Freshman Seminar Motherblog – Spring 2013

I liked the Health and fitness workshop better than the other one. It was really interesting to know about the stresses that are the parts of the everyday life. Before going to the class, i thought that i was a very stressful person, but the workshop helped me realize that it was not the case. This workshop helped me understand the advantages and the disadvantages of  having a stress and ways to reduce and work them out. I do not know how good the questions were in measuring the stresses a person has but i was really glad that we had the chance to know about them and hope that these could be helpful in the coming years of my stay in Baruch.

I liked the Health and fitness workshop better than the other one. It was really interesting to know about the stresses that are the parts of the everyday life. Before going to the class, i thought that i was a very stressful person, but the workshop helped me realize that it was not the case. This workshop helped me understand the advantages and the disadvantages of  having a stress and ways to reduce and work them out. I do not know how good the questions were in measuring the stresses a person has but i was really glad that we had the chance to know about them and hope that these could be helpful in the coming years of my stay in Baruch.

Even though the Sidney Mishkin Gallery is in a smaller scale as a gallery, but I did enjoy the whole integrate idea that the exhibition presented. It really attracts people that when modern elements and tradition artistic expression combine together. The one with all the blur faces, and the artist uses the opposite colors to serve as a foil to the color motif. I ain’t no painter, but I do appreciate art works that appear to be edgy and novel.

As for the other workshop “health and wellness”, I do think that everyone has their ways of reliving stress, and as far as I am concerned, with all the increasing rate of suicide rate, it is essential for  people to start to pay more attention on how they  balance their life.

Even though the Sidney Mishkin Gallery is in a smaller scale as a gallery, but I did enjoy the whole integrate idea that the exhibition presented. It really attracts people that when modern elements and tradition artistic expression combine together. The one with all the blur faces, and the artist uses the opposite colors to serve as a foil to the color motif. I ain’t no painter, but I do appreciate art works that appear to be edgy and novel.

As for the other workshop “health and wellness”, I do think that everyone has their ways of reliving stress, and as far as I am concerned, with all the increasing rate of suicide rate, it is essential for  people to start to pay more attention on how they  balance their life.

My favorite workshop is the “health & wellness” workshop. It is because very useful for me.
As an international student, not only curious about my new life, but also fell anxious. After this workshop, I learned how to relax myself. However, I don’t really like the “Sidney museum” because it was boring. The picture is beautiful, but I really don’t know the picture’s meaning. But it was OK.

My favorite workshop is the “health & wellness” workshop. It is because very useful for me.
As an international student, not only curious about my new life, but also fell anxious. After this workshop, I learned how to relax myself. However, I don’t really like the “Sidney museum” because it was boring. The picture is beautiful, but I really don’t know the picture’s meaning. But it was OK.

The following is an imagine that represents one of my current feeling towards my first semester at Baruch College. Like everyone else, entering their freshman year of college, this is a new experience. I came into Baruch just a few months ago, seeking to learn and meet new people. High school was an experience in itself, I made great friends, created treasured memories, however I eagerly anticipated the fall semester because it brought the chance of change. Unlike most I do not mind changes in my life, as a matter of fact I find it interesting and exciting. What a better way to bring change into my life than to start school in the city, in a very diverse school atmosphere. To bring about change would require me to be outgoing, try new things, and not be afraid to leave my comfort zone. But how to bring about change? I originally envisioned this to be an easy tasks, I thought “oh I’ll meet new classmates and they’ll be my new friends” or “oh I’ll work less and join clubs to try new things.” As idealistic as these thoughts sound, I failed to do most of them this semester. With work and school work, I find myself nowadays with little to no time for social activities. As people often tell me, my ambition to be the best always gets in the way of my social life. Whether I’m witting a paper or present at work, being the best is essential to me, I more than often sacrifice social time to achieve my goals. So back to my picture “I have no idea what I’m doing” I see myself in a slump when it comes to balancing my personal and academic life. Well it is really my personal, work, and academic life. I thought it would all be easy but although I excel in certain aspects of my life I fail to meet up to the expectations of the other. I really seem to have no idea what I am doing haha

Dear Baruch,

Looking back on all the stressing tests, assignments, research projects, and never ending lectures i an honestly say it was a lot of fun.  I started this semester with wet feet and a cinder block between my ears.  Now that I have my first semester under my belt I feel like a super hero, ready to take on any adventure.  No task is to challenging to excel at.

