Author Archives: nicholas.bowden

My expectations at baruch have definately been lived up too. I like the school alot and i like the atmosphere. My first semester at baruch has gone alright, but i wish it coud have been better. I enjoy the school and people here and i have nothing to complain about when it comes to the people. There has been alot of work and i wish i could have done better keepping up with it. My main problem has been balancing my workload. I have alot of trouble doing my work because i spend so much time commuting from long island to the city. It takes 5 hours out of my day that i can be spending on work and i wish i could have that time.

Next semester i hope to get an apartment in the city. I feel that living here will definately help me get my work done. I plan on focusing only on my work next smester and get rid of all my dstractions ive had back home. I plan on bing a more focused and productive student next smester.

Since i started Baruch i feel i have changed greatly. I now know what its like to be a college student and how it is different from high school. I feel i have grown more mature and have definately done more work then i ever did in high school. Overall my first semester at Baruch has been good but there are a few things i would like to change and make better for next semester.

Last week in freshman seminar we attended the the rubin museum. By the time we got to the museum it was closing so we only go to stay for a little bit. The museum seemed very interesting and fascinating. There were many pieces of art collected about the himalayas. The history has alot of past and history and in our short tour guide, we got to learn alot about the museum. The rubin museum has a wide collection of himalyan art. In the tour guide we got to see the Tibetan shrine room from the Alice S. Candell collection. The shrine has 170 pieces of created from the 13 to 19 century. All the work was collected by Alice in her visit there. I was looking through the rubin museum website and i found some new interesting pieces of art they have now added to there collection. Some of the artworks included the Sahaja Chakrasamvara, Great hierarch and the Vajravarahi. all these type of arts vary n different ways they are displayed. The Sahaja is on a piece of cloth, The great Hierarch is a statute and the vajavarahi is also on a piece of cloth. The rubin museum is an excellent way to learn about past himalyan culture and to learn about its past history.

Dear Proffesor Smith,

I am sorry i was not able to attend class and take the exam this thursday, I was sick in bed with the flu. If by any chance you can give me a make up exam i would highly appreciate it.

Thank you

Nick Bowden

A topic in my life I feel extremely strong
about is the legalization of marijuana.Why is marijuana not legal? According to
the US
census in 2010 over 60 million people admitted to using the drug. Although it
is such a popular drug law enforcement arrest over 750,000 people a year for
marijuana possession. Marijuana arrest cost the country tons of money and waste
jail space for violent crime offenders and sexual predators. Marijuana
probation has been a major failure and its time to legalize marijuana.
Marijuana is currently the largest cash crop in the United States and legalizing the
drug would reduce the number of teenagers using the drug. Most teenagers will
admit that marijuana is a lot easier to get then alcohol or tobacco, witch are
legal drugs. Legalizing the drug would make the availability for teenagers much
less and would stop teenagers from selling the drug to make easy money. The
drug was first mad illegal through lies and propaganda. There were many propaganda
stories printed by William Randolph Heart saying that blacks and Mexicans were
smoking the drug and raping white woman which led to making the drug illegal
although these stories were completely false. Marijuana is also a lot safer and
hazardous to health then alcohol and many prescription drugs, and has no
addictive qualities. Tobacco use causes 435,000 deaths per year in the US and alcohol
85,000. There is no reported deaths from marijuana ever. Legalizing the drug
would inject 76.8 billion dollars a year in the economy, 44.1 billion from law
enforcement savings and 32.7 billion in tax revenue. Marijuana also has many
positive medical values, including reducing nausea in cancer chemotherapy
patients, stimulating appetite in Aid patients and helping with glaucoma. It is
time we smarten up and weigh out the positives and negatives of legalizing
marijuana.

Hi, I’m Nick Bowden im a commuter student here at Baruch. I am a shy, loyal and honest person. These personality traits all have had many positive and negatives affects on my life. The one that has had the most negative affect on my life is my shyness. I haven’t always been as anti social as i am now but as i got older through the years i have isolated myself from others more. In high school i had the same group of friends all four years, my friends were very different from most people and so am i, so i find it harder to connect with others that don’t have the same interests, beliefs or personalities as me. I hope that during my time in Baruch i can learn to be more social and meet new people. Some of my more positive personality traits are my loyalty and honesty. The number one thing i can’t stand is lying so i try to be as honest as i can be at all times. I also am a very loyal person, i will never betray a person that trust me because that’s the way i was raised.

My goal over the next four years is too meet new people and try new things.  I came to Baruch because it is the complete opposite of where i grew up on long island and i hated it there. The town was boring and had nothing to ever do, it was a very depressing place to be and although i cant yet afford to live in the city, just being in NYC makes me happy because of the endless possibilities here. My biggest concern about Baruch is procrastination. In high school i always procrastinated and got my work done, but in college there is too much work to do so. I need to learn to do work over time and not save it for the night before. I hope i can work on making a smooth transition into the college life.