Author: Kate

My first semester of college has been great.  Not only was I in the greatest city in the world almost every day for the better part of three months, I made a lot of great friends while I was here!  College turned out to be very much what I expected: being on your own, a lot of work, cool professors who didn’t give a shit as long as you did your work, etc.  I feel as though I’m finally a part of the world and I’m no longer sheltered behind school.  I am a little disappointed in some of my classes because they were not very interesting and I found myself falling asleep in a lot of them.  But I suppose that’s to be expected because at the end of the day, it’s still school. 

I really wouldn’t change much about this last first semester.  I had some pretty wonderful things happen both at school and in my social life so there’s really no complaints here.  Perhaps, I should have done a little more of my readings and studied a little more.  What can I say?  I still have a few instances of senior-itis I’ve yet to shake.  This Freshman seminar class has been fun because I’ve been able to spend time with my friends and make some new ones (as corny as that sounds, it’s true).  The day we did those little skits in the front of the class was hysterical!! =D 

How have I changed?  Not much really.  I’m definitely more mature than I was the beginning of the semester and I believe I’ve taken on more responsibility.  But all in all, I’m still the same old Kate. 

It’s been fun! Peace!!!

Hello, my name is Kate although until very recently I went by Katherine.  Of course, I am still the same person, however, I feel as though Kate is the more outgoing, friendly, and less-reserved side of my personality.  So I felt that with the coming of college and the enormous changes my life was about to undergo, I decided to give “Kate” her much-needed time in the spotlight for a while.  As stupid as this may sound, I really felt the name would only help with my transition to Baruch and as it turns out, I was right.

I identify myself as a musician as music has been a part of my life for 14 years.  Learning how to read music coincided with my learning how to read English so I can barely even call it a second language.  With both the piano and the clarinet, music has provided me with an outlet, an escape, whatever you’d like to call it…It is an irreplaceable piece of my life and I couldn’t imagine a world without it.  Recently, I even tattooed myself with my favorite piece as a way to show my appreciation for music.

I am also very family-oriented.  All 36 of them mean the world to me.  Even the family members that I don’t see for a while are so important to me and the thought of losing any single one of them terrifies me to death.

My personal motto: “Never regret something that once made you smile.”

I suppose I really can’t say exactly who I am yet.  I’ve only lived 18 years of my life, which personally is not enough time to say who you are.  So I’ll just stick with saying ‘I am Kate’ for now. 🙂 

College has been everything I expected it to be…which is a most welcome surprise.  You know how sometimes you build certain things up and they end up sucking or being something you totally did not expect?  Yeah, that’s happened to me many, many times.  But not with college.  I am loving every minute of it, although I wouldn’t mind a reprieve on the extensive readings and presentations.  The independance college provides me with is something I looked forward to all throughout high school and it’s nice to know that I’m finally being treated like an adult.

As far as my concerns for freshman year, I don’t really have any.  I’m a very chill, go-with-the-flow type of person so I don’t have that many apprehensions about what these next 8-9 months are going to bring.  Finals are a little unnerving and this MTH 2003 class I’m in certainly has me on my toes but I am welcoming the challenge.  High school was boring and I had no drive to do well.  It seemed to me like getting good grades was just something I was supposed to do because it looked good on some stupid transcript.  Now I want to do well because I feel like receiving good grades will signify that I actually learned something important. 

I am greatly looking forward to these next few years and I am hoping that the initial excitement I got from going to college won’t wear away too quickly. =D