The friends I have made this semester are one of a kind and uniquely unparalleled in their support, knowledge, teamwork, and humor.  The laughs I have shared with these fine students will never be forgotten or surpassed. I have never had the pleasure of so quickly finding such upstanding individuals in a new environment. From the first  week of classes we have been inseparable during break times between classes.  I owe much more than grades to them, as they kept intact my sanity at times of utter bewilderment and confusion. Together we tackle the hardest of assignments without breaking a sweat, we cover for one another when the trains are messed up and we know one of us will be late for class, and remind each other of not only homework but also what floor the class is on at times…. (Lo Beezy)  Laughter is a constant and doesn’t stop for class or a lecture. The laughter in a crazy haze of mind numbing euphoria keeps us sane during times of pressure. I have never laughed so hard as I have in these past six months.

Baruch has given me the inner fortitude and reassertion of my capabilities as a student that i will carry with me for the rest of my life. i look forward to my next three years here and hope they don’t go by too fast.

~Amoney, out

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I’ve decided to make a collection of a few songs that I feel define my taste in music as well as me in a person in some sense. I listen to a lot of music so to narrow it down to 10 was actually really hard. But these couple of songs do a good job of showing what I’d usually listen to on a daily basis.

1. Change Clothes – Jay-Z. I chose this song more so for the music video rather than the actual song. One of my favorite artists, Pharrell, made a cameo in the video as well as a bunch of runway models. The video was done tastefully and I’ll remember it as a classic because I saw it when I was probably around 9,10 – when I first started to branch out and gained a personal taste for music and not what my parents or brothers listened to – and even now, every time I see it, it’s refreshing to watch and bob my head along to.

2. Breakout – N.E.R.D. Again, another song that I heard when I was around 9,10 that’s stuck with me over the years. N.E.R.D. was one of the first bands I listened to on my own and their music stood out as different from everything that I was listening to previously before. I remember receiving the album, Fly Or Die, for Christmas and playing the CD on the computer through my headphones and blown away by this new sound. Breakout is a defiant song on the album  that talks about running away from home when things got hectic and being on your own at a young age. And I feel it’s a feeling everyone has had at one point or another growing up and wanting do things their own way.

3. Andre 3000 (Outkast) – My Favorite Things. Another album I received on Christmas of either ’03 or ’04, The Love Below. Outkast has always stood out as a group known for making music that incorporated aspects of where they grew up, southern, country rap, along with futuristic, abstract concepts for songs that made you question how the hell the did they manage to do it and make it sound good. “My Favorite Things” was Andre 3000′s redemption on the classic song with a bunch of crazy, up beat sounds that makes you want to just get up and move around.

4. Songs For Women – Frank Ocean. This song reminds me of high school and falling in love and the blissful moments shared getting into a relationship. The song is sick. I never get tired of it and even find myself singing off key whenever it comes on.

5. Next Girl – Black Keys. I’m not too sure how I stumbled upon this album but it was my senior year of high school and I listened to it almost everyday during art. I’d kind of just zoned out and listened to music all day my senior year for the most part. I can’t remember much of what went on because it started to suck after the first couple months of school. I don’t know if this is the best song off that album but it’s the one that came to mind first because I remember the lyrics. Great group.

6. Everything in it’s Right Place – Radiohead. Radiohead was a group I’d heard for years and but never looked into more until this year. Their music takes you to another place sometimes. I’d listen to Kid A, OK Computer, and The King of Limbs as I took the train down in the morning to school. It helped pass the time and made it easier to get through the rough days I had adjusting in the winter.

7. Sleeping Ute – Grizzly Bear. This is the first song off Grizzly Bear’s latest album, Sheilds. I just really like how the song sounds and the use of different instruments. I still can’t make out all the lyrics and I used to listen to the song everyday as I was on my way to work. The Bridges and breakdowns in the song are beautiful.

8. Gold Watch – Lupe Fiasco. I was really into Lupe during middle school when I used to skate and started to notice more things about life. Lupe’s captivating style used metaphors and word play like I heard no other artist do it before. Gold Watch was a song I never fully understood but never all the words to and thought sounded crazy at 13. Now having a better sense of the message he was saying I enjoy the song even more.

9. Flashing Lights – Kanye West. Kanye was seen as an idol in my eyes transitioning from middle school to high school. I thought everything he did, from the way he dressed, to the music he made, to the blog he used to have, was just the coolest things ever. I wanted to be able to do things he was doing and it was seen to have most of an affect on my fashion sense at the time. Flashing Lights is a classic song by ‘Ye. Beat, lyrics, flow, it’s all there.

10. Ya Dig – Stack Bundles. My favorite rapper. He mixed gutter street rap with high class elegance like no other. This a classic verse by him that he straight killed.