Exactly 21 days left in this semester: 2 weeks of classes plus finals week. Wow. Where did the time go? SO much has happened in SUCH a short amount of time. My first three months at Baruch is comparable to riding Kingda Ka for the first time at Six Flags. As you are walking towards the ride, your heart begins to pound just a bit faster; the closer you are getting with each step, the ride seems to become more and more intimidating. As you take a seat and prepare yourself for the ride of a lifetime, you reflect on what everyone has said about the ride previously; how it’s insanely awesome or how incredibly scary it is (also researching the ride beforehand and coming across an article about when they first tested the ride with a test dummy: the first try the dummy came back without its head, the second try the dummy didn’t even come back at all-makes one pretty nervous). And then you ascend into the skies above. It’s official, there’s no turning back and running off to the spinning teacups. You’re approaching the top, the climax at this point, and all you feel is the pressure of the wind against your face and your heart in your throat as you pray to God you’re still alive by the time its over and then…its finished. You’re back at the boarding deck within 4 seconds with your head still in tact and your hair a bit messier than when you boarded. You’ve succeded. Now, time to move on to El Toro. That’s college and that’s my experience at Baruch so far. A roller coaster ride that, at first, was nerve-wrecking, in the middle, stressful with trying to adjust to everything that made up the “college life” from papers to people, and in the end, perfectly fine and moving on to bigger and better things all just within three months.
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