To sum up my experience so far at Baruch I chose these pictures. Not that I’m depressed or anything but these pictures are pretty accurate. Really though if you happen to see me in class 9/10 one of these will be my facial expression. Baruch itself isn’t horrible, it’s the all the work. It seems like there’s never a break in between assignments or exams. I just want to breathe, you know? When it’s not an essay due it’s a speech (which gives me perpetual anxiety) or an online quiz. Have you read those chapters for history? They are long and super boring, it takes me a million and one years to finish reading a chapter. Like can I live? No one said it would be easy, but no one ever said it would be this hard (points to the people that can name this band and song). Despite all the sadness and tears Baruch had brought me something amazing; new friends. My new friends are my cinnamon apples (more points if you know where this is from) and they brighten up my days. I laugh till I cry and I cry till I laugh. Thanks for making my experience at Baruch that much better. Bye, hope you had fun come again. 🙂

I am stressed out. So so stressed out. I literally can not even with all this stress.

But seriously college is a lot of work. Essays here, essays there. One speech for you and one speech for you. Transitioning from high school to college has been a difficult thing to do. I know life isn’t meant to be easy but just a little rest time would be nice. The only good thing would be the friends I’ve made. When I’m feeling stressed I know they can make me laugh and make me forget for just a bit.

The gif above is my literal reaction to every day in school. Sometimes I just can’t deal with everything that’s thrown my way, but hey it is what it is. I’m looking forward to delving further into the college life. Maybe join a club, maybe being the key word. Going back to the gif up there I feel that I say this because I’m trying not to let stress get the best of me. At the end of the day what’s done is done and you can’t live life stressing over everything.

College is about learning to do things on your own and learning how to balance school with life. I’ve seen this plenty over the past few weeks. Professors aren’t here to be your friend or to hold your hand. You have to do things for yourself and learn how to deal with the workload, which is what I’m trying to do now. Hopefully soon, my reaction to a load of work won’t be panic, but more of an “I-Can-Do-This” attitude. I’ll let you know.

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Family is one of the most important things to me. My family consists of my parents and my twin brothers who are all loud Dominicans. I owe the world to my parents who have sacrificed a lot to get me to where I am today. My little brothers who are a huge pain are also people who I would fight tooth and nail for. My mom will forever be one of my best friends and someone who I can trust till the end and my father a caring sensitive man who has the best humor out there. Without them I would be nothing. I would’ve inserted pictures of them but they didn’t want me to, so yeah. I also have a goddaughter who is the cutest cutie to ever cute. She is my world and I adore her.

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My best friend’s name is Gabbie (she goes to Baruch too). Our friendship has been through a lot and we’ve been there for each other through all of it. We balance each other out perfectly. We love laughing at each other and being there for one another. She’s more of a sister than a best friend.

This is my AC, my AC is bae. Since I am perpetually feeling hot my AC is always there to make sure I don’t die of a heatstroke.

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This is Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S  and he is hilarious. I feel like his personality matches mine almost at least 90%. Chandler’s very sarcastic and can be extremely awkward depending on the situation. He has a really funny sense of humor and is usually the one to make the other friends laugh if they’re having a rough time. I’m like this most of the time; sometimes awkward, totally sarcastic and 100% there for my friends. (If you guys have never seen F.R.I.E.N.D.S you’re totally missing out.)

(http://inspirationfeed.com/inspiration/industrial-inspiration/50-unique-and-unconventional-bookcase-designs/)

Books are one of my greatest passions. I own quite a few books, I haven’t counted them all but definitely more than fifty. Buy me books and we’ll be friends forever. Reading is amazing, it’s the ability to step into someone else’s reality and become someone else. With all the different genres out there the possibilities are endless as to what or who’s reality you can enter.

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Technology is a part of my life. I own a Macbook and an iPhone which are both apple products. And let me tell you, they are amazing. It feels really great to be able to have a handy laptop to get most of my work finished and it’s totally reliable.

(http://www.simplepastimes.com/pd-colourful-candy-1000-piece-puzzle-by-cobble-hill.cfm)

Candy is the solution to all the problems, all of them. You give me candy and it’ll help make my day become just a little better. But beware, my hyper levels shoot up into the thousands when I eat candy.

(http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/want-quick-accurate-thinking-ask-musician-66844/)

Now let’s not get confused, I am in no way artistically inclined. However, music is one of the greatest escapes (besides books). I love listening to music whether I’m upset, angry, or happy. My tastes range, I’ll listen to anything as long as it sounds good to my ears. Right now I’m obsessed with Sia (listen to her you won’t regret it) and John Newman (legit tears he has the voice of a soulful angel). If I knew how to sing and dance believe me I would do it, but I wouldn’t want to mentally/emotionally scar anyone.

(http://travel.aol.com/off-the-beaten-path/healthy-gas-station-snacks/)

One more thing, I love string cheese. I love cheese in general. Cheese is great.