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My experience at Baruch College has lived up pretty much as I expected it upon entering the school. I knew traveling to school in Manhattan everyday would be very different from the 5 minute walk that took me to my high school. I knew the work would be much more difficult than I had experienced throughout high school and I was correct. I expected college to be a bunch of huge lecture classes were there would be more than 100 people. It turned out that most of my classes actually had fewer than 30 people in it.

In all honesty my first semester at Baruch College went exactly as my senior year of high school ended, I was lazy and unmotivated. I did alright in all of my classes but absolutely nowhere near my full potential. But on the other hand I did make a few friends along with the friends I had from high school. I saw the way college and high school are different and that has helped me.

Obviously I can say If I could do this semester all over again I would study very hard and get great grades but I’m not a very motivated student and that just wouldn’t be the truth. If I could do it all over again I would honestly not come to Baruch College. I don’t really dislike the school too much but I’m not very happy with my decision.

I haven’t changed much since I started at Baruch College, I’m still a very lazy student who still manages good grades but could do better. I’m in the city a lot more which is fun but it’s not worth almost 2 hours of commute everyday to go to school in my opinion.

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.

Diversity ranges form many different assortments of people. There are people of several different racial, religious, age, cultural, sexual orientation, and gender. The list is infinite to the categories of diversity. All this diversity or labels per say are massively compiled through New York City, it being one of the most diverse cities in America. Multi-culturalism is enabled throughout public schools and private schools, along with workplaces and other areas of commerce and so on. Diversity can benefit the wholesomeness of society, although sometimes it goes in disadvantage to more under the table issues between the separate groups.

Some schools for instance contain diversity for all the wrong reasons, for example, they will accept minority students with lower qualifications on an academic level than a caucasian student with equal or higher qualifications because the more minority student the college enrolls the more their funds will escalate. Most people enjoy the benefits of diversity, with the experience of new people, new cultures, and new ideas set into places that hadn’t been there originally. Tons of people begin to falter when they talk about diversity because people do have opinions of their own that they can rectify on their own terms.

Although, those opinions are clearly personal and their own and not expressing the views of society. In the workplace, many companies are sued for the ignorance in their hiring process of not taking minority applicants. However, some will only take minority applicants to avoid the compilations of lawsuits that would come their way so they work on becoming globally diverse in their company. Clearly, some circumstances like previously mentioned about the college acceptance, many think it unfair and to be honest it is because it lowers chances of other deserving students. Having a plethora of diversity in areas increases the cultural acceptance and diverse acceptance in the area.

When brought up in a surplus of diversity one can openly speak about the advantage and disadvantage that they have overcome and had, along with an understanding of what each diverse group goes through and be more accustom and unreserved about their opinion towards the topic and reality of the situation. Then there are those who were not able to manifest their feelings about how diversity affects them and what it means to them because they are masked with the idea that each group of diverse communities must stay put and not be modified to a newer more diverse community of people. Growing up in a myriad of diversity helps me understand the struggles of any diverse group in countless ways. In retrospect, diversity can either aid a situation in many ways because people are more accepting or pollute minds into thinking that certain diversities should not be linked with each other.

1.Tell us who you think you are?

My name is Daniel Aharoni i am 18 years old. Born and raised in Queens, New York . Favorite things to do are pretty typical 18 year old kid stuff as in hang out with friends, play sports etc.. most of my friends know me as very outgoing,easy to talk to and very easy to get along with but also have a shy side to me. The experience of being a freshman in college has mixed emotions in me, I’d like to say i know the feeling because i was a freshman in high school 4 years ago, but while there are similarities it is very different and it makes me anxious as well as well as excited.

2.3 concerns

My first concern is that there is a lot more work given at Baruch than in my high school. this is hard because there is more work to keep up with which leads to more information needed to retain which also has to do with the amount of things we need to know for tests. Commuting is also one of the concerns for me. the past 4 years of my schooling have been at Forest Hills High School which is in my neighborhood and a 10 minute walk from my house. At Baruch i have to take the subway to and from school every day for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour each way depending on traffic. this makes me have less sleep in the morning and arrive to classes very tired sometimes. My 3rd concern is the fact theta almost all of the homework at Baruch is online, some people find this much easier and i guess it depends on the person, but I am not one of these people and hope to be able to keep up with work.

3.what makes Baruch different from high school is the fat that there are so many more people. I thought my high school had a lot of kids with 4 thousand but that hails in comparison to this school. As previously stated, transportation and the distance of the school from my house are also new to me. class sizes also vary tremendously with them ranging from 0 kids (the average of my high school) to over 100 people in some classes.

4. Baruch in my first year will change me in many ways. i think the added workload and independence will make me more responsible as i get older. I will also be spending a lot more time in the city than i had before so this will make me more accustomed to the area as well as other parts. The most important thing i hope college gives me is guidance, I know it is my decision what i want to do in my life but i hope that classes at this school will at least put me on path to becoming successful at something i enjoy.