My experience at Baruch has been not too exciting as far as my first semester goes. My expectations were far worse than the actual experience. I honestly thought I would be home every night color coding notes and actually doing all the OCD things I was too lazy to do in high school. I still haven’t gotten to do those things because I have been too swamped! The problem is not that this school has given me obscene amounts of work – yet- it is just that my procrastination causes all my stress. My first semester has been subject to great amounts of stress I caused to myself because I chose to leave things until the last minute. As time has passed however, by the end of the semester I have begun to take control of the procrastination and really put a handle on it. I think the fact that this semester’s classes were not particularly challenging really helped to prepare me for future semesters at Baruch as the work continues to get harder and harder.
This semester, being a part of a learning community has helped me build a bond with every one of my class mates. I have managed to make a small group of friends from my learning community who I talk to and hang out with on free time.
I was very happy with the amount of time I had free this semester, it gave me just the right amount of relaxation and social life that I missed out on when I went to both school and work during my senior year. Also, all of the teachers I have had this past semester have been lovely, I do not have any complaints. I am actually interested in taking more courses with some of the professors I have met this semester.
If I could change anything, I would probably try to get a handle on my procrastination and make sure I wrote out and followed time limits on work that way I would never be piled with a ton of work the evening before class. I think that that is exactly what has changed about me because I have seen the downside of bad habit and now am able to fix it and assure an even higher level of productivity for next semester and the ones to follow.
