Hi, my name is KimberlyAnn but people usually just call me Kim or Kimmy. I’m Puerto rican and i’ve lived in bedstuy pretty much all of my life. I’m close to my parents and my older sister even though we don’t always get along. I’d like to think that i’m a pretty calm person. I can get really shy around new people but over time I ease up. I’m usually a peace maker. I have a really open-mind about anything and try to not judge people. I may be quiet at first, but once I get to know you, you won’t be able to get me to shut up. Once i take a liking to someone and call them a close friend, they’re stuck with me for life and i’ll always be there for them. 
I want to major in psychology so my friends usually come to me when they need a good listener.
One fear I have about my freshman year is that i won’t know how to schedule my classes for the next semester, or that i won’t have a good schedule. Another fear i have is that I won’t get my g.p.a. as high as i want it to be. My last concern about my freshman year at Baruch is that i won’t make a lot of friends. I know that a lot of people have that fear and all that but it still doesn’t make it any more simple to make friends, especially since i’m kind of shy.
College has definitely been SOOOO much more different from my high school. I came from a very small all girls high school of only 288 students. This college is so huge and has all types of people in it! Being in college gives me a lot more freedom than high school did. I feel like the teachers actually treat as like adults, and we have to take care of ourselves. No one harasses us which is definitely a good thing. College is also not about conformity. You actually get to be and express yourself however you want to.
I think that my first year of college will change me a lot. Even though the semester has just started, I’ve already noticed some changes in me. I’m becoming less shy and self-conscious (slowly but surely, hey it’s a working process okay!) and i’m also becoming more independent and taking on responsibilities that my family usually took care of for me. I’ve been more confident in myself, and more organized (which my mother loves). I hope I see more of these kind of changes throughout my college experience.
