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This photo on top explains what I’ve been doing during my first semester here in Baruch. I procrastinate a lot and spend my time doing other things( shop, Facebook, hang-out with friends).That is why when the due date for an assignment comes, I rush and spend the whole night doing it. I don’t even proofread it and just give whatever I have.So next semester, I have to get rid of this habit and need to engage myself to be more productive. I wish!!!

Overall, my first semester is not that bad. I’ve met friends and spent a lot of time together. We did the new york times and new york cares project together and had fun. The classes are not that hard and the professors are very helpful.

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I found the NY Times project to be rather interesting. I don’t usually like working in groups being that I like doing work in my own way, usually being that I procrastinate more than others a bit and I usually don’t like going through the group organization part where everyone decides what to do, when to do it, etc.

I liked this group project though because my group decided to do a topic I find really interesting, E-Sports. I play games often and so did they, it was a perfect topic for the right group. Beyond the topic, I liked my group members because they had genuine personalities and I also made new friends in a new environment where you need all the friends you can get. The overall experience was one I’ll remember from my first semester at Baruch.

As someone who hates complicated tasks, college life is not really something I look forward towards. Every week there are some important quizzes or essays that I have to take good care of. Although I can handle them with relaxing three day-off schedule, I often choose to escape from those works with fun times with  friends or video games. I would have forgotten to write this last post if I didn’t go over the pictures I’ve taken during this weekend with my friends on my phone, where I happened to find a picture of the due-day of this post I took during class. Nevertheless, I don’t hate college as much as I hated high school. Maybe that’s because I get one extra day off, haha. I’ve met some great friends and great professors in this first semester of Baruch, and it’s always good to meet some nice people !

“I love College!!!” when classes haven’t even started. I regretted saying this after my first week of college. I thought i would make a lots of good friends but I did not join any club or meet a lot of new people. College is so much harder compared to high school. I got to study hard to get a good grade and sleep deprived. Well, not all the classes are hard but there are a lots of reading and reading is not one of my favorite things to do. Overall, my first semester in Baruch is great because i met some good friends and we studied for our midterm together.

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My experience as a freshman is mostly positive so far.  I am in college for a little bit less than 3 months, so I have a good idea about what college is about and what it is its different from being in high school.  Sometimes Baruch, seems to be like high school, because it is a commute college, like most in New York City.  What I mean, is that a lot of students they come to college, they take their classes and then they leave to go home or go to their job if they probably have one, maybe this is a part of the culture of New Yorkers, I am not sure, I’ve been here for about 4 months so I’m still learning about how it is the life in New York City.  About my classes, I have some struggle sometimes, with some terms because I don’t understand them and I need to translate them and do the reading sometimes 3 times in order to understand what the texts actually wants to say.  Since college started, I do a lot of more reading than what I used to do, books were not a friend of mine, but I had to become friendlier with them, because college consists of a lot of reading, especially for someone who has no experience with the U.S culture.  I was a bit surprised when I got my program, because I wasn’t actually aware of the pre-required courses, I never really thought that I would have to learn about American History or do Sociology and Music History.  Mathematics and English, made sense to me but the other ones no.  Although, in the beginning I did not like the idea, I find it really useful to do liberal arts courses, because I can learn about things, that interested me before but I did not actually, have the time or chance to study them!  Being a freshman, it is really nice, it’s a new beginning for you, somehow you start all over again, it feels like you discover who you really are, it makes you more mature.  So far I like it, the only thing that I don’t is that freshman are the last who register for their classes and definitely, this is not good, but apart from that it’s nice!

My first three months at Baruch can be represented by this photo. Time flies away so quickly before I even realized. I have so many plans but never able to accomplish them. I planed to join club but I was too afraid of meeting new people. I planed to get a job but I was afraid of interview. I planed to take a ceramic class but too lazy to figure out where offers it. All my plans kind of fly away just as the time does. besides that, my experience at Baruch was good. Some of the classes are hard, some are easy…

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I went there.
It got cancel.
I went Home.
Easy Two Hours.

This is my first time I take the NY Cares. My project was to take care of the old poeple. I was so shoceked because I was the first one who arrived the building. I asked the leaders are there any other people here? The leader told me they all concelled because this weekend was Hallow weekend. As a reuslt, I had to finish a lot of work just by myself. LOL~

This also is my first time to see a great number of old and poor people in NYC. I did not realized that even in the small place, there are still a lot of old and poor people here. Some of them suffered  from  the Sandy last year. They were homeless and helpless. I am happy to see there are a few people who try to help them.

Jialuo Zhou

I volunteered at Senior meal serving center in Times Square. I was little bit late because I woke up late but the leaders were generous  that they forgave me and rather welcomed me and appreciated my presence. We served about 250 seniors who doesn’t usually have proper meals and most of them appreciated our good conduct. Throughout the project, I felt proud and good about myself because I was able to help others and contribute for the benefit of the society. However, I was very unpleased on some occasions. Some seniors complained when we were out of beef, some complained when we didn’t give them enough soup to intensify their appetite. Also I was unhappy with one of the chef because she was very biased. She did not allow me to touch the potatoes( I had my gloves on) and actually gave me a lecture about how important hygiene is in food serving. But herself, she touched those potatoes saying “my hands are special.” I felt really outrageous and assured myself not to re-sign for this project.

Jim Lee