Monthly Archives: September 2010

Who do I think I am? Well I know for a fact that I am Anthony Giuliano. I was born on October 10th 1992 in Staten Island, New York where I still live today. I graduated from St. Joseph by the Sea High School this past June. I love playing sports just as much as I love watching them. As for who I think I am, I would like to think that I am a hard working, easy going, fun loving kid. I decided to go to Baruch because I’m almost positive I want to have a career in business.

The first of my top three concerns about my freshman year is time management. I don’t know about everyone else but my senior year of high school consisted of little to no studying and home work. The homework I did have to do was usually done in the morning before school or during another class before it was do. I would usually come home from school and go out. In my first two weeks of school I’ve already done more work than I did my whole senior year. Its different to have to come home and have to do homework and study. I have to manage my time better than I’ve done in the past and use my time productively. My second concern is the amount of work that has to be done. Like I said in the last paragraph I’m not used to have to come home and do homework. I’m not used to sitting at my desk for a couple of hours studying and doing work. Its something that I’m not used to at all. My third concern is keeping track of due dates and dead lines. In high school teachers were constantly reminding us of when our assignments were due. In college the teachers don’t really care if you hand things in or not. Its all up to me to make sure that I get everything done and be prepared for class.

My college experience has been different from my high school experience so far by being much more independent. In college I can use my time how I please. I didn’t have two hour breaks in high school. When I was in high school our schedules were assigned to us and  we had no say in what classes we had to take. This year I picked the schedule that I wanted and I can choose how I use my free time. I feel much older in college. I have more freedom and more responsibility.

I think that my first year of college will change me for the better. I hope to be more mature, more responsible, more hardworking and I hope to find out more about me. There are so many opportunities at Baruch for every student to do what they want. The decisions we make in college will shape our lives forever. I can only hope that I make the right decisions and look back on my college experience as the time that I became me.

Who do I think I am? My name is Mark Villa and I am an 18 year old who was born in raised in Staten Island. I grew up playing sports my whole life and music is a big part of me also. I am very close with my family and friends.

Some of my concerns entering my first year of college at Baruch is to not get side tracked and keepy my head in the books. Throughout highschool, I slacked off a lot and I am very fortunate that I was accepted into Baruch. Now that I am here I have to make sure I keep my grades up.  A key essential to not getting distracted is time management.  My highschool football coach use to stress to my teammates and I about time management. Its important we show up to practice but it was also important that we got our homework and studying done. Now that I am in college, I truly realize how important managing my time is.  And my last concern is too be open minded and to meet new people. My Baruch College experience is very different from my highschool experience. I went to catholic school my whole life and was always use to being in small classrooms and usually being with the same people. Baruch is a very diverse place with people of all different races and religions. Its a lot different from what I have grown up with but I am adjusting to it.

My first year of college will change me to become more mature because going from highschool to college is a big step. Highschool was a lot less stressful but college is so important because it is going to determine my future.  My main goal is to keep my GPA high and to stay determined to graduate and get a great job after college.

Hey whats up? My name is Giuseppe Palazzolo i’m 18 and i’m  an Italian American born in Brooklyn and raised on Staten Island. I’m a person with high ambitions and plans for the future. I like to have a good time and relax, but thats after I finish what I have to get done.

My first concern of college is time management.  I feel that I have to learn how to manage the free time that college allows me to have. On a two hour break its hard for me to choose whether to hangout with friends or to study for an upcoming test, but if I can manage my time in the right way I can hangout and do well in my classes at the same time. A second concern for me is keeping track of tests and homework. I come from a small private high school so I guess  it was easier for my teachers to constantly remind us of things that were to be due and guide us on how to do them. After starting my first semester at Baruch  I realized that the teachers don’t really care if we did the homework or if we fall behind in the class. My third concern is adjusting to the city lifestyle that comes with Baruch.

I hope that my first year at Baruch makes me a more knowledgable person. Baruch is a college with highly diverse nationalities. Getting to know people of other cultures and nationalities will help me because I would be interacting with many different kinds of people in the future business world. I hope that you learned a little about me in this blog, i’m happy to start this first year at Baruch and i’m looking forward to making new friends and connections.

