FRO 12 Motherblog

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Wow. This semester has went by quickly. It seems like yesterday we were in that first FRO class talking about Brooklyn . Where has the time gone? I think it is safe to say that I have found a new home in Baruch. I never pictured myself going to college in the city after having gone to high school here for four years. I am happy with my choice. This past semester had open my eyes to many new experiences. While I still have some habits from high school (procrastination), I have tried to balance my time and relax. I am enjoying the freedom of this first semester. This is a bittersweet moment because I know it  will not be this easy.  It only gets harder from here. But alas, I am not worried. Everyone in this FRO section is awesome and I hope everyone can stay in touch. Thank you for a fun semester.

Throughout the semester, I’ve gone to many workshops such as the Dare to Engage workshop, news literacy workshop, and Baruch Voices. Of all the workshops that I’ve attended, the workshop I that was the most entertaining was Baruch Voices. At first, I thought the Baruch Voices was going to be boring because I’ve already seen it once in the beginning of the year. Surprisingly, this one was much more amusing and humorous.

I guess the reason that I enjoyed watching Baruch Voices the second time was because the actors used the monologues from all the Freshman Seminars. It was shocking to see how well written the monologues were. The monologues related to myself in a since it was mostly based on what every freshman was going through during their first semester in college. It was nice see and compare how other students were doing in their new journey at Baruch.

There were many parts during the show that I really liked. One part was when the Asian actor was performing the monologue about quitting smoking cigarettes. This performance was very descriptive and funny at the same time. It kept the whole audience awake and laughing. Another monologue that was interesting was the one relating to the girl moving out. It reminded me of how all the times I thought about moving out in my life. There were times when I couldn’t stand my parents and times when I just really wanted my freedom.

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I tell my friend ZZ, everyday I come to class for two things. One is sleeping, another is eating…

After all, it is time to go home..

But, sometime, you really have to do work as when the midterm came..

After that,, sleeping and eating occupy my life again..

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Now,, it is the FINALS..

Oh, time passes by so fast, it feels like I just attend the freshman orientation last week. Nonetheless, during these three months in Baruch, I learnt a lot of things and felt that I actually became much more mature than before. I had to concentrate myself on the various classes, and brought up my own opinions  in the writing assignments. Also, as the homework and reading assignments increased, I spent mush of my time on these. Then, I also needed to plan for the next semester and winter sessions. Over all, I felt my life is more fulfilling. Since I loved to sit and study in the library, I would pose a picture of one part of the library that I encountered everyday.

My favorite enrichment workshop was the monologue performance by the Baruch Voice. The acting was great, it is way better than i expected, and also it was taken from something that some of us wrote, so some of the experiences are reliable to us. Overall it was very entertaining.

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For those of you who haven’t encountered this unbelievable man, he goes by the name of Andy Bernard, at least in the hit show, The Office.  I would like to say that my first semester at this school generally aligns with a lot of the themes that underly Andy’s character.  Some people say work before play, but Mr. Bernard and I say work and play at the same time.  Andy is known throughout the office to be a jokester.  He loves getting in a sly comment, goofing off, or coming up fancy nicknames for everything imaginable.  His awkward sense of humor is actually unreal.  At the same time, he manages to be a professional.  He eventually makes his way to regional manager of the office, and in time becomes very wealthy.  In that same sense, I like to think that I have spent my first semester being both a goof and a hard worker.  Essentially, I have balanced, my academics, athletics, and social life pretty successfully.  At first glance, Andy seems to be your ideal office mate.  A closer analysis will prove otherwise.  Like Andy in this sense, I am not completely satisfied.  It seems as if a balance is not good enough for my liking.  I would rather have a surplus in one or two and a lack in the third.  I suppose that is not a terrible thing, for the lack of satisfaction means that I’m not suffering from complacency.  Ultimately, Andy and I are two of a kind.  Interestingly enough, his hometown of Simsbury, Connecticut is a mere 5 minute drive from my house.

Alright, I’m going to knock both these posts out before I give up on getting work done. My first semester felt like a calmer version of High school to be perfectly honest. I can even say  that many of my classes were in fact more difficult and challenging in high school; However, I am glad that this was the case; because if I have easy classes then it will hopefully be easier to transfer to a school with an engineering program. My classes were just so chill and I felt little to no pressure from my classes (was this how HS was for other people?). My school was really intense compared to this, all of my classes were an hour and a half long and we had exams every other day. As for my social life, I made a group of friends and while I don’t hang out after school, that has a lot to do with my inherent laziness and having work on Tuesdays and Thursdays than it does with a lack of friends. If there is anything that I can say is really different is the area around the school; I went to school in Harlem, in a place where you saw a lot of questionable behavior and the people who were around definitely weren’t as nice as they are downtown (businesses here say hello and recommend things while most back in HS wanted nothing to do with me). I can honestly say that I have really enjoyed this semester, I got a lot of downtime to play games in class and the work load was completely manageable, I’m actually kind of sad that  I will have to leave this place to get the major I want but I am sure I will never forget my first semester in college.

Well, I get that I am supposed to write about my favorite one or about how they have affected me but I can honestly say that no session comes to mind;  in fact I felt held back by these events and they have impeded on many activities that I would like to do. It probably is coincidental but every time I actually have something to do ( be it picking up a sibling from school or registering for classes the workshops always got in the way; actually that isn’t completely true, The museum didn’t get in the way of anything so I’ll choose that one as my favorite. As or changes… well I already had been to a lot of museums and I spend my life on the internet so I have to be skeptical of what I see; and Baruch voices only got in the way of my registration and kind of screwed me over even more than my appointment to register. All in all, I think that it is a waste of time but I can see how this can help SOME people or perhaps entertain others. As for me while the class was fine to attend I really disliked this out of class commitment.

My favorite workshop was the one where we had to decide who would go on a boat if people were stranded on an island. I thought it was funny when everyone automatically wanted to kill the old lady. Instead of leting 6 people live we only got 4.

My favorite enrichment workshop would hands-down have to be the musical we were required to see earlier on in the semester. It focused primarily on the academic, emotional, and personal situations and problems, we, as college students, will probably encounter in our years attending Baruch. I thought it was such an eye opener because I hadn’t really thought about all the topics they covered in the musical. I was merely excited about the fact that I was officially in college but I focused more on the positives rather than the negatives that can possibly occur in my years here, hopefully not though. I enjoyed and appreciated that they chose to incorporate humor into the musical because for such serious topics, I think adding humor lightened up the mood but they still managed to clearly spread the messages they were attempting to get across. Surprisingly, I found many of the songs very catchy and although I haven’t been one to enjoy musicals, I realized that it was, in fact, the music that was very entertaining. Basically, I thought this musical really made me come to the realization that I was no longer in high school but I had stepped into a completely new environment. Although my high school had greatly prepared me for college, academically, there is no way that it fully helped me in understanding all the personal experiences and problems that can occur in college and for that, I like that we had to see this show just to be prepared for what can happen and the ways we may feel while in college.