The topic of values is one that brings to mind ethics and beliefs, as values are core to who a person is. At Baruch diversity is the norm, both ethnically and culturally. Though the overarching commonality in near all baruch students is a drive to succeed professionally, I have yet to meet a Baruch student either male or female who doesnt consider themselves a future breadwiner for their family and it is that hardworking passion that can be found at Baruch. I also find that Baruch students are a lot more pragmatic then Columbia or NYU students, we tend to know that we want to get into business and aren’t willing even when accpeted to NYU or Columbia to bog ourselves in over a hundredthousand dollars in debt to achive professional success, which is why by and large their is disdain for the Occupy Wall St. movement at Baruch, for at its core are college students who went to pretestigous universities, boged themselves down in debt and now want the goverment to bail them out of their obligations, to have their cake and eat it too.
So if I would have to sum up Baruch students I would call us pragmatic, a value quite frankly lacking in a large number of the student body of other colleges.
Jonathan I like what you had to say about the differences between Baruch and other schools such as NYU and Columbia. Baruch is a lot more practical and a lot of people such as yourself are unwilling to be in such a large debt. I also did not like the Occupy Wall st protest at our school. We are just trying to make it in the world and the economic crisis was also caused by overly optimistic people defaulting as well. So they should not just blame banks and large companies.