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This shows my entire college experience so far. From the time before I even officially started college, the amount of bills that we have to pay have been ridiculous. College is way too expensive, not just the tuition itself but also the parts of being independent and having to do everything for yourself. The experience however has been wonderful if you take out the money part of it. These past three months have been amazing at Baruch, I’ve learned a lot and met a lot of new people. I’ve also learned that the expenses for college will probably just get worse as I go through the rest of the years, but I am definitely excited for the adventures that college will allow me to go through.

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In the past three months of college, it felt like I was attending advanced High School. The classes are about one and a half times longer, and there are less days in the semester. We learn about the same amount of materials in college, and we take a lot of notes. But a lot of it is up to you to go home read the chapters, and full up those holes between the lessons. If you didn’t read the textbook closely, then you would be very confused the next day. A lot of the times, we find ourselves not understanding the material and have to ask classmates for help, which is why I chose this meme.

In the past three months, there were times when I didn’t understand a topic, and I needed assistance. The most common social media we use is Facebook. I remember one time when I had to ask a classmate about the third page of the reading, to clarify something. The classmate didn’t respond, so instead of going back into the textbook, I got distracted with the videos, pictures, and posts that were on my newsfeed. After 30 minutes, when the classmate responds with the answer to my question, I finally remember that I need to finish this chapter. To me, college is just like a typical High School day, but with more breaks, and maybe more procrastination.

-Gary Chan

Source: http://livingthecollegelife.com/hilarious-college-memes-youll-love/

Even though each class is longer than in high school, there still isn’t enough time to cover all the material. The professors can help you only so far when it comes to giving you a recap of last night’s textbook reading. In the end, it’s still up to you whether you decide to go over the last part of the chapter that he never went over in class, or to just let it be and move on to the next chapter. This meme shows how not everything is discussed in class. The professors might try to rush the end of the lesson because they know they’re short on time, but still have a lot to cover. Unlike in high school, the next day is never spent finishing yesterday’s lesson because there isn’t enough time for that. The readings are much longer and so are the classes, but the classes are less frequent.

During the past 3 months at Baruch, I have become more accustomed to my professor’s lessons and figured out ways to make up for the rest of that 2 minute crash course lesson at the end of class. In classes where the lessons are centered around the readings, I’ll focus more on absorbing the information from the end of the chapter when I read it the first time, because I know that any questions from the first half of the chapter will most likely be answered in class. Getting through the semester didn’t turn out to be that bad, as long as you get to know your professors more and get a feel for what they consider to be “crucial to your understanding of the course”.

–Annie Kong

Grace Chan

Upon starting school at Baruch, I didn’t know what the workload was going to be like. I had no idea if I had to write a lot of essays, or whether or not there were a lot of projects, and etc. On the first day of every class, I looked at the list of what seemed like overwhelming assignments on the syllabus, and wondered to myself, “Will I be able to do all this?”

I stumbled upon a meme of a stick figure getting aggravated over an essay that it has to write. Throughout high school and even during the first two weeks of the semester, I would visualize myself as that stick figure right because I always spent a lot of time figuring out what I wanted to write. However, after a while, once I started writing my papers, I found them to be easier than what I had once imagined them to be. As of now, this semester is coming to an end soon, and I realized that I have already completed majority of the assignments on the syllabus.

Although I still have a long way to go in college, I feel more comfortable writing essays and working on longer assignments. Overall, one of the main lessons I learned in these past few months is that even if you think you can’t accomplish something, you eventually will.

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The last three months at Baruch College was an amazing journey. When I read the syllabus for each of my classes, I thought the courses would be challenging. It demanded massive amounts of reading and assignments to be completed in a limited amount of time, which was one of my biggest struggles I encountered at Baruch. I realized that I needed to manage my time wisely and prioritize everything. As hard as I tried, my plans didn’t always succeed and I occasionally stayed up past midnight studying as well as meeting due dates. After a few hours of sleep, the cycle repeated and the amount of stress became a heavy burden. Aside from all these stressful days, I finally made it to the final stretch of this semester. Overall, I am astonished at the diversity of the students attending Baruch and its location at the heart of New York City. In retrospect, there was nothing to be worried about because perseverance is the answer.

Here is a picture of a marathon that has just started. Despite the challenges I have faced, my academic career at Baruch is only beginning. I’m just a face in a crowd who shares the same goals as everyone else: to graduate and to earn a living at the finish line. Only time will tell what the future holds.

 Works Cited

Moriarity, Dan. How to Make It to the Marathon Start Line. 2013. Fullstriderunning.com. Web. 21 Nov. 2014. <http://fullstriderunning.com/how-to-make-it-to-the-marathon-start-line/>.

