I chose this gif to represent my first semester at Baruch. The poor guy looks so overwhelmed and that’s exactly how I feel. I remember when I was a freshman in high school and the sophomores in my geometry class recalled how easy the ninth grade was and I just sat there like…you mean it gets worse than this? I always make things harder than they should be and I think Im doing that again this semester. I can have a simple assignment to do but I just overreact and waste so much time on something that would take an average person half that. I have two desks in my room and they both somehow end up looking like the gif. I also kind of like how the guy doesn’t know where to start, and that’s how I am too. The week after Thanksgiving is going to be so hectic because I have so many things due and I feel like I’m going to be eating turkey while proofreading my papers.      I have been dreading the month of December since I got my syllabi.

Something I learned about myself since I started college was that I need to stop comparing myself to others. Each professor has their own grading policies and style of teaching that I may not be used to and that I can’t just compare myself to someone who got a better grade than me. I need to learn that those who try even harder than me will receive a better grade, if I try harder then I’ll get a better grade. Something that gets me angry is when someone who brags about barely working on it gets a better grade than I am. I guess that’s just another thing I need to learn, about how unfair life is, oh well.

My favorite moment from FRO was when we were able to split into groups to discuss how we felt about our professors and the classes themselves. It was very interesting to see what everyone had to say about our classes and to see their advise as to how to deal with some of the issues. Some of my favorite comments were about how someone complained that there weren’t enough chairs in one of our classes and it just seemed like a weird thing to complain about and it was even funnier when someone just told them to get to class earlier. They were some minor issues but that just showed how we don’t really take ourselves too seriously.

There isn’t really something I look forward to for next semester because, yes, you guessed it, I”m already stressing over it. It took me two hours to register for classes and I almost didn’t get a class I wanted and it was just a stressful event and there isn’t anything that is making me feel excited. I’m excited about not having two hour gaps anymore and finishing some of the required classes. I guess I’ll see the sooner I get to the date.