Monthly Archives: November 2012

Due 12/03/2012, before class.

Instructions:

Create or find a photograph or some other image (a meme, an animated GIF, etc.) that represents in some way your experience at Baruch thus far. Embed your image in a blog post in which you reflect, in no more than 500 words, on your impressions of your first three months at Baruch. Your response should be personal and creative. If you use an image that you did not create yourself, be sure to credit the source with a name, if possible, and an URL.

Have fun with the assignment!

-Jori

Hurricane sandy rolled in to my neighborhood at about noon on monday, it officially started for me when the power went out at 4 o clock. This proceded by a collective moan by my whole family. After that, my father called us all down to play Scrabble, as me and my siblings lackadaisically came down the stairs talking about how much power our phones, computers, and ipods had left. We played Scrabble while talking the whole time about how everyone else still had power and how typical it was that our family still doesn’t have power. At about 6 and we started to finnish the game. My brother Ian pointed out that our cousins, the Settons, three blocks away will have power throughout the storm because the had a generator. My mom suggested that we should go to the Settons for an hour to enjoy electricity before storm really starts. My father urged that we shouldn’t leave now being that it would be impossible to come back in an hour, but the rest of my family and I were confident that nothing would go wrong. My mom, sister, brother and I got in the car and started driving. We were a block away from my cousins a huge gust of wind blew down a large branch fell in front of the car. As soon as we stopped in front of the car, the rest of the huge tree fell on the hood of our car, shattering the windshield and destroying the roof. I looked around as no one seemed to be hurt so i quickly rushed my brother and I out of the car, ran out of as quickly as possible, trying to find and area with no trees above our heads. We then waited for my mom and sister, who were sitting in the front, to get out of the car. Those were the longest 30 seconds of my life positive that they could of climbed to the back of the car and came out the door me and my brother came out of. I feared that maybe they were injured and I didn’t notice. Contemplating running back my mom and sister finally got out. We gathered with hugs and quickly ran back to our house scared shittless.

Since I am not positive what I am supposed to do with this project, I am just gonna write three thing that I have always wanted to do. first is Meet Zach Braff. He is the lead actor form my favorite TV series Scrubs, and wrote, directed and acted in the movie Garden State which is my favorite romantic comedy. When I would meet him I would tell him I love him, then I would get a photo with him and ask him to take a photo with me and make it my facebook profile. second is to have a road trip with my friends all the way to California. I’ve always wanted to go to California and also go on a multiple day drive, so this would be killing two birds with one stone. the Third thing that I want is to fly a plane. Recently my cousins took flying lessons and they said it was awesome and I have always wanted to learn to fly.

What’s the definition of stress? Feeling like you have no time, having things pile one after another or when you feel like you’re at the tip of the edge and you want to give up. I’ve experienced it all. You think juggling school and work and homework is hard, but once you been in my shoes for the past 7 weeks, it doesn’t compare. I’m a strong type of person who doesn’t usually give up. I’ve been through hell and back since the end of September and it’s not over yet. I give up my sleep, my food and friends to get things done. I’ve been mentally and emotionally screwed with and still have to manage to show up at school every day. It’s hard, but everyone keeps talking about the light at the end of the tunnel. Most of the time, that light is so dim that I hardly even see it. My motivation is gone and there’s nothing worth fighting for. But I have learned how to REALLY manage a million things at once and even learn more about myself. I know everything I’m going through has a reason behind it and I’m gonna push through till the end to find out what that is.