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Out of all the enrichment classes we have attended this semester, my favorite one has been the photography gallery. Even though most of them really did suck, I sort of enjoyed the photography one. The Jazz photography was actually good, the photographers in the exhibit were actually really well done.  Even though the lady doing the exhibit made it really boring. The pictures they had in the exhibit were really well done and actually inspired me. I guess the only thing that really bothered me about the exhibit was that they never got student work done. I feel like if the exhibit is part of Baruch College they should at least be getting student work in to push an art movement at the school.

My favorite part of the exhibit was the black and white photography. I guess I really enjoyed it cause I’m trying to study documentary photographer and I really enjoy black and white photos. I was disappointed in the fact that they did not even had a single film picture, all the photos were digital, and beautiful but for me film is the way to go. The exhibit really did motive me though to push and try harder on my photography, and I like the whole culture part and music aspect of it.

Baruch elevators are like monkey in a barrel  let us see how many students we van fit into one elevator. yay !

My favorite enrichment workshop was when we observed the bald draped Buddhist monks pour sand into little slits of a wooden slab that in time ended up a very majestic symbol. This workshop was very interesting. Before seeing this workshop I always perceived Buddhist monks as big fat bald people in robes that just chill around a temple and pray do karate and hum. However, when I attended this workshop I saw that I was partially right about my hypothesis. I thought that Buddhist monks were bald and wore robes and I was correct, but I also thought that they were all fat and never left the temple and that is where I was wrong. This experience resonated with me because there was no other place that I know that I would be able to find and observe Buddhist monks the way I did there. Finally, seeing the Buddhist monk has inspired me to research Buddhist monks and maybe one day visit a monk temple and maybe become a nice bald Buddhist monk. Finally, seeing the buddhist monks in action really made me think that people can be so peaceful and just mind their own business and seeing that impacted me into thinking about being a tiny bit more respectful and just a tiny bit less loud.

Baruch college these past three months have been very interesting. Before attending Baruch i expected college to be like parties all the time and everyone getting fucked up. However, when i enrolled for Baruch and finally entered i realized that all colleges are the same way and Baruch is very unique. Students attending Baruch all are there for the same reason, to advance their knowledge of the world and improve their education in a certain profession or a certain business. After a little while of attending Baruch i started to realize that to strive in Baruch and to be successful a student must be very outgoing and must have a lot of confidence. It takes a special personality to truly excel and enjoy Baruch. You must be outgoing and confident for many reasons. Baruch is a school that is based on internships and networking and in order to obtain those things one must be confident enough to approach a person and must be outgoing enough in order to find the people and have the proper connections in order to so. Furthermore, i have realized one thing, there are a lot of cheaters and schemers in this school. Baruch has multiple tricks and special ways of advancing your education and making it an easier and more fun experience. Finally, this picture represents an strong outgoing and confident person, come on look at his motions. After a while at Baruch i am very content with my education and the atmosphere of the school. One major positive of Baruch is that there are not as much distractions in Baruch as you would find on Campus or any other school.

Moving to New York City and attending Baruch has been both a blessing and a curse. New York City is everything I could have imagined it to be. There is always something to do and you learn something new everyday just from walking the streets. From a midwesterners perspective, I was “living the dream.” Likewise, the people at Baruch are awesome. I’ve made lifelong friends and coming to school each day is not a dread because I like the atmostphere. Baruch reminds me a lot of New York City as a whole; there is a lot of diversity and way too many people in a small area. However, moving here and attending Baruch made me realize how much I miss my friends and family in Missouri though and that New York city might not be “living the dream” for me.

I dorm here and live on the 9th floor of my building. I was always told that New York City is the city that never sleeps but I didn’t realize the capacity of this quote until I experienced it….every night. Somehow the noise from people, cars, construction, and emergency vehicles travels up to my room at ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT. In Missouri, you can literally here the birds chirping in the morning so this was a big change to get used to. Now, I’m pretty sure I can sleep through anything but it was a big adjustment, along with living on my own and moving to a city where I knew nobody. My time at Baruch has caused me to grow up and I would not change my time or experience here for anything.

