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The fall 2011  semester of  Baruch  is coming to an end very shortly. It was a great experience all around. There were some ups and downs throughout but overall it was great. It was pretty much what I expected of a college coming in. In some ways it was hard but not too bad. Finals are coming up and then a long vacation. I feel like i did pretty well overall but there is still room for improvement.  I don’t think i would’ve done anything different if i has to do the whole semester over again.I think everything went pretty smoothly and I enjoyed the experience very much. I think I changed in ways that I cant tell. I don’t feel like I changed at all but everyone changed in their first semester of college.

Monologue

Back when I was a sophomore on my school basketball team I was one of five who had made it the year before. We were a great team the year before and now we were an even better team.  At the first practice of the year I was playing with the other sophomores who were for sure starting so I thought I was good and I would be starting with them. The next practice he switched me from the team with the starters for another kid on the team, who was a freshman. This kid was very good in eighth grade and he was in the middle of  reaching his peak. So came first game of the season he started and I didn’t..I was really pissed but I knew he was better than me so I got over it. Throughout the season I hated going to practices and just sitting on the side doing nothing. So I wanted to quit the team really badly but I decided not to. The last practice of the season was the night before the championship the coach put me on the team against the starting five during the scrimmage and I played very hard and made some good plays. The next day at the game the team wasn’t doing too well and the kid who started instead of me wasn’t able to keep up and was not playing well under pressure. So the coach looked down the bench almost to the end and called me up . I was the first one off the bench to go into the game and I guarded the guy on the other team who was doing very well and he barely scored the rest of the game and we won.