Just like the big rock in the picture, my first few months at Baruch have not been smooth. Otherwise, the rock would be a perfect sphere and would roll with little effort. In the Greek myths that we heard about back in the day, heroes like Hercules did not actually train by pushing a perfectly circular boulder down a straight path. He actually struggled with disoriented and irregular shaped boulders up hills and edges in order to gain more strength and endurance. That is very similar to my experience at Baruch thus far, it has obviously not been easy, yet I am not mad that it is not. We all have actually been pushing rocks all our lives, this rock just happens to represent our trials with college while we still have to push bigger rocks in the future. Just like this big rock, nothing has been easy at Baruch. It is a responsibility that everyone has to learn to carry just like how every individual would get their own big rock.

Often I would have to find myself staying home every weekend to do a paper or study for a test, simply because this big rock is too heavy. Sometimes, I would also have to wake up earlier to get to school or even leave school when it is pitch dark at night, just because this big rock is not round enough. What is most scary is that we all know that this big rock will never be a perfect circle, and it will always be heavy and always can be heavier. This big rock can also actually kill us; there is a chance that it may fall on us. Then, there is also a chance that this big rock can roll us over and squash us to death. This big rock is threatening, and it’s scary. Yet we still have to push it around and keep it by our sides. Why? That is because everyone has a big rock that belongs to them only.

Unless we smooth our the big rock ourselves or even crack it open, this rock will stay the same size and shape forever as long as we have to deal with the same one. How we manage our big rocks is solely on us, whereas everyone else is too busy worrying about their own big rocks. We should never compare the sizes or shapes of our own big rocks to the ones of others, for two rocks will never be the same and they will always look different. The type of rock that we are given is almost never our own cause; rather how this rock turns out will come from only ourselves. We can possibly have a friend or two come and chip at it, but we are the ones who push it everyday. Baruch and this big rock are similar because we already knew before hand that it would be hard to go through it, neither would roll smoothly. Yet we all know that if we push this rock enough, we would be successful in some way some day.

Wilson Hinh

I typed in big rock into google, it’s the fourth picture.

You guys walk too fast, some of you are even running. None of us know how to slow down, since they tell us to keep moving forward. Some of you don’t even turn around once you have left. Soon you will regret knowing that there really is nothing left. It comes so fast that you can not even count it in numbers, you can barely see every part of it fly by you. How can we just simply close our eyes and go to sleep every night, then believe that tomorrow will be a new day when we won’t even remember yesterday. You can try to step back all you want, but what you step in has already been stepped on. The second time is usually not as good as the first, which is why we should have known to cherish it from the beginning. It seemed like just a day ago where I sat in the back seat, all of a sudden today I was driving. Just yesterday morning I was watching Sesame Street and learning the alphabet, this morning I watched the news about world crisis. My favorite blanky from a week ago, is now just a rag on the floor. Toys that I played with everyday in the past, has turned into storage box down in the basement. I’m scared for myself, I’m scared for all of us. Of course there are pictures, surely we still have memories but I feel like I’ve never grasped it. I just can’t remember, this time i had. Some childhood.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Freshman+Seminar/100863591

My name is Wilson Hinh and I am happy to be able to be with this group of classmates this semester and in the future at Baruch. I am a very casual person and easy to relate to. All my life I believed that there are people who come into your life for a reason, which is why I chose to treasure and hold on to them as long as I had them. For my classmates here at Baruch, I feel as though you are my classmates for a reason and not only to sit in the same rooms as me. People tend to notice that I am very easy to get close to and I am somebody who dislikes the awkward atmosphere and would rather be cool as soon as we meet. In the playlist that I have there are many songs that surround this idea of friendship and always being there. After getting to know me for a while you may notice that I am rather selfless and will become a very reliable person in the future. Whether I would be needed for school work or another issue, I would usually be the one people would go to.

Some people may think that this seems like a personality that would be easily taken advantage of, but I believe that I am simply serving my purpose as a friend to another. Whether they give back or not, I try to think that I am one of the few options they have. I am someone who has high levels of tolerance and does not get mad that easily because that just sounds like too much work. I am such a laid back person that even the voice I speak in is monotone, since using multiple tones also sounds like too much work. I do not have many hobbies that I like to do, but I have priorities towards the ones that are very low in the requirements of physical activity. I hope that I could reach out to the rest of the classmates and be of some use to them over the period at which I know them. I also hope that it makes sense to you guys as to why I unusually put the lazy song within my playlist. I try not to be a monotonous person just because I am monotone, thank you for reading my monologue.