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Baruch College, chosen because I felt it was in prime location, a great education, and an all around good experience.  So far Baruch has proven to be all of these, i have met some of the most amazing people that i will be friends with forever.  Baruch is definitely living up to my expectations in the sense of the location, quality of education and best of all the people and connections i have made.  At first i wanted to join the Fraternity i was pledging for but i fairly quickly realized i didn’t need to participate in traditions that were not worth it to me.  I have come to a realization of myself through this first semester. i have learned more about myself in these past few months than i ever knew.  Towards the end of this semester there is a lot of this protesting going on about the increase in tuition.  The actions of some of these students are shocking to me, so far this semester this is the only part that is bothering me.  There are many students that are not willing to pay a little extra to earn a better education, more technology to classrooms, and better benefits to our teachers.  I find it suprising that students have gone down a path of protest all for $300 a year.

My first semester at Baruch has not gone academically as well as i hoped for.  i am not trying in many of the classes, i feel like as if i am still living in senior year of High School.  We as a group have been goofing off and not always putting our school work first.  If i could do it over, the first semester that is, i would definitely not have wasted so much time into the Fraternity, i would have pushed myself to learn topics that i was not learning because i was not being pushed by the teachers, but thats my fault, i am not in High School anymore, i need to be able to push myself to do my work and get it done in a timely fashion.

I haven’t changed dramatically this semester, but there are a few small changes.  I have come to realize with myself that i need sleep and i cannot give that up.  Without giving up sleep i am going to need learn how to manage my time better and be able to get work done and sleep.  I also have changed by becoming a little more independent than i was when i went to a school where teachers made sure their students were doing all the work required. i have made somewhat of the transition into the college learning style but still have a long way to go.

The BIGGEST change is i have added some of the most amazing people to my group of friends and i hope to stay in contact with them throughout our lives and careers.

Just wanted to show you guys some of the love my HS guys shared…nd we should make a vid like this lol

http://www.youtube.com/user/AlmostFamous2011#p/u/4/orQp8aE4w8c

Who am I…you’ll see. As I am walking through the aisles at 10am on a Sunday morning, I hear people talking, children screaming, and registers beeping.  A typical day at Sears, never a dull moment, one or two call-outs, cashiers who don’t want to work, normal everyday shit.  Thinking wow the start of yet another stressful day at Sears, makes me wish I was back in bed sleeping all day. While i was dazing off, staring at the computer waiting to see how the numbers were for the day before, thinking about the night before, I hear “manager assistance needed in men’s!” I breathe deeply and head over to the men’s department, hoping its not some lunatic customer complaining this early in the morning. As I’m walking up to the men’s register I begin to hear a women yelling something about not being able to get her refund and I just roll my eyes and calmly say to her “how are you doing? I am Mike, one of the managers, what can I help you with?” she went on ranting about how our return policy sucks and how she deserves a refund.  Even though the item was bought over a year ago, I explain to her our return policy, but since she has a receipt and all the tags on the items, I grant her the refund and hand her the receipt hoping she’d leave the store quickly.  After that I knew it was going to just be one of those days. For the next 9 hours I heard nothing but people paging me, did nothing but run back and forth from register to register, dealing with cheap-ass customers who think their right and deserve huge discounts, employees who think i have nothing better to do then cater to their needs and just wishing i could go home…but then I thought to myself at the end of the day that I would rather be a manger at Sears than be a peasant someplace else. I guess the moral of the story is even though I have to go through all of this whenever I am working I am still the BOSS.

My birth name is Mohamed Mounir Rashwan, however I go by Mike, Moe, Mo, Rash, Boss, or if you went to camp with me I was known as Bear.  I was born on May 30, 1993, in Flushing, Queens, NY.  My Dad died when i was three months old, i live with my mom, she never remarried so I am all she has, and she takes that very seriously.  My Mom’s parents both died by the time i was nine, and my Dad’s mom lived in Egypt along with his whole family(seven siblings).  I have a small family and we are pretty close, we do a lot of activities together especially once we moved closer to them.  I grew up in an apartment building in Jackson Heights, Queens, till I was nine years old.  I was pretty much raised by a babysitter till we moved out of Queens. I moved out to Hicksville when I was nine, I went to Holy Trinity Diocesan High School.  My Mom is a very bright and independent woman, which i believe has had a huge influence in who I am today.  I consider myself to be outgoing, fun loving, caring, intelligent, interesting, and a pretty well rounded person.  I am a hard-worker, an entrepreneur and always willing to try new things.

My top three concerns for Baruch are time management, my grades, and making life long friends. I’m a bit of a procrastinator with homework and I dislike reading, but i’m going to work hard to do better the next four years.  My grades are also a concern because I want to make sure I maintain a high GPA, since my mom had a 4.0 she expects me to have the same. -__-  Life long friends is a huge factor in becoming a successful businessman.  Without having connections in the business world it makes it very difficult to just make your way into a large accounting firm.  The connections you can make in College can help a lot in the long run when you are looking for a job later on.

So far, Baruch is really different for me compared to high school.  My high school was fairly small compared to the public schools around me, but because i was on football I quickly made a lot of friends.  The teachers in high school really cared about their students and made sure they worked to their ability.  The workload was also a lot less and a lot of it was group work.  We had a family motto in my high school, everyone kinda looked out for each other, however there was still a sense of seniority as you approached senior year.

One year at Baruch will force me to become an even more independent person, I will learn better time management, and to be more open to make some new good friends. Being in the city at Baruch is definitely going to help me grow as a intellectual and a person.

 FIRST DAY OF HISTORY AND THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DOING