Coming to Baruch, I was expecting a couple of things — lengthy commutes, confusion getting to and from classes, trouble making few friends right off the bat because of the commutes and confusion. It seems as though exactly this has come from my first days at Baruch. Some things that I am surprised by? As obvious and ridiculous as it may sound, the fact that it’s a business school. When I was looking into schools, I looked at Baruch as a final resort since I am 99.7% sure I’m going to become a liberal arts major — the speakers at all of the Freshman Information Sessions kept pushing the fact that it wasn’t just a business school, and that their trying to dispose of this stigma — but almost every class I’ve sat in, I’ve heard the words “I know most of you are going into business …”. I kind of feel like a square peg being forced into a roundhole. I don’t know how I feel about that yet.
I hope that the school proves to be liberal enough — although I knew coming in, I’d be dealing with a business-centric school, I’d heard a lot about Baruch’s commitment to making you as cultured, academically, as possible. I hope that this stands true.