When reading the question, “who do you think you are,” so many things cross my mind. I can honestly say that i cannot fully answer this question because i do not fully yet know who i am. I can start out by saying that my name is tom erikson, i am from massapequa park LI, and i attended catholic school my entire life. I have two older brothers and a twin brother. Everyone agrees that we are complete opposites in everything we do. We both went to different high schools and i can say that he made the better choice because i went four years at an all guys school. Although it was pretty bad due to the absence of girls it wasnt terrible. I ran cross country all four years and spring track for one year and was apart of different clubs. Chaminade is considered to be a tough and highly competitive school in both academics and athletics. I believe that Chaminade has greatly helped me and prepared me for the real world especially college. Things that would be different from high school is the difference in freedom i have. its not the same routine day in and day out five days a week, the bad thing is that there is noone to really stay on top of me to get my work done. But i didnt find that too difficult in hs. I always tried my hardest especially with my grades for some reason i just wanted to do my best. There are a few concerns about my freshman year especially keeping my grades up. Although baruch seems like a great school so far i was offered a guarentee tranfer to cornell next year so with nothing below a B i will be able to transfer sucessfully. Another concern related to these grades and the pressure of transfering would be my math and especially my philosophy classes. Math doesnt seem too bad because i had that same stuff last year but philiosophy is a different story. I hope to work hard and have a great year here at baruch whiling meeting new people and having a good time along the way.