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I chose this cartoon because when i came to this school i truly was lost i didnt know anything about college i felt that i was poorly prepared for  it and on top of that i was the first of my family to go to college in america. but as the semester progress i gained experience and knowledge i can say that i know more about college than i did before.

i am looking forward for the spring semester

During my first three months here at Baruch College had its ups and it had its downs. At times I was relaxed with no so much of a workload and other times a crazy amount of work with so little time. I could explain my time here with a picture of a computer. I chose a computer because this is what I spent most of my time on the past three months. I do all my work on it. I take notes do research write essay and blogs on it and everything in between. Now that I think of it I do not know what I would do with out my computer. My work would be mediocre due to the lack of recourses and my spelling would be horrible. My computer is my life and I’m sure it is to most people. From 1941 when the first computer was made till now we have made huge progress on computers. The computers those days used to be the size of buildings. Today I’m fortunate enough I can carry one in the palm of my hand. A lot of the work the professor’s gives out here in Baruch College needs to be done on the computer. For example My Math Lab for math 1030 which college algebra is taught and for McGraw Hills psychology is being taught. A computer is a great helping hand and a tool to learn. My first three months here have been normal and not such a hard transition. I have all my friends here and in classes with a lot of them. I also made new friends so that helped me as well. I feel like I have Baruch and very proud to have picked to attended. Baruch is a wonderful place with a lot diversity. I feel as if Baruch is a great place to start networking. Networking is very important for anybody who wants to start a carrier to do. Baruch College offers a lot of important classes to get a person through life especially in a business world and a business mans perspective. Baruch is definitely different than high school. For one thing I barely used my computer in high school. At the end of the day my computer is where I get most of my work done Baruch College is a great school.

I went to three workshops so far this semester. The first one was the Baruch Voices and the second one was the enrichment writing workshop. The third one was a play or musical on what to do in your first semester in college. I thought the enrichment writing workshop was very boring and it didnot really help me or inspire me. I thought the Baruch Voices was good and kind of inspiring but it was boring , long and played out. The most interesting one, I felt was the play or musical because it was funny, I learned different things from it and it was also inspiring. It was good because as they were teaching what to do and not do in college it also made jokes and sang different funny songs. The play also taught us many things to do in college. For example, it told us what to do in dorms, what to do in the city and how to overall suceed in your freshman year in college and beyond that. It was also inspiring how the kids were able to act and sing on stage in front of a crowd of people and they were only a couple years older than me. I am more of a quiet person so it always amazes me when people sing and make different jokes in front of a bunch of people. I hope that one day I will be able to feel comfortable in front of a crowd of people and do what I want to do and say what I want say. I don’t feel comfortable saying a speech in a classroomso I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like in an audotorium in front of a bunch of people. The kids were very good in that play and it inspired me. I hope that one day I will be able to feel comfortable in front of a whole crowd.

This picture reflects my first semester at Baruch in many ways. My first semester at college was different than any other time I went to a new school  after graduating from a previous school. It was different because this is the first time I went to a school and did not know one person previously since preschool. So, I had to make new friends in my first semester in college with other kids I never met before like it shows in the picture. Also, another difference in my first semester in college is that Baruch College is the most diversified school I have ever been in my life. All the different nationalities was also something I had to get used to in my first semester in college. This is also shown in the picture with the people with the different nationalities that made friends. As I had to make friends I also had to get all of my work done to keep my grades up. The workload in college is much different than the kind of work you get in high school. In college there is a lot more long papers. For example, in this first semester there was term papers, research papers, essays, a baby observation and many other kinds of papers. In high school I had some papers but no where near the amount that I see in college. Also, a thing I like is there are a lot less tests in college than there is in high school. For example, I had at least one test in one of my classes everyday in high school. But, in college you get a test once every one or two weeks. Also, I have noticed you get less homework’s in college then you get in high school. In the picture it shows you have to make new friends in college with different nationalities but their holding there books which means you still have to get good grades and keep your grades up in college. That basically sums up my first semester in college and how it is different than any other school I have ever been in.

When most people write about leadership experiences, they usually talk about a trip they went on, a revelation they had, or some situation forced upon them which they had no control over. My first real tackle at leadership came at a very different standpoint. Let’s take it from the top. I love basketball. I love the sport of it, the technicalities and slight nuances to the gameplay and the way it’s played, the entertainment and excitement to it, I’m in love with it. Naturally, I’m also in love with it’s professional affiliate, the NBA. I watch games, read articles pertaining those games, and talk about it on a daily basis. Most specifically, I play fantasy basketball, a stat minded creative way to follow the NBA through ten team picked by ten real people in your “fantasy league.” Enter the beginning my senior year in high school. The year before I won my fantasy league. It was a small league of just eight mostly ignorant casual basketball fans. This year, I wanted things to be different. I needed things to be different. I was a hardcore basketball fan, and I needed a full, hardcore, fantasy basketball league. So, as the season neared, I started scouting. I had to have a tight-knit, smart, charismatic, reliable and knowledgable group of people to create a stable, ten-team fantasy basketball league. I didn’t just want a good, fun, league. I needed to have the best league I’ve ever heard of. So the search began. I crossed people off, added others on and crossed them off again, and slowly but surely found  a bunch of guys that were definitely up for my task. Some of them were my friends, some of them I barely spoke to. But I confidently thought I had it. I put together a really good league,something admirable, especially because I started from scratch. The fantasy draft to begin the season was a few days before the actual season began. From then I knew I did something right. Everyone was enjoying themselves, strategizing, sweating out some picks, laughing at others, and everyone finished the night with satisfaction. Yes, this was definitely gonna be great. From that night, the Jacob Betesh League was born, or JBL for short. “I did it”, I thought that night, I knew I did it all myself, I created this league because I really wanted to and set myself to it. I told people what I wanted, they liked the sound of it and they agreed to join the JBL. We ended up had a really successful season. Everyone loved the way I ran the league. Everyone was involved, and we always talked about it. We talked smack to each other in hallways, asked for trades in the middle of classes, I was surprised my creation was such a success. By season’s end, I was extremely proud of myself. I loved it, and now this year the JBL is back together, as strong as before. Yes, I view that as a great case for leadership, a result of hard work

