Who is Nicole?

Posted on September 17, 2011 by nicole.celic

My name is Nicole. I’m 17 years old, Catholic, and Albanian and Yugoslavian (Montenegro to be specific). I think I’m pretty unique as I come from the Bronx. Everywhere I go I seem to stick out, either by being the only white girl in my youth ministry at church or being the only girl from the Bronx in my LC. Not to mention, even though I’m Albanian I don’t know my language at all. In fact I’m more interested in other cultures. Right now I wanna learn Japanese (at a fluent level), Korean, Chinese and Spanish (since I live in the Bronx). I like video games and anime. Church is a big part of me, I’m a leader in my youth ministry (there is six of us). We do Wednesday meetings and retreats and various other events for the parish. I also teach little kids in Sunday school.

My top three concerns for my freshman year at Baruch are as followed:

  1. Writing well. Because I don’t want to be an atrocious writer in college. I want to get As on my papers.
  2. Being able to balance everything that’s in my life. From church, boyfriend, school, club and possibly work. No balance= bad grades. My parents are paying for my education so I will work hard to make them proud.
  3. Developing long lasting friendships. I don’t want my next four years to be lonely.
I believe my experience in Baruch will be different from high school mainly because of the freedom. I’m responsible for myself now, and I have a lot more freedom. While I see all the little high schoolers going to school I can’t help but have pity on them. I enjoy the freedom that comes with college even though I commute and live at home, not dorm. A lot more exciting things will be going on in college, not the same routine seen in high school where you were babied all the time.
I’m not sure if my first year at Baruch will really change me- at least not be a drastic change. I do know high school and church has planted the seeds in my growth as a person. I do hope though that Baruch makes me more confident and be able to get rid of my shyness. I’m pretty shy, if I don’t talk to you it doesn’t mean I don’t like you. I’m just shy and not really good at talking to people I don’t know really well. But once I know you really well, well you’re in for a very interesting friend! I’m generally a quiet person. But I really want to get over my confidence issues, so I hope my next four years in Baruch helps me get rid of that characteristic of mine.
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