a.Tell us who you think YOU are!
I’m a new yorker, born and raised in Queens…My parents are Colombian, I guess that’s part of who I am. I’m serious, goal-oriented, and I’m not sure what else, I’m guessing thats what college will help me figure out.
b. Share your top 3 concerns about your freshman year at Baruch College and explain why.
1.Exams- In general, I extremely dislike taking tests and in highschool it was easier to take them just because teachers gave you outlines or exact questions to study from that the exam would be on. In college the professors give you so much reading to do from different books that I have no idea what I even have to study.
2. Social life- I feel like I won’t really make friends in college just because I’m not really social or even at all comfortable in social settings. I’m not even interested in writing this post right now. For some reason I thought the people in college would be different, I guess from what I was always told about college I expected it, but it is just like high school. Most people seem still very immature
3. Actually passing. I think in high school it was easier to see if I was passing. In college you think your handing in all of the assignments good but then you receive your grade. I don’t want to be a failure, I want to actually do good in college and not pass with a mediocre grade.
c. So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College experience different from your highschool experience?
Its already so different. The professors ways of teaching and the workload they give. Also, making your own schedule is very different from high school, you can choose what days of the week you want to come to school and the classes you will take on that day. I feel that in high school its sort of mandatory to be there, but in college its a choice you make, of whether or not you want to have a college education, this is what mostly makes it different because the students are a bit more eager to be here since its a choice they made as opposed to them being forced to come to college.
d. How do you think your first year at college will change you?
I doubt it will change me too much, since it is just the first year. I do think I will possibly learn how to study better since in high school I never really had to study much. I think it will change me by making me even more responsible since now I mostly have to do things on your own, not like high school where it’s like teachers are holding your hand through all of it. Maybe I’ll become more social since in high school I never really wanted to be friends with any of the kids that went to my school. I’m hoping this first year of college will help me decide what I want to do with my life and have a better idea of what career I want to have.
