#10 most boring school in the world. PROVEN.

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?

My expectations of Baruch College were completely met 100%. I knew coming to this college that its on the most boring colleges in the world, but I made a conscious choice to place a weight on future success rather than current fun. I would like to say that im sticking to it, but to me honest, I’m not even sure. After talking to people who have been the the college program and those who didn’t, Im seriously considering to not continue my education here. It seems to be that a good education is not worth as it used to be in the real world. Im really not the type to enjoy meaningless unmotivated learning, it really just stresses me out. I’d much rather be out there networking and making money that way. You only live one life, and your only young once, I don’t see any reason to waste it. I feel as if you meet enough people, your opportunities of finding work , and work that interest you is a lot easier. This realization came to me, when a NYU graduate messaged ME for a bartending position, why waste your youth, hard work and effort if its not guranteed to get you anywhere. Im not the education type, I could not ever in a million years see my self going to school passed 22, and in this society you need graduate school to get anywhere. I’d much rather live a stress free life now making a little less money over my lifespan than go through 6 hard years during the prime of my life.

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College

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?

I never really had any expectations going into Baruch College, I was just going with the flow. I’d have to say that i like it way more than high school because there’s more freedom, overall it’s more interesting and you learn a lot of things. I don’t think my first semester has been going as well as it should be because I know I haven’t been trying my hardest in studying and all that.

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

I’m not really the type to dwell on the past, nor would I change anything or do anything differently because I feel like everything that happens in a persons life always happens for a reason and there’s always something to learn.

How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?

Personality wise, I think I’m still the same person, I’ve kept a lot of old habits. Like always being late/ waking up late. But ever since i got a part time job I guess I’ve been learning with managing time which can be difficult for some including me.

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Baruch is basically what I expected it to be, I guess I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would, but that’s only because some of my good friends are attending this school with me. I don’t think it has exceeded my expectations.

This first semester has been okay, I think I could have done better. I feel like I’ve always been a B student and always will be. I haven’t done poorly, but I also don’t think I have done that great either.

If I could redo this semester, I might have put more effort, revised essays in the writing center and achieved better grades. I could have studied harder, and worked less. That’s about all I would really change. I would refocus my mind on my school work and less on my work and social life.

We just started college, I don’t think I have changed much since it’s begun. I’m trying to learn how to be a better public speaker, however I don’t think I have improved much since I began college. It’s too early to have had any significant changes within myself as a person. It’s ignorant to say that I won’t change as a person because of college, but that is sort of how I feel. Maybe it would be different if I went to college away, but not much has changed. Hopefully, I will do study abroad and that will open me up to new people and new experiences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1VGytzXus        <—- I just put this song up because it’s been stuck in my head for the past three days lol 😛

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Nov blog

So far, my time here at Baruch has honestly been dissappointing. I found that college classes are extremely dry and i had no idea that math could get any worse than what it was in high school. I am not discouraged however, at how i’ve performed this semester. I feel that i have grown substantially as a student and as an adult. I’m finally handing in papers on time and I’m getting a feel for maintaining a good study habit.

I would not do anything differently if I had a chance to do things over again. I feel that this was a valuable experience and introduction to College for me and I fully expect things to become more difficult which will be a challenge to me, but I fully accept this. I was frustrated and lost throughout this first semester, but this is a new environment for me so I guess in a sense it brought an obstacle before me.

As a student I’ve learned just how important education really is and how I am the one in charge of my own life. The recent protests here at Baruch have in a way influenced me even though I did not participate in them. I feel that as I grow up I have to deal with the obstacles of life one way or the other. I can only hope I can overcome them.

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3rd Post

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

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College Life

I was expecting college to be stressful and boring. But actually if you manage your time WISELY it’s doesn’t have to be so overwhelming. College was what teachers said it was; reading and essays. I think it’s actually better then high school; you learn what your interested in and there’s no useless homework each night. But it’s not that party gone wild I was expecting it to be; it’s just I place you go in and out of each day for 4 years.

I definitely think I could have done much better. Unfortunately, I brought some of my old high-school habits along with me. So my goal next semester is to manage my time, STOP procrastinating, take the train on time and be the student I know I can be.

