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I am a Baruch freshman who’d rather visit the dentist than go to school in the morning. I am a person who’s friends left behind to go away to college. I am a person who is forced (yes forced) to attend a school that I only knew because kids in high-school used to make fun of it, calling it Baruchlyn Tech.I am a student who has a job and works 30+ hours a week “Part-time” after and in-between school hours. I am a person who’s grades are suffering because of these work hours. I am the definition of STRESSED.

On a better note, my name is Steven Saenz, yeah I makes it obvious. My main concern about freshman year is just maintaining a decent average so I can transfer before sophomore year. My next biggest concern is how I’m going to manage my time between 30 hours of work, “56” hours of sleep, and school >.> Finally, my last concern is whats happening with my friends Eddie and Richard. I used to be really close with these guys but ever since we’ve arrived here at Baruch, things just aren’t the same. We all plan on transferring to a school that a girl I had to break-up with after high-school (Due to me not having the monies) attends. Let le drama begin.

My Baruch experience is pretty much equivalent to my high school experience (hence the Baruchlyn Tech joke) because this is where the students who didn’t get into their top choices attend. The only differences between the two would probably be the commute to Baruch is further, I’m here for MUCH longer than I was there and I have like 500 less friends.

My first year of college was definitely a wake-up call for the real world. Professors definitely don’t care if you miss the class everyday, they’ll just drop you and still sleep at night while you’re boned because you paid $825 to be there. It also made me realize that Asher Roth is a liar (regarding the stories he tells in “I Love College”) and I probably shouldn’t have taken advice from students who didn’t attend CUNY schools. I feel like in the long-run the responsibility and time management I’m learning now will pay off in my future years at other schools and beyond. I appreciate that Baruch will be a stepping stone in my life to help me go where I want to and be the President of this towns countries, i still eat doughnuts, mmm scrumptious….what.

I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.

That seems to be my reply to many things.

How’s school?

I don’t know.

What’s important to you?

I don’t know.

How’s life?

I don’t frickin know.

Now I don’t pretend to be dumb or anything.

But these questions, do they have an answer?

I mean sure. They have answers. Shallow answers.

Answers that can change on a whim.

How’s school?

Fabulous. Hard. Boring. Tiring.

What’s important to you?

My grades. My friends. My life. My turtle.

How’s life?

It’s been absolutely amazingly remarkably outstandingly terrifically incredibly unbelievably exceptionally superbly awesome.

Is that what you wanted to hear?

No? Fine.

It’s been absolutely horribly bone-chillingly disgustingly horrifically disturbingly frighteningly distressfully terrifyingly unbearably dreadful.

That still isn’t the answer?

Well then, here. My final answer.

I DON’T KNOW.

Maybe next time, you won’t ask me.

DAYUMMM GIRL!

DAYUMMMMMMMM GIRLLLLLL!

HAHA AIGHT, college is pretty nice I might say. In all honesty, I hated high school. I mean high school wasn’t horrible, but it was just a big ass school with a lot of fake kids. Really? Your gonna sit next to me in class, friend request me on Facebook, and still ask who I am when I try to talk to you? Chill. Sure I had friends here and there but maybe I was the picky one in highschool. Maybe I was the weird one for not social climbing on Facebook, friend requesting people I don’t even know. But yea thats just me. College though i feel is soo much better than high school. Like everyone i’ve seen so far is mature, independent, and respectful to others. People here are here to become successful. There is no room for that high school immature bs. So I’m ready to be a grown up, and live my life in a mature way.

DAYUMMMMMM GIRLLL!

Chocolate makes me happy. I guess that’s why they say chocolate are a woman’s best friend. Err, that’s supposed to be diamonds, not chocolate. I still love chocolate though and the feeling that it gives is just so soothing. This taste just calms my nerves. To me, the most important thing is singing/listening to music. Music also helps to ease away my sorrows and helps make my troubles go away. My personal motto/theme song? I guess my personal motto would be “Make do of what you have,” meaning work with whatever you got. I believe this is the way of life. I identify myself as a very random person. If I am bored, I will start making random noises or I start to dance random dances. I play the role of a daughter, sister, and granddaughter. I listen to parents and grandparents and I have to take care of my sister’s needs. My friends and family are important to me because family always give you helpful advice on how to get through life and friends are there for social support. The new friends I have made are all cool and unique in their own ways and being with them is fun and entertaining.

I am me. Yes that’s rather cliche but see if I care. I hate describing myself but ill give it a shot. I’d have to say that I’m far from normal. Get to know me and you’ll know what I mean. I’m introverted and love my alone time. I’d like to say I am outgoing and confident but inside I’m always doubting myself and what I’m doing.

