Hello my name is Daniel Aharoni and I’m from Forest Hills a neighborhood in Queens. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for almost my entire life. I attended Forest Hills High School for 4 years. My high school was considered very large containing 4,000 students, but it is nothing compared to Baruch having more than 4 times the umber of students. College has been very different for me from high school for reasons that i could go on about for a while, mainly the travel. It used to take me 5-10 minutes to walk to my school and then that would be all, now i have to take the train from anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the traffic. The work at college is also different from my 4 years at high school. Most of my work is due online and while it does make things a bit easier, it is easier to slack off and forget about work in my opinion.
The literal fears i have are fairly common and include heights and flying like many other people. One of my fears is the fear of failure, and a fear of letting myself and the most important people to me down. The most important people to me are my family, which include my sister and parents. My parents want me to succeed very much and I do not want to let them , or myself down.
My hobbies are very normal for a person of my age. I love almost all sports (with the exception of baseball) very much to both watch and play. My favorite sport however is basketball. My friends and I all love and play basketball all the time. A lot of my friends have gone away to school and its tough for me because these are very important people to me but i am able to see them once in a while. Most of them love the dorming lifestyle, and i sometimes regret not going away for school. staying home does have its advantages though just like going away.
My main challenges in school are the actual classes. The content of thee courses are more difficult than in high school and actually require me to study. Having pretty much no trouble in high school, i haven’t studied in 4 years and am already a big procrastinator. My challenge is to not let my old habits get the best of me and stop me from becoming a successful college student.
