here, My whole life is changed.  I remembered the first week when I came to here, I wanted to cry. For that new environment, I have no friends, poor English and I don’t know anything about it. After I go to  high school, my life has been changed again. My high school is special because it is for immigrants who are overage (18) and most of the students are ESL students. I remembered the first day when I went to school, I did’t really understand  what did the teacher talk about. I make a lot of friends and after two years I almost  know everyone ( chinese) in my high school. For that reason, I always speak chinese with my friends. Thus, my English still very bad. I am an  easy-going  person, I hope I can make any foreign friends  at Baruch that I can improve my English and been a part of their lives.

Now, I become a part of Baruch. However, I find out my college’s life at Baruch is very terrible. I mean my grade. The first test in all of my classes I feel very terrible. However, those days I ask myself, am I work hard? The answer is no. I know since I have been here, I rarely be positive of my life, I know I am escaping. But now, I will be different. Those weeks, I realize many things form my life, my firends…even I still do not know what I am  trying to be but I will face the problems.  Now, I realize what is the most important  to me …

I love music – especially my own music. I like to create music depend on my mood and emotion and my inspiration, because they can reflect me, what I trying to say and trying to be. But my music is very short and simple because I am not that professional. I used to make a whole song with my friend about five or six years ago, but I forget the lyric about the song.  I hope in the future I can remember that song because it means a lot to me.