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I don’t know if this too late, but I still felt like writing about my first semester, so here it is:

A. My experiences at Baruch College, overall, have far more than lived up to my expectations. I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute, and I knew I made the right college choice.

B. I think my first semester went pretty well. Some classes were not as “easy” as I thought they’d be, but I appreciated an academic challenge that I had never faced before. I feel like I made many new friends, many of them more relatable than most of the people I knew in high school. Despite all the work, my four months at Baruch were far happier than my four years of high school.

C. If I could do anything differently, I would’ve tried to have gotten more involved on campus. I plan to join some clubs in the spring though, so it gives me something to look forward to. I would’ve also tried to take advantage of SACC, but I think my GPA this semester will be turn out just fine. Also, I would try to not procrastinate.

D. I already can tell that Baruch has greatly changed me. I don’t know why, but I feel much more mature and self-confident. I feel more like a leader and less like a follower, which I think is a part of college.

I guess this is the end for Freshmen Seminar, but I had a great time, and hope to see all of my classmates again in the future.

I don’t know if this too late, but I still felt like writing about my first semester, so here it is:

A. My experiences at Baruch College, overall, have far more than lived up to my expectations. I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute, and I knew I made the right college choice.

B. I think my first semester went pretty well. Some classes were not as “easy” as I thought they’d be, but I appreciated an academic challenge that I had never faced before. I feel like I made many new friends, many of them more relatable than most of the people I knew in high school. Despite all the work, my four months at Baruch were far happier than my four years of high school.

C. If I could do anything differently, I would’ve tried to have gotten more involved on campus. I plan to join some clubs in the spring though, so it gives me something to look forward to. I would’ve also tried to take advantage of SACC, but I think my GPA this semester will be turn out just fine. Also, I would try to not procrastinate.

D. I already can tell that Baruch has greatly changed me. I don’t know why, but I feel much more mature and self-confident. I feel more like a leader and less like a follower, which I think is a part of college.

I guess this is the end for Freshmen Seminar, but I had a great time, and hope to see all of my classmates again in the future.

Hmm, how to start this monologue? I guess saying who I am is a good start. Who am I? I’m seventeen, (eighteen in just a few weeks, I can’t wait), and I am a freshman at Baruch College. When, like all seniors in high school, I had to make the next choice in life, I thought long and hard. What would I want to study? Do with my life? Where would I like to learn? It seems obvious now, but it didn’t at first. I knew my environment could not be anything like the suburbia I had been accustomed to; thus, I chose to go where I was always happy, and that was New York City. I quickly chose Baruch, since I thought if offered me the most opportunities, since isn’t that what college is about? I am going to share something I don’t feel entirely comfortable with saying: my father never went to college. Now, I know that others in this room are probably in a similar situation and I emphasize, but I always was the odd one out of my friends for not having this; that is why I am determined to do as best as I can. My mother did go to a CUNY, so I guess it just runs in some part of my family.

However, no one ever told me how much work college would be. It’s not only homework, but also making relationships with others for hopefully the rest of my life. Was it difficult at first? Yes, very much so, but now I’m starting to feel more comfortable with the people around me. Though I seem to be the rare person not from a borough of the city, I feel comfortable about who I am. Do I miss my old friends from high school? Of course, but I enjoy meeting others and straying from my comfort zone; the best part is when you meet someone similar, but not entirely, like a friend from high school. Who knows? Maybe I’m just destined to be friendly with similar people in whatever road I am put onto in life. Though I’m not done with my first semester, college has helped me grow as a person; my interests have slightly changed, yet maybe things were always meant to be this way. I still love photography, my greatest hobby in High School, my passion since the ninth grade, and I’m glad that Baruch’s having a photography contest; I plan to enter. Do I know if I’ll win anything? Maybe, maybe not, what is certain is the competition will be larger than anything I have experienced; but it has reinvigorated my desire to do better than I have before. Then there’s the future. I haven’t even fully begun to think over what I will do with the rest of my life, but alas, I have more than enough time to think. I have ideas, some more developed than others, yet I’m certain I will make the right choices. The commute can be somewhat hectic, and some classes are better than others (to put it kindly), yet whenever I’m with my peers, I smile, knowing I chose a great community to be a part of.

Hi, everyone, I’m Matt, and I’m from Ossining, NY, which is in Westchester County (it’s NOT upstate if you are wondering). I’d say I’m a shy, young man, who’s trying to be more social here at Baruch. In my spare time, I love to take pictures, and I have a flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewcohe…. Yes, I just plugged myself.

My top three concerns this year are:

1. Making new friends–College would not be fun without friends so I’m trying hard to talk more than I usually do.

2. Getting good grades–College seems a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I’m trying to ace my classes and maybe make the dean’s list.

3. Joining clubs–I’m interested in joining a few clubs to get to better know people, but this can wait a little bit once I get a breather from all the homework.

I think Baruch College’s Learning Community program will make this an easier transition than if I had gone anywhere else.

I hope in my first year at Baruch that I learn some new things, make new friends, and become a better person. I think I have some pretty cool classmates, and that’s a good way to end this first post.