FRO 14 DFA

The reality is that it has already been three months since freshman year  has started. Is it not true that this time has passed by in a flash? To put this in another perspective, our Baruch lives are nearly 1/8th completed. The question is will regret come, and if it does will it be the result actions (in the wrong place or time) or lack of action/initiative. In reality graduation is in 3.5 years, give or take, and during that time all that will be filled in the head is either irritation caused by regrets or enrichment at the thought of everything that has been accomplished in these four years. So far I feel satisfied with what I have experienced in Baruch College. The classes do really give students work for the sake of simply giving work (which was common in high school) but instead recommend students to slowly work towards a big assignment. In this, it can be seen that teachers are no longer your friend that constantly looks out for you (by telling you how to do this, when are you going to do this, etc); they are simply your professor, nothing more and nothing less. If life gave an instruction guide on how to be monetarily successful it would say do well in elementary school to get into a good middle school, do well in middle school to get into a good high school, get into a good high school to get into a good college. Well, now we’re all here, and for some this may be the final step before finally entering the cold world of full-time employment. For others, this may be yet another stepping stone before entering graduate school, where they will then enter full-time employment (unless you are going into something that requires even further education such as a doctoral program). Either way, this is the beginning of either the last or second-to-last educational degree many of us will ever have, and all that can be done now is work hard. Things will get hard for everyone, and the only answer to that is to work harder than the given task and help others through their struggles.

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What’s there to say about college? College has been a vastly different experience compared to high school. I had never needed to pull an all-nighter before (at most stay up until 1:00am) but I’ve already done it twice in the past two months. Nowadays I feel far more exhausted than I was in high school despite getting more sleep now (went to sleep at 12:00-6:30 compared to now at 11:30-7:30). The “freedom” is much, much greater compared to in high school because there is simply far more  but at the same time there is a larger expectation to put time into quality work. In spite of these changes, I look forward to these challenges because I know that there is nothing that can be more satisfying than overcoming these obstacles.

Growing up, there was one rule that I constantly heard and eventually ingrained into mentality and that is “treat others as you yourself want to be treated.” This includes but is not limited to looking at things from other people’s perspectives to properly understand their reasoning, care not to say anything that may offend them, and, of course, treat them as nicely as possible. Every single person on this planet deserves respect because they all have good qualities within them, and by looking at these good qualities only then can there be a true appreciation of life.

Hi I’m Michael and these are some of my characteristics/interests/hobbies. Well if you know me in class the first thing that usually comes to mind is that I rarely say anything. There’s really not much I can do to change your mind because I will always be a little quiet. In spite of the fact that I will never be the most talkative person (which I’m not really aiming to be), I do wish I could voice out my opinion a bit more. It’s nobody’s fault except for my own, really, because if I ever come up with something to say my mind usually filters it back for seemingly no reason, leaving me with absolutely nothing to say. Other parts of me include being a procrastinator (shown by how I just started this at 10pm), and that I strongly believe that what goes around comes around and everything will balance out in the end (yin-yang).

Well enough of my personality and onto my hobbies~ Basketball was my “first love” so to speak in that it was probably the first thing I ever worked hard at. I was introduced to it in my 4th grade gym class and it’s hard to say it was love at first sight… but it stuck around and I spent practically the entire 5th grade simply learning how to shoot. In the past two years I have finally given major league baseball another try to watch, which has been successful for the most part, after getting literally bored to sleep in previous attempts, and I learned how to swim between ages 10-12. I learned how to fold paper into various forms during elementary school (known as origami) that only recently have I begun to pick up again (for those of you who are in my Speech Communication class this is my how-to topic). Music is love, music is life, it is what can help clear my mind after school, give me a good start to the day, and it can help me keep concentrated on my work (like now).

Thank you for reading this~ (^_^)/