For me, the most useful workshop was the class advisement one. It was helpful during class registrations. I was able to plan the path I’d take to get to my major. I thought the advisement workshop could have been better. It could have been more thorough and the requirements for the next class could have been explained better. But, overall it was pretty good. It helped a lot.
I chose this picture because it’s exactly how I feel. It’s been stressful. The workload has been overwhelming. Way, way more than I expected. I thought I was ready enough since my last year in high school, all we did in my classes was write a paper. One paper every two weeks or so. But I guess it wasn’t enough. I’ve had more all-nighters in my first semester of college than in my whole high school life. Wow.
Dear Professor Hensley,
I was not able to make it to class and take the midterm today. I was suffering from the flu and went to see the doctor. I would like to know if I could make up the test and if so when. Thank you very much.
Jay Tagaan
FRO 1000, W 2:30
College. Before I went to school in Baruch, that word really terrified me. And I think it still does. It’s intimidating to think that it’s the last four years of your life before you become a complete adult and be responsible for everything you’d have to encounter in your life. I do not want to grow up. At all. Unless it’s about my height, ’cause I could really use some growing up. I want to stay a kid forever. I want to still rely on my parents. Because frankly, I’m too lazy and scared to do things on my own. I do not want to be burdened with responsibilities like my parents are. If only I had the ability to time travel. That’d definitely make things easier for me. I could go into the future and see how my life turned out. I could correct my mistakes. Or not. I think I’ll leave my mistakes alone. They did, after all, make me learn my lesson. But I could go back in time to when things were easier. Times when I was still a young’un, still learning about the world which I found so mysterious and intriguing (Not that I stopped learning now, because I still do). Damn, I wanna be a kid again.
So I have to reflect the semester. This is a day late, because for the life of me I couldn’t log in to this blog site. I actually typed this before I posted it to make sure I don’t curse a lot. There were days where just being in Freshman seminar and Baruch in general annoyed me. I didn’t really care to get to know anyone, because the idea was that in college you get serious. I was pretty motivated to do just that, because I had friends outside of school close by. That is, until I joined the Baruchettes. I was happier to be in school, and then I actually started to kind of open up to my other freshies. Baruch itself made out to be a pretty cool place, not accounting the lot of smokers and sometimes rude pedestrians. But this first semester of my college life was actually pretty rewarding. I made friends and have spring courses with them; I have a close group of dancers and the best coach. And I have made friends all around the school in forms of store owners to random walkers. My professors proved to be pretty good, and class hours strolled by as classes came to an end. I won’t go so far as to say I’d do it all again…but maybe to have semesters just as exciting and meaningful.
I actually found Baruch Voices to be surprisingly better than at Convocation. Most likely it was because it was way shorter…but the stories I heard were deep. Even if it was simply about bacon, or a friend you could never see anymore, or just a smoke addiction, each story wasn’t just “I did this crap, now can I get a pass?” They had effort to them, like they really wanted every freshman to understand them. Another thing was that the actors were still very amusing in how they each presented the monologues.
I do find it annoying that freshman are forced to go, no matter what. But it does help you kind of see that everyone else around you has a pretty deep lining to them. It’s not just you who has a circle around you of people who don’t care. They suffer like you. they are scared like, and college is just as new to all the others just like you. I even heard my dance mate and new friend’s mono. I could easily make out her voice, even if she wasn’t reading it.
I probably wouldn’t mind actually giving a mono for the next convocation (just maybe). It helps, even the tiniest bit.
This meme shows how someone can try to go on a website for a little bit and end up procrastinating until dawn. This happened to me so many times throughout my first semester at Baruch. When school first started, I used to go to bed and be asleep by 10:00. This slowly changed to a later and later time until the last couple of weeks of school where I ended up sleeping around 3:00 AM or later. Going on facebook for a quick update would lead to me chatting with a friend for hours. Checking my email would lead to me reading about a sale at my favorite store and online shopping until the wee hours of the morning. Checking my tumblr dashboard would lead to a continuous cycle of refreshing and reblogging. This resulted in me not finishing all of my work in time and not studying as much as I would have liked to. This semester, I followed the same pattern I did in high school: I would do great in the beginning of the semester, then slowly start procrastinating and getting lazy. However, this term helped me realize that I really have to work on my time management skills if I want to succeed next semester.
Seems like some freshman have all the answers to the worlds problems, both political and social. Must be experts since they’ve taken Communications, right? It’s interesting that the worlds greatest minds and leaders haven’t stumbled upon or considered their solutions. 
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At first it was really easy, but around the middle of the semester the work started to pile up and I didn’t manage my time very well. I had to stay up to do all the work since all the due dates all fell on the same week. I started getting less and less sleep but hopefully I can work it all out before next semester.
I thought the “voices” performance was quite entertaining. The voice actors were really good and possessed great talents. They brought the monologues to life. Apart from the voice actor’s performance of the monologues, the monologues themselves were well written and most, if not all, were interesting. When i first got wind of the performance I didn’t feel so ecstatic. I though to myself it was going to be a waste of time, but I am glad I was wrong. I first I didn’t realize that the monologues were written by Baruch students, after finding out I was amazed how many good writers attend Baruch. I hadn’t realized that people with such interesting lives attend Baruch, but I guess that’s college. The monologues were very relatable. The only complaint I have about the performance is that the person sitting right next to me was annoying and didn’t seem interested. My favorite actor was the only Asian guy, and I don’t mean than in any racist way, I just don’t know his name. His comical enactment of the monologues was really funny. Every single monologue he read made me want him to just take over the show and read all of them by himself. Before the performance of the voices I had thought monologues were boring and could not interest me but I learned that the right actors and the right words on a paper can be very pleasant to listen to.
