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The past three months I have had at Baruch college has had its ups and downs. Conveniently, the entirety of my college workload is usually posted online days before the deadline. Unfortunately for me, I am one of those guys who thinks it’s cool to save all your work for the last minute possible. Why do I do it? I don’t know, but certainly I do know that I won’t be able to continue my old habits forever. Likewise, I’ve noticed that College is not as different from High School as I believed it to be to  both my pleasure and horror. Oftentimes, I would find myself falling asleep and missing out on a sizable portion of whatever was being taught. Other than falling asleep in class and my chronic procrastination, College life has treated me fairly thus far. I was aware that College students have a great deal of freedom, but I didn’t know how true that would be. This first semester at Baruch has shown me the plethora of freedoms and responsibilities that are expected of me as a College student.

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Baruch has been quite an adventure . Not really knowing what to expect going to a commuter college, I had an optimistic view on the experience . I wanted to meet new people, join certain clubs and have long lasting memories. I found that the work can be very intense and that math is no joke. It is hard for people to have a traditional college experience since it is a commuter school, sometiems it even feels like a more intense high school. It gets hard on the days when you think you do so much work and can’t have fun simply because of the school you are at. However things can be much better and one of the rea sons was my fro class. The people in fro helped me laugh learn and grow. We had some great times and they have always been very inviting to me . I have met some great hilarious people who I know I will be friends with even after all this . Despite te lows I still have great expectations for college.

The past three months at Baruch were actually really fun. I cant believe that time passed by so fast. I remember meeting everyone during convocation day and everything was so new, yet now we are like families. Freshmen year came with a lot of work. I am surprised that I got through the first semester of college. There awaits so many more experiences in the near future. I met a lot of new friends and people in Baruch. The college environment felt  new yet it felt as if I was still in highschool because I saw my classmates everyday. My classes were really fun and challenging. The hardest class had to be math and biology. Theater and English was alright. I hope that my grades are going to be decent, i dont expect As but Bs are fine with me. Freshman seminar class was really fun and useful. It taught me all the important and necessary things i needed to know for being a freshman student.  I havent joined any clubs this semester but i hopefully will next semester. Next semester I need to focus more on my work as well as being more active in Baruch student life. After exploring Baruch campus for these three months, it seemed very settling. The library building is one of the best features of Baruch campus. It has tons of space and hard working students working all the time. The professors I have met this year are all so willing to give a hand. The food around campus is alright. They should fix the elevators in the Lawrence building, it always breaks down. They say that time flies by a blink of an eye and i truly can see it now. This semester was a fun one and I have learned quite a lot in these three months. The challenges for the next semester will approach soon and I will have to deal with that later on, but for now I want to enjoy the rest of the year. 2015 brings new light in my progress to get an education. Hopefully 2015 will be good to me, but I must also add in the effort to succeed. Not seeing the same people next year is kind of sad but it is life. You will meet new people and eventually they will become a big part of your life. I dont think i can write 500 words because that is all I have to say. I will miss everyone that had been a part of my freshmen year journey. Thank you

My first semester at Baruch has been very stressful. I like the freedom and the other positives, but there is so much responsibility. Growing up I was always independent, yet it is totally different from college. I couldn’t wait to get out of high school because I felt like I out grew it. I love going to school in the greatest city in the world, and I am saving a lot of money by commuting. I was ready to move on to college, but there are a lot that I unexpected. I don’t exactly miss High School, I miss my friends, the memories, and how easy everything was. High School was so simple compared to college, and I miss how I lived 5 minutes away and that I could drive. The commute to Manhattan from Long Island is annoying and long. I picked this meme because Billy Madison is one of my favorite movies and this scene is hilarious. The kids in the class cannot wait to grow up and get to the next level of school and they take advantage of how easy the lower levels of school is. “Stay here, for the love of God cherish it!”

It has been a wild ride since i enter Baruch College. I met so many cool people there and they mad my college experience enjoyable. The classes, on the other hand, are rather boring. I fell asleep in every single class at least once this semester. Furthermore, I feel like there are so much work to do, yet so little time to do them. One of the reason is because i tend to procrastinate a lot… which leads to stress when i realize all my assignments are due the next day. Well, I’m used to this since i have been doing this all the time during high school. Other then the assignments and studying, I find college pretty fun. All my teacher this semesters are nice people and it is fun hanging out with new people.

After getting accepted to Baruch I kind of just stopped trying in high-school and was preparing myself for college. So pretty much I just didn’t do anything. Now I wish I had the time on my hands the same way I did in high-school. I’m getting decent grades, but nothing like what I used to receive. I thought keeping a high GPA would be easy but that’s not true in college. I feel like I study my ass off for biology and math, but when it comes to the test, my brain just stops working.

However, I am enjoying the start of my college life and believe I will get the grades that I really want. Over the past three months I met different types of people and made new friends which helped with the transition from high-school. Over the next coupe of years I just hope to find out what the hell I wanna do with my future.

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Over the summer, I was ready and excited to start classes at Baruch. I was going to school expecting that I would be able to stay organized and have all my work done early. In the beginning of the semester I was coming to school expecting to get all A’s and keeping my GPA up like I did in high school. Then I actually started the classes. College is honestly one of the hardest things I have ever had to go through.  My favorite two subjects math and science have become my worst favorite since school started. I know that all this hard work will benefit me in the end. I know that I can pull through and finish what I started.

the first three months of my first year of college was pretty interesting. The start was pretty easy and laid back, but now its getting too be so much work. I never expected to get so much work that and completely forget about assignments. Free time is scarce now and the commute sucks. overall, i think it will get better as i get more experienced and more organized. Still a long time to go, but i have to make the most out of every opportunity. I think i made a good choice coming to Baruch. College is much different than high school and its hard to stay focused on whats important and what is not sometimes, but I still have a lot of time to see what im interested in and what i want to pursue as a career in the future.

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY

Before the first day at Baruch, I was super nervous and still was even after the first week or two at Baruch but making some friends definitely helped out with the nervousness and stress. The change from high school to college was too big of a change for me. In high school everything was really laid back, getting 90s in classes were so much easier. Baruch has really changed my way of thinking. A person really does have to try really hard to get what they want. I am hoping adjustments to work will be fixed sooner and not later. I am still stressed out about all my classes even though it is only the first semester, especially biology, but I’m slowly making some changes. Like the last bio quiz, I studied my butt off. I did not do great but I passed. Right now I am just aiming to get a C in all my classes, other than biology, my expectations are lower.

I chose this gif because it shows you to expect the unexpected but to also be happy with whatever happens and i just really love the show Friends. AND DON’T FORGET TO TREAT YO SELF!!! no matter what. Pass or fail. EVERYONE NEEDS A NICE TREAT EVERY NOW AND THEN! WOOP WOOP!!!

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I’ll be straight up. I’m not feeling Baruch. But this past semester has been pretty great. Of course there was gonna be work, but I didn’t expect it int this magnitude. Its all over the place. I’m be glad I don’t have to take Biology like the rest of the class, but still. The city is really amazing to say the least. As a suburban boy, I’m not used to this atmosphere but I got into it easily. Thanks to all the great people I’ve met this year. You guys know who you are and I really appreciate the company. I’m dreading the following weeks cause I know I’m gonna strain but that’s okay. This .gif is really just the overall feeling of trying to escape. Not literally, but through the day just trying to find some inner peace