Blog Post #3–Nick McKechnie

Its hard to believe that my first semester of college is almost over. It feels like it was only a week ago that I nervously walked into Baruch on the first day of school and met all of my professors and future classmates. I wasn’t sure where I would sit, who I would talk to, what I would do during my four hour break (which at first I thought was horrible), where/what I would eat for lunch everyday, and how I would pass my classes. To my surprise, all of these worries were solved within the first few weeks. In the beginning, during my four hour break I would sit in the library and do homework or study, however, soon enough my FRO-classmates eventually started tagging along with me, which soon enough evolved into the formation of, as we call it, the “FRO-family”. We all became good friends and started doing everything with each other; sitting with each other in class, getting Bagel Express everyday, renting a study room for our four hour breaks to just hang out, and studying together for our classes. Because of this, my first three months at Baruch have been a great experience. I have been to places in manhattan that I have never been before, I’ve met and became friends with unexpected people, I have eaten more bagels in three months than I have my entire life, and I learned that college is not like high school and getting by on tests with minimal studying is not effective. I am excited for next semester and the semesters after that, but right now the one-month winter break is all that I’m looking forward to.