Author Archives: Wei Li

To: Professor H,

Subject: Questions about HIS 1005 assignment paper

Hi Professor H,

I have not started my assignment paper because I still have some questions regarding the chapter 17 & 18 of textbook. Could you give me your office hour so that I would make an appointment. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Wei Li

HIS 1005 MW 14:00-13:30

Since it has been two months from the beginning of my freshman year, the academic routine spurs me to rush from hour to hour. I finished my homework at the last second of yesterday, and almost fall asleep at the first second of class. These 2 moths only gave me an endless rotation of yesterday and today. Degree? Yeah, I need to acquire that in 4 years, but how? The horror of Mid-terms destroyed my last confidence, and left me numerous question marks. I did anything I could; however, it does not come out everything I expect. I desire to get somewhere I belong, but I found I was in the middle of nowhere without knowing the direction. Yesterday was a blank, today is a mess. I want to escape from the predicament by trying persuading myself to begin a new start at tomorrow, whereas, it never comes. It was me who throw all chip on the number that never showed up, and I mired deeper and deeper. I looked into the mirror when I woke up this morning, there was one person embraced by confusion. The man in the mirror is not the man I want to be. I realized I need to make a difference and make it right. (“Man In the Mirror” is my favor song, btw) Fit in or lose out, it is the law of survival and nature. Here I am, by expressing the perplexity and listening the same experience from you guys, I feel I am not alone. I can look up and energize myself. I stand now here instead nowhere.

Hello, World! My name is Wei Li. Once I was an ordinary guy from a small village in China. I came to the Unite States with my family four years ago, and it brought a brand new world to me. Even though I still have some struggle with my English, I attempt to communicate with others. As in New York, the center of world, I saw different people from almost every areas, and I experienced a lot of thing that I never had before, their culture, religion and food.

For my freshman year at Baruch, communication skill is my top concern. In class, I can not respond to professor’s question, or sometimes I could not really organize my words, although I did follow professor’s point. As most of freshmen, club activity is my second concern. Unlike high school, there are numerous clubs or organizations provide us varieties of information and opportunity. It is challenged for freshmen to figure out which are best applicable for us. GPA is the third, and it is definitely most concern of freshmen.

Differ to high school, professors would never press us for attendance and homework. We are given more personal space, but it also means more responsibility, self-responsibility. We spend more time at home instead at campus, we manage our time in completing assignment. We also need to balance our personal and academic life.

I do not know how my first year at Baruch would change me, but the unknown future make me challenged and excited. All in all, “I came, I saw, I conquered.”