My name is Natalie Alfarhan. I am half Polish, from my mother’s side, and half Arabic, from my father’s side. I really love to travel and have been to many countries, including Denmark my senior year of high school with my class. I am not really a fan of writing about myself because I have always believed that the best way to get to know someone is to spend time with them or just talking to them. In general, I am a friendly and outgoing person. When it comes to friends I consider myself a very loyal friend, if someone has been there for me through some of my hard times as well as good times I will be there for them as well. Every summer, and most breaks, I spend with my family and friends in Poland. I consider my cousin Marta my best friend and we are practically attached at the hip. I was captain of my High School Softball varsity team and played until a bad injury last April that has stopped me from playing any more sports. I am attaching a picture of my softball team, and a picture of my graduated class.
Some of my concerns for freshman year at Baruch are doing good in all my classes, improving my study habits, and keeping up with the course work while working part time.
Baruch is extremely different from my High School. My High School, the Baccalaureate School for Global Education (BSGE) was a 6 year middle and high school. It is extremely small there are less than 500 students in all 6 grades, and my graduating class was 62 students. My grade was extremely close and everyone in the whole building, staff and students were like a big family. Coming to Baruch is an extreme change because walking through the halls at BSGE everyone knew your name, mostly everyone was friends, and now walking through Baruch there are so many unfamiliar faces that I have yet to meet.
I believe that my first year at Baruch will help me grow as a person. Although I learned a great deal of academic as well as personal responsibility at my high school, I think I can learn even more at Baruch. College can really change a person because it is like a next step or phase in your life where you are a young adult and more responsibility is piled up on to you.
