For many people, it takes a lifetime to figure out who they are in this world. However, I Danielle Troyano, at 18 years old, have a pretty good idea of who I am and who I am slowly becoming. I am a dancer. This is who I am, this is who I always hope to be. Dancing has shaped me into the strong, independent and driven person that I am today. I can confidently say that if it weren’t for my serious committment to ballet, I am not too sure that I would know my meaning in this world. My whole life everybody has known me as “the dancer.” It always makes me think, if I never took that first ballet class when I was 4, who would I be? Would I even have a meaning in this world? This is a question that will forever linger in my mind. However all of this aside, i’d also hope to say that I am a good person with a good heart. Seeing someone else smile brings a lot more joy than my own happiness.
I guess the point of this blog is to be honest with my self and my peers. Therefore, i’m not too sure how I feel about Baruch yet. In all honestly, I chose Baruch because I wanted to attend college in NYC to stay with my ballet coach, and Baruch is cheap and a wonderful education. I know it has only been a month, but I have not been able to find my niche yet. I live in the dorms which is nice, but I mean when I come to baruch at 8am every morning, I feel very alone. This is definitey something that I hope gets better as the year goes on. I promise everyone I don’t bite! I’m not too sure why many people don’t talk to me. Perhaps my classes are just way too early and everyone is just too tired! I don’t want people to label negatively just because I rush out of Baruch everyday at 12 to get to ballet. I am just as committed to my academics as i am to ballet and it will always be that way. So far, the work load hasn’t been too crazy for me, I really hope it stays this way. That would definitely be my worst fear, not being able to balance both ends of the spectrum.
So far, Baruch appears to be very similar to high school. It has so many cliques, and I feel as if everybody knows eachother prior to coming to Baruch. I feel that once I find my own clique, everything will become a lot easier. I was able to slide my way through high school having fun and not doing much work, but I know that this can not be the case in college. I want to do well and make my parents and myself proud.I know that Baruch is the stepping stone to a bright future. It is definitely going to be a long and hard road balancing both a potential dance career and a journalism career, but I am sure that I can handle it. I hope that this first year at Baruch College teaches me the importance of time managment and how to reach that level of professionalism that I’ll need to be very successful in every aspect of life.