“All I can be is me… whoever that is…” -Bob Dylan

To answer a question like “Who do you think you are?” is a difficult process full of many analyses that could falsely sum me up. So instead, I give you a few words that people I have met throughout the years have described me as that I think can give you a good idea: Obsessive, tenacious, lazy, ecstatic, insane, “musically inclined”, meticulous, loving, sweet. Obviously I am many more things, but I believe that adjectives are beautiful and you only need a few to really get a point across. Other than these words, I am a musician who has had a dream of becoming an “entrepreneur” since I was 9, and have more recently narrowed that decision into the creator/owner of a record label. This is what brings me to Baruch and as of now, I am terrified. When in high school, teenagers always want as much independence and freedom as they can obtain and this stays with them until they actually have it. One of these things I am most petrified about is how much independence I actually have now. Nobody is here to push me like I used to be pushed, so I must find motivation myself, which is not difficult, just rather scary. Another thing I am concerned about is the balance between my life and school. In high school, the only thing I did other than school, was basically whatever I wanted. I didn’t need a job at that time, so I could basically spend my days however I wanted. Now all of that has changed and I had to find a way to pay the rent and bills my parents can no longer help me with. The last and the most daunting of the three, is keeping up with my grades. I was always the A student in high school because of how little of a challenge it was, but I never was good with pressure. It may just be that this is the first few weeks of college, but so far, I seem to be under so much stress that I can’t even do simple things without first transforming them into some grandiose gauntlet. However, I know I can make it though these things because I have the tenacity and determination to do so. Throughout this blog I have described many differences between college and high school that also terrify me, but if I must, let me point out one more distinct variation, nobody is looking out for you. It’s a terrifying revelation I have encountered that nobody is here to help, so I must do everything on my own. No doubt, this experience is going to play possibly the biggest role in my path of life, so I will change considerably and for that, I am extremely prepared.

The following picture was drawn in color by my little brother Jack (age 7 at the time), and a close buddy of mine named Joey Stramm created it into a logo for me.
If anyone wants a copy of my labels first few releases, just let me know. 🙂

sweety-tiger records

“Who am I” was a question Billy Crystal asked a room full of mobsters in Analyze This.  Eventually he came up with the answer, the f#%^&*g doctor.  Now as you ask me, who am I, or who I think I am, which is actually a little insulting, I know who I am, and I answer you with simply three letters M.A.X.  Me llamo Max Trembitsky.  I am an individual who is eager to learn and grow.  I am an actor. I am honest and clever, and have been told by my friends that I’m funny.

My top three concerns about my freshmen year at Baruch College include being able to perform at the level I expect myself too while being involved in a variety of groups and activities.  My concerns are not worries but rather goals that I have made for myself and must reach.  I must exceed my highest potential, hit homeruns to win the game, and hit three-pointers to kill the opponent.

My experience at Baruch College will be different than my experience at high school in a few ways.  At Baruch I am working, studying only for myself.  I am at the point in my life where I must act responsibly and handle my business professionally so that my goals and dream are met.  I can’t expect anyone to tell me what to do; I must work hard to keep myself on track.

I expect to grow and mature in this first year.  I also expect to learn an awful lot, which will help shape and expand my mind.  I expect only positive changes and will work hard at assuring so.

I’m Michelle Babinsky and I am currently a freshman at Baruch College and so this first blog is meant to be a sort of reflection on how I am progressing thus far. I like to think of myself as a very unique individual. I’ve always been rebellious and creative which is being brought out even more here at Baruch. Not to say that the majority of people are similar to one another and all share the same goals and career paths, but I feel that aside from wanting to pursue a business degree, I am much different from most of the people I have encountered here. My dream has always been to become a painter but I’ve realized that an even greater decision would be to earn a business degree so I will have the resources to eventually open my own art gallery here in Manhattan.

I am a very laid-back person; I don’t usually worry about insignificant things, but that is not to say that I haven’t had my concerns about Baruch. For one I’ve been told that the coursework for several of my classes is pretty rigorous. My concern is not about the amount of work, but the subject that the work is based on. I have always been the type of person who has trouble learning about topics that do not interest me. My second concern would probably be abiding by the rules and regulations of each professor because I sometimes have a hard time fitting in with my classmates since I like to do work according to my own time and my own schedule. And that then leads to my final concern, which is meeting friends who I will get along with considerably well. I have found that a lot of the people I have met here are very stressed due to following strict guidelines and restricting themselves the fun and liberty they deserve to do what they want when they want. I respect the fact that individuals wants to succeed in their educational pursuits, but I feel that I often want friends who will be spontaneous with me and just go out on a whim to do something exciting.

