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During my first week of Baruch, I thought it would be the same as freshman year in high school but I was wrong, Baruch was more open to me than I thought it would be. My block is friendly, we all get a long fine, and we help each other out. Back in my days in high school, it was never like that unless somebody started an event for something. I felt like I was part of something and joining the TKD Club helped me even more. Later on through college, I experienced first hand on how I need to take my studies seriously. How I spend my extra time during my breaks in school is going to the gym and workout, and I do have a body with great shape and I’m not being modest if you get what I mean. It’s funny how I enjoy comparing my body with the other body builders in the gym and turns out at least half the people in the gym have bodies better than mine, ten percent have the same body as mine, and the rest are just skinny guys with no experience whatsoever with what their doing. Throughout all this, I’m enjoying this school year, I’m enjoying college, and my life is absolutely wonderful.

                Who I think what I am is a tall Asian guy that’s extremely lazy, loves to go to the gym, procrastinate, relaxing, love collecting shoes, and one that loves to count money. Though I’m pretty sure some of my traits are common in my age group, I feel like I’m special with the extra traits I have that everybody else doesn’t have. My first concern about my freshman year at Baruch is when do we reapply for TP and FAFSA for the Spring Term? Because I’m literally going nuts trying to think how to do it on time. Second concern is getting a damn 3.5 GPA, I want to get into the honors program so badly, that free laptop is extremely tempting. And lastly, my third concern is that I know way too many people from other high schools, I see like 20 people from my high school, Cardozo, a couple from Francis Lewis, some from Bayside, a handful from Aviation, and scatter of people from Specialized high schools. I feel like I need to spend some time with them to catch up because most of them I haven’t seen or talk to since middle school, this is too much to handle. Well so far, joining the learning community block 14 was a change I first experience because my high school never offered a systemic class like this. Another is actually working together with the group and enjoying each other company. Another thing is that I decided to join a martial arts club, I’m finally going to learn some fighting first hand instead of going on youtube and reading books on how to use techniques and such.

How I think my first year at College will change me is that it would allow me to find my future and what my real interests in life are. I use to just depend on other peoples’ dreams and goals in order to start mine, I use to just mirror what other people do. I believe I will really find my true self in college and finally decide on what I really want to do. It would also allow me to be more independent, I can freely do what ever I want but I have to handle my own responsibilities and manage my own time in life. Doing all this is an absolute new change for me and it will be hard to adapt to.