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Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived (or not
lived) up to your expectations. Has it exceeded your expectations? How well do
you think your first semester went?

After having 3 months of college classes, I
still feel like “It doesn’t fit me”. Especially, I have two terrible
classes—-US History and US Politics. I have hated these two classes since I first
knew there are such classes. I couldn’t do well in classes without interests,
so I’m near the “F” grade.

What would you do differently if you could do it all again?

If I could restart my first semester, I
would drop history and politics classes. That is not my cake.

How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

I started working since I started my college. It
was my first time to get out of the “umbrella”, living as a normal man. College
is the most turning point of my life. From that moment, my family became my
advisor instead of protector

Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived (or not
lived) up to your expectations. Has it exceeded your expectations? How well do
you think your first semester went?

After having 3 months of college classes, I
still feel like “It doesn’t fit me”. Especially, I have two terrible
classes—-US History and US Politics. I have hated these two classes since I first
knew there are such classes. I couldn’t do well in classes without interests,
so I’m near the “F” grade.

What would you do differently if you could do it all again?

If I could restart my first semester, I
would drop history and politics classes. That is not my cake.

How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

I started working since I started my college. It
was my first time to get out of the “umbrella”, living as a normal man. College
is the most turning point of my life. From that moment, my family became my
advisor instead of protector

In my  senior year of high school, when all of my friends were discussing about which colleges to apply, i was thinking about if i should go to college, because I’m an overage student with poor fluency in English. College class will be very difficult for me. But ,if I go to work instead of attend college,I would not waste the time, and make my parent easy. And, I had read about many stories about famous people who didn’t finish college, such as Henry Ford and Steve Jobs. All of the life experiences of those people showed that the social experiences are more important than college education to one’s success.
However, my uncle laughed at me, and said:” Well, I agree that college education isn’t necessary for doing things, such as you don’t need degree in business to start your own business, or you don’t need degree in computer science to fix a computer. But, for you, the reality is that you don’t even know the language. How can you quit the school while you can’t even read newspapers? Or if you only want to live in Chinese community and get jobs that only serving Chinese customers. it’s fine. But it is definitely a boring life in new york. And , your immigration lost its significance if you still only live with Chinese.”
I admitted his opinion, continued my study in college. Also, my low wage parttime job reminds me, without education, life will be just as terrible as the parttime job.

My hometown is in the southeast of China, it’s a city called Wenzhou. It’s known for the outstanding economy and extremely POOR education. It’s a city where there are lots of millionaires who had very low education level. It’s a city where people don’t seriously care about their society position, but money. It’s a city where money is the only way to measure people’s achievement. Growing up in an environment like this, I’m not so sure about if it’s necessary to study in a college. The reason is that I heard many real stories about people who selling goods in flea markets made much more money than those high level office workers who had spent many years in colleges. I often thought if other people could make money without high level education, why I could not? Thus, I study in college with a part-time schedule, and I also found a full-time job. My plan is using the first semester to find out what kinds of life fit me better by doing the half –half schedule. So, for now , I can’t identify myself well with the confusion in my mind.

My first and the only concern in college is keeping improving my English level. It’s kind of ashamed that even though I spent lots of time in ESL class when I was in high school, I still can’t read “New York Times”, and I easily get lost when I’m talking with a English speaker. I believe that I can’t concern more things before my English gets much more fluent.

The difference between college and high school is obvious. For example, the first day of college, I was shocked by the class which had over 150 students. I felt like I was watching a show rather than having a class. And professors never asked you for homework. They just said that you studied for yourself, not anyone else. Also I get much more homework to do than high school, and most of the homework, I need do lots of research.

I think the first year of college will make me become more independent, and think more about the society and the future career. I will decide if I need to continue my study after the first semester.