My name is Randolph, but all my friends and relatives call me Randy. I currently live in Rego Park, but I spent a lot of time as a kid in Forest Hills. I participated a few years in each soccer, baseball, and basketball at the Forest Hills Little League. My dad always wanted me to be athletic and would always practice with me after coming home from work to improve my skills. Furthermore, I use to play handball after school often during my years in junior high school. After sophomore year in high school, I only played once in a while because of SATs, essays, and the college process. My dad owns a garage in Forest Hills where he fixes cars so I use to go there every weekend just to accompany him and learn a few things or two. My grandparents used to own a laundromat right behind my dad’s garage in Forest Hills too, but now they just rent it out. During my free time now, I just try to spend as much time with my friends as I could because I don’t see them everyday in school anymore as I did before.
The most important thing to me at Baruch College is to earn a very high GPA. High averages in junior high school and high school was just to get into a better school for the next few years, but I believe the grades in colleges are the most important because that is what can get you a job. The second most important thing is to get an internship because I don’t really have any real work experience; the only thing I have is volunteer work, but I really want to get out into the real world and do something adults do as a living. The third most important thing is to make friends and expand my connections. Having to commute from home to school and back everyday makes everything feel like high school again, and I feel like I will never have the real “college life.” Making connections in college is really important because you never know who can help you get an internship or even a job!
I can’t really imagine Baruch College experience being much different from my high school experience for now. I know there are frats out there, but I don’t think I will enjoy pledging for any of them. I hope I can get a very good internship or at least a job just for now.
I don’t think that my first year at Baruch College will change me much. I definitely am more independent though because professors will not care if you do not come to class or are not doing any of the homework so it is all up to me to work hard and do well in school.
