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Time flies. When I
started to write this blog, I realized that it was already the end of my first
semester at Baruch College.  During the
past three months, there were a lot of things and new people bursting into my
life that either made me feel depressed, crazy, or made me feel impressed,
happy.

Before I attended
Baruch College, I expected that I would manage and divide my time perfectly
into three aspects: develop my social network, handle my school work and take
care of my personal life. However, since I didn’t develop an effective time
management skill, my whole plan messed up. During a limited period of time, I
could never get all the work of these three aspects done. For example, on
Saturday, I could only stay home, focus on my papers with a cup of coffee and a
McDonald’s No. 5 meal, without handing out with my friends or preparing a big
meal for myself. Similar things kept happening to me showed how my experience
had not lived up to my expectation.

On the other hand, I
really improved my reading skills, which was the experience that had lived
exceeded my expectation. I got a really poor reading skill before I attended
Baruch College. I had to spend a longer period of time either reading or interpreting
an article than others. However, after attending Baruch College, I realized
that the reading assignments I had to complete within one week were almost
equal to the quantity I had to complete within two months when I was in high
school. This situation forced me to really pay attention to my poor reading
skill, and develop it as soon as possible.

Overall, I think my
first semester at Baruch College deserves a B+. Even though there were many
things that had not lived up to my expectations, I still got some achievements
of certain areas under this new environment at college. If I could do my first
semester all again, I would definitely drop my philosophy class at the
beginning instead of being tortured by it for the whole semester, so that I
could use that huge amount of time to study something that was really
attractive for me, because philosophy was really a class that caused people
lots of time but only gave them few rewards.

I don’t think that I
have changed a lot since I started at Baruch College. As I know, I tended to
contribute more time on my school work and my social network; I started to
spend less time at home, and discuss fewer things with my parents. In a word, I
got more involved in college and became more independent at home. I’m not sure
if those changes are right, but I’m sure that they are the marks of my new life
at Baruch College.

My life quote is “victory won’t come to me unless I go to it” said by Moore.

This quote encourages me to try my best to achieve my goals no matter under what kinds of hardship. Never stop my steps towards victory and just dream about it, because victory is the goal I set up before; only if I lower it, otherwise it cannot move, therefore the only way to get victory is I go there by myself.

I still remember when I was in elementary school in China, I did really poor at classes, especially at English class. One day, I failed the vocabulary test again, my teacher seemed like could not tolerate me anymore, and decided to call my family. Then after the class, she brought me to her office, informed me that she would make a call tonight and asked me for my home phone number. That was the first time I felt so scared for school stuff. I didn’t want my teacher to tell this to my family, maybe because I really cared about my image in my family’s hearts or something like that. Therefore I started to beg my teacher and promised her that I would definitely get 100 on the next vocabulary test by saying if I failed to do that, she could call my family at that time. My teacher really moved by me and gave me a second chance, and the result turned out that I didn’t let her down. From that time, my life changed.

I started to make higher and higher standards for my school work and wanted to achieve greater and greater victory. Three years ago, I came to New York as a sophomore in High School. I was still motivated and energetic until I realized that my efforts didn’t work so well, and then I became kind of lazy sometimes. For example, I may spend the whole day lying on my bed and watching movies without opening my text book or sleep over 12 hours just because I don’t want to get up. These things which could never happen before are happening now.

Two months ago, I attended Baruch College and became a college student. I figured out that kind of lazy always got me into trouble and made me stay up until 3 or 4am if there were some assignments would due on the next day. At that moment, my life quote jumped out of my mind again, and reminded me what I was supposed to do.

As my life quote says “victory won’t come to me unless I go to it”, I should never stop moving along the way to my victory. Just like the picture shows, if I want to win the competition, I have to run. Although I can rest a few seconds when I feel tired, I can never just stop there because resting is only for me to get ready for running again.

In my opinion the question “Who Do You Think You Are?” is really meaningless, because the person who is sitting here and writing this blog is just me. Whatever I think shows how I interpret different things, whatever I do shows how I solve problems, and whatever I perform decides how people look at me.

I think I am just the person I am.

Now, as a college student, there are three top concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College.

Firstly, I have to develop self-study skill. When I was in high school, teachers usually taught us everything we supposed to know and summarized it for us, which made me spend just a little time to study at home. However at college, it’s on the opposite side. For every class, teacher assigns homework for us to read the next chapter on the text book. And then, on the next day, he just goes over the main idea with us and leaves everything else for us to figure out by ourselves instead of covering all of them. It forces me to spend a lot of time at home learning it by myself, which I would never have to do in high school. Therefore a self-study skill is very necessary at college, and I have to develop it as soon as possible.

Secondly, I have to develop my own social network. As a business student, although I need to study hard on my courses, it doesn’t mean I have to be a nerd. I should participate in many clubs and act energetically to make a lot of friends using my free time. Because when I graduate from college, get into the society and start my business, I need friends to help me in many different ways. For work, we can either share some information or corporate to do a project; for private, we can either hang out to relax ourselves or solve some personal problems if we need. Therefore I need to figure out the way of making friends and develop my own network.

Thirdly, I have to develop my time management skills. I am the kind of person who really knows how to waste time. I can spend whole day watching movies, chatting with my friends, or just lying on my bed without thinking anything. Then at the end of that day when I am ready to sleep, I feel so sorry about losing another day and hope I can get tomorrow fully used. But guess what? The same thing happens again on the next day. Therefore I always feel so stress out when there comes the deadline of some homework or project that is really important for the class. I have to change this situation right now, because if I keep doing this, I will definitely fail all my classes and harm my future plans.

I, a freshman at Baruch college, with three top concerns in mind, hope to change myself into a better way for my future.