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1. My experience at Baruch College has lived up to my expectations. I didn’t really expect much of the college experience because Baruch is more of a commuter school. I just expected to be able to come into school, get my work done, and leave without any problems.
2. My first semester at Baruch College didn’t go as well as i expected it to go. I had a little trouble adjusting to the morning commute and managing my time.
3. I would not do anything differently during my first semester because I feel like it was needed for me to adjust by myself so that when next semester comes along I will be fully prepared.
4. Since I have started at Baruch College I have been able to work on managing my time and being more punctual.

1. I do not know who I am yet. I would like to believe I am a very fun and outgoing person. I live life to the fullest with no regrets. I always make the best of something even if that something is nothing. I believe if you live life happy then everything will come with it.
2. My top 3 concerns about my freshman year at Baruch College is to be able to manage my time wisely, meet new people and get good grades.
3. The main difference between high school and college is the importance of getting good grades. In highschool I slacked off for pretty much the first 3 years of school and pulled it together my last year. My one priority was to just have as much fun as possible. Now, my priority is to get good grades in all of my classes.
4. I think that my first year in College will help me work on my time management. I always procrastinate when it comes to doing something that I don’t want to do so hopefully I can get rid of this awful habit.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/jl1a192010/2010/10/24/

Aleksey Trofimov

If you saw us at the age of seven, you would think that I and my crew was a bunch of pyromaniac kids from the wild. There were no limits; we lived on the streets more than we did at home.  We made fires every night, made secret bases, and had wars with other kids from the neighborhood.  Almost every day, our dinner was potatoes baked in a bun fire outside. Sometimes we even had lobsters, and once even a duck!

Every weekend I would go to the small stream about 2 miles away from me house and watch street races near a cargo airport. The road was smooth and perfect for racing, just about a quarter mile strip, wide enough to fit 6 cars. The races went on as usual, starting with bikes, then the local cars, then imports. I saw a police man shoo up and ask for some money, but the organizer of the event refused to give him any. Ten minutes later, the place was swarming with cops, arresting everyone they stumbled upon. My friends and I went down by the stream as if nothing happened, and just skip some rocks. As my friend tossed a rock, a group of ducklings and their mother were swimming by. The unfortunate Madre got hit in the head by the rock and flipped upside down in the water. We felt bad leaving the duck to just float down the stream so we took it with us. When we got back to the neighborhood, we feathered it, gutted it, and then washed it. That day we had a big feast, we baked many potatoes and then had a duck to top it all off. Now I realize that what we did was unsanitary to say the least, but it was the best tasting duck I’ve ever eaten!

I see myself similar to a message in a bottle. Just as a message in a bottle floating on the ocean does not have a fixed route or destination, I similarly do not know which path I am taking. I have yet attempted to steer myself toward a specific goal. As of now and as of who knows when, I indifferently left myself vulnerable to go along with the waves, hoping that maybe this prolonged arbitrariness will get me somewhere.

I thought, coming to college, I would finally be able to decide what I wanted to do with my future. It didn’t. College did not help me narrow down my “What to Do in My Future” list, it just added to my growing list. This added a great deal of concern regarding my future. The possibility that college will just strengthen my indecisiveness, overload my brain with the new ideas, and ultimately serve as discouragement for me to stay motivated to do my required college work.

I believe that independence will make my college experience completely different from my high school experience. Easily put, everything will be on me. I would have to approach new people and befriend them, get over senioritis to complete and hand in my work , and to just get along with life.

I am quite sure that my first year in college will improve myself to be more responsible and independent. Besides this aspect, I am hesitant to further answer how college will change me. It makes me feel as if I am creating limitations to all the possibilities and setting self-expectations that may not be fulfilled.

I’ve only had eighteen years in my life so far so no, I’m not really sure who I am yet? Physically, I’m a rather slender Asian American with your typical mocha colored hair and brown eyes. But if you were to really know me, I’d say I am a romanticist, a dreamer, and all sorts of things thrown into a pot. I have this fiery, irritable temper that makes me a bit too outspoken at times. I’m stubborn and prideful. But I know that I’m all of these things because I am sensitive and terribly afraid of being alone. I really need company and people to just show that they care enough. I’m also very pensive and analytical to many things and people. But beyond all of that however, I can be very gentle and tender. I have very strong morals and integrity and kindness to those in need. I love to draw and write in my down times; all the colors and words make me feel relaxed, like I’m in my own little world where there is nothing to worry about.

