Monthly Archives: December 2012

Let me start and say that I have enjoyed my first semester at Baruch College.  One of the good things about attending this college is that I have learned many lessons that will help me in life.  The one lesson that I learned or the one problem I have is that i have to work on my time management.  Time management can be used in every aspect in life because if you manage and plan what you have to do, you will do a lot better job.  My problem is that I always for some reason leave all my school work for the last night to do before it is do and I feel that if I worked on things longer and wasn’t rushed by time I would do a lot better in classes.  For example, last night I stayed up until 4am to finish my English essay, that was assigned two months ago.  I feel like if i spread my work out over longer periods of time, I would write better essays.  Also another problem with my time management is that I always study for test on the night before.  I need to get into a habit of spreading my study time over a couple of days.  My goal for next semester is too work heavily on my time management and also to improve my essays and grades.

My experience at Baruch is fairly pleasant except for certain things I learned in the process of getting used to college. Coming into college, I was expected to be loaded with work from day one. Turns out, that’s not how it is. There is a mediocre amount of work, but at the end, the work piles on when you least expect it. I have learned that it is not able for me to get the papers done the day before anymore. When I did that, I wanted to rip all the hair out of my head. So in the future, make drafts and writing a long paper will come easier. Studying habits is another thing I had trouble with. I tend to procrastinate a lot and try to jam everything in my head at the last minute not realizing how much information I have to learn in a short amount of time. In short period of time at Baruch, I have learned that I get distracted really easily. In order to study properly, I have to be isolated without any distractions. Doing homework in the library only costs me to procrastinate even more because the subject always gets changed. Even when there is silence and everyone is focused on their work, I always end up eavesdropping on someone else’s conversations. When I’m at home and have no one to talk to, to an get more work done and in a shorter amount of time. Registering for classes is also something I have never experienced before. It’s like going shopping on black Friday except there’s no sale. People rush to get a spot with a decent teacher, but sooner or later, you get so desperate you don’t care about the teacher or time. When you get a class it’s like winning the lottery. This was something different than what I thought it would be like. I thought it would be easy just to type codes in. I even made a mock schedule but my actual schedule did not look anything like I thought. Baruch has opened my eyes to a world where nobody cares if you get something done, you have to rely on yourself.

My first semester at Baruch has been good But stressful since I don’t do anything until the night before. If I have a test the next day I do not study until an hour before I go to bed or even an hour before the test. This definitely hurts my grade. I think that I can better grades if I study earlier but I can’t get myself to do that. If I have a paper due the next day I do it the night before and stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning doing so. I do not know why I can’t do a paper earlier and get it over with.

I am probably the biggest procrastinator in this school. If there is no pressure I cannot get myself to do it. When I am under pressure I tend to do things quicker and more efficiently.

However, if I change this bad habit of mine, my first semester would not be as stressful and my grades would probably be better.

Throughout my classes, I have encountered many sorts of teachers. I believe that both the students in your class and the teachers decide whether the class will be enjoyable. My history professor is a very smart person and he is very passionate when he teachers. He even tears when he talks about John Brown and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. He is a very organized man and if  something is out of place, will freak out. Once time he miscounted the quizzes to be handed out for each row and he postponed the quiz until the end of the class so he can fix the order. Another incident when he freakout occurred when the projector was not working. We spent about fifteen or twenty minutes trying to fix the projector. This proves that even a professor with a Masters doesn’t know everything.

Another professor that does not know how to turn on the projector is my English Professor, Cathy. She is my favorite teacher and is the most down to earth professor. She also owns her own theatre. However, she is not tech savvy. One day she asked my class how to use the iPhone. Even the most experienced teachers do not know how to the simple tech stuff.

These teachers have taught me that even the smartest people can have flaws. College has shown me that if you are not computer savvy than you will struggle. When i go to the library all I see are Macs. As I entered college I thought that I would not need to bring in my laptop. During high school no one would bring in their laptop. When a teacher would assign a project my group members would be lazy to bring in their laptop. However, I remember when during my first political science class everyone pulled out their laptops and I saw there with my pen and notebook. Just this past weekend I purchased my first Mac Air laptop; not I take it everywhere.

Another lesson I learned from this was that you learn something everyday. Both professors did not how to do something as simple as turn on a projector. However, in college you can learn many life lessons. For example, the transition from high school and college shows who your real friends from high school are. Unfortunately, my best friend from high school has proven to not be my true friend. However, my other best friend who went to Cortland has proven to be my true friend. Even though she is six hours away we text each other every day and when she comes to visit for the holidays we see each other almost everyday. I hope to learn many more things as the years go by at Baruch.

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I think this ecard truly describes my college experience at baruch. Since I live on Staten Island, I need to catch a bus that goes to the ferry which takes me to manhattan, and then two trains to get to Baruch. The ferry, as anyone can imagine, is the most irritating part of my every day commute. It takes about 10 minutes for me to walk to my bus stop, 45 minutes for my bus to get to my ferry, 30 minutes for the ferry to get to manhattan (if I catch the right scheduled ferry. If not, I have to wait 15-30 minutes for the next one to come), and about a 20 minute train ride. So one might think that they can spare fifteen minutes of their commute, but I run on a very tight schedule. Add this tight schedule to my amount of school work to be done, and you have me being ridiculously sleepy pretty much all the time. Appearance is not my priority, studying for class and trying to get enough sleep for class is.

In a way I’d say that baruch has truly helped with my time management skills and my prioritizing.

my baruch expereince so far is a good one. this is not how i expected my college life to be however. my grades are not as good as they can be and i know i have to improve them. i also do not like my hour commute every morining and every night. i live on long island and it get really annoying riding the train. this first semester has taught me a lot about myself however. i learned that i need to be more responsible. i have a tendancy to push off assignments unitl last minute and that is why im not doing too great with my grades. i also have to manage my time better. at this age parties and having fun intrests me but i understand that i have to be responsibe and control myself. i hope that my expereince only gets better as it goes on.

My first semester in Baruch has pretty good, except for my grades. I’ve met a lot of new people and Baruch as a whole seems to have a very friendly environment. The transportation time to get here and back home is quite long, but I usually use the time to study (or zone out). Some of my classes are pretty interesting and some are ‘lacking excitement’, but I still ‘try’ to pay attention. Academic wise, i’m doing pretty bad, but I plan to improve this semester. I have three history classes and when I ‘study’ like this: http://imgur.com/NYBNn

I still get bad grades, and when people brag to me about their high grades, I just go: http://i.imgur.com/3voOG.jpg

I think this meme accurately describes my first semester at Baruch. If there’s one thing that hasn’t changed about me since high school, it would be my work habits. This whole semester I continuously procrastinated homework, essays, and most of all, studying. Surprisingly enough, my procrastination works fairly well for me because I work more efficiently under stress and pressure. This would probably explain why I’m up until 2 or 3 in the morning most of the time, but I manage to get my work done, so I think that’s all that matters. In all likelihood, once I commence taking difficult courses my horrible procrastination habits will come to an end…I hope. What am I doing right now you may ask? Writing this blog post to avoid studying.