Author Archives: JIa Ming Wu

To: Professor A

Subject:  Grade

Hello, Professor A. I am not so sure about my grade. All my grades are B+ and above yet i have received a B-. May i ask for more clarification on your grading process. May i please have to information emailed to me, or have a talk in person about this matter.

Thank you for your time

Your student, Jia Ming Wu

Hi, my names Jia Ming Wu. You can just call me Jia. It is roughly 2 months from the beginning of college, and boy its already mid terms. I recently just took 2 mid terms and 2 tests, in this past 2 weeks alone. Both the test and my mid-terms are worth a good percentage of my grades. After seeing my grades for my tests, i found out the true horror of college. I had failed 1 passed 2 and the last one still waiting for the results. Even though i promised myself to study and do good in college my dreams, reality was not so kind and i got a wake up call.

My main problem was not even my classes, but myself. They say old habits are hard to break, and yes yes they are! My main problem was how  i couldn’t  get myself to study properly, like how i use to, because its been so long, that its almost like i never knew what the word studying meant. For my 4 test i only really studied for 2 of them, the other two i winged with my knowledge from the attending the classes, and homework. Which sounds bad but my lowest and highest grades were from the tests i winged, surprisingly.

Lesson learned, do not cram 4 chapters in the spam of 2 days, wing a test, and college for sure requires more work than high school. With this i will make sure for my next test’s i will study starting one week before hand, to ensure a high grade and efficiently adsorbing all the knowledge my professors are handing down to me.

Key academic challenges

-Remembering the work

-Paying attention

-Reading the book

Root of the problem

-Too many pictues

-Lights off, annoying noise

-Too much reading

Solutions

-Study more

-Tell the professor to stay away from the mic

-Tell professor to take a few days off, or we cut her class

So my name is Jia Ming Wu, but you can just call me Jia! I’m a nice guy who’s very friendly, don’t be afraid to approach me i don’t bite :]. Although I am friendly and social i do not like approaching people first so if you want to be friends all you need to do is come up to me introduce yourself and say hi, or you can be in my classes and eventually we will talk xP. I’m a pretty relaxed guy if you need help or just want to chill I’m down whenever I’m not busy or already promised to be with someone else. I’m looking forward to being friends with everyone!

Making new friends, GPA, Clubs. I hope to be what i know i can be and get at least a 3.0 gpa! Since this is also a fresh start or semi fresh for me, i would love to meet new people and become friends with everyone. Since i come from Brooklyn Tech there are many people i already know in the school, in fact the only class i don’t have a techie in is my math class! Clubs are a must i always wanted to join a big official club and enjoy a sport or a hobby with my fellow seniors and classmates.

Honestly i see almost no difference from Baruch and my high school. The only thing that my high school didn’t have was nicer people. No one here is overly rude and many are very friendly. With classes that include all years and ages people tend to be more friendly and open to those younger or older to them and it is very easy to get along with people here. In Baruch no one shoves to get somewhere unlike my high school where elevators would be so squeezed you felt everyone from all your sides, which is very refreshing.

I hope that college will change me into a better person. The classes are very relaxed have almost no requirements and allow a lot of freedom. Which i love, as opposed to being told what to do and how to do it in high school. Using this freedom i can learn way more efficiently and will allow me to enjoy college as opposed to despising it.