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For me, this year has been much like the picture describes, clockwork.  Day in and day out, this lower freshman year has been somewhat like high school.  Days are generally very repetitive, where I tend to stare at the clock waiting for some classes to be over.  The day is somewhat similar to high school in some regards, but the main difference is how the teachers operate.  This is still something that I haven’t completely gotten used as I think many of us can understand from music class.

One of the many things that I have enjoyed during this semester was the breaks in between classes; they remove the cramming of classes into a tight schedule.  One of main things that I do during the breaks is playing ball in the gym.  I generally have a routine for the week and it had basically remained similar throughout the semester, much like clockwork.

Unfortunately, another thing that has carried over from high school is procrastination.  I generally wait for the last second, if not just the last day to finish my work.  This has been going on for the longest time and still occurs right now.  This trend happened throughout the semester, where I lose sleep and end up rushing the job.

Just like clockwork.

What can I say?

I find myself to be like any other person right now.  The same habits, similar things that I enjoy are much like many other people.

It all starts on the best part of the week, when we’re done with school on Friday.  Around 60 hours of whatever I want to waste it on.

When I finish school on Friday for the weekend, what do I do? Not work, of course.

Whether I get back late or sleep the day away, its 12 of the 60 hours gone.

On the following Saturday I find myself saying that I’m going to finish my work first and then enjoy the rest of the weekend.  Of course, that never happens.  I don’t know exactly where the time goes.  Another 24 hours gone in a blink of an eye.  On Sunday, I know I have the same feeling as many other people,  where did my weekend go?  Now I have to spend my day finishing all of my work.  I plan it out and tell myself that I’m going to finish by 7.  But too bad it’s too easy to get distracted.  It always seems to be a nice day when I need to finish my work.  I just look out my window and see Queens center mall and the nearby park and I lose my focus instantly.   After an hour of doing nothing,  I attempt to get back to work.   But unfortunately theres lots of football to be watched on sunday.  The giants at one hour, the jets at a different hour and then theres the primetime game “sunday night football”.  All of that ends near 12.  All of those sleepless nights are ones that I’d rather not recall.  This vicious cycle goes on week after week and the loss of sleep eventually catches up to me, but luckily I’m in the middle of a change.

FRO 1st Blog Post

Right off the bat as you look at the pictures that I have posted, you can tell that I am an avid sports fan, more specifically, a new york sports fan.  The yankees logo is the first picture that I posted because they have been the team that I have been following for the longest time.  Baseball was the first sport I was introduced to and therefore is my favorite to play but unfortunately, it is a hassle to organize a group to play.  The next two slides show the giants and jets logos respectively and I enjoy watching them play. – The Giants Rule – Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI winners.  Football is very interesting because the game is vastly different from any other sport.  For the last of the sports, I decided to put the Knicks logo because during my free time, I play basketball the most out of any other sport because its fun and does not require much to start a game.  Continuing the new york love,  my favorite NBA team is the Knicks.  As for the next slide, one of my favorite series of video games to play during my free time is Final Fantasy.  Most of the games that were released in the US I have played before.  For the last few slides, I decided to use pictures to represent some of the bad habits that I have and want to change throughout my time at Baruch.  The picture is not actually my desk, but is a representation of how messy my desk gets sometimes when all of my papers and schoolwork get thrown onto it and never get touched again.  I hope to be more organized during college so that it will be easier for me to finish everything that I need to do.  The next picture shows someone cramming for tests or important assignments.  I’m sure everyone has done this at some time in there life – staying up until around 4 or so finishing something that I was going to do earlier.  I end up finishing my projects with a decent job, but I could have done a better job if I didn’t have to rush and the loss of sleep catches up to me pretty quickly.  The last slide says YOLO because I usually tend to do things without thinking and in hindsight I always end up questioning my decisions.