{"id":7839,"date":"2017-11-06T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2018-10-23T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:28:34","slug":"larry-romanovich-magstories-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/larry-romanovich-magstories-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Weeks of the Semester? So Far So Good Say Three Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest in a Series of Articles About Students Returning to Campus for the New Academic Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Article by Larry Romanovich<\/p>\n

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Matthew Dreyer<\/p><\/div>\n

Three students were interviewed about their first few weeks of the fall semester, a period that can be enjoyable or frustrating depending on how well students get the course schedules that they want. The early weeks were good for Matthew Dreyer, a 21-year-old senior. Dreyer said he was enrolled in only one class on this campus because he takes the rest of his classes at the College of Staten Island<\/a> where he is a history major.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first few weeks have been good, I noticed a lot of broken escalators,\u201d said Dreyer, who wore black jeans and a blue shirt and was interviewed in the seventh floor Hunter North lounge. \u201cI really enjoy German and that is my only class, so I have no regrets,\u201d he said. Why German? \u201cI like it because it\u2019s cool to learn another language,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On his commute to Hunter, he listens to music or plays games on his phone. Dreyer, who rarely eats on campus, usually brings a sandwich. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ll get Halal, which is rare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Regarding hobbies, he enjoys movies, TV, video games, reading, hiking and eating. \u201cThe movies I like range from enjoyable horror, comedies, deep philosophical movies or just fantasy,\u201d he said. \u201cFor TV and books, I keep to more to the fantasy side because I like character development. Character are my favorite part of a story.\u201d He likes hiking because he gets to connect with nature and he likes food because he craves comfort. Dreyer works as a tutor in CSI. \u201cIt\u2019s fair, it\u2019s relaxed about being a little and you can do homework or chill if nobody is there to be tutored,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes the job is boring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Raphael Kashtelian, a 21-year-old media studies major with a minor in math, said his “first few weeks back were generally okay. I like my classes for the most part except one elective that seems too repetitive. I\u2019d say it\u2019s worse than last semester based on the fact that the schedule is bad. I have classes ending at 9:40 p.m. and (beginning) next morning at 9:45 a.m., with a two hour commute each way, which can get exhausting.\u201d Said Kashtelian, \u201cThe production classes are very fast paced and if you look away for five seconds, you struggle to catch up the entire class.\u201d He wore a tan T-shirt and jeans and was interviewed on the third floor skybridge.<\/p>\n

Kashtelian lives in Staten Island and doesn\u2019t have a job at the moment but he said he was looking for internships in design and production so that he can do light coding, which he wants to apply to websites and video games later in his career. One of his main hobbies is playing video games. \u201cI play racing games usually, like Forza Motorsport, but I also love open word games like GTA,<\/a>\u201d he said. Asked why those are his favorite, he said, \u201cI enjoy racing games because I love cars and the physics of racing are satisfying and open world is good for letting out the stress.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that he gets stressed from life in general because of his nihilistic outlook on the world, his studies and uncertainty about the future. \u201cI just commonly find that I have no idea what to do with life at times. I either regret taking the wrong track, or just don\u2019t know what to do next,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes the escalators work, sometimes they don’t. Elevator service in the North Building can be a bummer.<\/p><\/div>\n

Gabriel Dudin, a 20-year-old junior and a media studies major who lives in Brooklyn, said, \u201cMy first few weeks back in school have for the most part crawled by at their usual lukewarm pace, and nothing of note has really occurred. I don’t have any particularly strong feelings as to how I feel about this semester, since it still feels too early to tell, and as it compares to my previous semesters. I’m more confident in my selection of classes, and don’t have any immediate regrets or classes I’m fearful of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gabriel Dudin<\/p><\/div>\n

Wearing shorts and a T-shirt and interviewed in the third floor student cafeteria, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve had a pretty good idea of what major to go for since the start of high school since they also offered majors, and I was confident in my choices of classes because they fell more in line with my major rather than Hunter\u2019s core requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI like video games, a pretty wide range, anything from shooters to RPGs to puzzles. If I\u2019m not doing that, I\u2019m reading, texting friends or just making for myself in Photoshop or something,\u201d he said. Dudin doesn\u2019t have a job but elaborating on the Photoshop, said, \u201cI like to do typically just small graphic design things, banners, logos. I sometimes have friends ask me to do things for them, so I do that too.\u201d The work gives him an \u201copportunity for self improvement or experimentation, but it is a job when they pay you,\u201d he said. As for his love of video games, he said, \u201cI guess I like the way they make you think, with some games promoting great quick thinking and others really making you think far in advance with preparations and the like. For some games, I enjoy the worlds that the creators build for you to move through and the characters and stories they mold for you to fall in love with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry Romanovich can be reached at Vrom68@yahoo.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article by Larry Romanovich
\nThree students were interviewed about their first few weeks of the fall semester for the new academic year, a period that can be enjoyable or unpleasant depending on how well students get the course schedules that they want.<\/p>\n

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