Hi everyone! Here is my response to the “Who are you
post” my freshman advisor Crystal posted up.
a. Tell us who you think YOU are!
My name is Pearly. I am 17 years old. I have been living in New
York City all my life, Queens specifically. I’m a huge book worm, a few of my
favorite reads are The Collector by John
Fowles, Siddhartha by
Herman Hesse, Death of a Salesman by Arthur
Miller and A Clockwork Orange by
Anthony Burgess . I am a music enthusiast. I would say I like an eclectic taste
in music. I love Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, The Naked and Famous, Gypsy & the Cat, Laura Marling, Sigur Ros,
Lykke Li, Bon Iver, Foals, Queen, The Eagles, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam, Hammock and Trentmoller to name a
few… I am a definite art appreciator (not so much creator). Andrew Wyeth and
Frida Kahlo are my favorite artists at the moment. I like to conduct random
baking experiments in my kitchen, and I mostly bake a lot of sweets. I love
traveling and anything travel related. I envy the travelers in Globetrekker and
wish it was me venturing the different countries. I hope to visit at least one
country from each continent. I am a green tea sipper and a sucker for anything
green tea flavored. I like writing in my free time, I used to write a lot.
Often times I would write at odd hours in the early morning like at 2 or 3 am.
All in all, I have an incredible amount of learning to do.
b. Share your top 3 concerns about your freshman year at Baruch
College and explain why.
- Maintaining a high gpa
- Trying to figure out where everything is and where to go to for
certain things - Establishing an excellent relationship with my professor and peers
c. So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College
experience different from your high school experience?
I feel like at Baruch you have a lot of independence and free time
on your hands. The choices you make may affect you in the long run and there
are a myriad of people with different personalities, it’s quite magnetizing! I
definitely have to become more mature and everything I say or do is a solid
representation of who I am, so I must be sensible with my decisions. There
would not be any teachers or advisors to force me to do all of my assignments
and homework, so I would have to take the steering wheel on the metaphorical
ride of college.
d. How do you think your first year at College will change you?
I hope I would learn study habits that suit me and help me
succeed, I will definitely try to be more extroverted and less introverted and
I’m excited to learn not only the topics discussed in class, but learning from
my peers.
