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Describing myself may be the hardest thing to do.  Everyone is there own person and explaining who you are, is more difficult than it seems.  Also, no one knows you better, than yourself, so this may be the best summary of who I am.  In all honesty, I can say I am a very down to earth person, never really angered, but I can be easily annoyed.  I grew up a Christian, and still attend church very regularly.  I am not really family orientated, except I love my immediate family.  I think I am a very caring person and may be too nice sometimes.  I also think I am too lazy sometimes and procrastinate way too much.  Also, I find myself to be very outgoing and and enjoying a good time.

My top three concerns at Baruch are probably similar to many others.  My top concern obviously, would be my grades.  I want to try and get the best grades possible so that the admission into Zicklin can be as smooth as possible.  My next concern would be the commuting process because I feel as if I get no work done at home.  Even though Baruch is a commuter school, getting an apartment closeer to the school would make everything easier.  My last concern about Baruch would be the classes for spring semester and my professors.  I want to try and get a good schedule while also having solid professors.

I am not sure so far what can make my college experience different than my high school experience.  Honestly, its just different going to school in the city with this many people.  That itself is a big difference.  I think knowing that I have to have more responsibility and be up to things will make me think and know the college experience is different.  Already seeing the amount of sources available to students make this college experience different.  For example, the library is one of the most state of the art facilities, and access to the computer labs is amazing.

I think my first year at college will change me into being a more responsible student.  It will also help me realize the realities of college and how it is no joke.  You basically cannot bullsh*t your way through college.

1. I believe myself to be a common person on earth. One who holds dreams for a better life, fame, fortune, status, a future. The common human wish. Merely one unnoticeable spec in this vast universe.
2. My main concern in college is failing classes, I have heard many stories about unbelievable work loads given by professors. I was and still am worried about funds for the tuition and texts required for the various classes I will take. And lastly I was worried about acquiring friends and maintaining previous bonds. I am not as worried about new ones but sometimes miss the previous closeness with my old friends.
3. I believe the main difference would be the pressure of the work place on me in college. Where it was fine to miss a number of assignments in high school. I am guessing such is not permitted within college. One other difference I believe worth mentioning would be responsibility in choosing classes and setting up one’s schedule.
4. I believe my first year in college would change my habit of procrastination and being more responsible for myself. Any other changes remain to be seen as I expect there to be much more.

Aleksey Trofimov
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1. Who am I? I’m a person, well a student at the moment at Baruch College. I’m Russian but lived ten years of my life in Uzbekistan. I think I’m a pretty easygoing person and friendly. I hope to find out who I really am in college I guess. I listen to any type of music that sounds good; from poets of the fall and rammstein, to Nas and diskoteka avariya. Oh yea have a lot of foreign music on my mp3 because I like to listen to things I don’t really understand. I don’t really like what they play on d radio because it gets hackneyed in a week.
2. My top three concerns at Baruch would be first of all getting assimilated to the work and the atmosphere of a commuter school. Another one would be meeting the right people in the school itself, making friendships. And the final concern would be deciding where to go for lunch each day. So much to choose from. Oh yea and actually deciding on a major and what I want to do with my life.
3. Baruch is a bit more challenging than high school. The atmosphere of city is great, but I’m going to have to stop slacking like I did in high school. I think I matured the minute I graduated high school realizing I have to be responsible about everything. Now the teachers don’t waste their time on you, you have to do everything on your own. I also get breaks in the middle of the day which is pretty dope. The work isn’t too demanding except for reading, I’m not too big on reading unless I want to force myself to fall asleep and most assignments I get are readings.
4. Well hopefully I’ll get more organized and develop better time managing skills and better study habits. I finally got folders for all my classes instead of having just one! I would like to travel a little more so hopefully I go study abroad or move somewhere. Trying to force myself to quit being lazy, so far not working out too well. Other than that, I think I’d like to stay the way I am right now.

I am a Drake fan. I also love watching The Great Food Truck Race, Cake Boss, Jersey Shore (don’t judge me haha), 30 Rock and The Office. I am an outdoorsy person & am up for any adventurous time. I am a night owl but I try to be a morning person too. I am a coffee addict and love Vita drinks too. But if there’s one thing you’ll probably always see me with, it’s Naked Juice (Berry Blast!) My favorite color is rainbow(:

I think my Top 3 concerns for my freshman year is (1) I might have worst and worst time management, (2) not being able to get into the elevator & be late for class, (3) not knowing where to eat for lunch or eating so unhealthy that i gain the Freshman 15.

