Ugh…..

Hey hey. I’m Nicole Liotto, most of my friends and my family call me Nikki. It’s kind of weird to hear people call me Nicole, but oh well. I am 17 years old….I have a late birthday, a really late birthday, christmas eve! a week before the end of the year :/ I live in Manhattan and have lived here all my life. What can I say? I’m a city girl. I love it here, although in a way I am starting to get annoyed with it. Too many people are moving in, they dont belong! I use to be really shy, but I noticed that as I am getting older, it has gone away more and more. I am currently dorming at the dorms on the les…yes i know, why would I dorm if I live in the city? HEY, let me experience the dorm life with out actually going away to college, thanks very much! I love love love music. I use to play the guitar but that was a long time ago and now I can’t play for my life. I love trance music. I dont really hear a lot of people who like it but when I find someone, I love it. If you don’t like it, then fine with me, go listen to what you like to listen to.

My top three concerns about my freshman year at Baruch are:
1. Mid-terms and Finals. I never, ever had a midterm or final. I would have regualr tests in school. One after almost every chapter/topic I learned. I feel like I won’t be able to take in everything and remember for the test…this goes for every subject (except math. i love doing math and i did exactly what we are doing in calc now last year, so its good).
2.Participation. I hardly participate in class. All my life in school, all my teachers would say that I never participate and that I should. Well, sometimes I just don’t have anything to say, or someone has said what I was already thinking…or sometimes I’m just not paying attention!
3.Feeling like I actually want to be here. At times I feel like I should have chose a different school. My friends and family ask me how school has been so far and my answer to them is, “its okay, nothing special”. I want to feel like it’s something special and fun. My concern is, will I be happy here? and will there be something that will make me feel like Baruch is the right place for me.

So far I don’t think that there will be anything to differentiate my college and high school experience. I went to h.s in the city and I have lived in the city all my life, which means so far nothing feels different to me at all. I went to Simon Baruch Middle School which is in the neighborhood of Baruch College so I know the neighborhood in a way. Nothing feels different so far, not even the dorming since I live a 10minute walk away from my apartment (again, I know I’m crazy but let me experience the dorm life!)

My first year at Baruch may change me in many ways and it may not. It may take me a little longer than my first year, because in my first year I probably wont even know what I want to do. At first I wanted to be a math teacher all my life, then it went to business for some reason, but now i am interested in dermatology ( I know, I’m crazy) but I hate science! I hope my first year will help me know what I really want and what will be the best thing for me.

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