Finally, the first semester of college freshmen almost end! Time went by so fast, I still feels like the first day at Baruch College. Remember when I first step into Baruch, I carried a lot of expectations along with a lot of worries, now it’s been one semester already. I can’t say I accomplished all my expectations, because at least, I didn’t get involved in any club yet which is originally one of my expectations. However, I did fulfill some others, such as making a lot of friends which I didn’t expect that I actually exceeded my original expectation, because I wasn’t really good at social communication before.
Well, I can’t say my first semester at Baruch is perfect, because I still have a lot of expectations that weren’t finished, and also the large amount of readings from every class really give me a shock that I couldn’t deal with it. I guess because I was still dreaming in high school, that causes I did not put 100% effort in class working, which made the deeper knowledge than high school more complicated, and eventually led me a bad test grade. Thus, at the end of the semester, I think I need to have a self-examination, in order to improve my ability to fit in college life better.
If I could retake the first semester again, first of first, I will put more effort in class working and concentrating on class listening,
try my best not to fall asleep in class, or do more class participation to keep myself awake, so I won’t be worried about my test grade anymore. And also try to find some interesting clubs to join, and then my college life won’t be such boring. Well, I know all these are just hypothesis, because things already happened and won’t go back, but at least I can set those as my goals for the next semester,
which is not too late, isn’t it?
To be honest, I actually changed a lot after I went to college. I noticed that I wasn’t so afraid of public speaking or class participation as I used to be in high school because of my language barrier, and my pronunciation is more smooth than I used
to have, which actually makes me really happy. Well I guess I can say this is really a big progress. I believe that I can improve more during the later life at Baruch, which I am looking forward to it.
Keep fighting!
I would do the same thing as you if I could retake first semester all over again.
Totally agree with you Feng. (and Ying 😉 ) I wished I put more effort in studying. Well we can try to do better next semester XP
Nothing is perfect, just keep trying~!
sometime a very very short break for sleep is better than not~~~actually,i usually fell asleep during the class if i felt nothing to do. Anyway, Fighting!