Make the Right Choice

For many students college life can be a really frightening experience. However, on the other side of the coin it can also be the one of most rewarding and best experience in your life. For it is in college were you begin to explore who you really are and begin to express your opinions and views. But, nevertheless what I want to get across is regardless of how you view college, whether you find it exciting or scary in the end it is your own choices and decisions that shapes and forms the experiences that you have in college.

I remember my first few weeks in Baruch College how I made a promise to the  bronze statue of Bernard Baruch and to myself that I would do my best in order to excel in my school life and would try my very best to not commit the same grave errors that I did in high school. So far the only thing that I have excelled is in, finding out firsthand the difficulty in breaking a habit. Although I have not done the best that I could possibly do, I feel that it’s not the end of life for I know that the mistakes that I made today can be corrected by the success of tomorrow. Even though it sounds utterly ridiculous, I apologize to Mister Baruch using the words of Tyron Edwards- “Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”

With that said, hopefully I will able to learn from my mistakes and errors and try harder to make the right decisions. Whether it’s a small decision such as spending my time re-reading the work in order to better understand the material when I could’ve have spent it by playing computer games or eating. Or if it’s an important decision such as studying for a midterm or final instead of hanging out with friends or eating I could instead open up a textbook and start studying. Regardless of whether I make the right choice or not, all those decisions will shape and form my experiences in Baruch College.