When life gives you lemons, you throw them back at life and say “LIMES!!! I wanted limes!!”
No, not really…. Well, maybe sometimes?
That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out: when to make lemonade and when to practice my pitching (which sucks by the way). Can’t a girl get any limes around here? No? Well then, I guess I’ll just have to plant a tree myself… The possibilities are limitless, and there’s so much to discover, so much to do, so much to create!

This is New York, it’ll kick you around and beat you raw mercilessly, but it’ll also inspire you endlessly and take your breath away with its treasures. I’ve come to realize there are two kinds of people in this city, those who operate based on fear and those who follow their passion. And it’s the people with passion that have a chance at making something of themselves and contributing something real and meaningful to the world. I think that’s what I’ve learned this semester. Practicing the practicality of making lemonade and finding the courage to passionately grow limes when you need them.

When I got hired at Footaction last summer I couldn’t have been happier with my first job. I had a great boss, very laid back and relaxed so I was able to relax most of the time. It was great to be able to get paid for doing relatively nothing. Then after a while the job sparked a recent passion of mine. Its been almost a year and a half since I started and over this time I’ve compiled a pretty big sneaker collection. I didn’t care much about them before, but I guess seeing all those people sleeping in front of my store in the cold for the new release made me want them too. Also not having to go through all that trouble, plus my 30% discount on exclusive releases made it hard for me not to buy them. My collection peaked at about 30-40 pairs, but I’ve sold a good amount since then because i realized I didn’t need so many. I did manage to keep my favorites though and some of the really limited releases. I’m well aware that there are plenty of other things I could have contributed the thousands of dollars I spent to, but I couldn’t help myself. My collection is definitely something I take pride in, and when people that I see on the regular notice that I can go a month without wearing the same pair of sneakers twice it makes me feel pretty good. Even though I’ve done pretty well for myself over a short period of time I know that my collection is going to become a lot bigger and a lot more valuable. There are plenty of kicks that have yet to see the inside of my closet and I can’t wait to get them there. I am what it says on my wristband; SNEAKERHEAD.

The first time anyone ever threw a softball to me at my very first practice, it hit me in the face. I wanted to quit right then and there, but I’m glad I didn’t. Softball has been a huge part of my life for over 12 years and I’ve gotten hit in the face a few times since then, but it’s my favorite thing in the whole world. Loving a sport is so much fun. The adrenaline rush you get when you’re playing in a big game is the best feeling. All athletes know how hard and tiring practice can be, but we still stick with it because in the end it is all worth it. I wish there was more of a future in softball like the Olympics or a professional program, but I know softball will be a part of my life for a long time. Softball has taken me all over the country and given me life long friendships. It even landed me here in New York City to play in college. It will never cease to amaze me how far sports can take people. 

Dancing is what I love to do, something I will never give up. Even though I’m not aiming to make a profession out of it, dancing will always be something I love to do. Whenever I have free time at home and I have some extra space, I automatically put on my earphones and start to blast music. Whenever I hear a good beat, I literally get goosebumps and I have the urge to move, to express myself. Even when I’m not home, when I’m in the streets listening to music, I’m always either imagining myself dancing or even slightly moving to the music a little. It’s hard for me not to start moving subtly to the music whenever I start to listen to it. But when I’m in a place where I can’t move, I always imagine myself moving to the music, hitting every beat I hear. It’s an addiction for me and it’s hard to resist. Whether it be popping, locking, robotics, breaking, etc. I always want to do it regardless. If there was a club at Baruch for dancers like me, dancers that I can relate to, then that would be a club I would make sure to join. I admire the successful dancers that have made it such as the Jabbawockees, Brian Puspos, Daniel Cloud Campos, Ian Eastwood, Aja George, I could go on forever naming my favorite dancers. But the point is they inspire me to keep dancing and I wish that someday I can be as amazing as they are. Dancing is my addiction, I never want to give it up.

Who am I? are you asking me?

Hypothetically speaking, or realistically?

Well, not the first time I’ve been asked, that’s a guarantee

But you know, I’m gonna try answering this honestly

Two words everybody: No clue

Don’t be shocked, u wanted my answer, true?

So there it is a simple response from my point of view

Wait, did you expect me to have already thought this all through?

How could I when I’m only eighteen?

Barely an adult, and I already gotta know what life means?

Given a deadline, and I’m only figuring out the theme?

Telling me to speed up when the light ain’t even green?

Wow , and then u look at me like I’m insane?

You’re pushing me out of a moving train!

Making me turn when I’m not even in the right lane!

Figures society has always been too mundane.

But world open your ears to us and listen to this

We’re young and we have plenty of time to make life a bliss

To try on different identities and just reminisce

But in the meantime, world you know what u can go kiss.