FRO13 LC06

For most of the time during the enrichment workshop, I was busy studying for the history test, so I didn’t get a chance to listen to everything the man was talking about. Since a majority of the time consisted of re-watching the video that we were assigned to see before the man’s presentation, I didn’t pay much attention. After the video was finished, there was a question and answer session for about fifteen minutes or less… Well, that’s how long it felt like….

After the video, the man invited some students in the audience to ask any questions or to make a comment about anything they wanted to say, either based on the video or based on the actual volunteer work that we did for NYCares. I only paid attention to part of the information session since I was studying, but I got the general idea that a student was commenting on how he started volunteering and after, he continued to go to that place.

It sort of related to my situation because when I heard about the required volunteering work, I thought that I wouldn’t have enough time to do it because of the amount of homework that was adding up. After I actually went to the soup kitchen to help serve food for the homeless, I realized that doing something beneficiary for the poor and homeless made me feel better inside. The fact that I contributed to help the homeless survive longer on the “home-cooked” meals made me feel that I could actually accomplish something for a larger group of people through volunteering. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I went with a small group of friends that made it fun and interesting than if I went alone, but it was fun nonetheless and I would like to continue volunteering there if I have time in the future after I’m done with homework and everything else that comes with college….

This is pretty much how I feel about college…

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I chose this meme because I thought that it pretty much summed up everything about my first semester at Baruch. I feel that every year before school starts, I’m always bored with nothing to do and I sort of wish that school would come faster so that I could see my friends again…

Once I actually start school, I feel a bit excited and anxious for what the classes and teachers are like. As I progress throughout the school year, I start changing from energetic to bored and depleted. Even though it’s only been a few months since school started, I feel like it’s been a year already compared to how high school life was like… College does take a lot of energy, time, effort, and work.

I feel like I was lied to when some people came back from college during my senior year and they were like “College is awesome.” To me, college is fun with friends by your side and a few great teachers, but other than that, some other teachers and the homework assigned adds up and conquers over the “fun” that I have in college. I feel that if I were to go back to high school and inform others about college experience, I’d tell them the truth – that college is a lot of work and you have to be dedicated to be caught up with everything that’s going on.

It is true that you can only choose sleep and social life, sleep and good grades, or good grades and social life because I can’t find myself having time to do all three of those things. I try to study hard and to review everything before quizzes and tests, but I always seem to do average in tough classes like math… Other than math, I feel like the other classes are fairly okay (grades wise). Sometimes, during club hours, I’d have to sacrifice time to join clubs for study time for quizzes and tests that seem to pop up every single week. At home, I try to get enough sleep, but I always seem to be the last one awake doing homework until after midnight…