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So I picked Baruch since it was the cheapest option I had and I kinda regret coming to Baruch. I kept hearing from every teacher how it isn’t just a business school, but it really is. And of course it’s run by a bunch of schemers. I mean if you want to be a business school fine, but damn don’t try to market yourself as something else (I say you in reference to Baruch since corporations are now people and pizza is now a vegetable). I would guess my first semester went pretty bad, I have absolutely no clue what my final grades will be so I won’t hope for the best. I did meet a lot of cool people, and I got a bit better at ping pong and hanball which will probably serve me better in life than learning about Hildegard of Bingen will. If I could do my first semester over I would choose to go to a different school. But sadly the same scheming probably happens in every college anyway so it wouldn’t even make a difference. The obviously broken American education system can’t produce smarter people than the European and Asian educational systems. And if America truly starts to spiral down the road of censorship and oppression then none of the intelligent minds from overseas will come over here for freedom and then we’ll all be beat. But that’s besides the point, I should’ve went to an engineering school instead. I don’t believe I’ve changed at all, except for the fact that I have to get my lazy ass up in the morning to get to Manhattan. I need eighteen more words in this blog. I wonder if these actually get read. Free rhyme all the time, just a few more words best rhyme you ever heard. Psych.

Right so I’m quite obviously a procrastinator. I didn’t write anything down so I’m stuck typing up a monologue like a month after it was due. Probably spend so much time slacking off but school work ain’t exactly exciting. But besides being a procrastinator in my free time I like to write and bake (cookies and brownies and cakes) and rap. I’m from Staten Island, and as a word of advice if you don’t live there: it kinda sucks. Nothing to do and everywhere you turn you find somebody cracked out on something they stole from their mom’s medicine cabinet or you’re suddenly in a crowd of orange and valor and everything smells like gucci (there’s no other way to describe guido scent). Or you could take a trip to “The Mall” and hang out with the kids who sit in the food court for hours at a time for no apparent reason and just because it’s a spot to chill. But nobody will come here anyway, it’s such a damn hassle to get on the ferry, we have 3 bridges none of which connect to Manhattan. And we were told that there would be no toll for Staten Island residents on the Verrazano after it was paid off, and where are we now? Staten Island is the only borough that doesn’t have a train connecting it to the other boroughs…. But aside from how much Staten Island sucks, Wu-Tang Clan came from here.

Personally I think I’m a nobody, I’m still 17 and haven’t achieved much so there’s no need for me to be too big for my britches or whatever that saying is. I’d like to do something with my life and hopefully achieve noteriety while I’m still young enough to enjoy it, but as it stands now I don’t have anything that defines me aside from an obsessive interest in anything and everything drug-related (especially pharmaceuticals).  I’d like to say I’m concerned with keeping up with my work during my first year at Baruch, but seeing as how this blog is already over a week late, not to mention the other work I still havent got on top of, maybe I should get working on that… Unfortunately going to school in the city has proven to be quite a hassle, I wish I at least lived closer to school but have to travel for more than an hour every morning is a pain, I’m starting to think I should’ve enrolled in CSI instead. Also finding a job seems to be quite a bit harder than I thought, because of this oh so ingenious block system I have to wait until next semester to have a better schedule that gives me time to work during the week. I dont see college as that much different from high school, besides the rediculous price-tag attached to my so-called “higher education.” I thought that once I got into college I might find something I’d want to pursue in a career, but so far my first year of college has only made me want to drop out and find work in a construction union or something like that. The more I go to classes the more I want to find work outside of the system or business sector, whatever you want to call it.