Who Do You Think You Are?

My name is Sheridan Taylor and I am a freshman here at Baruch. I am from Westchester County, New York. I attended my four years of high school at Peekskill High School. I played Softball, Volleyball and Basketball and helped to lead my girls’ basketball team to their first state championship. I’m majoring in International Business and minoring in Political Science.
My top concern with Baruch is the fact that there aren’t many computers for use in use in the library and the vertical campus. It has been hard to carry around my laptop every day for the simple that there might not be any open computers for use. I think there should an open room filled with nothing, but computers. Another concern that I have is the Wi-Fi connection inside of the 23 Street building. I would want to expect that there would be Wi-Fi in the building, but there aren’t any inside of the classroom. If there were Wi-Fi in the classrooms I would be able to read along with my assignment on the computer instead of continuously printing out the page for class. My last concern with the school is the pricing of books when you’re selling them back to the school. I want to know if we’re going to get face value for the book or are they going to buy it back the by how many copies that they have.
The Baruch experience is so much better than my high school experience. I enjoyed high school, but I enjoy the fact that I’m going to a competitive school and a nationally ranked one at that. My high school had about 850 students and I felt like that I knew everyone in the school and that there weren’t as many opportunities to succeed because of all the financial cuts that my school had. Here at Baruch I have more opportunities to succeed in what I want to do. I can internship with a major company in New York, join the different clubs or have a paid work-study job.
My fist year has already changed me and it barely started. I had to change my studying habits and my timeliness. In high school, I didn’t study as much as I should have and it sometimes showed in the work and the tests that I had to turn in. I had to make sure that I gave myself enough time to complete the homework assignments that are given to me. I learned to manage my time even better than high school. I didn’t have much problem when it came to time management in high school because I played three varsity sports and was active in several clubs. In college I have to know when the right times are to study and when it’s nice to go out and enjoy the college experience.