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Oh well, Oh well the first semester of my college life has come to an end. That means 1/8 of it is gone and there’s 7/8 left to go.  That nice break looks really good right about now. My impression of Baruch after a semester is similar to most people’s impression of the MTA after riding it a few times. It does the job well, in this case educating students for rewarding careers, at an affordable price but could be a whole lot better. There are times where I wondered what life would be like at Columbia or NYU. Why is it that you have to make your own social network here instead of just walking right into one? It could just be my boring life outside of class but one of the expectations I had was for that to be taken care of. At the 12.5% mark through the season Baruch has a .500 record. If that keeps up then head coach J. Washington will have to pack his bags and head elsewhere.

I’m sure everyone in life has some stressful situations that need to be escaped from for a while. A great way to do that is by doing something you love and helping others in the process. That’s why community service is such a good thing. I recently visited my high school to give a helping hand to students struggling with their classroom material. It was a great experience for myself and the students. When students in Physics class made a mistake solving a particular problem I was there to explain it. The teachers were also grateful to have assistance doing the challenging work of enforcing their lessons. If a teacher was giving a lesson I helped with paperwork or grading tests to make myself more useful. I was proud to share my academic talent and interest in education with a student body that should be even more motivated to strive for success.

This is an important message from Julonni. The Charlie Pellet impersonation ends there. The fact that I know who he is makes me unique or incredibly strange. Maybe snow in Dubai strange. The sad thing is I can’t make that judgement. It shouldn’t matter who’s judging anyway; besides what about me is strange? Is it that questions like “who’s the best rapper alive?” don’t appeal to me where questions like “what is the best skyscraper on earth?’ do. Is that I would rather watch Jimmy Kimmel Live than watch Jersey Shore? Is that my life revolves around weather, cars, sports, skyscrapers and mass transit where others lives revolve around their so-called “friends”? Someone should tell me why so I can move on with my life, maintaining the good mood and optimism i’m always known for. A person as ‘unique’ as myself shouldn’t have to answer that question but somehow unique gets replaced with ‘incredibly strange’. Why am I spending my first semester of college searching for this thing called a “social life” when I should be focused on these things called my grades. Things like a girlfriend or chillin at a friends house are fantasies in my universe where trivial books like Heart of Darkness remain an ever stark reality. When will the shackles of academia loosen themselves from the wonderful 5’6″, 136 lb black 18 year old named Julonni? Only time will tell in the meantime I have to get back to work on my anthropology paper.

My name is Julonni Washington, I was born on July 20, 1993 and spent every year of my life living in a place called the Bronx.  I have enjoyed my life so far and my main goal is to keep enjoying life.  There is nothing special about my childhood to share so I will not spend hours thinking about what to say. I will say that right now, I am looking forward to an enjoyable four years at Baruch and several more enjoyable decades exploring the world’s major metropolis’. I am currently in one so it’s less work to do for me.  If there is one thing you would want to know about me it’s that I am a marriage of opposites. I eat a lot of food yet I have a very slim body. I don’t think of myself as a stereotypical ‘nerd’ yet the first thing my peers point out is my intelligence.  I am very open to conversation yet have very few close friends.  I may not have a lot to say on here right now but in person it’s a different story, one that only a few lucky people will experience.