Hurmat Hashmi
My experience as a student at Baruch has been challenging thus far. It’s an ongoing struggle to strike the perfect balance between life at home, school, and work. My classes require me to put in an immense amount of effort to study and complete my assignments, but that was to be expected. This isn’t some easy game in which I can just toss the dice and let chance determine my fate. I have at least some power in being able to control what I can do to further my advancements to reach my goals.
Besides crawling up a small dirt mountain with a fleet of my distant cousins the one time I visited Pakistan nearly ten years ago, I have never been hiking before, but I would imagine that college life is rather similar. The terrain is steep and rugged, and it is not very well known for its delightful pleasures. It seems that all the odds are against the hiker because the forces of nature are constantly impeding progress with topographical obstacles, inundating weather, and gravity. Yet, despite of all these deterrents, people still willingly run to these mountains and are eager to hike, no matter the difficulty, to the top. But why?
Like me, these hikers, or college students, are daring to face these hurdles because they envision the final result, conquering the highest peak. Once they embark on the journey, they will do everything in their power to continue hiking until they reach the top because they are working toward ultimate success. I might have trouble finishing a paper or completing a test or starting a long reading, but I know these supposedly trivial things are necessary for me to do well and eventually graduate from college one day. I know that if my balance falters because of a small rock, I just have to look forward and keep on hiking until I make it to the summit.