Author Archives: Larry Zhu

This basically can sum up some of my first few months in Baruch as I’m not exactly good with names and even good friends that I’ve been with for years I will sometimes on the spurge of urgency to tell them something forget their name and blurt out another person’s name while referring to them. I have to say, I sometimes even mistake Kevin’s name with someone else’s and it still is a bit troublesome for me to distinguish between Jake and Jacob but I’ve got that down. Sheyenne and Chanelle is a bit tougher though yet I can say that I will no longer make mistakes distinguishing their names apart from now on. I’m more of a visual person so once I text them and see their name and how it reads out in words I can put a name to them, I just have to imagine the words.

Major area of study

Decided upon major: no

Major: Finance or CIS

Concentration: none

Declaring a minor: Yes, but undecided

Minor: not yet decided

Areas of study you find interesting: everything at this point

Degrees

Decided upon Degree: BBA

Degree: BBA

Month: Janurary 2017

Advanced degrees: Not sure

Advisors

I know my advisor: no

Academic course plan: Not completed yet

Internships

I have had internships: No

Study Abroad: None

Volunteer and community service work: None

Decided upon Occupation: Yes but undecided

1. What I learned basically confirmed for me that I’m not really a ‘people’s person’. I can be in a job that I can socialize with people and be outgoing, but not in a job that requires you to be a people person.

2. There has been some change in my direction/expectations as I learn what I’m more fit for and that opens up new avenues of occupations available to me.

3. Focus 2 helps alot as now I am confirmed that I will not go seeking out people jobs such as PR or nurse type occupations.

Interestingly enough I didn’t know that she was very shy and thought her a bit more outgoing than she gives herself credit for. Also it’s cool that I’m not the only person who loves being in the prospect of being in love. Those giddy feelings and the rush of adrenaline as your heart pumps is almost the same as you get from running. I really liked her second song, “We Are Champions” by Queen since it’s so baroque style and speaks to me as if any Mozart, Bach, or Vivaldi piece. To me, it reminds me of an era where chivalry was still in existence, and the pump of the song comes from being praised and the like. And as I’m writing my blog I will totally put “We Are Champions” on repeat since it pumps me up and makes me feel at peace as well as allowing me to concentrate. Music like this really stimulates me and I can meditate to. I totally agree on the “I AM A NEW YORKER” saying, because what more can we be proud of, being born and raised in NY, the other states can’t even compare. Also very true with her song, “I Get Lonely Too” by Drake as many people, regardless of old and young, can get lonely too and want company. But I would really love to see the Diva in Chanelle, the diva side of you seems a very fun and interesting person. Also very cool that your very close with your mom, and I truly didn’t know you were Dominican, but that’s so cool!

FRO13

Songs or a lack of, tells a lot about a person. I used to hate listening to music and think it very intrusive and loud, too much waves and sounds disrupting my serene meditation but after holding out a losing battle to conform in with the rest of my peers that distinguished based on which songs you listen to. I finally fell to Vitamin C’s song Friends Forever, which is the first song that I really appreciated and acknowledged as a part of me to relate to, which also ironically was the graduation song when I heard it too. After a few years, the next song I can relate to was Greenday’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It had finally dawned on me almost leaving junior high that the hopes of being rekindled with elementary school friends was close to none and that truly everyone was off on their own separate paths in life and our paths never crossing again. Next was The Last Night where I thought about my next move and nights about how to cope with upcoming responsibilities. Frontline and Headstrong talks about how I felt coming out of junior high into high school with a can-do attitude towards everything and always fearless to do what others wouldn’t – or couldn’t. Eager to start fights, these two songs perfectly captures that mood. Songs 6,7, and 8 to me were a period in time where I was having emotional turnovers and seeking spiritual guidance and a well defined moral compass based on MY values, ethics and feelings rather than what others around me thought were the best move. Throughout my whole high school career, Eminem’s 8 Mile soundtrack Lose Yourself couldn’t describe me more perfect. Everyday was a day where I did what I wanted to, whether it was to cut class, socialize during class, or copy homework for the next class in a previous class. But as we go along life, we pick up things that weren’t ours and we make it a part of us. Like my disposition towards music which turned into defining who I am, and my initial confrontation of conforming, we all follow trends set by society. Nothing says this more than the next and last song, which was very popular during 2010 and opened the pathway to my taste in music which is now hip hop and pop, Far East Movement’s Like a G6.