I’m not just any person. I believe I am who I am, Javid Khan. I’m who I want to be, I don’t live my life trying to be like anybody else. Although, I do look at people as inspirations or role-models, the only steps forward I’ve taken are in accordance to what I really want to do. I’ve never been a person to give into peer pressure. Peer pressure is everywhere, especially where I grew up, things such as smoking are really common, I’ve been exposed to it since the seventh grade, yet today, I’ve still never tried it despite the many times I’ve been asked to. Karma is something I strongly believe in, although I’m not one to believe in superstitions or things of the sort. It’s just the fact that karma gives you something to be afraid of when you have the opportunity to choose the wrong or right path. It encourages me to do the right thing, because if I was to do something wrong, that would just come back to me in the end, whether the situation is of big or little importance. Who I believe I am can’t be summed up into a short paragraph; this barely scratches the surface.
– Getting around the place was one thing. I’ve been in Queens most of my life, and never really needed to go to the city for anything, and therefore didn’t need the subway. This is the first time I’ve had to take the trains constantly as daily commute, and I’m not very familiar with it or the city. After about a week at it, I caught on to it and it became easy, just as it was when I first started taking the bus when I was younger.
– I had to get used to the school. The environment at Baruch was completely different than back in my high school. The majority of people in high school didn’t really care, everything was mandatory so they were only there because they just “had do to it.” Over here, everyone cares about school, nobody complains and everybody is doing what they have to do to be successful. It’s a huge change, college seems like the exact opposite of high school when it comes to people.
– The level of work in college was way beyond a high school level. In high school, we were pretty much doing what was the minimum level work, because everything was “dumbed-down” so that more students could pass their classes and graduate, raising the graduation rate. Homework wasn’t of big importance. Honestly, in high school, I pretty much never did my homework and passed with high grades.
What’s going to make my Baruch College experience different from high school is the fact that I’m actually going to try here. In high school, everything was easy. I’ve gone through classes without doing anything for half the year and passing with high grades. I’ve never really put much of my full potential into things, because it wasn’t necessary in high school. Here, there are people everywhere that try to get their work done at their full potential too (unlike high school where nobody cared) and that brings the aspect of competition, which in turn will lead to me trying to be the best I can.
I think my first year at college is going to turn me into a more responsible person. I’m going to be a lot more organized and on time with things, and actually care about my work. After all, I’m paying to go here anyway.
