The first months of Baruch have been really pointless to me. Most of the classes did not appeal to me at all. I really did not grow the way I thought college would make me grow. However, this school is a step forward from high school since it gives you more freedom to manage your time how you want it. There a lot of place in this school to waste time. The environment in this school is nice since everyone always minds their own business. It is also convenient that there is a bathroom one every floor. It is also convenient that this school is in the city since there are a variety of place to eat. Even though Baruch has many conveniences, it has had no notable impact on my life.

I was genuinely surprised the Rubin Museum trip was enjoyable. At first, I was unsure because it took the class a while to get there in the cold rain, but the art was great and the atmosphere of the place (dimly lit, quiet, ventilated) was conducive to looking and analyzing the art. Danny was rather knowledgeable; it’s always nice to listen to someone who knows what they’re talking about.

I thought that the art would be some post-modernist bs, but no, the pieces were pleasant to look at and they all had some sort of meaning and purpose behind their existence.

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*Ironically, this FRO post is late

Anyway, I chose ‘Lazy College Senior’ as a picture I feel describes my experience in Baruch over the past 3 1/2 or so months. I find myself doing my work at the last minute. I don’t even know why, I just really don’t want to do my work until right before it’s due; when I feel this rush of inspiration and focus to get it done.(All of my English essays so far) It’s not even a matter of the difficulty of the work, when properly spaced out the work is a joke. Whatever. At least next semester I’ll be getting to school at 2 in the afternoon, so I’ll have plenty of time to work on whatever it is I have to complete in the morning.

I plan on using Baruch’s education and all of its facilities to the fullest resources; is the broad way to answer this question. Specifically I want to eventually gain the skills to be a boss. Not just a boss, but your boss’ boss. Yeah do the math. Can I really accomplish this at Baruch? Hopefully. I want to at least get through with the undergrad requirements for business and see what other oppurtunities Ill have. Learning the business knowlede from what is listed as one of the best in our state will indefinitely be useful. After graduation hopefully I will have masters and licenses that will put me in a valued category in our ever growing economical country. I am going to pursure an internship and further develop connections that will help me in my business career. Once inside the beureucratic system I will work my way up. Sorta

If i realllly have to choose a favorite session, I guess I would say it was the day we played that choosing sides game. It really makes one think of thier social perspective of their groups and in their life in general. Gving no choice having a real right or wrong answer, it really makes one think of their stance towards a subject. Maybe except for the superman one because hes obviously better.

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If I were to describe my Baruch experience in one word, it would honestly have to be “awesome.” Like skydiving, I immersed myself into something I have never tried before – not only starting college, but dorming in the city, and directing a dance team. Through these events, I have experienced so many different emotions all at once. I have felt such excitement of starting anew, meeting new people, living on your own, and doing what you want when you want. I have dealt with the stress that comes with screwing up on your first try, trying to adjust to a completely new environment, and directing a team to be ready to compete. I have never felt as I have in becoming so close with certain people so fast, and watching the dance team I have been with for almost three years grow to place for the first time in a competition as its director. Like skydiving, it is something everyone should experience at least once, and something you can not experience anywhere else. Sure, it is a huge leap of faith, but it is more than worth it in the end, as it is so unreal.

My first semester I can really call it a time of peace and self discovery. Between this summer and the end of this first semester, I really solidified where I wanna go and I know people always say that you change your mind by the end of college but I think my plans are pretty set. In school, I feel like the work went smoothly and I really had a chance to see if I could handle planning everything myself and being organized which I think worked out well. Something that I’m taking away as I move forward is the friends i’ve made here. I feel like they could be friends I’ll have into adulthood and have had them integrate with my friends from high school and that circle of great friendships has also been like family to me as we see each other grow. Even though we complain about FRO, I think it helped alot of us adjust and even if we made one friend, we probably met them in that class. I guess I’m just happy to have people who love and support me and I look forward to all the new things next semester can bring me. Thanks Danny and Edmund for everything

The Rubin museum located on 6th avenue and 17th street is a museum that has numerous artifacts from Southeast Asian countries. It is dominated by Buddhist statues and art from countries like India, Nepal, China and Burma. The top floor contained art, mainly statues, pointing to the origins of Hinduism and Buddhism in India. There were many different statues of the Buddha, including a mural of the time of his birth. Another floor of the museum was dedicated to the jewels of southeast Asian countries. These jewels also mostly had something to do with Buddhism as well. There were jewels from China, India and Ceylon. The other floors of the museum had more kinds of art, depicting religion and culture. This experience was very enlightening. I was not too thrilled about going to a museum. After our little trip, I realized the importance of visiting museums and giving everything a chance. I was pleasantly surprised by the artifacts that were located in the Rubin museum. The Rubin was a very well organized museum with lots of fascinating, antique, artifacts from Southeast Asia.

I am going to be honest…I really didn’t like going here. Mostly because of what day we decided to go. It was drizzling before and then pouring rain after. And its not like I could go home after that, I still had class to go to. So basically it was a fun day at Calc class being all soaking wet. So maybe next time these things can be planned better?

One other thing that bothered me was what we actually did at the museum. It was just us walking around and staring at things that had no relation to me. Don’t get me wrong, the descriptions given by our peer mentor Daniel were nice and informative, but if that’s all there was to do there, It can get really boring really fast. Perhaps a different museum with different kind of exhibitions and things to do would help. And sure learning about foreign cultures both past and present is cool and interesting, but sometimes it needs to be more relatable to ones self. There needs to be a connection that really sparks interest in order for anyone to walk away having learned something.

Besides all of that, everything else was ok and while I cant say I would go back unless I needed to, the Rubin Museum was still a good experience to well experience.

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This is the thing that does the describing of experience of things at Baruch.  Before you assume things, no it doesn’t mean I am lonely and made no friends. I have made some wonderful friends during these three months. The point is that I decided after high school that I wasn’t going to just befriend anyone randomly. During high school I had a lot of friends, but the problem was that these friendships were kind of just one sided most of the time. Either it was because one would benefit from the other or because one had no choice.

So I decided to not do that in college and it has worked out so far. I don’t have to deal with faking an emotion or trying to fit in with whatever group I was by, I made friends that I actually enjoy to be with (sometimes) and that have things in common with me. My severe lack of Otaku or just casual anime watching friends in high school was depressing, so I aimed to fix that. School is fine and all so there isn’t much to say there, so I felt like it would be better to talk about my experience in terms of interactions

Anyways that’s all from me