First Graduate

This post is part of an ongoing series of blog entries by Anjie D (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 a great day!

Yes, I had to work all day, but work turned out to be awesome. I made a new friend with whom I can hold a decent conversation about eminent domain and issues in education. I networked with an alumna who gave me good advice on how to be a better mentor, and the mentoring program-MyNYC-started up again. It looks like it's going to be a good year for the program, and-if all goes according to plan-we'll be matched with mentees next week! Yay!

When the weekend is up, itll be time to get serious about finding a tutor for Spanish. If I actually want to be more than sort of fluent, I can't depend on a strictly academic, college-classroom setting for my language development anymore. Four years, give or take, of that same kind of absorb-this, memorize-that method was enough, and it just doesn't work for me as well as it used to. Which sucks, because if I plan on doing well in Spanish this semester, my skills need to be higher than where they are now.

So, yes, time to find myself a tutor.