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The college life in Baruch College is just what I have expected before I entered Baruch College, I have lots of assignments and essays to complete, meeting new people and many final exams or essays to prepare in only one week which is shortening my life span right now. For first semester, I think I am doing alright. I am doing decent in most of my classes, I got used to hours of commuting which was really painful about 3 month ago and I also got used to be squeezed by crowd. If I get chance to redo first-semester year, I would study harder to get better grade than what I am receiving now and I also would drop one of my classes because I now regret about not dropping one class. I have not changed at all since I entered Baruch College. Some of my friend has said that when a person enters a college, they become more “adults”, but I feel like I am still in high school and I do not feel all the responsibility that college students should have. I hope remaining years in college would make me more mature.

I am Min Kyu Jeong, I was born and raised in South Korea

Speaking of community service in class, there was a one event that I will never forget. When I was in high school, I visited one institution to provide community services. There were many disabled people who were unable to move at all. To make easy for them to eat meal, chef mixed water, meat, grains and vegetables in one bowl. To add extra nutrition and flavor, they added orange juice on bowl and they continuously pour that watery meal to disabled people. It was shocking at first, but I soon understand that they were unable to move and there were too few people to support them. It was unique experience that left me to think about many things. (oh institution was in Queens not in South Korea just in case some might have misunderstanding)

*Share your top 3 concerns about your freshman year at Baruch College and explain why.

As a student, something that most troubles me is grade. Since college is much different from High School, I still do not know if i am good or bad. Most professors do not spoon-feed their students like teachers do in High School and each professor has different grading policy, some professors look mainly on tests which i prefer most and some professors focus in homework and class participation which I hate most because I am not familiar with English especially pronouncing words for English is my second language and I am not good example of public speaker.

Second, there is too much time gap between courses in my schedule, it’s about 4 hours. Of course I can study or do homeworks during that time, but atmosphere of library puts me into sleep because I have strange habit of studying, I can not study when surrounding is too quiet (I know there are some people talk, but often library is quiet), so I mostly study at home where my brother plays a video game or talk on phone loudly. There are also no Minesweeper and Chess Titan in library computers which is really letdown for me.

Third, I do not know what to eat for lunch. Most foods that is being sold near Baruch College is junks, I am sick of pizzas, deli-foods, Subway or McDonald after I had them for 3 weeks, but other restaurants are little pricey for non-working student like me and I avoid vendor foods because I do not know what they put on their foods, I hope they are keeping expiration dates. Due to circumstances I listed above, I carry foods in thermos lunch box, but it is also bit annoying because I have to sacrifice my sleeping hours and it puts more weight on my bag.

*How do you think your first year at College will change you?

I think first year at college will affect my time management. Before college, I did not think or plan in spending times, but after I went to college, I realized that time management is much important because I had to hang out with friends in different college to continue relationship between me and them, hang out with new people I met at Baruch, prepare for each courses which resulted lack of time.

I think the life in college will also change my taste or habits. As listed in above, I am little picky on certain things, but I should adopt these situation for my academic success and my own mental and physical health because complaining will not change anything, I will have to try using the library as center of learning rather than place to sleep and maybe I will have to put little trust in vendors in street, but I will avoid vendor food much as possible because I have bad memories about them which I do not want to discuss in this blog.