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My first semester at Baruch College almost has done. now I am trying to summarize my first semester. In the beginning of the school. I felt so  excited because I could learn more knowledge and know more people. The the college is completely different with the high school. Professors’ teaching style is more  open than that of the high school teacher. I have more free time. As the  time past, I find out that the college become more and more difficult.

The philosophy is a difficult course. this course requires us to keep thinking thinking and thinking. it’s hard for me to follow the professor’s idea. also the reading materials challenge my poor reading ability. they are so complicated to read for me. finally, I did not drop this course because I don’t want take again. maybe someday, my reading ability be improved, I would like to learn more about philosophy. It is a really  thoughtful course.

I think the freshman seminar is really helpful. It tried to help us transit from high school to the college. It help us adjust the college culture. It  teach us how to deal with the college essay and how to do the research. through the freshman seminar I know more about the college and help me have a good experience in the college.

in the college, one of my expectations is building up friendship. friends are important to me in the college. when I was in trouble with the classes. I always can get help from my friends. Also the time management is a challenge. I hope I will manage my time much better next semester.

I join a walking of The Alliance for Lupus Research(ALR) on October 22,2011. It is a national voluntary health organization in New York City. Through the walking, we hope more people care about the Lupus problems and help those people who are suffering Lupus.

When I heard that I would join this community service project, I felt excited about it. This is my first time to do the community service. I felt happy that I would contribute my time to help other people. There are thousands of people join the walking. they all are benevolent. They are willing to contribute their time and money to help other people even they don’t know who they are. trying to help others whatever you can do that’s what I learn from those people.

During the community service, the most trying experience for me was the long distance of the walking. we need walk several miles from the beginning to the end. I think I need more exercise to improve my physical strength. After walking, I felt exhaustive. I am so proud of those people who finished the entire walking. They can finish the walking because they not only have good physical strength but also they have faith in their heart. they believe what they do could help more Lupus patients.

If we want more people to pay more attention on a larger society issue, we need congregate the power of masses. We know that the individual is so weak, but when we come together for one goal, we would have much more power to accomplish the goal. To congregate that many people to work together for the one goal, you should have good skill of communication and you should be charismatic.

I know that when I live in a community, I am a part of this community. I need to do something to improve the community, like other people are willing to help the community. throughout this community service, I learn that I even you do something small you also can help other people. so you can’t have any excuses to not to do the community service.

I satisfied with my experience overall, because this is my first time to do the community service and I learn many experience form the service. I will keep trying to join the community service. When I do the community service, I also help myself because I am living in this community. the community is good and I also feel good. I am so pleased to join the community service. it is my pleasure to help other other people.

I have attended the workshop called “Networking: Is it Who or What You Know?” on December, 6. This workshop was talking about how to build your networking and how the networking improve your career opportunity. A good personal networking will bring you more opportunity to get into the better jobs. During the workshop, the two instructors answered many specific problems from the participants. This is a helpful and informative workshop.

The two instructors were Christine Ippolito and Jodi Brockington. Christine is the founding of Compass Workforce Solutions. Her expertise is focused on employer compliance programs and processes specific to Federal, New York, New Jersey and New York City employment laws; the design, development and deployment of compensation plans; and full life cycle recruitment, selection and on-boarding programs. Jodi is the founder of NIARA Consulting, a full service marketing and business development company. She utilizes her more than 15years of the experience in the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors to consult for individuals, nonprofits, small businesses and corporations, as well as offer career and college coaching for youth and professionals.

As they said, we generally have three types of networking. they are family, schoolmates, and professionals. To build up our networking, we need to find out what we really interest in. and then we can find out the people who have the same interest. we can build up the networking with people who have the same interest more easily.

It’s important that we should contact with people to build up with people, like when you join a meeting, you want to build up your networking with others, you need to talk to other people, and whatever just do something that makes people know you. If you do not have idea who you need to talk to, the speaker of the meet is the best target. It’s hard to star a talking with a stranger. you can ask some easy to begin the conversation. like, what is his name, what makes him interested. Also you need treat people differently with different levels. fist you need figure out the level of the person and what he really wants to talk about.

sometimes, we can’t fulfill everybody’s requirement, but we can give something instead. If someone ask you for a job, but you can’t give him a job. you can not tell him that I don’t have a job for you. instead, you could said if there is a good opportunity good for you, I will let you know. you should be helpful to those we network with as possible as you can, we one day also need help from other people.  As we ask help form other people, we need ask the things that  people actually can help you. For example, if we want a job in a company, we can not ask people can you give me a job. we can ask if you know someone works in that company, then we can build up other networking with that people. Don’t make the people feel awkward.

To think who am I. I think I am a pessimistic optimist. Why do I say that? First I am a pessimist; sometimes bigger the expectation, the bigger the disappointment so I always think about and prepare for the worst. On the other hand, I am the optimist. Even though I feel pessimistic in many things, I would be optimistic to deal with them, because I have prepared for the worst. When the bad consequences come to me, I would accept that results with peace of mind. Meanwhile I still believe that things could not be the worst if I try my best. Finally, I think a pessimist could lead optimistic life.

The three top concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College are friendship, transition, and grades. The development of friendship is the highest concern for me in the first year at the college. As a freshman, I need help in many ways, so I must make friends with others. The college courses are more difficult than high school. I as well can make a study group with my friends to help each other in homework, research papers. The second one is to make a transition between high school and college. In college, everything is new for me, I need fit in the college ASAP. For fitting in the college life, I also must make friends with others. The last, The last, I want to have a good GPA in my first college year, because well began is half done, and that can also build confidence in myself. confidence is important for me in the rest of college year.

In my opinion, the most significant thing can make my Baruch College exprience different from my high school experience is that we are more depending on our own self-study skill. In the high school, teachers could spend more time helping us. I think it is good to cultivate ours independence in the college. We need to learn to use the resoure to help ourselves.

I think my first year at college would make me more independent. I think I will manage my time more effectively.