Freshman Seminar – Spring 2015, DTD

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Spring, 2015, a special year for me. Finally, I leave high school and step forward college. The first day was excited and nervous. New environment and knowledge. Since the first semester almost ends, I learned that time management is super important.

I usually slept a lot during high school. Recently, I have slept 8 hours within three days because of the midterm. I stay up late until 4 to 5 o’clock reviewing different subject. I found that college is completely different. By experiencing this, I decide to be a good time management to prevent the same situation before any midterm or final.

In general, the freshman year is pretty fun. Activities, clubs or performance are held every week. In the future, I may miss this exciting and fresh semester.

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Times fly – I can’t believe it’s been three months since I started at college. I’ve never been so busy before. I met a lot of people from different countries and I found a lot of interesting stories from each person. I’ve also learned a lot from the Freshman Seminar course, everything they taught is so useful. At first, I actually hated Baruch. The homework was killing me, compared to others college they have less work to do. But then I started to love it, I think it’s mainly because it’s in the city and there is a lot restaurants around. So many food choices that I could never get bored with it. After spring break, I started to get sick. First time here. Perhaps, the weather is changing a lot. It is so surprising for me because I have lived in Toronto before and I could bear with the freezing cold. Getting sick is so terrible! I hate it.

Adjusting to Baruch has been a very interesting experience for me, one that I believe I can say has gotten better with time. The first thing I realized about this school is how hard they make it for you to pay your tuition. I just want to give them my money dammit! I quickly realized my physical/mental limitations with regards to how much I can accomplish in day.My wisest decision so far was dropping my 7:50 AM speech class, just saying. That being said, I enjoyed my other classes much more than I originally thought I would. Theater in particular has been a great experience. I kept most of my bad habits…I still procrastinate, but so does everyone. Some things never change.  Oh, but despite my jokes in class, I really did learn how to deal with stress. Stress isn’t helpful, it just takes energy. I like to just shut it down, roll with the punches, and keep moving. There will always be failures in life, if you can then you will take preventative measures. If you can’t prevent them, then stressing won’t help anyways. Just relax.

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How time flies, I didn’t realize that I have been in Baruch for three mouths. The most interesting class which inspires me is theater art class. My former school didn’t pay attention to educating students in art; most teachers just show some movies instead of talking and teaching art when I was in china. So this is my first time to accept a real art class in Baruch. In order to finish professor’s assignment, I went to watch the show sleep no more.   

Sleep No More is a really amazing show which changes my concept of play. It is really different from the traditional play which makes the audience sat down under the stage and the show only plays on the stage. However, in this show, audience can feel the actors’ feelings not only through their behavior but also their face and eyes.

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During my time in New York and at Baruch College I have learned many things. Mostly I have been able to grow into a critically thinking person, not simply accepting what I hear if not with proper argumentation. I have become more interested in subjects that I would never ever study if it were not for Baruch core curriculum. I also feel that I have become less shy with expressing my opinion (which is a very Swedish way of behaving).

There is one thing however that has improved that most. That is my walking pace. When I first got here everyone was walking really really fast. I am usually a fast walker but now suddenly people that appeared to be in a tremendous rush kept walking past me. I didn’t take me long until I started to feel however minute walking slowly is a minute wasted. I was not sure what I was in a rush for but I was in a rush. To everything, to school, back from school and even when walking and looking at the “turisty” parts on the city I was in a rush.

Now I barely find anything more annoying that some lazy tourist taking up a lot of space and walking extremely slowly in the middle of the side walk. I wish that it was not illegal to slap people in the back of the head for doing this, for takin up the time of us fast-walkers.

I also happen to be a strong advocate against the capital punishment. But when seeing someone stop and tie their shoe in the subway, in the middle of the stairs in rush hour it clouds my judgement regarding death penalty.

Thank you everyone!

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Hey, my college life starts at Baruch.

I always think that I am so lucky, for I can get into Baruch, a place where many people start to achieve their DREAMS.

In my view, before I become a college student, college life is BUSY, BUSY, and BUSY.

28 Jan. 2015, my first day at Baruch, my fist day as a college student.

As a college student, I am excited but nervous.

