Who Are WE? We're PR3!

To claim I know who I am would not be entirely honest. I’m not sure any of us really know yet. Yes, the majority of us believe that at the age of 18 we are adults. We are all so convinced that we know ourselves and have the right to claim who we are as individuals. I, however, don’t think so. But because I have to, I will try my best in explaining who I am. I’m Isabelle and no I’m not German or Polish. I’m Brazilian. I’m also very loud if I want to be, but mainly I keep my mouth shut. Most of the time I don’t think twice about anything I do or say and am very impatient. I can procrastinate, but will always get the job done.

My first month at Baruch has really opened my eyes to a few concerns I didn’t think I would have. The first, would be time management. I didn’t realize how important this would be until just now actually. I forgot about the FRO Blog and cramped two papers into the night before they are due. Will never happen again, hopefully. My second concern is being able to experience college with all its glory. Its very easy to not get involved with anything because this is a commuter school. Which gives way to my third concern, what to join?! So many clubs and organizations and this and that, its a little overwhelming.

My experience in Baruch so far has been different from high school in some ways but the same in others. It has been different because college is a lot more individual than high school. Which brings me back to that damn time management. I hope I get a grip of that soon, or else I’m in deep, uhh trouble. I guess I can say it’s very different to manage time in high school because well what did any of us even have to manage? College is well, college. We all begin knowing what to expect, yet when faced with something like managing our time, we have trouble doing it.

However, I think as I progress in my first year at Baruch I think I will change and will be able to do something as simple as managing my time. I’m probably exaggerating with all this talk of time management, but really its a challenge for me. I was told that in college a person discovers who they really are, so I’m expecting just that. Maybe not in my first year at Baruch but I think it will begin to happen during this first year. I have no idea how, and can’t even think of how I might. But I’m excited to see what happens in this coming year, so bring it on Baruch.

Harry Dana

I’m the type of person who is on the relaxed side but I like to succeed. My name is Harry Dana and I’m that person who won’t stop until I succeed. Whether it’s in buisness or school I wont let anything stand in my way. I am a little bit of procrastinator but when the time comes that I need to buckle down I usually pull through.

As a freshman in college there is a transition period that in other colleges might be tough, but I Baruch I know that the faculty is helping out the students for the next couple months in order to help our transition period be a little easier. But I’m learning a lot and I’m gaining those tools to succeed in the years to come. Although I do have a couple of concerns about Brauch college.

My top three concerns in Baruch collage is, firstly it being more or less a commuters collage. I’m worried that i’m going to get bored of the atmosphere. I am also worried about the classes that I am going to have to take in order for me to get my business degree, like math for example. But I know if concentrate hard on it I will succeed. And my last concern is the fact that there is very little school spirit. When there is school spirit it brings joy and excitement to school.

Going to High School is quite different then being in a College. My surroundings are far more diverse then a small town high school likes Magen David Yeshiva Celia Esses high school. With a soaring total of only for hundred students. Everyone is practically the same. Baruch College teaches me many new things about other people and other cultures, it is far more diversified. Teaches me the tools I need to succeed in any occupation. Especially in this day and age where there are many different cultures.  It also different in the ways the professors treats their students. The professor student relation is way more professional. Especially that I came from a private school where I had multiple classes which each professor.

Before I went to college I came from a small bubble in a Brooklyn community. After one full year of attending Baruch College I am going to be a totally different person in so many ways. Baruch College really taught me how to manage my time differently. It gave me the opportunity to make my own classes and schedule while at the same time give me the opportunity to make certain times in my week for my job, personal time, and study time. I am able to manage my day much better and much more efficiently because of Baruch College.  Procrastinating in a word in my book which I forgot about because College taught me how not to. College also taught me how to understand different surrounding other then my own. I am able to get a long with so many different people with so many different backgrounds. Rather then just one background in my small private high school.