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My first few months into Baruch have been alright. Ive always hated schoolwork, so I didn’t really expect to enjoy college. I thought I could breeze my way through Baruch like I have always done with school, but guess what caught me off guard? A lot of work to do, a lot of things to remember. I walked into class the other day, right into a test because I forgot we had one. I think I know what my grade for that test is looking like. And as we speak I have 2 essays do, which I really haven’t made any progress on. So I think ill be spending my saturday trying to finish up this homework. So yeah, Baruch hasn’t been the greatest thing ever, but its not that bad. I met a few cool people, but not really interested in doing much more because I just wanna keep up with my schoolwork and fix my gpa next semester after the horrible things I’ve done to it now.

So Baruch College is an interesting place, there are so many people who reflect on how they hate this or that about the school, so many people who describe their first and second semesters as intolerable. There are Innumerable complaints about the unnecessary math or English requirements, or the annoying back and forth when administration loses some form of paper work or other. For the first two months or so I disagreed vehemently I honestly wanted to give Baruch an unbiased go, but it becomes difficult when you feel like you have no control over your own school life.
I have also heard that the first and second semesters were brutal and that most people didn’t start loving their Baruch experience until their third or even fourth semester. This makes sense because everyone feels they need to stuff their prerequisites into their first, second and third semesters and very few people end up enjoying the courses they are taking. It is very difficult to complete a 5 subject course load when you are only doing it because you have to, also because Baruch is a commuter school, most people feel disenfranchised, like they are not connected to their peers or their school.
I have started to feel this way also, but I realize that I don’t hate Baruch, in fact I quite enjoy it, every experience is what you make it and we all chose to be here. Now the fact that I myself was feeling overwhelmed has left me jaded, however, I refuse to let that taint my college experience. I joined clubs and made friends and that has connected me to something so that my life isn’t just school, home, study, sleep, school again. The social aspect and sense of community is intrinsic to a successful college career.
I have included a picture of some of my Club Friends because they have helped me survive my college experience thus far.

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That meme accurately depicts my first semester at college. College is alot harder than what I thought it would be, and the hardest part is keeping away from distractions (such as facebook). facebook is really so hard to ignore when a teacher wont leave a tangent and its just one click away to a time consuming bliss. Also, I think i study alot but really, i dont study enough. Im going to have to work alot harder and throw in alot more study time for the second semester… especially since I have art history, which i hear is a mind numbing class. I didnt even get alot of good teachers, most of my teachers I have no clue about. I cant beleive I was forced to register so late, after all the good times and classes had been taken up. Im mostly hoping and praying that my teachers dont turn out to be fools like some of my teachers were this semester. The picture about what society thinks I do is also very skewed, I mean, Baruch isnt a party school or anything like that, so we definately do alot less than other schools, or society would think we do. I do kind of do what the government thinks I do though, considering they are paying for a my education in full… yay for free rides and fafsa! I do alot of the just hanging out that the 1st picture says I do to, not really in huge groups but im sure ill expand my circle of friends in the coming semster. So yeah, this picture really represents how my 1st college semster was like, with all the hopes of what college is, and the reality of what college is… alot of hard work.