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The first picture on top is a snapchat I posted to my story at some point in the semester, and along with the twitter post right below, I think these pictures are an accurate description of my first semester experience in college. Working as a “part time barista” with full-time hours at starbucks, to pay for school and whatever other expenses I’d precur from going to school, it’s needless to say I didn’t have a lot of free time. Along with work, I had commitments to family and friends, all of which would take up most if not all of my time; as a result I’d find myself just about every night before a deadline cramming and eating just about every ounce of junk food I could get my hands on to complete a thesis, research paper, lab report, or what have you at three or four in the morning. I’m not really proud about that, and a lot of the time I ended up doing a mediocre job, but it was a learning experience. Did I wish that I didn’t have so much going on in my life, so that I could focus more on my school life? Yea, I did, along with resenting myself for the poor choices I made in time management, but like I said I took something out of it. Mind you, it was through the hard way that I came to this conclusion, but I came to in nonetheless; my education should be, and is the most important thing in my life. Work, friends and family, those are all important in my life as well, but at the end of the day I’ll be left with no one else to fall back on, but myself, and lets face it I’m not going to get very far in life with just a High School diploma. So what I’ve taken from my first semester in Baruch is that I want a higher education, not just for the fact that I need it, but because I want it and in order to get it I can’t piss around anymore. So for my next semester, I’m determined to buckle down, get my shit together and ride through this hell-road of a trip called college and make sure I come out in better shape than I have this year… and maybe with a decent night’s sleep, haha.

-Seth

When choosing colleges I watched the Youtube videos called I’m Shmacked and got unrealistic expectations from college. I thought college was a crazy party scene but it’s not, which isn’t a bad thing. I just started to think in my mind “wow is that what college is like?” when I watched the videos, but based on my first semester so far it is nothing like the videos. Everyone here is more school oriented and instead of partying (which still does happen) many just go to school and go home. So far I like my college experience and hope to cherish my time here at Baruch College.

My meme is just a image of what i see almost everyday. A rich mind with a poor mouth. I feel that EVERYONE has a niche’ in something but only a few know to display their abilities in a classroom settig. Especially here at Baruch i see a lot of bright minded indivisuals who know how to take advantage of their gifts. On the other hand there are the people who just attend Baruch and don’t know how to make use of themselves so they just do whatever first comes to their mind.

I myself try to do some good here and benefit my peers with my peculiar personality and unique attributes. My experience here at Baruch as whole has been subtle like going for a swim and never planning to leave. At first i tested the waters in the beginning, slowly reached myself in and began to swim. Now a days the pool is wack and basically just a hole in the ground with some polluted water so i just try to stay afloat kicking my legs every here and there. I hear its fairly easy to drown here in the city and it doesn’t matter how good you can swim or how fast you can do laps, but only how long you can stay above sea level.

The photo above represents college in word, choice. From choosing new classes to making new friends this process has given me a newfound freedom I didn’t realize I’d always had. Unlike in high school where everyone participated in all the same classes, I can now choose what I want to major in and have that dictate my schedule. I’m also able to pick and choose which electives I want to take and which social organizations I want to be a part of. Another exciting thing I want to participate in during my college experience is working experience. Throughout college I hope to gain different work experiences that all help me excel in my eventual job when I graduate.

This is an accurate description of my first semester at college. This is accurate because when I first came to Baruch I thought I would actually be taught things and become an intellectual. On the other hand, what is actually happening is that I’m just doing a tad bit more work before. I don’t know if this is suppose to prove something to the teachers, but it proved something to me. Rather, it confirmed something for me. College is just going to be another system I have to learn to deal with. It is not for the real benefit of me. It is only for the increased pressure of society that makes me still go to college. Because this is not for me. I do not sit well in classrooms. I do not pretend I care well. And I have trouble dealing with a teachers short comings when they expect me to be so much more. I was told I’d be treated like an equal, or an adult in college. So why do I feel like all I’m doing is more busy work?

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The first images describes how I sad I feel that Baruch isn’t a really big/well known college outside the city. I knew that when I applied and was okay with that. However,I did not realize how much I wanted to go to a big school with a lot of sports teams and huge school spirit, until I came to Baruch, which has none of these things. It would also be nice to see my college in Victoria’s Secret Collegiate Apparel to make me feel like my college is official haha.

The second image describes how poor my time management skills are for the most point. Although, the workload so far is not as challenging as I thought it would be, I still “love” to leave everything for the last minute. I know that as my college career progresses I will get better and hopefully master the skill of efficient time management, because if not I’m not sure how I’ll ever graduate.

Overall, my experience at Baruch has been a pleasant surprise and I’ve made many new cool friends.

All this meme is is drake raising his hand in confusion. He is wearing a leather jacket and a bandanna like he’s about to move dope on Sons of Anarchy but really he’s just soft drake on the inside in confusion. I find myself feeling this way during the majority of the time I’ve been  in college. A teacher will just ramble on for hours about lord knows what, and I am just left in confusion. All I want to do during class is raise my hand and say “uhmmmm, can you please tell me what you’re talking about.” Some of them might as well be speaking Chinese during class and I honestly wouldn’t know the difference. Even when attempting to socialize with others I often find it difficult to comprehend why they would say such a thing, or what kind of place they grew up in. Basically, the face drake’s making is representing the fact that he just doesn’t know. And that’s me, I just don’t know about anything. In the words of Kid Cudi “Man, I’m just walking without being led.”

My college life so far has been a real pleasant surprise as I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. So far I have really enjoyed myself at Baruch and in my bloc, meeting some people that I really hope to stay close to over my four years at Baruch and even beyond that. So far I have not really had any problems with the work load and have only had the issue when it comes to my time management. My life now is so different then it was in high school as now I live on my own in the dorms, have even more time dedicated to basketball and practice, and even have brand new friends. Baruch is a place I’ve enjoyed so far and I cannot wait until to see what will happen next in my college career.

Since I started college I have a total of 5 cancelled classes, all of which were impromptu. Like any good college student, I would use the time to study and do scholarly crap– yet I did no such thing. which lead me to procrastinate.

I thought that college would be different for me and would allow me to advance socially. I thought “hey, I was pretty well liked in high-school. It should be easy to make friends in college!” Oh man was I wrong. I don’t know how I made friends in high-school because now I only speak to like 3 people, and two of them I went to high school with.

All in all, my college experience is going just like everyone else’s. I’ve spent it worrying over nothing, being over dramatic and being too hard on myself yet doing nothing to improve. Yep, just like everyone else.