Author: sherif.elzanie

I can’t believe I have been here for two months already. Doesn’t feel like it. What happened to those years where it felt like September never ended? It’s not really feeling like college yet. So far it feels like an easier version of high school. I miss those days where things didn’t matter as much. Senior year was a joke after college apps were done.   I never thought I would end up here at Baruch but it’s not bad so far. I was looking at a few other schools but I don’t want to come out of school being $20,000 in debt.  I won’t mind going elsewhere for grad school but for these 4 years I would probably stay here.  Is this a pass or fail class because I really have no idea what else to write. I’ll just write to fill up the page…just like high school. Now I just need to make the margins bigger and the text 12.5 instead of 12. And make the periods in 16 size font. Yea that’s better. I miss those days when it was so easy to get away with this.

Procrastination really kills you. I procrastinated way too much in High school. My grades were still up there but most of my assignments were done the day before at 3am. I told myself that I would stop doing that at the beginning of every school year but that really didn’t work out. I guess I was procrastinating to stop procrastinating. I’m actually not doing too badly with that so far in college. I hope this lasts but for the most part I have been keeping up with assignments and doing them well in advance… except for this one.

I think that I am a person who is very analytical and ambitious at times. I think my biggest flaw is probably being lazy. When I’m not lazy I am always really motivated I just need to be into what I am doing. One of my concerns was getting adjusted to college level workload. College is a new experience but it isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I would always hear teachers warning me every year claiming that college was going to be more stressful than high school. Although it is at times harder I feel that having time between classes and less classes has made it overall less demanding. I have been doing more reading but so far less physical work than I received from my high school. I know that’s probably going to change. And unlike high school, I am more conscious about my grades maybe because I am actually paying for it this time. Anyway I just feel that being in college gives me a very workable environment unlike high school where I had 8 hours of classes in my schedule every day. And I don’t have to wake up as early. Even when I do get those 10 page papers everyone always talks about I feel that It’ll be easier to handle. Another concern I had and still have is getting involved in extracurricular activities. I heard it was really important but I have a feeling I might keep putting that off. Hopefully I don’t. But I think I might. I feel that I have already changed for the better although it has not even been a month yet. I am definitely more independent and I just care a lot more. I could actually take college seriously unlike High school. By the end of this year I just think I’ll be more independent.