One of my main concerns for freshman year is time management. I am a chronic procrastinator and hope for my own sake (as well as for my GPAs sake) that I do well at getting stuff done when it needs to get done. My second main concern is keeping a decent social life. When the school year rolls around, my priorities are such: 1. Sleep 2. School 3. Friends. The friend tend to get neglected and thus my social life turns to shambles. It results in me being on grouchy kid. My third concern is to have fun. If I’m not having fun every once in a while, Im not gonna do well in school. Plain and simple.

College is not much different from high school except that you get to start studying things that interest you and the stakes are now a lot higher. Other than that, it is pretty much just more of the same.

I think the first year at Baruch will further mature me as a student and bring about many positive new experiences.. Hopefully Ill deal with stress better and get all my work done on time.

Ahh. I forgot. So yea, I’ll be posting this now and all of you will be ignoring that date that this is posted, right? >.>

a. I am your average hyperactive freshman at Baruch with a penchant of doing random things like walk into walls and get lost easily as well as have a really bad memory for school related stuff.

b. Um.. Time management. I’ve always been bad at that. Umm.. Trying not to come off as a nerd that knows everything. And.. Trying to not procrastinate. Pretty much it.

c. TIME MANAGEMENT. I actually have to remember stuff. It’s really annoying.

d. My time managemnt might improve. You never know.

And yea. I’m sorrrryyyy. I forgot. That’s really the only excuse I have.

~ Serena Kuang

They said write how you feel. Discuss who you are and introduce yourself. Such small instructions can have such a huge effect. At times I really dont know who I see in the mirror when I get up in the morning. Its always different. But I like it that way because it gives me the chance to discover who I truly am and for others to see all sides of me. So much to say but I’ll try to keep it short. Its been just over a month in college and it really is a completely different experience than high school. As much as I miss my old friends and my old school, this is just the change I needed to open my shell. I appear shy at first but once you get to know me, I am virtually anything but. I love to laugh and I’m thankful the people I’ve met are always full of jokes and funny stories. Hopefully we get to stay together a little bit longer than just this semester. The classes are–in a way–interesting and its an experience having such long classes. Aimed to become a lawyer, I’m hoping to break out in a city so small yet so large. Top 3 concerns would be time management, passing math and choosing debates wisely. I think Baruch is going to be able to give me a voice. Coming from a small town and school was so close knit and going to a city college with so many people one has to look out for themself and leave a footstep worth remembering . Here’s to hoping everything works out for the best.

I am a caterpillar, soon to become a butterfly. i have yet to find where i belong in this world and have a long life ahead of me. My first concern is that i will not get the gpa I wanted for the semester because some of my teachers are retarded. My second concern is that i will not be able to transfer out to the school i wanted to go. And my last concern is that I might be dropped from a few of my classes because I am always late for my first class. The difference between Baruch College and my high school is that attending and participating in class is up to me. My first year in college will change me because it will make me more independent. I can’t depend on others as much as i did in high school.

I think I’m unique…just like everybody else. But despite my seemingly generic personality, I’m proud of the girl that I am today. I went through some really rough times and surprisingly, I’m happy now. I have my friends to support me, no matter how far they’ve strayed. They have honestly saved my life and owe them the world.

Now that we’re all in college, I’m concerned about growing apart from them. We try to stay  in touch as much as possible, but our schedules barely allow time together. We are all so busy and I feel like my workload is forever growing. I’m very concerned with keeping up with my work and having a good gpa at the end of the year. I think my top concern as a freshman at Baruch is staying focused. I tend to get lost in social matters or relationships and I honestly want to concentrate my attention on my education. This is not high school anymore and I refuse to let myself do the bare minimum to get by.

Baruch is already the polar opposite of my strict Catholic high school on Long Island. I go to class when I want, leave when I want, wear what I want – this newly found freedom is almost intoxicating. Of course, the work will be a lot harder and I’ll have to depend on myself a lot more. All in all, I’m very happy with my transition from high school. College has been a lot less dramatic and the classes weren’t as bad as I thought they would be.

Hopefully, college will change me for the better. I want to develop some kind of work ethic instead of getting by on my natural intelligence. I admire those who work hard for their grades and I’m almost jealous of the feeling they must get when their hard work pays off. I’m also hoping to become more responsible. I’ve heard too many horror stories of people dropping out of school because they partied too hard to maintain decent grades.

I am Cindy! I wouldn’t say that I am very interesting because I don’t know who I am at the moment. I’d like to think that I’m nice and easy to get along with but also “an awkward turtle” at the same time. I don’t know how Baruch will be different than high school especially since it’s a commute school, but there are much more things to do here and it’s more diverse. My main concerns are the work, exams, and..more work. I am not feeling the readings I have to do since some are extremely long and boring. Tests, midterms and finals are a given. And..more work will kill me. I would like to be stress free. Hopefully this first year will be amazing and I can be more social with my classmates.