Monthly Archives: February 2012

Got joanna’s mail nd nw I hav to write a blog, totally bored with no idea wat to write, I mean writing about your own self is sooo hard gimme sumthng else to talk about nd i can go on forever :D, but lets just go to joanna’s questions right now

1. Who am I??

The worst question in this assignment, Its so hard to talk about yourself I mean seriously if I tell good things about me I look like a pompous showoff nd If I tell bad things thngs about me, well I dn’t think i’ll tell bad things about me 😀 Well to be honest I am a differnet kinda guy nd people think I am just appearing like that which is pretty stupid. I like nature a lot all kinda trees, plants, animals everything that is nature, also I hate violent stuff which many people like, like wrestling nd games like call of duty i knw its a famous game but its just violent. I am a frnd of frndz nd well frnd of enemies too, truth is i never got any enemy so I hav no idea wat i’d be like to sumbudy if he/she becums my enemy 😀 Now I am not a pompous guy so I can tell u sumtyms I am really arrogant but that rarely happens so yea dn’t count that 😀 well I guess thats all I wanna write right now over here so moving on to the next que

2. Top 3 concerns??

well obviously no 1 is ma studies otherwise why would I come to baruch, I need good grades which m really worried about cause m not really studying like sumbudy who’s a college student . no 2 gotta establish maself as I had establishd maself in high skool *I was famous*. no 3. well m a care free guy so no more concerns really if something becomes a concern i’ll post it here then 😀

3. hw is baruch gonna be different than high skool??

Till now I dn’t see a lotta difference, m studying like I used to study in high school not doing anything extra, making new frndz here as well who r turning out to be really good frndz like school frndz, Maybe baruch will change me cause everything changes me quite quick m extremely adaptive but till now I haven’t seen much change lets see hw much I hav changed at the end of this semester this is just the begining 😀

4. Hw will baruch change me??

I guess I answered this in the above question as well, hopefully baruch will make me better than who I am right now nd well we’ll see at the end of semester hw much i changed whch is gonna happen in May ( long time i dn’t wanna thnk that much in the future its annoying)

Well thats all I had to write people wrote wayy better than I did but then its hard for me to write about myself, hope u like it.

Ciao (ths is i thnk spanish for like good bye bt no idea neva studied spanish)

I’m sorry Joanna, but since you would like to know who I think I am, I may have to confess it with the deepest honesty. I am not a blogger. I do not think that I can blog, and  I sincerely believe that aimless blogging is a sheer waste of time. I may earn your ‘evil eye’ with this confession but if America is the land of free speech and free thoughts, then please bear with me just for this semester.

It may sound as if I am a person who does not appreciate efforts directed at me. Yes I do appreciate, however I may not live up to expectations if any effort labored upon me is not sailing in the same course as my preference. As I am writing this, I am counting the minutes used here.

I am, however, an essayist. I write tonnes of essays which does not include my personal opinion. I do not hint my personality in the characters or any worded impersonation of myself. One will never find my name or the first-person pronoun in my essays. And I do not believe that having such a preference is going to discredit who I am in the eyes of many.

I think this far is too much to say about myself. Pardon my lingual sarcasm, if any, that may cause the utmost offense to the heart and soul of the reader. A painful confession should always end with a word of thanks to those who strive to understand my viewpoint, and not impose the toughest condemnation upon a mind which is sincere to the ones who demand of it.

Oh Hai Dere.  My Naim Is Mr. Garcia.

Uno: I think I am an extremely strange person.  Everything about my life is pretty contradictory.  I am quiet almost all the time, but my mind is like a never-ending rave with small children (I don’t think about small children, FYI……..[ugh, forget it]).  Ummm, I am from New York City so I am like every other condescending City Kid who thinks he’s better than Non-City Kids and laughs at homeless people.  I try to be the least stereotypical person at everything, so I stray from the mainstream as much as possible. My skin may be “caramel” but my personality ranges from all colors of the double rainbow.  The Internet runs 80% of my life, so I’m basically like every other ADHD durp nerd.  I’m constantly thinking about Fate and how much it wants to destroy my plans so that it can keep life interesting.  My mood swings like a baby with a jet engine on its diaper rotating in a mini-hammock.  Like Pearl, I consider myself an epic cynical troll. I probably won’t give you my true opinion on things unless I really know you; so don’t trust anything that comes out of my mouth. 

Deux: I am very afraid of getting someone pregnant.  Not because I hook-up with enough girls (or basically, uh, any), but because getting someone pregnant is just something you do in college.  I also don’t want to turn too homosexual.  Not because I am homophobic, whatsoever.  In fact, I’ve grown up living in a predominantly Gay neighborhood (Alphabet City, Downtown Lower East Side) and have enjoyed the company of every Gay/Lesbian person I’ve met.  However, there are ALOT of really hot azn dudes in Baruch and I can’t stop lookin’.  I just can’t –.-.  My last concern is failing out of Baruch.  This is my second time attempting my freshman semester (actually, Joanna was my last Freshman Seminar instructor, go figures), because all my classes dropped a year and a half ago because of the BS medical bureaucracy that comes along with every CUNY College.  Anywho, my goal is to get through these next few months without another epic fail, which probably means I just jinxed myself and I am totally screwed.

