Hi, my names Jia Ming Wu. You can just call me Jia. It is roughly 2 months from the beginning of college, and boy its already mid terms. I recently just took 2 mid terms and 2 tests, in this past 2 weeks alone. Both the test and my mid-terms are worth a good percentage of my grades. After seeing my grades for my tests, i found out the true horror of college. I had failed 1 passed 2 and the last one still waiting for the results. Even though i promised myself to study and do good in college my dreams, reality was not so kind and i got a wake up call.

My main problem was not even my classes, but myself. They say old habits are hard to break, and yes yes they are! My main problem was how  i couldn’t  get myself to study properly, like how i use to, because its been so long, that its almost like i never knew what the word studying meant. For my 4 test i only really studied for 2 of them, the other two i winged with my knowledge from the attending the classes, and homework. Which sounds bad but my lowest and highest grades were from the tests i winged, surprisingly.

Lesson learned, do not cram 4 chapters in the spam of 2 days, wing a test, and college for sure requires more work than high school. With this i will make sure for my next test’s i will study starting one week before hand, to ensure a high grade and efficiently adsorbing all the knowledge my professors are handing down to me.

When i was in high school, i thought the college is like par-time job, I can have a lots free time, handing out with my friends during the school week, and play Dota with my friend untill nextday moring, and sleep until sunset, and then go to school study for like 1-2 hours.
I have these kind of thought about college is because I watched some movies which the main character is a college student, they have so many free time that they can even save the world, but they still graduate from the college.
However, everything in my mind about college was changed. College becomes full-time job and over-time. I go to college four days a week which is a little bit better than high school, but these four days, I go to college at 9 am, and leave at 5 pm. Which means these four days I can’t go anywhere instead of go home and do my homework. And professor is so different from high school teacher, in high school, teacher will go over the whole chapter with you and test you the things that she have taught. But in college, professor just go over some of them, and test all of them.
In addition, I found out something interesting about the college, is that if the professor is more interesting and won’t make you want to sleep, then his test will be really hard. But if the professor is so bored then his test will be easier. I got this kind of idea, is because I have two classes, one is so interesting and never make me want to sleep, but on the exam, I have no idea what it is about, even though I study 2 days for that but I still failed. but in the other class, it is so bored but the exam was exactly on what she told us to review and it is much eaiser.

RUYI ZHANG

I hung up the phone. I couldn’t believe the words that had just come out of my mom’s mouth. The life I had grown accustomed to would now change. Walks along the beaches of Puerto Rico would now turn into sleepless nights in the busy streets of Times Square. Traffic free zones would now be filled with bus stops on every few blocks. Endless summers would now experience snow. It took me a while to get used to the Spanish culture that everyone around me shared. That’s why I was shocked to hear that I now had to move. I had to leave the place I called home, meet new people, learn a new language, and start all over.
I didn’t understand the decisions of my parents back then, but I trusted them to know what was best for me. They thought it was in my best interest to learn English in one of the most successful cities in the world, New York. However, in order to continue giving me a good life, they had to stay in Puerto Rico and manage their Chinese restaurant.
Every few years, I had to move back to Puerto Rico in order to ensure I wasn’t forgetting Spanish. I moved quite a lot while my parents decided whether to keep me in one place or the other. Finally their confusion settled and their decision was to sell the restaurant and move to New York with me. I was glad I didn’t have to travel anymore, but I realized that I didn’t have a solid relationship with anybody, not even with my parents. In all those years of moving from one place to another, I lost the bond I once had with my dad. The only times I ever spoke to him were when he asked how my grades were or if he lectured me for doing something wrong. He never seemed to show concern for my personal life. I knew that education was the key in life, but he’d never let me forget it.
All those years, I felt like I wasn’t living up to his expectations of me. That is where my determination to strive to the fullest came from. Becoming successful in what I chose to do would not only make him proud, but it would show that I was capable of doing it my way, not his.
Moving here has given me the opportunity to be a part of so many things I never imagined. I find myself lucky to have been able to be experience two very different places. When I first find out I had to move, I felt like the walls were crashing down on me. I thought about how much I hated change, but now when I look back, I’m thankful for this experience. I have found people who make me wonder how I possibly lived this long without them. Don’t get me wrong, I miss the life I had back then and I’ll never forget the memories that came along with it, but one thing I have learned from this whole thing is to never neglect what life has to offer you and to always be ready for what it has in store for you next.

Key academic challenges

-Remembering the work

-Paying attention

-Reading the book

Root of the problem

-Too many pictues

-Lights off, annoying noise

-Too much reading

Solutions

-Study more

-Tell the professor to stay away from the mic

-Tell professor to take a few days off, or we cut her class

Three Academic Challenges: 

1. Falling alseep

2. Reading the textbook

3. Getting to class on time

Hi! My name is Cynthia Xue and coming up is my monologue.

Do I go with it or not? What if it doesn’t turn out to be what I want to do? What do I do then? I can’t believe this is happening again. First it was high school, then college and now this. When I first started high school, I did not like it one bit and practically didn’t want to go to school the first week. I didn’t know anyone, didn’t like that it was in Brooklyn and wanted to switch schools. That ended up being pointless because I love my high school now. It’s pretty much the same for college. Didn’t like the fact that I ended up at a CUNY but after hearing my parents say this and that about Baruch, I decided that it isn’t that bad. But I’m still not at the stage of loving the school yet.

