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Freshman Year Posting

Posted on November 17, 2011 by mazhar.siddique

Now that your first semester at Baruch College is nearly complete, how was it? Reflect on the following four questions, and craft a response of no more than 500 words. Feel free to integrate media into your post !

a. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived to your expectations?

My experience at Baruch College has just exceeded my expectations. I expected college to be more free and less forced, and for the most part it is. I kind of expected more work from teachers because my high school handed out so much homework!! but who’s complaining? I really love the clubs i joined though! The  MSA – Muslim Student Association, and the Chinese Language Club, I wasn’t expecting clubs to be this cool and have free food! MUS T JOIN MORE CLUBS!

b. How well do you think your first semester at Baruch College went?

I’m not entirely sure — its one of those things where you don’t really know till its over and you look back at it. But for now, I think it is tolerable. except for that Freshman Seminar thing, they make you write blogs and write about yourself… . who does that? ahah

c. What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all again?

I would go to the tutoring center for math.

d. How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

I opened up a little bit and made some friends.

Create a new post under the “Freshman Year Category”

Yep, just did that.

This is a mandatory post

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Monologue

Posted on October 19, 2011 by mazhar.siddique

All right. K, so I’m not entirely sure of how to describe myself. Like, I mean… sure I’m Pakistani, Muslim and eighteen years old with almost a February birthday. My favorite softdrink is Pepsi!, I love seeing movies with friends and family, and I’ve snuck in pretty much everything into theatres with my family! I remember sneaking pizza (with pepsi of course ) , chips, fried chicken, burger king and chinese food (I’ma stick with chips from now on) and last year I used to see a movie pretty much every week with one of my older cousins and brothers, I have three brothers, and a HUGE family! My grandmother had 8 kids and many of her kids (my uncles) had four children, so I have a LOT of cousins! My high school experience was AMAZING! I feel like I walked into the building a confused awkward semi-emo kid and left my high school… a still confused kid with a nicer personality, more confidence and good friends! If my college experience follows up my high school experience than I can’t wait!  I like adventures and joking around and having fun! As you probably guessed, I really love my family, and look forward to celebrations, and though my parents are immigrants, they’ve assimilated into the culture really well, my larger family actually has a newyears party with my larger family every year! IF that doesn’t describe me well enough than I’m a 5″6-5″7 18 year old who likes hanging out with family and friends and listening to music i guess. Pretty average stuff huh?

In high school, I was in the chess and fencing teams, and I’m kinda sad that Baruch doesn’t really have any of them :( , but I guess it just means I’m gonna have to become good at more things! Though I did join the MSA- that is the Muslim Student Association, and try to help them out whenever possible. but I still kinda miss the thrill of competition! I was in the fencing team for three years and eventually became the leader of the “epee” branch of fencing, and became chess club captain! lol, so i’m kinda competitive. lol but i think that team spirit is more rewarding! being part of a group that needs eachother is a pretty awesome and rewarding experience! and i hope to join more clubs and teams soon!

Me at families new years party with sparklers

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