My top three concerns with freshman year are my social life, grades, and spare time. As a new student, making friends and connections are very important to me. The more people you know, the easier your life would be because you will have people to lean on or people to benefit you. But at the same time, you have to balance this with your old friends as well. I just really want to meet as many people as possible to broaden my horizons. A the same time, grades are the top of my priority because I have so much to prove. I want to excel and make it out on top so no one can look down on me again. I want to make my family proud and myself proud. I want to make a better life for everyone. And lastly, I need my spare time to unwind and cool down from all the hectic times. I also need this time to work on my design portfolio and resumes so that I can kill two birds with one stone.

College is definitely different in the fact that it is more freedom but more work. Classes aren’t a set time, breaks are long, and you get to go anywhere around the school or outside. It’s like a community within a school. But at the same time, you need to catch up on work on your own, no one spoon feeds you anymore or reminds you. You have to stay on top of work. It challenges your character/

College will make me more independent and will teach me how to persevere and work towards my goals.

I do not know who I am. Not yet, at least. But I do know who I want to be. I am a young student at Baruch who hopes to become successful in my future endeavors. Friends and family would describe me as aggressive, passionate, complex and at times eccentric. I value time and what I do with it. I love spending time with my twin sister Alana. Her and I are constantly laughing. As a freshman at Baruch I fear the workload and how I will maintain a good average. Also I am nervous about the presentations I will have to perform in front of the class. I am not yet accustomed to speaking before a large group of people. Living at the dorms in the Lower East Side challenges me to manage my time spent studying and having fun. Baruch is an entirely different experience from high school because it challenges me to think philosophically and ask questions. Also I believe I will be interacting with many other cultures which I did not experience at my small high school on Long Island. In addition, Baruch seems to be a college where most of it’s students are extremely involved in their work. Opposed to many other colleges, Baruch students are here for the sole purpose of an education. I believe that mentality will help me prosper at Baruch. Overall, I think my first year of college will help me integrate into the real world. Living in the city I am introduced to a new lifestyle. Already, I feel like I’ve aged, psychologically speaking. I control my own decisions and I’ve never felt as much of an individual as I do now. Thanks to Baruch I believe I will evolve tremendously within the first year.

I’m no one in particular, primarily because all of my thoughts and ideas are a collection of the thought and ideas of everyone I’ve met in my life.  Generally speaking, nothing about anyone is original.   Appropriately enough, that’s a blatant ripoff of a Chuck Palahniuk quote.

My top concerns are as follows: Acclimating to college life, keeping up with work, and the long commutes to school.

The difference between Baruch and High School is the size.  Baruch is 4-5 times more populated than my High School.

Hopefully, College will successfully transform me into a hardworking, dedicated student.

The college experience will differ from the typical high school one in several ways.  First of all, a lot more responsibility is placed on each individual student.  It is part of the transition into adult life.  You must take care of various tasks, and manage your time so that you can do them before deadlines.  You have to get books for classes, deal with any financial matters you may have, and try to be as much involved in the college community as you can all out of your own accord.  Although there is a lot more pressure on a student in college, there are also lots of great resources that a student can use.  For example, the STARR Career development center is a place that I know i will be visiting more than once to help me prepare for my law career.

I think my first year in college will mostly affect my work habits.  I am a procrastinator by heart, but I know one can fall behind very quickly with this kind of a work habit in college.  One concern that I have is my sociology class.  This subject is so vague and encompasses so many contrasting ideas that I cannot possibly fathom what the final test could be about.  But so far I am enjoying all of my classes, especially the ones where we lead an open discussion.  I feel that class discussions are superior to lectures as it gets everyone in the class involved, and you can even discuss a subject or with a professor if you happen to have a contrasting view on the matter.