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Dear Professor ______,

Hello, this is Weizing Lee from your ___ class. I’m very sorry I could not make it to Wednesday’s class to take the midterm exam scheduled that day. I was not feeling well and had to go to the doctor’s for a checkup. If possible, I would gladly appreciate if you could meet with me after tomorrow’s class to discuss a time in which I could make up this exam. I will bring in a doctor’s note as proof and I look forward to seeing you then. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my email. Have a nice day.

Sincerely,

Weizing Lee

Who am I? I really don’t even know myself. I don’t think there’s any word that fully describes who I am. Usually one of the most popular icebreakers is that you choose a word that you think describes you and I’ve always had a hard time choosing one. Most of the time I ended up using “unique”. I am unique, but then again, everyone’s unique in some sort of way. I just hope that people see me as someone who stands out of the crowd. It’s hard to be that someone when people usually think you’re quiet and shy, and I do get that a lot. But I’m not. It usually takes a while for me to open to people, but when I do, I’m crazy, hyper, and I like to act silly because I love making people smile. I think my name also helps in showing people a part of me. My mom said her and my dad went to a person who reads fortunes and gives them a name for their newborn that would best fit them since it was a tradition in the family. I was named “Weizing” because that person predicted I would be “hardworking”. And guess what? I am A lot of my friends and teachers use to call me a perfectionist because I would never stop giving up until whatever I was doing was perfect. So that’s a little part of how I view myself.

Three concerns I have about my freshman year at Baruch are definitely:

1. Doing well in all my classes and making sure that I get A’s (hopefully),

2. Managing my time well and not procrastinating until the last minute,

and 3. Making new friends and finding a club that I really like. Maybe finding a job would be nice too so I can afford lunch!

My first year at college will definitely shape me into a different person than what high school did to me. Even though I’m commuting to Baruch and still living with my parents, in a way I’ll still have to become independent from them and learn how to take care of myself. Like every professor has said so far, no one’s really going to hunt you down to do this and that, it’s really all up to me to take responsibility. I just hope I can do it well so I’ll leave Baruch as a successful student on their way to a good job.

Before going to the convocation at Baruch, I remember looking over the schedule I received in the mail with my friend who was also attending with me. We were both dreading the idea about wasting the whole day there, sitting through so many speeches which we thought were going to be useless and boring. One of the first things that caught our eyes was the event about the whole “sex” idea. At first we laughed and joked about it thinking it’d be stupid. I remember how bummed we were knowing that we were in different blocks away from each other. We were sad at the fact we couldn’t be bored together. When I was walking to the lecture hall with my FRO class, I saw my friend step out and he stopped by to talk to me. He was joking around saying, “I hope you’re ready to learn how to say no when you’re getting raped.” I laughed and shrugged it off, hoping that there would be service in the hall so that I could text as a last resort if I ever got bored.

Stepping out of the hall after the speech had ended, I was quite amazed. I was thinking, “Wow, that was pretty interesting and fun to sit through.” It possibly was one of the best moments of that day. The man who presented the speech was a good speaker, especially in front of a whole lecture hall with kids. I think it’s pretty hard to maintain the interest and attention of kids, knowing that we just came out of high school. No offense to anyone, but we all know someone who’s still immature. It was pretty late in the day already once we got to the lecture, but our public speaker caught our attention and kept it. He accomplished his overall purpose and made it interesting throughout the whole time. It was obvious that his jokes were sincerely funny, and that it didn’t come off like he was trying too hard. He was enthusiastic throughout the whole speech, and even interacted with the audience. He maintained eye contact the whole time, and came off as confident. I think our public speaker did an excellent job; he deserves nothing but the highest scores on our rubric.