Life at Baruch is really a game of juggling. Starting out as a freshmen at Baruch, I feel like I came in walking freely with no weight. Though I haven’t been here for long, I feel as though weight is starting to pile on me. The first jug was thrown on me: Workload. For me, I see Baruch as a relatively small college compared to others. But smaller classes means the teacher is more attentive to individuals and actually have time to give out meaningful work unlike all tests on scantrons and etc. The amount of work that you have to do may vary for different classes, but ultimately it’s a scary thought knowing that professors don’t really care about your well-being and can potentially overload you with work, since that is in their power. The second jug is work. I started a new job shortly upon entering Baruch, in an environment that I’m not familiar with. There were and still are many things that I don’t know how to do, and dedicating time to learn and work at this job was initially a challenge. How am I suppose to balance workload and work at the same time? Could I continually throw both up, without fail of catching them? Eventually, I did get the hang out it and was able to balance them both without too much of a struggle. As I stand before you today, I am balancing the third but not final jug that has been thrown to me, as of late: social life. It’s great that I had friends coming into Baruch, but there are also many other unique individuals to meet at this great institution. There are clubs that people join to mutually express interest, “sisterhoods” and “brotherhoods” that you can become a part of, so how really do you lose sight of people you use to know with people that you will know? This jug seems to be making things difficult for me, but worse, it seems to be taking balance away from my other jugs too.