My Baruch College experience will be different from my high school experience in the fact that in high school we had a campus and Baruch doesn’t. I will have to walk a lot more stairs. But the other thing is that I have to be a lot more on top of my own things – there is no dean/ counselor coming around to tell me what courses I still need to complete or how to do things.

My first year of college will change me to be more mature and more involved in school clubs/ activities.

I would say that I am a bunch of things all bundled up into one person. I currently am just a college freshman trying to figure out who I am. I am someone who is trying to experience everything in search for answers. Whatever obstacles come my way I try to overcome it. I enjoy having a goal in life, but I also like to have fun and go with the flow.

Enrolling as a freshman at a new school I am worried that about not doing well in school, not being able to balance everything, and not being able to figure out my major. I want to be able to maintain a high GPA, but it is difficult for me to study subjects that I have no interest in. I’m also concerned about the workload here, I want to be able to have a little balance of everything: my friends, family, and school. Another concern is spending so many years in college and still not being able to figure out what I want to major in. I would be wasting my parent’s money as well as not moving forward.

I think the whole general way that college works will make my experience at Baruch College different from my high school experience. I don’t have as many classes as before and I have more freedom as well. I also came from a small school so it is different seeing a greater number of students. Being in the city is also a different experience for me since my high school was in Queens.

My first year at Baruch will definitely help shape me to become more independent and more mature. I believe that here it is a time to experience and see things that I have never done or seen before. College is an important part of my life and I really want to do well. I think that college will ultimately help me to become a better person because here I will learn what is right and what is wrong for me.

Who am I? I am Hans Mei, a freshman in Baruch college. I consider myself an ordinary college student. There is nothing exceptional about me.  Like everyone else I have my own strengths and weaknesses that i won’t get into specifically. I can describe myself as a sort of shy, kind, respectful and somewhat helpful person.

Top Three Concerns regarding college:

My first concern would be passing all of my midterms, finals, and passing my classes. This is my main concern because I came to college to do well not to fail my classes and drop out. This is my top concern because passing classes in college is the only way i can work towards a good career.

My second concern is regarding my GPA. Its good to pass classes but what good is it to pass with C’s in all my classes. This is why my second main concern is to get an overall average of at least a B+.

My third concern regarding freshman year at Baruch College is not to try not to ever be absent and to try my best never to come in late. Of course I know that things happen occassionally so it probably won’t be possible to have perfect attendance.

I think the main difference between college and my high school is that there is more freedom in college. In college you can leave the campus to go off and eat lunch while in high school you must stay within the building. In high school you need to raise your hand to go to the restroom while in college you can just walk out of class. Another difference is that most professors know the material that they teach very well.

I believe that after my first year is over I will change for the better. Right now I have a horrible procrastination problem and I am working to resolve it. I am hoping that by the end of my freshman year at Baruch College I will change to become a more responsible person.

I am a regular human being doing his blog in order to pass his freshman seminar class. I am probably the most boring person you will meet on the face of the planet and I will literally bore you to death with every word that comes out of my mouth. I have the ability to put people asleep just by speaking to them. My life before my  junior year of high school consisted of playing World Of Warcaft for 13 hours a day. My life was my in game character known as “Superiority”. I have evolved since then ( like pokemon do ) and I started going outside much more frequently to spend more time with my girlfriend. I’m a pretty humble person so I won’t use any qualities to describe myself.

Top three concerns:

More socialistic policies implemented by the government. The new policies are essentially “Stealing” from the rich and giving it to the poor. Those that are wealthy worked their way up to the top while the poor gets free access to many government benefits just because they lack the skill to find a decent job. The world is NEVER fair. Social Darwinism is what I believe in. If you are weak you will die off, you cannot expect the government to save your sorry ass because you are too lazy to work a day in your life. Whats even worse than the people who get all these benefits are the people who actually have money and are getting additional benefits because they do not report their taxes. IF I ever join the IRS, i’m going to change the entire system so you cheaters out there won’t get anything for free and you will owe the government for all the years of taxes you skipped. America needs to change its revenue policy NOW.

