FRO12 LC16

My first three months here at Baruch have been both challenging and informing. I started off with the complete high school mentality.. I hadn’t really realized that, when you are learning something in high school, it might not necessarily matter for you to ACTUALLY learn it, it’s just a class I’m taking to get into college.. Or at least that’s what It old myself. I aimed to make my senior year as short as possible, so by my second semester, I was starting school at 7:20 AM, (I only had to wake up 40 minutes before school) and I finished at 10:40, 5 days a week. I BSed through most of my classes, and of the 4 classes (2 gym 1 english 1 economics) I failed the first gym class which was my first class due to me not going enough times, I got a 65 in the other gym class after writing a five page handwritten essay, a 65 in my economics class, and an 80 in my english class. I had to go to summer school for my last gym credit and graduated in august, and started college 10 days later. I f.irst started to realize as the weeks went on that the syllabus is VERY important, and the more I don’t read it, the more likely I am to miss something important. I also learned that some of these classes I’m taking are HARD and that I really need to pay attention. Out of my six classes (including this FRO class) I found Math to be the hardest. I didn’t pay attention because I was nieve and assumed that since I came out of highschool with 9 credits in math, and top 7% on the SAT for math, I knew it all, but I had never taken calculus. I soon realized that this class is very hard and by the time I really started trying I was too late and had to drop it. Then in American History, I didn’t pay attention and failed the first test. This was a wake up call for me and I’m doing a lot better now, and it just goes to show that the move from high school to college really isn’t that easy if your not on that mentality already, and some people have to learn the hard way.. So Spring semester, I mad my day start at about 8AM everyday and end at 12PM. It’s a push to force myself to be on time and not miss class.