On the plus side, Baruch is certainly different from my high school because it does allow me to have more of the freedom that I have always wanted. I love living on the Lower East Side, where artists, musicians, writers, and overall creative individuals surround me daily. I do, though, think that living on my own will in time allow me to become more responsible and aware of the need to be practical which Baruch College will definitely help me to do. I can’t say that that would be a negative change for me. As a matter of fact I can appreciate the help Baruch will provide me with and am looking forward to becoming more mature and respected!

Hey, My name is David Wong and I am a asian american at the age of 18 who likes to go out and spend some time with his friends. Along with that I am a person that likes to have an idea of what I want to do in the near future and during my four years in college. Also I am very talkative even though i don’t look like the type of person who is during class but once class is over I like to attend a lot of social events and community services.

One of my top three concerns in Baruch is to graduate in the next 4 years, make some new friends and hopefully be able to balance out my school work and my social life. The reason why I want to graduate in the next 4 years is because I want to have head start in life to make some money. Making friends in Baruch is must cause in college there is going to be a lot of work and readings that needs to be done and you can always depend on your friends to help you release some of the stress and have a good time. Last but not least  hope to balance out my school work and social life because I want to have good time in college but at the same time I want to have a decent education and come out of Baruch College having some knowledge of how the real world is.

The material that i read in my classes in Baruch College is totally different from my high school experience. Cause in high school we could sometimes get away without reading the assignments given by our teacher’s but in college it is impossible and next thing you know you will fall behind in class. I think my first year in college will change my ways studying cause I will be spending a lot more time reading my textbooks and my notes for my exams and finals in the next few months.

My name is Rovenna Yakubov, and I’m a musician and a thinker. I also like to think of myself as compassionate, open-minded and light-hearted. My top three concerns for freshman year here at Baruch are making friends, balancing school and my social life, and really gaining insight into the world as well as practical knowledge I could use in the future. Baruch will be different than high school because I will have a lot more freedom and therefore a lot more room to mess up. I also have less guidance from my teachers than I did in high school, which means that for the most part I’m going to have to figure things out on my own. My first year of college is going to be my first taste of the real world. I’m hoping to learn to be more independent and responsible, and how to use my time as efficiently as possible. Academically, I’m just hoping to grow in every possible way. I want to learn what I need to know for my future job, but I also want to learn about things that I am interested in knowing more about. Hopefully, I will come out of my first year at Baruch a more well-rounded and knowledgeable person, with more insight into both myself and the world around me.

One thing that I think that is very important is to know who you are. You can describe yourself in many ways such as nationality, race, gender, or maybe even what type of music you listen to. If you asked me to explain who I am, I would tell you I am an American male student, an older brother, a basketball player, and a very caring person. Im part Irish, part German, and part Italian.

This year im starting out as a Freshman at Baruch College. I am beyond excited to be here and espicially to be in the greatest city in the world. College so far has been really good and I enjoy coming here everyday. If i had to pick three concerns about my freshman year here at Baruch it would probally be time management, homework, and getting good grades. I think time management will be the toughest, for me at least with Basketball season coming up. Theres not going to be too much time to relax and hang out with my friends, its strictly business. I am ready for that challange and I believe everything will be fine. The homework so far hasn’t been bad at all, and I hope it stays that way for a while at least ! Getting good grades and studying for tests are really important to me. I want to succeed in life so I must put in the time to get that A.

My Baruch College experience will be much different from my high school experience for many reasons. Its a much bigger school, alot of more people, alot of more freedom, the teachers do not care if your there or not, and I will need to have great time managment like I said before. Im really excited for all the challanges in head of me and im looking to conquer each and every one. I will be making alot of more friends then I did in high school because college is such a bigger environment.

My first year at Baruch will without a doubt make me a better and more mature young man. My growth after the first year of college will definitely show to myself, my parents, and my professors. I will be a more knowledgeable student with all of the different courses throughout the first year. Overall, im just really excited to see what is in front of me and to see what the future holds.