Starting this blog was harder than I thought because I spent the past ten minutes typing a few words and deleting them after. I guess stating what’s currently going on is the easiest way to begin a reflection. Currently, I am a seventeen year old male. Seventeen because my birthday is late in the year so usually my peers are always older than me. I will only be seventeen for a couple more days as my birthday is in this month. Unfortunately, it is a day that I have class. But that happens from time to time. It is obvious that I attend Baruch College but I will still include this in my blog to add a bit more length to it. I think I’m a mature and respectable person. I’m easy going and I enjoy having fun. Shouldn’t we all? My three top concerns in my freshmen year of college include making friends, not procrastinating and staying consistent with good grades, despite my boring classes. Procrastination proves to be the prevailing concern as I am doing this blog assignment last minute. It is due on October 10th and as of right now, it is October 9th 10:19PM. The commute is very different as it takes me twice as long to get to college as it did to get to high school. That means getting forty minutes less sleep each night. I am hoping my first year of college changes me for the better. Hopefully I can do my assignments earlier. Time will only tell by the time I do my next blog.
Judy no middle name Zeng. 18 year old Chinese girl, who loves to have fun, drink bubble tea, eat French fries and play sports. I am a workaholic and major shopaholic. I am an older sister, younger sister, daughter, granddaughter, niece, friend and proud pet owner of a 2 year old dog. I am afraid of many things such as heights, roller coasters, needles, failing, and natural disasters. I try not to expect much to avoid failure or being let down. I am very shy, quiet girl when I am unfamiliar with the environment or the people. But if I am with my friends and family, I am comfortable being my jolly, loud, sarcastic self.
One of my top concerns about freshmen year is being able to pass my calculus class. This is my top concern because I heard that if I fail the departmental test then I fail the class. Failure is very scary to me and prevents me from doing a lot of things. My goal is to maintain a high gpa of at least a 3.3 and if I fail that test, I won’t be able to reach my goal. My second top concern is being able to make myself feel comfortable around my new school environment. I don’t have really close friends yet that I can tell anything to. I am unfamiliar with where rooms and stores are located. I don’t want to just be an in and out student. I want to get involved and meet people so that I’ll feel comfortable. My third top concern is to not slack off. I love to have fun, and would choose to hang out with friends over studying; but now that I am in college, I want to try to change this. Freshmen year is a very important year because it’s the year that I build the basis of my gpa. If I mess up now, it will be very hard for me to boost up my average because it is much easier to lower an average than to increase it.
I think that the fact that I am now considered an adult and 4 years away from the working world is what makes the college experience different from my high school experience. College professors are stricter and will not tolerate lateness or anything else that high school teachers had to put up with.
Freshman year of college is going to change me because it’s going to make me aware of what is expected from me. It will allow me to change my bad habits of procrastination. Professors aren’t going to be easy on me because they are preparing me for the real world. College is no more apologizing because the train was late or because I forgot to do my homework. College is here and it’s time I put myself together and work hard as I am steps closer to the real working world.