-Shirley Lo

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After having class in Baruch for around three months, I realized that this meme basically sums up my experience thus far. For my Anthropology midterm, I started studying almost a week before the actual exam. If this was high school, I probably would have crammed everything in the night before, so I was slightly proud of myself for starting something early for once. But in the end, I still stayed up until 3 A.M. the night before the exam to cram some more. I have always complained in high school about sleeping for only six hours. I would do absolutely anything to get six hours of sleep now. Not sleeping does not only refer to the nights before exams, but also on Mondays and Wednesdays. Since I am constantly assigned essays for homework, I get around four hours of sleep on nights when I have English class the next day. I am still having trouble with time management because I procrastinate. Especially on the weekends, I pretend that I don’t have any work due any time soon, so I could spend some time relaxing. I am still working on doing my assignments ahead of time! I guess this blog post will be one of those assignments that I will have done before the deadline approaches. =)

– Michelle Wu

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This shows how my first 3 months have been like in Baruch. Don’t get me wrong, I love Baruch, college life is exciting and fun compared to high school. I definitely have more freedom and such, and schedules aren’t the same every.single.day. But, boy are the amount of work, projects, quizzes and tests a lot! Unlike high school, there’s no such thing as taking a day off, it’s constant work work work, or you’ll fall behind. I’ve felt so overwhelmed with the amount of work, I don’t know how I’ve managed to survive. For those who choose to have a life, probably aren’t doing so well in school, for those who choose to not have a life (like me) and focus on my school work, I have no life, I have barely gone out with my friends, I haven’t seen them since school started and now that it’s coming to an end and finals are approaching I am definitely like how the picture is shown, finally able to come out in what seems like forever.

-Elaine Wu

“We are live in 5, 4, 3,” the director counted down to the start of the multicultural show with over 1000 people in the audience. This was my first show running the soundboard. I was all alone and feeling every beat of my heart like I was standing next to a church bell. As I looked down from my small operating booth I saw the whole auditorium full of eager families awaiting a perfect show. “2, 1, Go Sound Cue” that was my call, the show began, and the adrenaline in my blood, coursing through my veins, seemed to double. As the first couple of acts went by, I felt light headed, as if living a dream hoping beyond hope that everything went well. Needless to say, there were some mishaps in my first show, which I had learned from bettering my experience and myself. I also became the Audio Director for my schools popular shows, running over 25 various shows including everything from musicals, to plays and even talent shows, later learning how to Dj I started to Dj events. After that I don’t really get scarred in front of huge crowds anymore, but the opposite I learned to use their energy as a boost for mine.

Entering Baruch as a freshman, I immediately found the schools radio station WBMB, my gateway into participating in school events. Not knowing how fast I would be accepted into the station, within a week of giving in my résumé (which made me overly qualified to be accepted) I had 2 initiation interviews and my first event. Now, only a couple of months into my first year I’ve helped run over 8 events in Baruch.

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Throughout my life expectations have been piled up continuously as I got older. From being the youngest girl in my family, the second eldest sibling, being a south Asian daughter, to being really good at math. Every category I was placed into put more pressure and responsibility on me. But coming into Baruch helped alleviate so much of that pressure. Before I had to get home everyday around sunset everyday and now I simply tell my mother that I’ll be home late and I have until midnight. It may not be late for some but for me it’s a great privilege. Before I had to help my siblings and cousins out with school for being “the smart one” in the family. And now I can simply say no to them because I’m “busy” or something. Before I wasn’t allowed to hang out, be out of the house on the weekends, go over peoples houses, or anything that most people probably take advantage of and don’t notice that others with strict religious parents don’t have. But Baruch helped change that, most of that. I still have responsibilities, yes, but I am not pressured much and I feel so much more freedom from before.

Freedom differs from person to person. And I found my freedom at Baruch.

Best Is Yet To Come

Many adults I have talked to make sure to mention how college was the highlight of their youth. Most even add, “Who cares about high school?” I do.
I was one of those kids that did everything in high school. I was a part every main event, having organized more than half of them. I cared about developing new policies for students. I card about making sure all events were carried out successfully. I cared about making sure the 1400 other students in my graduating class had a good high school experience.
Near the end of my high school, I really wondered why I decided to care so much about everyone else and not enough on enjoying the moment myself. In a way I regretted wasting my time.
Fortunately, that regret didn’t last long. Near the end of the school year, I helped my physical education teacher organize a bodybuilding competition. It was something everyone advised me not to do because they were skeptical about the success of the show. However, I enjoyed working my teacher so I decided to go ahead and do it anyway.
On the day of the show, I ran around stressed before and during the show but I loved every minute of it. It was something I was doing for myself and my own enjoyment rather than satisfying others. The show was a huge success and I couldn’t have been happier. That success also made me realize that I had not wasted my time in high school. I experienced and explored things that a typical high school student didn’t, but that just made my experience that much more special. It is also my drive for experiencing new things in college by getting partnered up with a foreign student for a conversations program or even taking dance classes.

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