Author Archives: matthew.huie

Starting college at first was boring. I would go to school and only think about what should I do after school. We would get piles of homework that I would blow off until the last minute. Professors weren’t as great as i thought them to be. But that is all in the past. Reflecting on my first semester, Baruch College did fail at fulfilling to my expectations because i thought college would be a more laid back just like in movies. But apparently, it does not exist. Though i thought that college was laid back, i still got a lot of homework to do. There were tests every 2-3 weeks. The tests were the only thing that really bothered me. I thought it would be just writing papers as our finals, but we actually had to study. Having this mindset really dropped my grades in most classes. What did live up to my expectations is that even though we had all this work to do. We still had some free time. I had three hour breaks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays which was a pain and a blessing. Even though there are more cons then pros, college is still kind of cool.

I felt as if my first semester in college could have been better. I was still used to the high school style of doing things where I could wait until the last day to do my projects and papers. In college it was a bit harder to do it just because things were lengthier. I think that going to college is where I have slept the most in class, just because i know the professor does not care that much. I got to know new people and I became close to one too.

What I would have done differently is that maybe I would have studied a bit more. Instead of procrastinating and waited until the night of the test to study. I wished that I did that instead of just relaxing. I got really bad grades, well at least in my standards. I wished that I did not sleep that much in class or to actually read the pages that were given to us every day. There are a lot of things that I wish I could redo but now that the semester is over, I have to face finals that I should have been studying for the whole semester.

How I have changed is that I am starting to think literally and now I am starting to see the importance of studying before hand. College has changed the way it think now and I think that I would be ready to get higher grades now in college. I am now accustomed to the way college works and i feel like now i can actually do well in it. I think that college also has given me more confidence in myself even though nothing happened to make me feel this way.

Well, this is everything about my first semester here at Baruch College.

“Sigh, yet another night that u stay up to 2 o’ clock doing my homework. I don’t get why we are even given homework when the majority of the time, the professor gives lectures?
<phone call: “What! We have another test!? And an essay due on the same day! Argh, thanks.>

College really is a pain. So many more responsibilities that i have to do. For one thing, the professors think we are robots and do nothing but homework. But then again i don’t manage my time wisely. The time i spent last night doing my homework, i spent twice that amount playing games and relaxing. And tests? (laugh) But then again it’s not a laughing matter. I need to start studying. I need to get good grades.

This is too stressful, I need to change. No longer am i able to afford low grades on my tests. No longer am i able to tolerate late nights. No longer am i able to convince myself that everything is going to be fine. I have made many resolutions in my past about changing. TO study more, and don’t procrastinate. But i always ignore it in the end. Maybe its about time I followed it. Change myself to be more studious and maybe I can get others to join me and as a group, survive college. People may ask who am I to make such a claim. Well…

I am a leader, an advice giver, a friend a giver, a procrastinator, a failure. NO!! I need to be positive! I can do this, I can survive this dungeon called College.

As one can see this is very late, but thats a problem that i have been facing for quite some time. I am a very forgetful person but a good person at heart. I always like to help people no matter the circumstances-which has gotten me in a lot of trouble ove the previous years. I like to have fun all the time, its something that I need to keep myself running properly, this sounds like I have issues but I really don’t.

I tend to be quite mysterious around people, sometimes I would be the leader of the group but other times I wuld keep in reserve and not say anything. Which brings me to another thing, I have a studdering problem, its not that I studder all the time is the fact that I am scared to studder. This has always scared me and prevented me from talking a lot in class or with my friends.

I am a hero, to the numerous people that I have helped. I have solved many of their problems and I hope I can still do this. I like to see the happy faces on people. I guess one can say that I am a  therapist or something but its something that needs to be done.

I am a artist. I love to draw! Drawing is a passion of mine that I never got to enhance and now i can’t really do it anymore but the occasional doodle. But I hope one day that i can find it in me to continue drawing and maybe sell a few drawings and get rich off it.

Well, being a freshman in college the top three concerns that I have are not being able to keep up with the work, procrastinating on the homework that I have to do, and failing. These things really scare me and I hope that i don’t get stuck in these three problems. I am scared of these things because these are my worst habits when it comes to school so i have to step up my game now.

How college is diferent than high school is that there is more work to do. There are times that I wished that I was back in high school just becasue the work load was smaller. But its a change, I came from a small high schooll with a graduating class of 100 and now there are thousands at college so its a good place to meet new people.

How the first year in college will change me is that I would be more organized and work harder. I hope that I can get rid of my procrastination problem and that I would work twice as hard. I hope that college is that slap that everyone gets in life telling them to wake up. College is not high school or middle school where one can slack off and still expect to get a 100 for their grade. Even so, i hope college teaches me something new about myself.

Well peace out!