Author: viktoria.shapiro

1. I love Baruch! I don’t know why, but now it feels more like a part of my life. I think it exceeded my expectations: I thought it would be hard and boring, but it isn’t. Still I want to make more friends though 🙂

2. I think it was good. Challenging, but it is a good thing – it doesn’t allow you to relax and keeps you busy all the time. Although I started to appreciate weekends and free time more during this semester.

3. Probably I would be more open from the beginning. Also I would go to ratemyprofessors.com and check what my professors like and what they don’t like.

4. I became more open; my english got better (at least, I hope so) and I got used to all this college stuff. Now really feel like a part of the big Baruch community.

I will start with the beginning.

I was born in Kiev – that’s in Ukraine. I also finished my high school there so you can as well not ask which high school I came from – anyway you don’t know it 🙂 As I came here only a few month ago, the biggest challenge for me is to  get used to everything: new country, new culture, new people, everything new.

What I like about myself is tolerance. I can accept every view, every point, because I think that people have right to think what they want – whether I like it or not. Anyway, even if I don’t like it, that won’t change anything. So I just accept what people think and say and try to understand it.

There are a few things which I dislike about myself. First is that I can be nervous and worried about some little unimportant things. But this is good in a way – it makes me do my best. Second thing is that I really can’t choose. I can’t choose between red and blue – they are both good. And my friends have to say “just pick this and let’s go”, or I will never get out of shop.

I know that my speech has to be organized. But there are facts about me and I don’t know where to place them. So I put them all in one category. I like dancing: I did ballet for 9  years in Ukraine and tried ballroom dancing for a year – that was really exciting. I want to visit Europe, although I don’t have a particular place I want to see. I like french movies and want to make friends. I’m a little afraid of those big disgusting spiders, but I can overcome that fear. Also I like sleeping (yes, like most of you do).

And do you guys know that advertisements where  they give a little amount of information and say “call if you want to know more”? The same thing works with me. If you want to know more about me – just talk to me 🙂

I’ve never thought that a person can describe himself. Nor other people can describe him or her properly: we are all prejudiced and have to admit it. So you’ d better not rely on what I say about myself (although I’m trying to be honest), just explore me. I find myself a little bit shy, smart and sincere. I don’t think I’m a very opened person, but that’s the thing which changes in every freshman – we become more outgoing and open. Also I’m a perfectionist sometimes – want everything to be done well.

I think I will change during this year. Well, I think people constantly change, even if a little. New world requires new habits, new behavior and overlooking your world view. So that’s what is happening inside my head now. I think with time things will settle down and we all will adjust to this new culture.

Of course, I’m concerned about my GPA, as all freshmen. Also there is a thing which crosses my mind very often – I want to find a dance studio and sign up. College dancing club is not enough for me –  only once a week – although it’s nice. And I can’t live without my body being involved in movement, it’s hard to do without dancing when you’re so get used to it. The last concern is about friends – I want to meet a lot of new people, but the main point is that I expect some of them to be my really best friends.

Once I had a blog. Kind of online diary. But then I moved to NY and haven’t posted there ever since…now I can write here. But maybe I’ll continue that blog someday as I miss it.

So here I should write about my impressions and thoughts, right? Let’s start then. For me this all is not like for the other guys. Because they changed the school and I changed my life. Everything is new for me: starting with subway and…I don’t see where it ends))

Have you ever learned foreign  language? To that level where you can write, understand, communicate and learn. Now imagine that you moved to the country where it is spoken. But anyway, it’s not about language. It’s all about finding yourself in this huge world of opportunities and requirements.

I think it’s good that we can see everyone’s posts. You can look into the inside world of who sits near you.

What do I expect? Friends. Of course, I want to do good academically. But how can a person be alone? So I want to use my every opportunity of talking, hanging out, making friends. Although I can’t call myself a very opened person.

Hope everything will be okay. By the way, I’m an optimist. But it takes time to get okay, doesn’t it?

p.s. I think I personalized it too much…