The enrichment workshop was a complete waste of my time to say the least. For one it was a very impersonal environment in a big lecture room that could fit hundreds of kids even though the room was only 25% filled. In addition it was a very boring lecture where the Professor showed us a video on the smart board of another professor speaking. Like what? Im not watching a video of another professor teaching me and giving me his advice regarding how I should treat my college process. I haven’t even met this person yet he is giving me a lecture on how I should go about my college experience. No thank you, I have my college experience put together. I know how to balance my school work with my personal time and I am motivated to be doing very well this semester academically. I found it highly unnecessary to sit through the FRO enrichment workshop where I could have been much more efficient by doing some textbook reading at the library.

My first three months here at Baruch were, honestly, not as painful as I thought they were going to be. I’ve met a lot of people and done a lot of things already, which makes me happy. I was nervous at first, but it’s really turning out to be an environment I can be comfortable and happy to be in, most of the time. Academic-wise, I also feel quite sound. I don’t feel particularly troubled by workload or difficulty. None of it is too hard, when you actually do it. And I think that’s probably my biggest obstacle–motivating myself to start or complete something.  As a college student, you really get more freedom than I anticipated. Things are a little more impersonal, and professors don’t often chase you down for assignments. You can also skip classes and no one will call your parents asking where you are.  But with that, you have to be careful to not slack off, and I believe that’s the biggest thing I’ve learned and will take with me throughout my time here. We have more freedom now, and with that, comes more responsibility so that we don’t abuse those freedoms.

I believe that this enrichment workshop had potential but it didn’t live up to it. The workshop was very boring and i felt that it was very repetitive. I thought it was stupid how they showed the guy talking then the guy started talking to us i feel like they should have just let the guy speak the whole time because he repeated a lot of stuff from the video when he spoke. Also as a word of advice i think next time you do this the speaker should have a microphone and maybe a smaller room because everyone was so spread out that when some people spoke i couldn’t hear them.

The enrichment Workshop didn’t have any effect on me. I found it very boring that we basically just listened to a guy talk on a video and then have to hear him again in person. I think they have a good cause for this but I think next year they should maybe get rid of the video and just have the guy speak.

Coming into Baruch I wasn’t expecting much work to being with. At the beginning of school, we really didn’t have that much work and College was pretty easy. Then came midterms. I have never studied that much in my whole entire life. I was not expecting that at all. Now I learned my lesson that I should study in advance for all my midterms and finals. I chose this meme because that is exactly what I do when I have to study. I usually just tell my friends that I have so much to study and never spend enough time on studying.

The meme I chose is centered on the sentiment that there is no homework given in college. This pictures caption states, “your homework is worth 5% of your grade. Nice no homework”. Relative to high school teachers, College professors put much less emphasis on out of class work therefore this meme comments on this. Rather, they care much more about larger assessments such as essays and exams. Usually people think of college as much more difficult than high school however this meme is making a joke about the difficulty of college. This meme points out how in some ways college can be easier than high school in some regard because of the lack of homework for one.