F¹rst Graduate

First Graduate's college blogger Anjelais

This post is part of an ongoing series of blog entries by Anjie (FG3), a freshman at Barnard College writing about her college experiences on the blog Uptown Girl. Here’s an excerpt of her latest musings:

What I learned from the Internet today:

1. People don’t read my blog when I don’t write in it, with a few anomalous days where I actually got a few readers.

2. I’m not as bad of a college student as I thought I would be, especially transitioning from my tiny, weird little public high school to Barnard.  I actually got decent grades — just shy of a 3.5 GPA, actually, which is really good for one’s first semester of college.  I mean, I hope it is, because something Barnard does is actually TRY to make transitioning from high school easy so all the advisers encourage first-years to take a certain number of credits and a certain number of classes and certain types of classes so nothing is excruciatingly challenging during the first semester.  So maybe this is the honeymoon period or something…I really hope my grades for the semester reflect a general ability to succeed in college rather than just an ability to succeed with some of Barnard’s easier classes.  Cross your fingers.

3. There’s a Maisin Scholar not only at Barnard, who I met already, but one at Columbia in my graduating class, too.  It’s my new mission to find and meet her.

Anjie Diaz (FG3)