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I think my experience at Baruch College has not lived up to my expectations in some aspects. As the first semester at college, it is quite different from the high school. I am excited for being a college student; it is an unknown journey, and a fresh experience; and it may be a turning point of my life. But after the excitement is over, the troubles come out. The college is more laborious than high school, and I have more pressure with the course. Before attending college, I think college would be freer, but it takes me a lots time doing the reading and writing my paper. I don’t think I do best at my first semester at college.

In some way, my experience at Baruch College has lived up to my expectations. I think the college life will give me more possibilities of my future. After my first semester at Baruch College, I have some new friends, and my ability is improved; it makes me feel a sense of accomplishment. For example, my vocabulary is widened by reading every day. And my reading ability is also improved. But I think it is not enough, there is no end to progress. I still need to work harder at college.

If I could do the first semester all again, I think I would be more industrious. And I would be more optimistic. There is a will, there is a way. I don’t think I try my best for the work. I think if I could do my best, I would be better for my work and make more progress. At this semester, sometimes I would feel idle, during those period, I don’t want to do the reading and homework, I just want to sleep or watch movie at home. I think I should avoid this kind of feeling, so that I could be more industrious.

I think I have changed a little bit since I started at Baruch College. I think I become more independent right now. At the high school, the teachers would decide many things for me, but at college, there are more things that should be decided by me. With the coming age, I need to be more and more independent in my whole life. I can explore the world, and then finally find out what I really want is. Anyway, I would try my best.

I always ask myself, “What is happiness?” and I always recall that I have a happy childhood. During that time, everything in my life can make me happy. The life was free form cares and worries. Everyday my little friends and I played games with each other; we could share our happiness in an easy way. When I grew up, the whole things have changed a lot. The happiness won’t be as simple as that time any longer. There are increasing troubles and decreasing happiness for me. Many things become unhappy. When I wonder what the happiness is, I cannot say a specific word to describe it. Sometimes I feel happy, that is a feeling, and it is not easy to say why I am happy.

And when I grew up, I began to be afraid of something that I am not afraid at my childhood, such as loneliness. I am afraid of being alone. It makes me feel lonely, and this feeling will make me uneasy. When I was a child, I never felt I was lonely, the little friends always stayed with me. All of us did not know the ways of the world, I thought at that time we lived in our own little world without any trouble and sadness. As time goes by, we become lonelier and lonelier in the big world.

I am also afraid of losing my family. My family is the most important thing for me. Without the family, I will feel lonely and hopeless. The family supports a home for me, the home is the place that we stay with each other, it does not need to be very big or luxurious, where we are, where our home is, and it makes me feel warm. I believe my family will not give up me forever. Everyone can give up me but they won’t. I trust them, and they trust me. We lean on each other for support. When I am sad or depressive, they will give the greatest support to me, I am very grateful, and I love my family.

I don’t know what I like best for myself, and I don’t know the reason, too. But I will try to figure it out. Now I am a college student, I think I should be more industrious. There are lot work needs to be done every day, so the biggest challenge with the school is the time management. I will try my best to work for it. Then enjoy my college life.

  I am an ordinary student study inBaruchCollege, and also my name is common among people, I often meet people who have the same name with me, but I am unique in the world. I firmly believe that everyone is different from the other people; there will not be two people exactly the same, even if they are twins. Everyone is unique in the world. I am optimistic, I am sanguine, I never fear hardships, I try my best to do everything, and I never give up. I play a lot role in my life. Though I am not perfect, still I am the only one in the world.

   About my first freshman year inBaruchCollege, for me the most concern is how to pass all the classes and maintain a high GPA. It is the challenge to my English. My English is poor, but the classes demand a richer and more subtle mastery of the English, I do not have enough confidence about that. I need to build up my confidence in college. My second concern is about time management. Because I always think the time is not enough for me to do all the study. I should learn to how to use my time effectively. My third concern is about the major that I should choose. I only know that I want the major in business, but I am not sure which one of it. I am equivocal in this case, but I think it is very important for my future, so I need to make a decision after long deliberation. I hope I will figure it out soon.

   I think my high school experience seems to much easier than the college experience. The college is much different from the high school; it needs to do a lot work on our own initiative. For example, there are many reading materials we need to read everyday, it makes me become dizzy and lose my bearings. I spend a lot time in doing homework, and writing the essay. It seems to I can not finish all of them forever, but I will never give up, and I will keep trying and trying.  In the high school, the teachers teach us how to learn, but in the college, the professors teach us how to think. We need to figure out many things by ourselves. I will make efforts to do all my work well.

  I think the college  life will make me become more industrious and independent. My life may be more colorful in the college. Sooner or later, my dream will come true one day.