War on Terrorism: You can kill people, but you will never kill an idea.

Religious Conservative Retards: Don’t get me started with this.

What makes Baruch different from my high school?

Baruch is essentially identical to my high school in terms of demographics. There are a lot of asian people in my high school and there are a ton of asians here at Baruch College. However, Baruch has a much better building and its in a better environment. Edward R. Murrow high school was like in the middle of no where. There wasn’t much to do and the only stores you would see are cheap 99 cent stores or food businesses coming there to make a hefty profit off students. There are much more smokers around Baruch though and the city in general. At murrow, there were a bunch of potheads that would smoke outside all the time. The stench was horrific and I should have done something about it. All of them were scrawny and frail anyway.

How do you think your college will change you?

Hopefully Baruch can turn me into an intellectual. I wish to become part of the Elite one day and have the power and the wealth to do as I please. A solid foundation is necessary for anything in life and college is no different. Start off with a high note and you will find your way to success. Start off with a bad note and hard times loom over the horizon. However, one must never give up. Failure is never an option in my book. One day perhaps, I might be known as the next Rockefeller or Carnegie.

I consider myself Noshin Fiza Rabbani, it is as simple as that, or rather as complicated as that. There are many things that make up who I am, like being a daughter, a sister, a coworker, a student, and a friend. In each situation people see a different side of me. My parents and siblings see my lazy side, when I don’t want to get out of bed on the weekends or make my bed or do the dishes, while my coworkers get to see the energetic side of me as I work with children. I am a mix of many contradicting traits, lazy and energetic, shy and outgoing, serious and fun.

My main concern regarding Baruch at the moment is how I am going to manage getting to my sociology class on time. There is a lot of work to be done, and so I stay up very late trying to finish everything which makes it harder to wake up in the mornings and manage to get to class on time in order to avoid the situation where I am at the other side of the door reading the sign that claims I am more than ten minutes late and wont be permitted into the classroom anymore. Going along with that my second concern is being able to keep my grades up, there is a scholarship that I hope to be receiving at the end of the year and cannot do so unless my grades are kept in good standing. The third concern I have is about remaining the same person that I used to be before I came here. I don’t want to be one of those people who looses themselves under the pressure of studying, I want to be able to remain more or less the kind of person I was at the time of entering college.

There are many differences between my high school experience and my college experience. There is a lot more freedom here and things have to be done much more independently now. The way the courses flow is also something that is different because through out high school there was two semesters to finish a course and the class met five times a week at least. Now in college half a semester is given to complete the course work and each individual class only meets twice a week so there is less time spent with the teacher, and most of the learning happens outside of class.

My first year of college has already begun to change me, in high school I had terrible time management and work ethic, but since starting college I have become much more serious about my studies. I am not to sure how else college will change me, perhaps it will allow me to find new things that I am interested in, or discover things that I didn’t even know about myself, but I guess it is one of those things where only time will tell.

1. I believe that I am much pretty much an average eighteen year old girl. I am kind, compassionate, understanding, and fun. I enjoy hanging out with my friends, shopping, learning, listening to music, watching movies, and playing tennis. I absolutly love traveling, taking care of children, and reading. I can also be very clumsy, disorganized and I procrastinate a lot.

2. My first concern is handeling all of the reading/hw I am assigned because I heard that in college there is a lot of work and I do not have the best time management skills. My second concern is balancing athletics and academics. I am on the Baruch women’s tennis team  so I fear that I will be too tired or not have enough time for all of my work. And my last concern is choosing a possible career/major. A lot of students seem to know what they want to do and I feel a little uneasy knowing that I do not.

3. I already see that Baruch College is in a number of ways different from high school. The main differences I think are that in college all of the responsibilities are on you and you are also responsible for keeping up with the work. I believe that in college you really become more independant and mature. I also think that in some ways you begin to enjoy learning and going to class as well as taking adavantage of everything the school has to offer. In high school, students mostly complain about work and school but in college I feel like its about finding yourself and broadening your horizons. I also feel like its the time to try new things and explore your options.

4. I think my first year in college will change me for the better and make me more responsible and eager to learn. I also hope to stop procrastinating and to develop better time managament skills. I hope to meet new poeple and make friends with people from various nationalities as well as become more open minded.

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.