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Back to Daycare Like Old Days

Posted on December 11, 2011 by vincent.cho

i ve worked at daycares a lot. maybe its something about the kids, about how they’re like we were back in the day. maybe its something to do with how the next generation will be the future. kids dont realize it but they really have all the chances in the world.

i went to PS20 to do community service, a daycare i myself used to go to and work at. that being said it was a very normal experience for me except that i didnt recognize many of the kids anymore cuz its been a while and some of them graduated. i miss kids, somewhat looking forward to being a father but just not anytime soon. working with kids takes a lot of energy out of you, always get so caught up in it but afterwards i always get the weirdest feelings.

it was a lot of fun, didnt learn much new stuff cuz i ve done it before but it was fun. if it werent for this mandatory community service work i dont think i wouldve gone back, it was nice seeing the kids again but i feel like that was such a big part of my life that i m ready to move on to different things.

kids are like crazed cats and dogs. you get the energetic ones that just go nuts if you wave your hands in the air. then you get the quiet strange ones that kinda float around doing the silliest things. some of them are so cute you just wanna squish them between your fingers but some of them make me look back and wonder “was i like that o_o” and then i realzie i would have to say yes usually lol. done some crazy things as a kid and missed my chance to do a lot of other things, but cant be having regrets now. i stand by my childhood as what made me who i am today, i can only hope all the kids i see around nowadays can appreciate that same sentiment and enjoy their youth.

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Must Be Getting Old

Posted on December 8, 2011 by vincent.cho

It is now towards the end of the semester. i didnt do much. to be honest there was a lot of feeling around at the beginning of the year, kinda like in fights where you dont really engage but try to figure out how strong your opponent is. the classes arent bad at all in terms of difficulty, but my rise in laziness has risen to new extremes.

i m scared. if i stay here at baruch for too long, i see myself just skipping class everyday. My motivation to work has plummeted to new depths. i guess when you grow up what institutions lack in inspiration you’re supposed to make up for through discipline and a need for money in the future.

i miss having PE class. i feel weary sometimes, i think its my lack of activity lately but maybe its the weather too. in Heroes the tv show i saw a bunch of japanese business men all go outside in the middle of the day to do some mandatory excersize. seems like both a nice and dreadful idea. idunno.

baruch has its charms, not many, but it has its charms. the building itself continues to amaze me (vc not 23rd cuz 23rd is shit). the people here are decent. classes are decent. professors are decent. a whole lot of mediocracy is what i m seeing but theres a lot of opportunities here too.

heres to hoping i can get out there and make next semester even better.

 

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Small Talk 2 and Why Free Things Are Not Always Good

Posted on December 8, 2011 by vincent.cho

This workshop was about small talk. More precisely this was the second installment of the small talk workshops provided by STARR career center. Supposedly we were supposed to learn about how to start, sustain, and end small talk as well as the implications of such. Do keep in mind these sessions are free and non profit, i assume, so any bad mouthing i do must be taken lightly and somewhat jokingly.

The workshop went like this: we were seated in a circle, got a handout, went through the handout, did a small excersize, talked some more, the end. The whole thing was unbearably tense and boring for the most part. While i do appreciate that the workshop was free and of good intent it just really lacked any sort of polish or coherence.

The speaker seemed a good man but his demeanor left me with the impression that i did not want to learn anything from him. He sat in the corner of the room where not even half the people remaining could see him (many left throughout the workshop to go to class, i suspect some of them also had their pants spontaneously combust). What kind of speaker sits in the corner while slouched forward? It does not exactly inspire confidence and a feeling of comfortability.

The workshop’s contents lacked depth and insight, i felt the things i ‘learned’ actually weakened what small-talking skills i already had. I found the sections about physical communication nice but the tips like “repeat something interesting they said” or “tell them what they said was interesting” were horrible. It felt less like a small-talk workshop and more of a “how to pretend you are paying attention” workshop.

Perhaps it was my blunder in going to a social skills workshop and not something more concrete like resume writing. I appreciated the workshop but found it of little use and a poor usage of time. It was also brought to my attention that the speaker did not seem very enthusiastic or motivated, perhaps it was just my imagination. He seemed more obligated to keeps us in the room until time was up rather than actually teaching us something. when the session ended about 30 minutes early he insisted we stayed in the room despite us not doing anything productive and simply sitting there.

Bad experience, scarred, no more workshops, is all i can conclude.

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DTE: Surviving College 101 2011-10-19 23:59:11

