I personally thought the semester-long freshman seminar was very helpful in understanding, or navigating through, my first semester of college a little better, and also in understanding and becoming closer to the LC in general. I would have enjoyed the freshman seminar a lot more if said seminar did not take place at 9:30 AM (it was my earliest class this semester, and I’m not at all a morning person). Overall, I think the freshman seminar helped me learn a few things about myself, my peers, and Baruch college itself, that I otherwise might not have learned.
There are, however, a few aspects of the seminar that I would like to have added to or changed. For instance, much of the information covered during some of the freshman seminar sessions were things we could have figured out on our own, just by looking through the school website. There might have been more of a focus on information which we really could not have found, or would have had difficulty finding, on our own, through the resources that had already been made readily available to us all.
The enrichment workshop itself was quite interesting and informative. I think it was important in that it enabled us all to learn, or embellished our knowledge of, the importance of personal involvement in the community through community service, and the importance of interpersonal interactions within the larger community.
The roller coaster pictured above serves as a fairly accurate, if rather cliched, metaphor for my experience throughout the semester, in that the semester had its ups and downs. The plummet at the end of the roller coaster would symbolize the end of the semester when all the academic work caught up to me, which was just very unfortunate. There were, however, high points throughout the semester, and in general there was a certain level to which just starting my first semester as a college student was both thrilling, or exciting, and a bit scary in some ways.
Overall, the semester in general was a good experience which I hope to have learned and grown from in many ways.