I am excited because studying at college is one of my turning points in my life.

Furthermore, I can have as many new experience as possible in a new world.

In contrast,

I feel nervous, for everyday is a due day at college.  There are thousands of hundreds of assignments.

I feel nervous, as I might not handle all of the assignments.

As English is my second language, I have to put more efforts than others in other to catch up with them.

It is not easy, but I will try my best.

Yes, college life is BUSY, BUSY,and BUSY. College life is full of CHALLENGE, CHALLENGE, and CHALLENGE.

Although college life does drive me into crazy, I am still proud of myself for my improvement. Also, I am thankful for the people who have helped me a lot at college. I want to say “Thank you” to them.

To all the people in my freshman seminar, I am so happy to meet you all in my college life. I do learn a lot from you all. Thank you!!!

Good luck, my friends.

Last but not least,

no matter how difficult life is , I will always try my best because I believe that practices make perfect.

(Now, I have to go back to continue to do my HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!)

The college, the first semester, the freshmen. That’s where I am.

Busy, busy, busy. That’s how I am.

Are assignments too much and hard?

If they were all Chinese, I would say, No.

As a new ESL student, I have to spend twice or three times as local students so that  I can catch up them.

They learn new things,but I need to learn new vocabularies and study the culture which I rarely know.

I love math and science, but all classes I need to take of them are just three.

I hate liberal arts, but they take up the main classes in my common required core.

Does it look like that everything is in a mess?

Not exactly.

Because I know every day there are some new harvest, small improvement and confidence.

And I believe,

Nothing is impossible for a willing heart!

Maybe you will feel that my work lacks logic, since my papers are messing up my mind.

And I am still working on it.

Good Luck, guys!

So basically i took this photo from the internet and replaced it with my name. It really represents the way i feel a lot of times when people talk. I have this strict no-negative-talk-zone policy. If you are a negative and pessimist person you won’t be in my friendship. I am totally sold into life and i will do anything to catch my dreams. And  if i encounter some pessimist minds who tell me i cant, i take immediate action, and remove their priviledge of being my friends!. After all we are in the city of dreams. Ain’t no one telling me i cant achieve things i want to.

Something about me

Time goes like the water flows. And, it has been last for 3 months for me to study in Baruch from the beginning of this semester to now. At that time, I got some experiences from my life and study. They are wonderful, extraordinary, and something else I can’t explain enough. I think the life and study in Baruch are different from what I wondered at first. As the matter of fact, I believed the lessons in Baruch is interesting and easy for me to pass and I am able to get a great score and GPA in Baruch. However, I met some problems in my classes. Firstly, I feel I didn’t have enough time to read the play before my Theater class. Secondly, I can’t get a good score I am satisfied in my math. As far as I am concerned, the math lesson in United States is much easier than in China. Nevertheless, my math score in U.S.A is much lower than in China. Therefore, I have to change my way to learn math Right now.
Although the study is difficult, I am still energetic and confident to overcome frustrations because I I would like to challenge myself and make progress in the future.
Due to I access to Baruch, my daily life has changed at the same time. I no longer stay up late in the morning and I can’t spend a lot of time cooking my cuisine. Meanwhile, I must concentrate on my study and prepare for the class tomorrow. But, I am enjoyable during I concern on doing homework, because I think I am doing a meaningful and valuable thing and that is why I never complain the task that makes me exhausted.
I hold the belief that I will get more experience and meet more curious events in Baruch in the future.

Before, coffee was the worst drink above every other drinks out there. But now, it is a primary needed source. I did not drink coffee even until when I was in high school.  I hated the bitterness of the coffee. It was unnecessary for me to drink coffee because there were plenty of different kinds of sodas and juices for me to drink. I did not get why people drank coffee in the morning before going to school or work. However, after the experience of studying in Baruch college for three months, I realized that coffee was one of the required sources. If I were to compare a college student with a car, coffee is like a fuel that you need in order to get your “thinking engine” running. Coffee helps preventing me from falling asleep during lectures and doing homework at a library or at home. Now, I am a coffee lover and I drink coffee every morning. No sugar and sometimes milk.