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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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

– Benjamin Franklin

This quote means that if one puts time in now to study, it will pay off in the long run. If I do good in college now, in the future I have a better change of being successful in life. The good life is inspired and by guided by knowledge. Knowing is not enough, we must apply it. It is the state or fact of knowing,familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study. Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.Through knowledge we can go forward, where we dream of. It is only thing which cant be destroyed and it helps us to step forward to build our better future.Our future solely depends on knowledge.Knowledge is the key to get Success and for better life. I recall a time when i had to study for an exam, but didn’t because I was being lazy. When I got the exam back the next day, I had done really bad. So for the following exam I had studied and had received a good grade, not only a good grade but I had received the highest grade on exam in the entire school. So due to that I got an award from the principle because I was the only person to get a 100 on the math regents in high school. Since that day I decided that I need to stop slacking off, get my act together and study and gain knowledge if I want to succeed in life.

My first semester at Baruch was not how I expected it to be. My prediction for the upcoming semester was that it would be similar to my high school years, turns out I was wrong, extremely wrong. Throughout high school I put in the minimum amount of work and yielded pretty good grades, I came into college with the same mindset. It turns out I really had to work hard. I probably did more work in this one semester at Baruch than my entire high school experience. Now I know what level of work is expected of me. Another defining characteristic of my first semester at Baruch is how I have adapted to the environment. Manhattan is a busy place and everything here is so fast paced, it took some adjustments to get use to it. The fast paced environment of New York has changed my outlook on life; everything I do now is all about speed and efficiency, the way most new Yorkers lead their lives. I am grateful that I have gotten very good professors my first semester, if I had gotten bad ones my semester would have been much more difficult. I have learned a lot; not just about the subjects that I too but also about life in general, Baruch has taught me a lot. Over all my first semester at Baruch was a great experience, I wouldn’t change any part of it, even the unpleasant moments, and I am glad everything happened the way it did.

A significant experience in my life was the first day of college. It was my first day and I had no idea what to expect. I woke up an hour earlier than I would normally, I got ready, made sure I didn’t smell funny and left my house. I was so caught up in the thought of being late to college on my first day, that I forgot to buy a metro card. So after I bought the card I got on the bus and later transferred on to the train. My first class of the day was art history and it started at 9:30, I got to school at 8:45. I was the first one in class, I saw the masses of students pour in as i sat in my seat. the class filled up and eventually there were more than a hundred students in class, I felt overwhelmed, excited and cluster phobic at the same time. The class was an hour and a half long. After art history was over I felt like crying: the professor told the class what he expected from each student and the amount of work we had to do.  Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse I realized it I had two more classes left. The next class was American history. American History was even worse in terms of the work we had to complete. After American history was political science, the expectations were similar to the rest of my classes. The thing I took away from that day was life only gets tougher and its up to me to make the best of it. All I have to do is put in a little hard work.

In my opinion, the workshop with the author of the book Brooklyn, Colm Toibin, was a unique experience. Although I did not read the book, it turned out I didn’t actually need it for the workshop. Honestly, for me the workshop was dull and pointless. I thank Colm Toibin for not making it as boring as it could it have been; instead of talking about the book he chose to discuss the factors that played a role in his creation of the book. With the exception of a few students, most seemed uninterested in him talking and more interested in everything else around them. The purpose of this blog is not to disrespect Colm Toibin, he is a terrific writer and an even better author, and maybe he inspired percentage of us, but I feel the last thing this world needs is another book which focuses on the life of an immigrant, simply because it is already somewhat of a cliché.

For this assignment I chose to present eight pictures that represent who I think I am. In these eight pictures is everything I do and everything I associate myself with. My name is Partap Singh and I am an Indian American college student who has just started working towards a bachelor’s degree in economics at Baruch College. The first two pictures are based off my beliefs and my position on life. The first picture in this sequence is my mindset towards the rest of the world. Most of the time I feel that life is a game and all I have to do is persevere and eventually beat it. Although it may get extremely difficult at times all I have to do is overcome any challenge I am faced with. I believe there is no substitute for hard work and that’s why I don’t take any shortcuts in life, this is the theme of the second picture and it links back to what is said in the first picture. The next two pictures show that I not only like to work hard but I also like to play hard. I am a big user of Netflix. When I am relaxing seventy percent of the time it involves watching something on Netflix. I watch a lot of movies, documentaries and TV shows. Although Netflix has a vast amount of content it is still missing a lot, that’s where TV comes in to play. I follow a number of shows which include the big bang theory, breaking bad, Dexter, and top gear and I am a big fan of basketball. I have been watching basketball for eight years now and every year I get more and more involved in the process of following it and being a fan. The next picture is a picture of a laptop. A laptop is important to me because it represents modern technology and in this day and age everything we do is somehow connected with technology. Sometimes I feel sorry for my laptop because I don’t shut it off for weeks, that’s how integrated it is with my life. The next picture is an Indian flag; this is what represents me at my core. Although I was born here my family stems from India and everything that I do in my life is shaped around that fact. My Indian culture is the subconscious factor that pushes me to make the decisions that make.  If I was not from India I would be a totally different person, from the way I look to the way I think. The last picture is a picture of food. I am a big fan of trying new food. Whenever I buy food I try to be diverse as possible. Any time I go to buy Chinese food or Indian food I try to order something off the menu that was different that what I ate last time. All these pictures are  a summary of who I am as a person .