The question of who I am is something I have been asking myself a lot lately. I came into Baruch thinking I wanted to work in business, because of the high income that comes a long with it. But now that I have been in Baruch for a few weeks now, I have come to find that business might not be who I am. I like to see myself as a person who doesn’t lay down and die, and do something he hates just for money. I at least want to be someone who does something they love for a living, even if it is risky and perhaps overly ambitious. I am a person filled with a desire to be happy, and not what Cobb feared becoming in Inception. “An old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone.” (I’m also a person who love movies and will reference them 24/7!”
My top 3 concerns with my freshmen year at baruch are passing pre-calc, feeling comfortable with my enviroment, and doing well in all of my classes overall. So far pre-calc has been quite annoying and hard at times. I don’t exactly feel as if I love being at Baruch yet, and I hope that changes by the years end so I don’t feel any need to transfer. Finally, I want to do well in my classes because I want to do well in life.
So far whats made my Baruch experience different from high school is that there has been much more freedom, since I came from a strict catholic high school. But also, there isn’t that same familiarity with the people around me. Most people you see are just strangers you will never to talk to.
I think my first year at college will definitly make me more independent, and I think over the next few months I am going to find out more about who I am, and who I am meant to be, and what I want to do with my life.
