New Week

Good morning Berkeley College students and potential students. I cannot believe that it is already the end of February and we are about to enter March. I still feel like it was New Years and i was just getting ready to go back to college. Now my first semester here is ending and i cannot wait until the next one begins. Now many of you may just think that i am a nerd or something but is just i want my degree as fast and soon as possible. I have to say my first semester here is probably one of the best semesters i have had in any of the universities i have been to. The professors have been very understanding and helpful throughout the courses and I am interested to see how next semester progresses. Anyway midterms are over and now it is the final push in all my classes. We have approximately 3 weeks or so left until we all get a much needed week off. Spring semester will be the most busiest time of the year for me as not only do i have to work full time and go to school full time but i also have a lot of personal events that start next month. The good thing about it though is that i will be able to share all of it with you guys and also many pictures to come, especially my daughters first birthday. I cannot wait for this upcoming week because i may find out the gender of baby #2 so everyone pray for a boy! Anyway back to school and as i stated we are almost done. In Accounting we got our midterm grades back and i was one of the few that did really good. As i heard how what other students scores were and even the scores for some of my friends i was afraid of my own score. Not that because i did really good but because everyone else did really bad. I guess that is the tutor part of me because i always want everyone to do well and succeed. Granted i have already taken accounting 1 in LaGuardia and got an A so this is all a refresher for me. People ask me why don't i just test out of the class and i am sure i could but i didn't feel confident in my ability to pass. It had been so long since i last studied accounting that i felt i might as well just take it again and if i remember anything then it is an easy A. I am glad to know that i have the ability to test out of classes but you have to use it wisely. Everyone wants to get out of college faster but you may just need that A to get your GPA up so students should use it when they don't really need the letter grade and they know they could go in and fully pass it, that's just my opinion.
Berkeley college has a lot of activities for daytime students which most of you incoming will be day time students. They have this movie night every week and i hope to attend one on a day i either don't have class or class is canceled. It is great to see that they have so many events and activities going on and they tell everyone about it. My poor blackberry gets flooded with emails about the happenings at Berkeley college. I can already see that this is a tight community despite the fact that all the campuses are spread apart. I think that is always important to keep unity in a college atmosphere when there is so much disunity in the world.
On to more happy stuff everyone that is a current Berkeley student i hope has already registered for spring. If you haven't you better get going before the good classes are gone. I remember in my old campus all the good stuff was gone by the first week but here at Berkeley if you waited until the second week you still had a shot at some of the those good classes. It feels sort of weird being a transfer student with credits. Most of the people in my classes it is there first semester in any college and they are all talking about the intro classes and here i am in my first semester taking second level classes. I guess most of my life i have never quite fit in with a particular group and that was fine with me. I think being unable to just fit in one group allowed me to be very diverse in my thinking and in my friends. When you are consistently around people who think and act like you, you tend to be very closed minded and unwilling to try different things. With businesses these days preaching diversity in their management the ability to work with different people is a very key asset that everyone says they have but don't. The key for anyone entering college as well that are in college is to stretch your boundaries and open your mind to different ideas and i truly believe that is how i have been able to attain many leadership positions over my collegiate career.
Now it is time for everyones favorite piece, Rebecca's corner. I cannot wait to add her sibling to the mix so stay tuned for that after the summer. Anyway my poor little one has been fighting an upper respitory infection the past couple of days so there is times she is not quite herself. Then there are times where she doesn't stop talking for five minutes but then again she is part latin and we all know latin women can talk. Anyway aside from being a little sick she is still trying to master the art of walking. She is almost there and i predict definitely before her first birthday se will be walking and running with no issues. She just turned 9 months yesterday and time just keeps on flying with her. Anyway i do want to leave you guys with a brief question to ponder, "What other skills are necessary in the workplace in order for someone to be successful?" What is your definition of success? Think about that and i will see you all next time.