I would try to do my best and stop slacking off. I know that college will pay off so I’m going to stop being lazy. If restless nights are what I need to have a career I’m willing to sacrifice as many hours of sleep necessary. Also come out of my shell more and be the goofy girl everyone in family knows me for.

I’m thinking more about my future. I know I’ve made some academic mistakes but I know I can be better. I realize that college is just the beginning of a new life. College has allowed be to be less afraid of being independent and allowed to understand it’s not about making other people happy but about making myself proud of my own accomplishments.

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Final Entry

1. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived (or not lived) up to your expectations. Has it exceeded your expectations?
Baruch hasn’t been all that great my first semester. The process of getting my paperwork through to the offices of Baruch regarding my admission was much more difficult than any other work I’ve had to do for my classes. I had no expectations when coming in, so I guess I wasn’t disappointed. Just frustrated.
2. How well do you think your first semester went?
Overall, my first semester hasn’t been too bad. My professors are all fairly nice and organized and are great tools to use when confused about a certain topic. Volleyball made it all the more worthwhile.
3. What would you do differently if you could do it all again?
I would not take an 8:15 AM class. Especially a math class at 8:15 AM… especially a math class  with a professor that consistently takes attendance at 8:15 AM sharp.
4.  How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?
I can’t say I’ve changed much. I’ve grown and became a part of a new family (athletics,) but other than that, my study habits, sleep habits (or lack thereof), and everything else pretty much remains the same.
Occupy Baruch was probably one of the most exciting things to occur at the school that I have second-handedly witnessed. For all of the kids in my English 2100 class, I think this might give you an idea of our professor’s absence on Tuesday.
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Third and Final Blog Entry

My experience at Baruch so far has definitely lived up to its own expectations; I did not think I would meet such great people in such a short span of time but I have managed to do so, as they say, college is what you make of it and I have definitely made the best of it.  It has exceeded my expectations in such areas as socializing but as far as the academia is concerned, I need to improve on my studying skills specially in the area of mathematics.

My first semester has been quite a challenging one as far as the academics are concerned; the only thing that has been an issue is time management but I think that will come with time. I would definitely study harder and make use of tutoring sessions at Baruch all over again, if I had the chance.
I don’t think I have changed much since I began school at Baruch, considering it has only been four months but I know all the positive changes await me as I continue my college education at Baruch College!
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Blog 3!

Now that your first semester at Baruch College is nearly complete, how was it? Reflect on the following four questions and add media.

  1. Tell us how your experience at Baruch College has lived (or not lived) up to your expectations. Has it exceeded your expectations?
  2. How well do you think your first semester went?
  3. What would you do differently if you could do it all again?
  4. How have you changed since you started at Baruch College?
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Monologue

Normally, when i have an understanding, I cling to it; it makes me feel better.
And lately, every epiphane and revelation feels like it’s closing in around me, like it’s bearing down on me, like the air has all become water and I’m growing gills too slowly.
The things I want…it would be worse if I had them. I think about suicide but i know that it would make everything eternally worse. I think about doing drugs, but I know my body is God’s. I see my sin for what it is. And there is agony in still wanting it though I know it would kill me.
I see how lies encage now. But I still feel trapped; it’s like my eyes are open but I cannot see.
I can’t hold onto anything but God anymore. I see it. But it’s like I don’t yet have hands to hold onto Him…So i’m waiting for them to grow and looking at everything else, because everything else has signs and voices that tell me I can hold them with my feet or my mouth or my stomach. And yet they are lying to me. Because I have stepped there before; I have tasted that before; I have swallowed that before. And it cut. And I bled.
I have seen.
I know what the truth is.
And the truth is not yet something I can stomach.
So I wander around. There is no where for the daughter of man to lay her head.
There is no place for me to rest.
I am a girl acquainted with sorrow and affliction.
It is my heart that wars against me from the inside.
I am a sculpture looking to it’s creator with sewn up eyes, asking for hands, asking for the thread to be removed.
I am drowning in my own desires.
If I were to have every want satisfied, I would be consumed by them. If I were to follow every craving, I would only feel more like I do now than I do now.
I am hedged in. I have to believe that my darkness is familiar to the one who holds light for me.

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