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This is the perfect meme to describe my life right now. Although I did have Thanksgiving dinner at the dinner table with my family, I feel like I don’t have time for much with both work and school. I’m an assistant manager at a high volume shoe store in Queens, and the title comes with a lot of responsibility. Because the store I work at is a high volume store, there at least twenty employees and its hard to communicate with everyone and be as effective as possible. It’s time consuming and unfortunately work is taking precedent. I’m adjusting thought, and I know things will get easier after the holiday shopping season is over. All in all, I’m glad I experienced my first semester in college and experienced what so many people out there are experiencing; juggling school and work at the same time. Hopefully next semester will be more successful and a hell of a lot less stressful.

I’m a big believer in “by any means necessary”. I do whatever I need to do to make sure I’m happy and I try to forget the consequences if there are any. I like it that way. I live at home with my parents in Queens, where we moved to after my grandparents moved from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. If you ask me though, I’m from Queens. I’m a true New Yorker, but sadly I still believe in things like train etiquette and minding your own business when no one else is. My brother just turned ten the day before Halloween, and I can’t think of anything on this planet I love more than him. Because we’re pretty far apart in age, I think he often sees me as a “second mom” than he does a fun big sister. I’m the biggest JayZ fan I know; I’ve been to five of his concerts and cry my heart out each and every time. I have no shame in that though, cause its true love. I curse like a sailor, or a truck driver, whichever you prefer, I have tattoos and I have a very low tolerance for BS. Although those factors are unladylike, I do very much so love being a woman in this world. 

My first impressions of Baruch, were not so great. I knew coming into this school I’d be pretty unhappy, especially since Baruch has a reputation of having some of the most miserable students. I figured I’d stay here for the rest of my college years though, because it is so close to my house and cheap. All of the complaints I have, I expected. The only thing I did not know was how horrible and unreliable the elevators and escalators are. Recently there has only been a few elevators working and when you finally get into one your smashed against someone you don’t know. It is very frustrating. Sometimes I like to pretend everyone in the elevator is a cow, it looks that way sometimes. We all get off the elevator slowly and shuffling our feet. I know there are stairs but I do not have the ability to walk up ten flights of stairs. As for classes, they’ll probably get better later. Right now, they’re pretty standard. Maybe when I start studying something I’m interested in it will be more fun.

I found this meme on the Baruch Memes facebook page and had to use it because this is what continuesly happens to me. My time at Baruch so far is going well with the exception of my severe procrastination. I usualy start a paper a few days before it is due, but if I am not in a rush to complete the paper severe procrastination kicks in. My first three months at Baruch has been good, with the exception of my rushing to completel a paper when it is due the next morning or later that day. I enjoy the three hour breaks in between classes and the Fridays off. Sadly it does not make up for how slow the elevators are, nor how the escalators change direction at random points in the day and stop working. Overall I like the school, and enjoy having the ability to go anywhere in the city when i so please. The schools work is not hard, but hard to manage. Everything seems to be pretty straight forward, but like I said before I ave a problem with managing my time. Hopefully that will go away, or at least derease since I tend to need a fire under my ass to get me started and to finish my work. Procrastination is ok but freaking out over a six page paper that is due the next day is definitely not.

I made many important choices before and during my first semester at Baruch College.  What school to attend.  What apartment to live in.  Who to hang out with.  When to study.  When to play.  Many decisions were perhaps less important.  What to eat.  When to sleep.  When to talk.  When to stay silent.  Some decisions are yet unmade.  What major to work on.  To transfer, or not.  What career to pursue.

And I’ve learned independence is beautiful.  Sometimes, a decision can be wrenching:  What would have happened?  Yet life, it seems, is made up of decisions.  Decisions that must be made.  Why?  Because life is not a staircase, it’s an escalator.  If I don’t decide, life will decide for me.  And I will have no one to blame but myself.

So I plan to live life and decide!  Will the decisions always be right?  No.  Is it risky?  Yes.  But risk is a funny thing.  It can’t be avoided:

RISKS

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure

But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.

Often attributed to the poet and thinker, Leo Buscaglia, the real author of this inspirational verse is Janet Rand.

Carpe Diem!

Dickon McPherson