Isabelle- belle isa. First blog!

What a difficult question! Well one time I took a personality quiz and it told me I was a contributor…. Which I think kind of sucks. I am 18 but look like I am 25. I am stubborn and I seriously exaggerate allot of things. I love music, recently it’s been rap but I’m very open minded when it comes to the arts. My father was born in Chile, and I milk that ;). My mother is Irish, and I am her mini clone (hence my freckles). I love to laugh, I like sunrises and sunsets, although I am not at all a morning person. Some people would call me a girly girl- haha, true story. My friends and family mean the world to me. I’m hard headed and I am not really susceptible to peer pressure, which is something I pride myself on. My favorite emoticon is this one -__-  ( the bottom line can vary depending on emphasis), but this one is really growing on me c: (so cute). I told you a lot of random facts about myself but I guess that’s because I’m not exactly sure who I am yet. I can give you a lot of things I know about myself, but I really can sum up who I am in a paragraph. Maybe I’ll be able to do that soon, but a part of me doesn’t ever want to be able to fit my personality in a box.

My top three concerns about Baruch are, math class, history, and my time management. If you are in my math class then you understand why. Math is my weakest subject and my professor doesn’t explain things in a way I understand them, so I think I have to get a tutor :/. Besides that she isn’t going to write the final, so she’s not 100% sure exactly what is on it- and 90% or our grade is the 3 exams combined. So that’s going to be a serious hit or miss for me. Second biggest concern is history- because there are so many terms already, and it’s only the third week. We have to know, by heart, all the terms from beginning to end. And my memory is terrible. Lastly time management is a big one, I have always struggled with this and now it’s really time to address it, otherwise the year is looking stressful, with lots of procrastination.

So far nothing really, the elevators are much more crowded and even though the school is small, my school was smaller. It took me four years to figure out how to get around my high school, so we’ll see how this goes…so far I’m usually lost. Anthropology and History are the biggest classes I have ever been in, which makes me less likely to raise my hand. I used to know everyone….now I only know you all (not a bad thing, just different). Also I am having trouble with the concept that really no one cares what you do. Which is weird, I’m used to being on a short leash. We’ll see how long that mentality lasts.

Hopefully I’ll start being able to handle stress better, so far I have no control and will be extremely stressed out or really calm and carless. I really need to find a healthy medium. Hopefully I will grow up but more in being able to handle life, I don’t want to laugh or cry any less. In that way I want to stay young. I doubt college will kill me, and whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right? That is what I am hoping college will change in me.

 

2 Comments so far

  1. Mandy Chan on September 16th, 2011

    Yeah, Prof Minden and Obi stress me out too.

    Can’t get over how much you look like someone I know: Anna Lidofsky. Every time I look at you, I just think you’re Anna, so please don’t be offended if I make the mistake Isabelle.

  2. Jordan McFarlane-Beau on September 17th, 2011

    Had a blast reading this one, Isabelle! Learned so much already. Yea, this question is not an easy one but just having made an attempt to answer truthfully and thoroughly proves that you are not one to give up.

    I LOVE THAT EMOTICON!! I have a close friend at Baruch who always uses it and she got me hooked on it and now I use it like crazy.

    Cool about your parent’s being Irish and Chilean. Awesome mix!

    I would kill to sit on your math class just to observe what you all are going through. I felt the same way in my MTH 2003 precalc class my 1st semester at Baruch. Everyone in my freshman seminar ended up dropping out on me and i ended up getting a C -____-

    I was fortunate enough to get AP credit for history so I cannot be empathetic on that one.

    I think for your monologue, it’d be cool if you spit some rap for the class. I would so follow up with some of my poems if you do?!! =}

    Great post and please comment on other posts.

    -Jordan

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