I think that I’m the average college freshman in class, I do my best to pay attention, and I am hungry for that 4.0 gpa. Unlike other freshman, I have already become a bearcat, and am a ncaa registered swimmer!
My top 3 concerns about my freshman year at Baruch are getting a good GPA to start, making the right connections, and ending the year with an internship. Getting a good GPA to start is crucial to being able to continue in the same spirit, if I don’t start well… I’ll probably get discouraged and stop putting in 100% of my effort. Making the right connections is one of my concerns because you know what they say, the friends you make in college are the friends you keep for the rest of your life. Baruch has an awesome crowd, and I have already made an abundance of aquaintance, whether they are team-mates, class-mates, or some other random connection. Right on! Lastly, but definetely not leastly, I want to end this year with an internship for the summer, because I need work experience in order to start laying a base from which I will work up from in “the real world”.
A lot of people are saying that Baruch is like highschool all over again. I think that those are the people who come to school, go to class, and go straight home, with no other connection to Baruch other than classes, and homework. I’m not trying to say that I don’t enjoy classes (although I can’t say I enjoy homework!), but if all I had in common with Baruch was classes, I would HATE it! Thankfully, I’m on a team, and I’m planning on joining an honor society (if my GPA will be good enough… which I hope it will be), and some other club – although I haven’t decided which one yet! Although I was a high-school athlete with the PSAL, and I was also in clubs and honor societies, everything at Baruch just seems so much more… real? I suppose it’s the maturity that come’s with attending college, but everything is much more organized, and people are much more cooperative as a team, and I LOVE it.
My first year at college is going to teach me what it’s like to really be an adult. Long nights of studying, hard training with my team, hanging out with new friends, and learning what it’s like to be a college student in general are going to make me into a citizen of this world that understands exactly what it takes to get by, but hopefully it’ll take me above and beyond that!
– Mike
I enjoyed reading your blog post. The way you speak/write shows how much you actually do get it. While it’s all good to have fun and make friends, you understand that to be successful you are going to have to make a few sacrifices. I’m really proud. Good luck!! And by the way, i’m really happy you are on a team. Go Bearcats!!! 🙂