Posted on October 19, 2011 by vincent.cho
Watching paint dry would make my day. I’m a pretty easy going person, whether through laziness or enlightenment I will never know. I can see myself growing up to be a monk in a mountain, bothering rabbits and dear with the qualms of my existence. “Dear little cute fluffy rabbit, what is the meaning of life?” I shall ask it. Mr.Rabbit, as I shall name him, will tell me “42”. Upon hearing this I shall beat Mr.Rabbit to death with a frozen tuna. I am unsatisfied with the meaning my existence has so far. Sometimes I see cute puppies strolling down the street and I just want to squish it. So simplistic, so blissful and ignorant of what it means to be self-conscious. I m a bit jealous of animals. Being an animal without self-consciousness, I imagine, would be much like being a machine. Actions are taken based upon information put in through the mechanism of senses. No thoughts or long ponders, no more telling my teacher I haven’t written anything because “I’m still thinking”. To let go and let life take its course, to be able to rest knowing that there are no more decisions to make, no more chances to ruin your life. That would be too easy. I once played a game where the goal of the game was to press a button. You had to press it 1000 times before the three other people in the game. There was a real sense of urgency. Using my Maplestory party quest clicking skills, it’s completely fine if you don’t get the reference, I clicked as fast as I could on the button. My arm swelling and cramped until I neared 900. I exerted all my force to finish the last stretch clicking far past 1000. I had won, or so I had thought. Before me on my computer screen ran the words “Game Over”. I had lost because I clicked over 1000. I think back to that game every now and then. I realize life is one huge clicking game. We try and try and try, we strive continuously, in hopes that there is some meaning at the end of our excursion. There may be none at all. We may find all the sweat and tears, the cramps and arm spasms we had were for nothing, meant nothing. But it doesn’t matter. I had believed in something. I had put my effort towards a goal, whether I reached it or not was irrelevant. I don’t care if I lost, I’m the click master anyway.
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Does the Sun ever wonder why its burning?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by vincent.cho

Concerns, for i am very concerned

Vincent here, that kid that speaks up awkwardly when he gets really tense. My biggest concern about college is what to do after classes. Living my whole life in the five boroughs is very comforting and familiar, but its also like living in a cage. The last time i left east coast of the U.S was when i was 2 and went to Mexico and Puerto Rico. Getting a little bored and sick of the place/need a vacation. Concern numero dos: I m getting kinda fat again. That whole freshman fifteen thing doesnt sound too good. The fact that college doesnt offer a lot of the teams i was in during highschool doesnt help my well being, also its another reason why i m a little bored nowadays. I used to fence, play tennis (not really just kinda) and play handball but not anymore because there arent any teams. Also i feel like getting sweaty in college is kinda disgusting cuz then you gotta trek around in that damn awful sweat and stink up the place. Its worse than that subways smell you get if you stay in subways too long, obliviously shoving that footlong down your throat as you begin to smell like a pile of horse’s fecal matter. Third concern. Finding that balance between the partying and the academics. No elaboration needed.
Summary: I’m bored, getting fat, and wondering if i should hit up that party or go study.

 

 College Experience? wait i thought we were still in highschool. (herpa derp)

Idunno. College is kinda retarded. Highschool for me was pretty good so idunno how college will stack up. I m not saying i m the smartest guy in the world, not pointing any fingers either but some people just make it way too blatantly clear they are stupid. There are also some smart people here and there that arent very considerate. If you already know all the answers, stop blurting them out and give the ones who dont know a chance to get it, jeez. They dont even try to conceal it. Theres a quote i remember that follows something along the line of “everyone thinks you’re stupid, so dont open your big fat mouth and remove all doubt.” The big differences are the amount and variety of people i meet. Highschool was pretty small, Baruch is that giant elephant in the middle of the room. It kinda evades me sometimes but i do realize just how diverse Baruch is. Baruch is also a lot richer than my highschool is, but offers much fewer clubs and teams that i am interested in. I wonder if thats ironic considering most limitations to clubs and teams has to do with money.

Summary: dumb people shut up, smart people shut up. college needs more clubs and teams that matter (to me).

 

What you can do for Baruch, and what Baruch can do for YOU.
Baruch can make me not gaf more about academics. Honestly, freshmen year mandatory liberal arts? Go eat a phallus. I graduated from highschool so i could study things that matter and are useful/more pertinent to my interest. Giving me a buttload of liberal arts classes makes me wonder if i should go watch teletubbies and suck on my mothers teet like the little panzy baby i am. Truthfully though i would greatly appreciate a more expansive selection of courses that may be significant to my future career path. I dont want to sound harsher than i am so i will conclude by saying this. Baruch will probably make me a more outgoing person, a more reliable and responsible person. A more worldly person who has experienced much more in his life in comparison to his pre-college days.

Summary: Baruch will make me a better person, for the most part.

Who am i?
My name is Vincent Cho, i have lived in Queens, NY for all my life. I am a 18 year old, Chinese-American male. I have black hair, brown eyes, bad vision, worse jokes. I like cheesy things: cliches in movies, presidents insisting they tell the truth, cannon rushes in starcraft, etc. I think i am a very kind and friendly person, but i have been told before that i dont have sunshine coming out of my ass and am a little scary. Also i m a pretty creepy guy, i do questionable things sometimes and sometimes its just best not to ask. I used to watch way too much anime, like kids would be writing term papers and i would be watching anime. I also play a lot of games, lots of hours logged onto starcraft custom games and dota and halo, etc. If you ask me my favorite number is 17, if i tell you, my favorite number is 19. I dont watch any ‘sports’ but instead i like to follow starcraft leagues (its a sport in korea so stfu). I m known for extreme and erratic sleep cycles so if you’re ever up and bored i might be on. Hopefully though the length of this post is so long, that it has discouraged you from reading it, but other than that, i m mad cool dawg hit me up (i dont actually talk like that, i thought it would be funny, hahaha).

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