Author Archives: anitha.benjamin

Well, I originally didn’t want to go to Baruch, mainly because I thought I wouldn’t get the “full college experience”, because I wasn’t dorming. But then, I realized that going to Baruch made sense, because I want to do something in the business field, and this is one of the best schools for that. Baruch has been okay, and I’m liking the fact that there’s so many people, you rarely see the same people twice. I hate the commute, because it takes me an hour and 20 minutes. Other than that, Baruch has been a good school.

I hope I do well on my finals. I think I did okay in my classes, but it was tough to get myself to study. Once I work on that, I think I’ll do better in school. If I could do it all again, I would stay for tutoring, and study a LOT more. I would have joined more clubs and been more active in the student life, if I could change anything about my first semester in Baruch.

Since college started, I’ve been more independent, and I know what I want. I think I’ve learned to be a better  student and take my education seriously.

A long time ago, from when I was maybe 7 or 8, my dad and I went to India for vacation to visit my grandmother. She lives on this farm, so she has a lot of animals like cows and chickens and a rooster. So, when we first got there, my dad went to put away our suitcase inside the house, and my grandmother went to help him. I decided to wander around. So I was walking around the front yard of the house minding my own business and enjoying the scenery, when all of a sudden I notice something behind me, and when I turned around to look, I saw this rooster charging at me (out of nowhere). I don’t know if roosters could look mad, but this one definitely was, for some reason. I was so scared and upset, because the rooster pecked me on my foot. I screamed of course, and my dad chased away the rooster.

I think the rooster went into hiding or something because I didn’t see it for a couple of days, so I thought I was safe. But a couple of days after that, my grandmother and my dad were sitting on the porch talking, and I was standing around near them in front of the porch. It all seemed peaceful. My grandmother’s house has a roof on the side of the porch. So on my right side, I looked over, and I saw the rooster climbing along the roof ready to charge at me again. I screamed again and ran into the house. My dad and grandmother scared it away again. And since that day I have been scared to walk around that house, at least for the remainder of that trip.