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The first semester is almost over, and it was exhausting. Too many quizzes from history and too many essays for English. Not to mention that ethics made me sleepy. Music is just plain stupid and a waste of my time and anthropology has way to many complicated words. Have I learned anything? Well I guess I learned a bunch of complicated words from anthropology and that ethics is only fun when you debate over issues and not when you discuss what “important” philosophers have to say about a certain issue. Apart from not enjoying classes I haven’t accomplished much this first semester. I haven’t joined any clubs and I haven’t been using my breaks effectively. Just as I have stated before in the last blog all I have been doing is playing foosball, table tennis, and occasionally some handball. Due to my laziness in the first semester I have promised myself to join a club next semester and to use my break time for more effective things like studying. The only thing I gained from this first semester is that I have improved my foosball skills greatly. So I invite anyone to come to the game room and play me during your free time, and make sure your prepared to lose =). Although the first semester may be over, there is still a long road ahead, so it is best to head on to the future prepared.

My name is Intesar Ahmed, I was born on May 6^th 1993 and I live in Brooklyn. Hmmm. This is sounding more like an autobiography, any who; it has been an interesting one month in Baruch. No more teachers getting on your case because you are not showing up to class or that you are not doing well. More freedom and less written assignments, we have been given more control. But the question is what have I been doing with this new found freedom? Fooling around of course. Instead of studying or catching up on the reading that I didn’t do or even read stuff in advance, I have been spending most of the time in the game room. I suck at table tennis and the pool table is occupied all the time so I have been playing foosball every day during most of my breaks (and I still suck). In conclusion I hope to change myself and work harder and I hope college will help with this task and possibly I wish to also get better at foosball.

Who am I? That is indeed a good question. Can a person even be defined in words? Well instead of just avoiding this question I might as well take a crack at it. I’m a son, a brother, a friend, an enemy, a student, etc. Is that enough for someone to know who I am? Probably not. Allow me to expand, my name is Intesar (yes, it is practically impossible to pronounce correctly the first time around) I”m 18 and I’ve lived in Brooklyn my whole life. I’m a good friend (or I like to think so) and an attentive listener (that is if you have anything of value to say). I’m a usually quiet person and kind of moody. If you try to talk to me in the early morning you probably won’t get a verbal response from me, just hand gestures and nods (I don’t mean to be rude, I’m just not a morning person). I guess the solution to this predicament would be that I should drink coffee, or at least some intake of caffeine. As shocking as this may sound I don’t drink coffee. One might ask as a response to that, how do you plan on surviving college? How can you go through a day of class after a sleepless night working on a paper?  To answer your question those questions is that I’ve managed to get through sleepless nights in high school with out caffeine, so it shouldn’t be to difficult in college right? Who knows maybe this will be one of the changes I’ll go through in college, I might have to start relying on coffee.

College is definitely different from high school. Many of my high school teachers would say over and over that college professors won’t spoon feed you, they were right. In College students are more independent, we are given more responsibility and freedom. There is an intense amount of reading but less writing assignments, we are given the due dates of all of our assignments in advance. In high school we were given the dates of assignments a month ahead at best. I think College will definitely challenge me more than high school, I’m definitely going to have to study more instead of fooling around during my breaks, it seems to me that playtime (high school) is over, its time to get serious and act like responsible adults.