The reason why I said that it’s happening again now is that I do not like what I’m doing right now. Two nights ago, my dad was talking about how I went to the Medical Science program in Midwood, my high school, but that I do not intend to do anything related to that. That got me thinking about what I really want to do after I graduate college. But this goes back to high school and middle school. When I was young, I really wanted to be a doctor up until the whole health care bill started. I heard from someone that doctors would start getting paid by the hour and not by how many patients they see or what they actually do, meaning that doctors would make less money. Then all of a sudden I changed to wanted to work in business since I love math. But that was a stupid reason to change my desired job. That wasn’t the only reason though. It’s also because of the many years of school doctors need to attend in order to start working and I don’t want to become an actual doctor at 30.

Now back to two nights ago when I was thinking about becoming a nurse. Since I don’t want to become a doctor, I thought, a nurse is the closest thing to it so maybe I should become a nurse. I started comparing of what it would be like to be an accountant or be a nurse. I realized that although I like math and science, being an accountant would be too boring for me. I mean, how can you sit at a desk all day and just do the same thing again and again day after day? I don’t like doing things that are repetitive and getting bored after an hour in a quiet environment. So now it sounds like becoming a nurse would better suit me with all the action going on at the hospital. I wouldn’t get bored and start to hate my job. I can work as a nurse anywhere in the world because medical things are similar in many countries.

My point is that I’m being indecisive again and want to switch to something else. But this time I think is something that I would need to carefully make my decision or else it’ll ruin me and waste a lot of years. What if I really decided to switch my major and then after a year or so, want to go back to doing business? If I want to become a nurse, do I transfer to another school like NYU School of Nursing of stay at Baruch and get a nursing degree here? I think I’m going to go with nursing and take a risk, a very big risk.

i am Isaac. i took the Art history midterm today. when i first looked at the midterm, i saw that it was easy. you just have to put the right words corresponding to the right definition.  But the second part was a mess. not because i didn’t remember what century the artwork is, i even remember the exact year, but the style.  I don’t know if it is right or not, but i just put Style is renaissance for every artwork, probably i would get half right.

this is my first midterm in college. After this experience, i find out that i need to study not only the day before the exam but also everyday. but here is the problem, how can i spend so much time to study every subjects everyday while i need to spend time on my PS3. i haven’t touched my controller two days ago and i start to have symptoms just like an addict. But now i know how midterm is like, i will surly do better in later on exams of the other classes.

Last week , i take the sociology mid-term test ;today ,i take the art mid-term test.both of them makes me exhausted. i know the significance of mid-term test and i really make a effort,but i am pretty sure that i screwt it up .
what is the name of the art work? what is the background of this art work? what do you see in common for the different time art work? i feel like even though i read the book the night before, i still have difficulty answering questions,bolt… if just read without inquiring,without understanding,without taking notes, then the reading stuff will flow away as soon as you close the book. it’s easilier to said than done. i really have to push myself to modify my studying habit.don’t be a last minute person. if you can’t do well even in academics,what can you do? to be a student as 10 more years, you still don’t realize the right way to succeed in academics?

it seems like i need to catch up my american political government.
hope to do better in final .

3 things that are problems for us:

– Arriving to class late

– Falling asleep in class

– Not reading textbooks

3 reasons leading to the problems:

– Not getting enough sleep

– Not taking notes or paying attention

– Not used to reading a chapter a day for each class

3 solutions to the problems:

– Setting up a schedule to manage time

– Pay attention and take notes in order to stay awake and/or drink coffee or tea

– Split up the reading into a few days

Who I think I am is an interesting question. It’s a philosophical question. This question always has me stumped. I usually can never think of anything. I think Im a college freshman that is trying to get by and learn the ways of college. Im born and raised in Brooklyn.I think I have a fun and outgoing personality. I like to believe I get along with everyone. Some background information on my life is growing up in a Russian Jewish Immigrant family. My family came here before I was born. It was extremely difficult for my parents to adjust moving to America. I have one older brother and we once didn’t get along, but now my family has become closer.

Anyways, some differences I’m already seeing between college and high school are the seriousness of studying, doing assignments, and being on time. In high school, I was able to get away with a lot of things, and make friends with my teachers. In college, it’s a totally different environment and experience. Some of the major concerns I know I’m going to have with attending Baruch is my punctuality. I’ve always had troubles with being on time, everyone knows that I’m always late. Now that I’m in college, I have to learn a way to make it on time because lateness is simply not tolerated. Another serious concern I have with college is studying. In high school, I didn’t study a lot. It’s going to be really  hard and absolutely mandatory to adjust, and learn how to study. My final concern I have with going to college is my procrastination. Not only do I have issues with studying habits, lateness, but I’m also a really bad procrastinator.

I think college will change me severely, hopefully in really good ways. I hope that after this wild experience, I will improve on all my flaws and become a better more mature person. It’s going to take a lot of work for me to improve, but I know that college is going to aid me towards that direction.