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 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.—–Albert Einstein

My first semester at Baruch College is nearly complete, my overall feelings about Baruch College are pretty good.

A. My experience at Baruch College has lived up to my expectations.  I have much free time, Professor will not ask you that why are you late? Or why do not you hand in assignment?  All responsibilities are hold by ourself, and only by ourself.  We will get any grade we deserve.  Some thing exceeded my expectations, for example the amount of homework assignment, and every test is essay.

B.  I think my first semester at Baruch College did not go very well.  Because I did not like to talk or answer questions during the class, but some professors think that participate is one part of grade, so I think it will hurt my grade.  And most of my professors give us essay as test, I am very disappoint about this, because writing is my No. 1 weakness.  I got a lot of grammar mistakes, and I hate writing so much.  Two out of five professor will give us grade only depend on the test grade, and all their tests are essay, I have no idea about that how bad my grade will be.  (PS: God bless me.)

C.  If I could do the first semester all again, I would go to writing center more times, it can help my writing skill.  And I would drop my philosophy class as soon as possible.  It is not because I did not like that professor, but he only gives us grade base on three essays, which I definitely did very bad on every time, even I have improved my grade.

D. Since I started at Baruch College, I changed a lot.  I started to spend more time in library.   Homework assignment costs me more time, I have to read very long article or story.  For example:In this weekend, I have to read about 150 pages of a book for English, couple chapters of Bible with questions I need to answer, one chapter of Anthropology book with two article, 20 – 30 pages each, one chapter for philosophy, and do some researches and writings for my public administration class.   I have never expected this, my friends told me that “high school is work-time, college is party-time” when we were senior of high school.  But that is not true, we need to work very hard in college.

For next semester, I will have most classes on Monday and Wednesday, and one class on Tuesday and Friday.  I hope I can do better (I believe I can do better), and have no thought about dropping any classes.  By the way, Good Luck to everyone.