Author Archives: taylor.auld

Who am I? Describing who I am to someone else places a difficult task on me. I am very humble about who I am and what I have. Predominately, I am a New York girl, Long Island to be exact, and that is something that I have pride in. I am a girl from a large family, a tight string of extended family, full of many aunts, uncles and cousins. I am an older sister, with a brother who is always looking up to me, leading my values and morals to shine through so I can teach him the right way to be and act, hoping to never set a bad example. I also am a hard worker; during high school along with working to keep my grades up I also had two jobs, to be able to depend on myself for anything I wanted, since I am also a big shopper.

Being at Baruch makes me concerned about a few things. First, the commute is a concern for me. Because I live on Long Island and I do not feel comfortable living alone in the city, every day I take the LIRR to Penn. Station and then walk to Baruch, which is an annoyance, and also trying to match up a train schedule with my school schedule also imposes an annoyance, since during the day the trains only run about every hour back to my house. Another concern I have is making friends. I have a lot of trust issues therefore making real friends that I feel comfortable with is difficult for me. Linked to that, is my last concern. If I do make friends that I get along with very well, my main concern would be all my grades. Majority of my close friends from home went away for college, leaving my main, and pretty much only priority to be school. If I make new friends I feel that my social life may get in the way of keeping my grades at the high standard I am currently holding for myself.

Baruch experiences are going to differ greatly then those experiences of high school. These differences are mainly because of location. I am a Long Island girl so traveling to the city for school creates a new experience for me. Another reason location will impose new experiences is because all my classes are not in the same building, I have to travel to get to different classes. Another way I feel that Baruch experiences will be different is because the classes are less censored, the teachers can teach things in different ways that make the learning process more enticing for the students. Last I feel the experiences will be different is because I am from a small high school, with not even 200 kids in my graduating class, now in one classroom, there is 100 students.

I do not feel my first year of college will change me, I don’t believe people change, only grow and mature.