Who Do You Think You Are?

Who is Dominique White? That’s a really tough question, but I’ll start with, My name is Dominique.  I am an eighteen year old and I go to Baruch College.  I’m starting to really love school, I’m meeting a lot of new people.  I love music, I listen to all types but I am a major Jay-Z fan.  I play Madden, and do kickboxing. I love mermaids (I know they aren’t real…).  The people I love are my life and I will never abandon them or disappoint them. That’s who I think I am. Being at Baruch has been a great experience so far, but I do have a few concerns.  One being failure.  I always hear professors speak about their policies and if you do this you will not pass my class and if you don’t that you will not pass my class.  I’m scared I’ll slip up and miss a class or get overwhelmed and not finish all my work.  College is no joke and I’m just so nervous I’ll mess it up.  So every night when I get home, even if I don’t have a class the next day I do all of my homework, so I’m 100% sure that everything is complete before I do anything else.  Another concern is not having time to have a social life, but I’m starting to see that there is in fact time for that and it should not be an issue. My last concern is making my own schedule next semester.  I don’t feel like I know what classes I should be taking, and I’m scared that all of the classes that I am interested in, the seats will be taken.  I want to be sure I register for my classes way in advance so I won’t run into that problem.  So far college has been completely different from my high school.  My high school didn’t require much effort and didn’t focus so much on academics, which hurt me in the long run.  Although I did well in high school I know that it doesn’t match up to the work load I will have in Baruch. Or the expectations. High School was fun but I feel that college all around will prepare me for life.  High School prepares you for more schooling, College prepares you for the real world. I feel that my first year at Baruch will change my overall attitude on school, it already has.  As I mentioned before I do all my work the night I get it.  In High School I put things off.  College has changed me more in less than a month then High School changed me in 4 years.