Author Archives: joel.urena

a. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived up to your expectations? Not lived to your expectations?

so far this year has lived up to my expectations. Some weeks the work is easier than i expected and sometimes its a bit harder, but overall this year has been good. i thought i would meet cool people and making friends for me has never really been hard and so far Baruch has lived up to my expectations in the regard.

b. How well do you think your first semester at Baruch College went?

I think i could have definitely done better in some of my classes but my first semester did go well overall. Even though my classes did go as well as I thought, it was all still very fun.

c. What would you do differently during your first semester if you could do it all again?

i dont think theres much i would change about my first semester except the amount of work i put in to math. knowing now how little i would actually learn in class i wouldve applied myself more at home and studied the textbook more. other than that i wouldnt change anything.

d. How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

I have really changed much but i do plan on changing. currently my work habits have been nowhere near as good as they need to be for college. im procrastinating just as  much if not more than i did in high school. i hope to change that soon and develop good work habits so i could do better on my future assignments.

Something about myself:

I simply love sports and more than any other one I love basketball. I could probably spend weeks just talking about it and if I could spend my life playing it I definitely would. My favorite player is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. Besides the fact that hes one of the best players of all time I admire the fact that he is an incredibly hard worker. This guy is 33 and has been playing professionally for 15 years, has 5 championship rings, an MVP award, anything you could want as a basketball player and even so he is constantly at the gym working out or improving his game. As a role model he shows me that whatever I want in my life I’m going to have to work at, even though at this point I really don’t know what it is that I want to work towards.

Life/Biggest Fear:

Honestly, I don’t care. You can tell how much this test counts towards my final grade and how my final grade will affect my GPA and unless my GPA is a 10 my life will spiral downwards after college because I won’t be able to get a job other than as a cashier at McDonalds. But honestly, I don’t care and I can’t stand that about myself. Don’t get me wrong I know what’s important and I know what I need to succeed in classes I just find myself without the drive to do it too often. I just want to enjoy life and I don’t want to miss anything or find out 30 years later that I still have a whole list of things I want to do with my life. I’m still young, I know, but life is short and really i just hate waiting. I want to work hard in school, I want to have a good job, I want a family someday, I want to grow old and even though they say money isn’t everything someday you’ll check my profile picture and itll be me planking on a million, I mean, who doesn’t want that? And every day I do feel like that dream is closer and more often than not the thought of that gives me enough motivation.

But what if I fail? What if I end up broke? Alone? Dead? My biggest fear is that someday I’ll wake up and hate my life. I don’t want regrets and so far I don’t have any but what major decisions have I made? In these next 4 years, and a few after that, I’m arguably making or breaking my life and that thought scares me. I’m not scared of the challenge itself I know it will be hard and I know ill feel like giving only about 80 times, but that’s not what scares me I love challenges. My fear is that after spending who knows how many years trying to get over that wall I wont like the other side.