Hello fellow classmates and professor! My name is Carolina Fernandez and my preferred pronouns are she/her. I am a transfer student from BMCC and this is my very first semester here at Baruch, I hope we can connect and have a great semester together! Some facts about me are that I am turning 21 this month, I am a cat person but I have both a cat and a dog (also a guinea pig) and I enjoy reading.
One text that really left an impact in my life was Invierno by Junot Diaz, all the similarities between that story and my own from coming to a new country looking for better opportunities and struggling to adapt really shocked me. Junot Diaz put into words feelings that I didn’t even know I had felt during the darkest days in my life.
And to finish this introduction, I wanted to also add some of my favorite books here if anyone is interested in new recommendations: In the time of the butterflies by Julia Alvarez, This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz, The lovely bones by Alice Sebold (TRIGGER WARNING: CSA) , and Depression and other magic tricks by Sabrina Benaim (Poems)
Hello Carolina, Im also a transfer student from BMCC. I was wondering if you think there is a big difference between Baruch and BMCC. Happy early Birthday.