When I first entered college, I thought I was “ready” for any challenge college had to offer but instead I’ve become another victim of procrastination.

Every time I started a reading or writing assignment, I end up reading a text message instead of the textbook and responding to a text message rather than writing for the assignment. For most of the first semester of college, I have been a procrastinator. I’m glad I am able to acknowledge that I have a problem with procrastination because now I will make it my goal to procrastinate less in my coming semesters at Baruch. Procrastination was not a huge problem for me in high school because I had a job, school clubs and written homework assignments due the next day. It’s because I had so much on my plate that I knew I would stress less if I got my work done earlier but now that I don’t work, is not that active in clubs (still trying to find/fit into clubs I’m interested in) and most of the homework are reading assignments, I have time to put off doing the assignments. Hopefully, the next time I sit down to read the textbook or write an essay, I’ll actually stick to it and not be distracted by the wonderful addictive world around me. :]

“Are you ready for your second semester of college?”                                                                                 Me: “Ready!”

Source of Image: http://www.ifunny.com/pictures/are-you-ready-marathon/

Honestly, the enrichment workshop was not an event I was particularly interested in attending. When we walked into the gallery, I thought “oh great, we get to walk around and look at some photo and come up with some meaningful interpretations on our own.” Instead, we had the director of the exhibit show us around to practically all the photos and explain to us how each photographer had a different style and theme in their photographs. The photo that stood out the most was the photograph with the woman looking away and trying to cover their faces. They didn’t want to be photographed and be marked in history as participants of the event. Contrast to those who take “selfies” and tagged themselves in pictures in our country, it gives a whole different perspective that in some parts of the whole, people don’t want to be documented by photographs. Overall, I thought the exhibit had some interesting photos that displayed different global perspectives. I feel that I am more grateful for what I have now because looking at the photos of what is happening in other counties, made me realize there are so many people around the world who don’t have homes, entertainment, education and other necessities. Sure, I could have realized I should be grateful for what I have through stories in the news, word of mouth or through the newspapers, but looking at photographs gave a whole different experience. Some pictures are wroth a thousand words.

Professor Trapani,

This is Angela Fung from your freshman seminar class LC09. Due to the flu I missed the midterm that was on Monday October 21, 2013. I was wondering if I can make-up the midterm during your office hours. Please excuse my absence on October 21st. I will bring in a doctors note to our next class to confirm my absence.

Angela Fung

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/your-money/stumbling-blocks-in-reducing-balance-on-a-student-loan.html?ref=education&_r=0

This article by Ann Carrns talks about the difficulties of student loans. There is a report that recently estimates that 3,800 complaints were received between October 2012 to September 2013 to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about student loans. The trend stated in the report notes miscommunication between the borrower and the loan servicer. In most cases, the borrowers make an extra loan payment for the month to help pay off their principal and save money on interest, but their loan servicer, credit it as an early payment for next month. This article answers some questions one might ask when considering making extra payments to lessen their student loan balance. Although the problem addressed by Carrns is not one of the main problems I have with college, I do believe it was a helpful article. 

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For my creation, I made a slideshow of eight images I chose out of my family photo albums. It was really difficult finding only eight pictures that really reflects who i am because there was just so many pictures from family vacations and events to choose from. The first image I choose was the picture of my street all covered in snow. I love this picture because it reminds me of all the times we had bad snow days and everyone is snowed in. Every single time we had a bad snow storm, when the snow stopped, my whole family would have to bundle up in warm clothes and head outside to shovel the driveway or else my parents couldn’t go to work. In the second photo is my two sisters and I when we visited Bear Mountain in upstate New York. My sisters mean the world to me. We fight all the time about the silliest things but we’re family. They are always there for me when I need help or advice and I am grateful to have them as my sisters. The next photo is a picture of my cousins, one of my sisters, my nephew and me. I thought this would be a funny picture to include because this was a picture of my first time meeting my baby nephew Kyle and in this photo, it looks like we almost dropped him. >.< My nephew is so cute in this picture. He doesn’t even notice his clumsy aunts and uncle almost dropping him. His attention is only the camera. In the next picture is food! This was my first time having Korean BBQ with my family. I love trying new food. Apart from trying new foods, I love to try new things as well. In the next photo, is my dad enjoying himself on the supreme scream ride. I remember this being a really scary ride yet my dad has his hands up in the air and smiling the whole time. He’s so much fun to take on roller coasters because he just laughs on most of them. The next photo is a random picture I choose from our trip to China during Chinese New Years. I’m guessing this was taken in the year of the tiger since a huge tiger is on display, but i can’t  be sure because my family have visited China a few times and it all looks the same. The last two photos are pictures of my family and I during our trip to Europe. As you can tell my family loves to travel and I love my family a lot. I’m not that great at expressing who I am in words, but hopefully my favorite pictures expresses the people and the things I love in life. <3