Author Archives: Trudy Tu

To be frank, I did not expect my monologue to be that good. I did not know what I was supposed to type and even though everyone said to use our free-writings, I hardly incorporated anything from those three-sentence-long paragraphs. It took me at a minimum of thirty minutes to type out the first paragraph because I did not know what to write. After that, about twenty minutes was used to type the next paragraph and so forth (that includes a bit of procrastination).

Since I did not know what to write, I decided to focus on social expectations and the usual teenage troubles, which is generally parents either expecting a lot from their children or almost completely carefree of them. At first, I thought about writing something that I do not like about that, but I decided against it since it would ruin the atmosphere of the paper. In the end, the monologue became a whole page long. Even then I was afraid it would not meet the minute-long requirement.

I suppose I can say the monologue is above average at the least because personally it sounded like a rant rather than anything.

Since I am better at randomness, here is a random painting I did in high school:

I am someone who likes to procrastinate (I admit) and spend a lot of time playing games such as Pokemon or Megaman, though I am trying other games as well. I like the band Linkin Park, the singer Jay Chou and listen to some foreign language songs such as Mongolian festival songs. I am also technically challenged so my posts may end up in random places…

During my freshman year at Baruch, I still need time to adjust to my schedule since it is very unlike high school. There are several breaks lasting from 20 minutes to over 2 hours and that is a huge jump from the normal 5 minutes. Secondly, I need to start opening myself up to the new surroundings because back in high school, people always come to me rather than the other way around, so I need to change that as well. Finally, the overall teaching methods of each teacher is somewhat different because of many lectures where I have to take notes by myself rather than rely on someone writing it down on the whiteboard.

So far, the main differences between high school and college are teaching methods and breaks between classes.  During breaks I would go to the library and play puzzles on newspapers until there are 15 minutes until class starts. That is the number one difference that I am still getting used to, not to mention there are no classes on Fridays.

First year of college will definitely change me in the way I communicate with other people. Usually, I would try to avoid talking verbally with staffs, students, almost everyone because I might be scared of what to say, which is why I prefer emailing over phones and face-to-face. Another would be the way I behave, perhaps it would be more mature, but that would completely depend on the viewpoints of others. Another thing would be turning in assignments on time because college is not as lenient as high school so I need to adapt more.