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My name is Jian and I am a quiet person. I do not like to talk when group of strangers or people I am not familiar with are present. However, if they are all my friends, it would be a very different case. I like to be with friends and I would not be so quiet at this time. I don’t want to get conflict with other people and I would choose to forget others when they did or said something that hurt me rather than getting angry at them. One of my friends once asked me have I ever being angry. I told him of course I did. Everyone has temper and it is just how well you can control it. In most situations, I think I am able to control it. I think I am just a man in the street. People say everyone is unique in the world, but I think there might be many people in the world who look like me or have similar personality with me. I am not so outstanding and I like to be this way because I don not want others to pay too much attention on me.

My three concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College are making new friends, reading assignments and the music class. All these concerns came from the differences between Baruch College and my high school. In my high school, there were many people who had similar or same background and culture with me. So it is very easy to make friends and get alone with them, but in Baruch, there are people from all over the world and I only know few people. There are also so many very long reading assignments that are very hard to understand. My music class is so boring that I get sleepy as long as I walk into the classroom. Once I determined to listen to the professor carefully, but I failed because of his hypnotic voice and his boring lecture. I am always afraid that I would fail the class. I think my first year in Baruch would make me become more independent.

What does the word “friend” mean? That’s a profound question.

I looked it up in the dictionary and it said that a friend is someone you like and enjoy spending time with. This definition made me recall a joke my friend told me. “In a zoo, there was a very ugly and disgusting monkey and everyone would vomit after seeing it. One day, I went to visit the zoo and threw up after seeing the monkey. The other day, you went to the zoo and saw the monkey, the monkey threw up”. I wondered if I would get angry if this joke was told by someone else than my friend. I enjoyed being together with my friends and it did not matter even though the joke was somehow mockery.

Friends had made an important part in my life and I used to make fun of them. They too, made fun of me but we never got angry because our intentions were not to hurt other’s feelings. So, don’t take the jokes too seriously and just dismiss them with a laugh. However, there was another version of the definition for friend that once confused me a lot. It stated that friend is someone you can betray and get benefit from it. In such case, we should change friendship into “friendshit”. If you had this kind of friend who made friend with you just to use you, you really got to say “Shit!”

It is hard to know if you are having a friendshit or friendship, but the existence of the former doesn’t mean that you should distrust anybody. In most circumstances, friends are all real and important in our lives. Sometimes you could even tell them something that you felt uncomfortable to talk with your family members.

Subject: Questions about semester grade

Hello Professor,

I just knew my semester grade in your class and I have some questions toward my grade. Could I make an appointment to talk to you about my grade. I am hoping the conversation with you would help me doing better in other classes in the future. I would be very appreciated if you are willing to give me a hand. Thank you.

Jian Jiang

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