Even though I’m a Baruch Scholars, I’m still in the process of going from just doing schoolwork to doing other activities in the school as well. For freshman year, I plan on working hard on schoolwork only to assure that I do well, hopefully.
My role as a Baruch Scholars is probably to use everything that Baruch has to offer me and use these to my advantage. After absorbing what Baruch gives, then I would use everything I received and return some back to the community. For example, I’m being offered a free education, which means that I would have more money and more time. With the extra time I have, I can use that to do community service to help out the community. That is only but one example of how to help out the community. I’m starting to do that, but as I said before, I think my grade is my priority.
The culture of Baruch, for me, has a very friendly atmosphere. We are doing community service to aid the community, but sometimes I feel like this can be a burden as well because it is one more thing that we have to do. It means good, but sometimes I just feel like being an honor student has more to do. Which is different from being challenged.
The last thing that I want to mention is that whether I’m a Baruch Scholars or not, I came to college to make new friends in the process of learning. People who will not only be helpful to me in the future, but people who would actually be my friends twenty years in the future. That will be my main goal as a Baruch student.
