I chose this meme because it highlights the struggle I had with CUNY First. I basically spent a week going to the BCTC desk to figure out what was wrong with my CUNY First account, only to have each resolved problem met with three new ones. The most frustrating part was that I couldn’t do anything about it, I just had to tell the BCTC workers what was wrong and they would try to fix it. To this day i still have problems with CUNY First.

All-in-all though, my experience at Baruch has been very positive. I have a great group of classmates who are all very unique and very intelligent. I have good classes with good professors. In the end, theres really not too much to complain about.

Getting back to my CUNY First problems…

I’ve definitely grown as a person attending college, a noticeable change in just three months even. High school was easy for me because most of the challenges for me were only academic. I attended a small high school  so all my classmates were my closest friends, and I didn’t have to worry about getting new people. There was no struggle to find out if I actually was getting the financial aid the school was telling me I would get. There was no trying to figure out what my major would be (something I still don’t know) so that i cloud plan my classes accordingly. There was no registering for classes, and filling up a shopping cart with classes only to find out that CUNY First save it.

All these problems were new to me in these past three months, but dealing with them was a good exercise and learning experience. Life is going to be filled with new circumstances, and new problems to go along with them. Learning how to deal with the problems and stress has helped me grow a lot.

But like I said before… Overall, my Baruch experience has thus far been a positive one.