*Caroline had awesome pictures so I feel I must insert random things*

Le Threes:  I have gone to predominantly white high schools all my life, so I’m going to have to get used to the extensive diversity at Baruch (WELL DUH).  I’ve always wanted to broaden my horizons socially.  I USED TO indulge in the intake of mari-jah-huana in HS, so I’ll have to get used to not being ridiculously retarded 24/7 (no offense to the ridiculously retarded).  I was never consistent in high school so I want to try and focus a little harder in all my classes, while staying true to my derped out mentality and questionably off-putting sense of humor.  I’m going to try and not offend anybody but if I do just let me know because I am not someone who likes drama or is interested in hurting other people (#representGhalib).  I also was never in a long-term relationship with high school chicks because I had less than 0 personality and the women I would go after looked like a mixture of dirt/butter who also had 0 personality.  I’m going to try and be less of a nerd at Baruch but it seems like that is more justified here than any other school I’ve ever been to, so let’s seeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

16x=64:  I hope this semester will slowly take away all the weird factors about my personality.  Maybe I’ll get some clothes that don’t make me look like the homeless people I try not to laugh at.  Maybe I’ll start going to parties and doing things that normal people do.  It’s going to be interesting and I hope everyone understands me a little better by the end of the semester.  Probably not though; probably not.

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HELLO.   I LOVE INSERTING RANDOM PHOTOS.

1. Who I am – I am no one from nowhere who spent 27 hours of plane ride to get to somewhere , where I hope to become someone.This is where I come from :

(Photo credits : Ye Pyae)

Photo credits : Me 😀

I love dogs and I talk to them, which makes me look like a weirdo.( Those are my 2 babes in the photos, aren’t they adorable?).

I am addicted to facebook .You can add me because I am not creepy stalker. I think I am not a bad person, either.

2.My top 3 concerns –

1)I am not sure if it’s worth to cross half the globe and leave all the people and things I love to study at Baruch. I had to leave my 3 dogs and they won’t remember me anymore when I go back.

2 ) I never spoke English so I have some difficulty trying to translate what I want to say.It’s annoying when people don’t understand what I am saying because I have this Burmese accent,or may be I just don’t make sense when I talk.

3) Obviously, grades! I am used to British system, where everything is structured and I just have to memorize everything to get 100. Here, readings, assignment and discussions. I don’t quite understand the system yet so first semester won’t be easy for sure. Besides, I am learning about politics. Back in Burma, it is all dictatorship and we could be prisoned for saying “democracy is good”. Calculus is the only subject I am doing well ( except that I am still figuring how to use the calculator. WHY DO WE EVEN NEED CALCULATOR?)

3. College might not be different from high school for some of you guys, but it is a BIG leap for me. I am glad that I don’t need to wear hideous uniforms anymore. Even though I get more freedom, it comes with responsibility. Frankly, I miss my high school life where I don’t need to worry about anything at all. Life was so easy. But, I appreciate how college is teaching me to enter adulthood and take responsibility for my actions.

4. This semester will probably change my anticipated views of college life in U.S. I hope I will learn and grow through the semester.Hopefully, my communication skills will improve so that I won’t look like a sociopath anymore.

Tchao!

Bisous,

Caroline

My part of the group interview with Joanna Mendez…

J. Tell me who you think YOU are!
P: Self aware narcissist. A really lazy person who seems to have lost her stress neuro-functions and therefore never rushes to do anything even if class starts in 3 minutes and the only way to get to class on time is by running (which ruffles my feathers). My left brain tells me it’s a bad habit, but its skullmates just don’t care. Other than being lazy and apathetic, there’re childish ambitions like becoming a trillionaire or a rock star, and also a freakish pride in everything pertaining to me. Basically I’m the textbook example of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac. Google will tell you the rest.
I don’t attend parties (the irony), love food, and can’t shut up on facebook. The other day I read about the 7 deadly sins on Wikipedia and they all pertained to me in vastly annoying ways. I also love to crack mean jokes, so let me know if you’re uncomfortable. Will cut myself off here because I can ramble on and on but there’s a word limit to this thing. So to summarize, a total troll.

J. Share your top 3 concerns about this semester at Baruch College and explain why. 
P: I. am terrible at time management. Well, it’s not that I can’t plan it out, it’s just that I never follow the plans. One minute of facebook turns into 2 hours, and suddenly the sky is dark. But it is a tad worrying since it’s a lot harder to get away with latenesses and missing homework in college than it was in high school. The sudden appearance of acquired ADHD doesn’t help much; I zone off in class and stop understanding my reading homework after the 5th line. Doing badly in a class hurts my pride, so I’m hoping to rewire soon. What else? FRESHMAN 15. Anyone reading this is probably facepalming or ಠ_ಠ-ing if they’ve gotten this far, but yes, I refuse to become unfit for my clothes, they’re pretty new and popping buttons are not pretty, and empty wallets make people hungry. So I need to watch my consumption on all parts of the spectrum.

J. So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College experience different from your high school experience?
P: WELL. Missing class in my senior year of high school didn’t mean much, but now… =_=;
So I guess being in college kind of leaves things in my own hands and if I screw up, then I screw up big time, and haha pride no allow that `B/. Even if I’m still living with my parents, Baruch is teaching me a sort of independence; I’m going to be in charge of my academic performance, and this time there are less chances to prove myself in the face of merciless professors.
Another difference would be the massive amount of extra time I have, for clubs and jobs and a good lunch, to go out and explore my options.

J. How do you think this semester at Baruch will change you?
P: It’s going to teach me to always put 100% in the things I do, because there are no second chances in the real world. Cynical, but hopefully this way my bad habits can be cured. I also need to resharpen my grammatical sense since I don’t seem make much sense lately.

Yaybeans I’m done. Thank you for reading!

Wait oh yes. Public speaking. I don’t know about the classes this semester, but through the course of my undergraduate years I hope to gain all the social skills I’ll ever need to impress anyone I ever come voice-to-voice with.

And now the real adieu.

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