I’m Jess

The age old question “Who do you think you are?” seems to be forever popping up in my life. I am a daughter, sister, friend and a shopaholic. I love clothes and I definitely love shoes, so much that I’ve in fact renovated my walk in basement into a walk in closet. I have shoes laying everywhere. I don’t know what it is about shoes, but a brand new pair of cute shiny shoes can really make my day.
When I first stepped into Baruch, I was so nervous. After being a senior, I’m starting out at the bottom once again. I have no idea where my classes are; I didn’t see any classrooms at the first orientation. I heard that there were about 20,000 students, I wondered if we could all fit into the building.
I noticed on my schedule that I would have math once again, as a freshman in Baruch. I didn’t take math during my senior year, it was a sigh of relief that I was done with it. Math is almost like another language to me, foreign and strange, especially after they started mixing in the letters in algebra.
In addition, I don’t know why, but I seem to always be perpetually 5 minutes late. I know in college, being late will definitely take a toll on my grade. I absolutely have to think of a way to get to the train station 5 minutes earlier every day.
They always say, the transition from high school to college is a difficult one. I always said, “It’s going to be a piece of cake.” Here I was naively thinking that it was no different from high school. I have since learned that I am completely wrong. I hope that by the end of the year, I will learn to become more independent and definitely arrive on time.