First Post.

a. Tell us who you think YOU are!

I view myself as the typical college freshman. I’m at an odd transition where I am juggling the aspirations to do well in school to get through to something better, yet still battling the urge to blow it off for fun and friends. I am also very Australian in the sense that I don’t really getting fazed by too much, much rather preferring to sail through the days,  avoiding pointless conflicts or worries in favor of a happier life.

b. Share your top 3 concerns about your freshman year at Baruch College and explain why.

1. My biggest issue in the first few months of school has definitely been finding a good momentum. My senior year at high school wasn’t a few strenuous schedule and I often found myself blowing off work with the simply excuse of being a senior.

2. I also believe that I will probably have a tough time with exams;I have never had to deal with so much of a grade lying in the hands of one test. Team that with the fact that I’ve never really been a big “studier” and we have a possibly disaster. Luckily, I realize this is a flaw and I have started studying early on in the hopes that it will get ingrained within me over the next four years.

3. Lastly, I feel that I am going to struggle with the ideas of Gen. Eds. I want to do well in school right from the start in order to create habits right from the start but I honestly find myself going insane when working on classwork that has very little to do with my intended major and therefore seems very “high school” to me. I knew this would be a problem way before I even started college but I see it becoming a larger conflict as the year progresses.

 

c. So far, what do you think will make your Baruch College experience different from your high school experience?

I have spent the last 6 years living in rural New Hampshire. I graduated with a class of 28 out of a school that is 99.99999% Caucasian with the .0000001% of diversity being a Korean girl raced in a white household since the age of 3 months. We were not diverse, we had very little freedom and if you didn’t walk the pre-drawn line you had a very tough time surviving. This is what I view as the major contract. At Baruch, I have found that most of my classes feel very much like high school but the way I am treated and the diversity I am surrounded with is definitely a polar opposite.

d. How do you think your first year at College will change you?

I really believe that Freshman year has a massive impact on who you are as a person. To me it is the first real year of adulthood. I know that Baruch is a little different as it is a commuter school, but personally, I moved out of my home and into an apartment because commuting was never a possibility. Leaving whatever nest I have been cuddled up in for the past 18 years has been enough of a shock on it’s own, team that with a whole different schedule, job and life in general has been unexplainable. I feel this is the year we are somewhat forced to grow up, not drastically until we are sucked dry of any teenage spirit, just enough to know that childhood is over and it is time to join the big leagues.