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My experience at Baruch has been really good.  I met a lot of new people, I joined a few clubs, and in the clubs I met even more new people.  I’m kind of scared to register for new classes for some reason, but I know I’ll get over that.  This year overall has been tough but I’ve overcome it.  I didn’t really enjoy my math class, but I’m gonna do everything I can to make it out of it.  I did enjoy my English Class though.

When I first found out I was a part time student, I was kind of disappointed.  I felt that I had done my part in high school.  And at times I felt like at the beginning as a part time student, we were constantly being told it was because we didn’t do our job in high school, but I feel, for most of us that wasn’t the case.  But we had to prove ourselves to the school and in a way I feel like it was a blessing.  I’m able to really show myself and adapt to the college environment before I’m thrown into a full 5 class schedule, so I greatly appreciate my time that I’ve had to “adapt”.

I really think I’m going to enjoy the next four years here

Being biracial I was always confused on where I fit in and who would “accept” me.  It was always such a big deal to me, well I always made it a big deal.  The fact that anywhere I went I was never something enough. But this year I took a different look at the world. My grandfather changed that.

“My grandfather is German, Irish and English.  He is covered in freckles, and has red hair.  He told me about his childhood and about the hard times he had dealing with kids making fun of his skin and hair.  My grandfather also had dyslexia. Kids and teachers would call him stupid and told him he’d never be successful in life.  My grandfather, Willard C. White, graduated from Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, was an engineer for several companies, was the C.E.O of American Cyanimid, and developed a patent for UV lenses and a respirator.  A man who was told would never graduate high school, became a successful businessman.  Hearing this story I knew what I had been through wasn’t half as oppressive as what he had endured.”

Although I cannot say I am completely comfortable in my own skin, and do not always feel a sense of belonging, I see now that feelings and those experiences have inspired me to do many great things in life.  And like my grandfather, I want to be able to say that I’ve been at the very lowest point in my life, but I’ve taken those feelings and made it into motivation.

I’ve realized that your background doesn’t define you. So what I think I am is a girl who maybe isn’t as confident as she should be or as sure of herself.  A girl who wanted to be Pocahontas when she was little.  A girl who loves to play Madden.  A girl who loves hip hop and R&B like Jay-Z:)

To me community service is when you donate your time to a community doing a specific project.  It doesn’t have to be your own but any community that is in need.  You are not paid of your services, you are volunteering your time to a certain cause. Community Service varies in the things you can do for a community, or even an organization like a church or daycare.  I am reallylooking forward to doing community service in my FRO class,  even though I’ve done quite a lot of community service on my own.  For the past few years I’ve volunteered at the Fresh Air Fund, and when I would go down to North Carolina in the summer, I would volunteer there at the Food Pantry (passing out food for the needy) and help my grandma do meals-on-wheels, going from house to house giving the elderly groceries they couldn’t go out and get themselves.  I love to volunteer and I really love when people smile at me because it tells me that they appreciate that someone cares. I know if I were in their situation, the best feeling would be that someone cares.  I’m very excited to start community service with my class:).

Who is Dominique White? That’s a really tough question, but I’ll start with, My name is Dominique.  I am an eighteen year old and I go to Baruch College.  I’m starting to really love school, I’m meeting a lot of new people.  I love music, I listen to all types but I am a major Jay-Z fan.  I play Madden, and do kickboxing. I love mermaids (I know they aren’t real…).  The people I love are my life and I will never abandon them or disappoint them. That’s who I think I am. Being at Baruch has been a great experience so far, but I do have a few concerns.  One being failure.  I always hear professors speak about their policies and if you do this you will not pass my class and if you don’t that you will not pass my class.  I’m scared I’ll slip up and miss a class or get overwhelmed and not finish all my work.  College is no joke and I’m just so nervous I’ll mess it up.  So every night when I get home, even if I don’t have a class the next day I do all of my homework, so I’m 100% sure that everything is complete before I do anything else.  Another concern is not having time to have a social life, but I’m starting to see that there is in fact time for that and it should not be an issue. My last concern is making my own schedule next semester.  I don’t feel like I know what classes I should be taking, and I’m scared that all of the classes that I am interested in, the seats will be taken.  I want to be sure I register for my classes way in advance so I won’t run into that problem.  So far college has been completely different from my high school.  My high school didn’t require much effort and didn’t focus so much on academics, which hurt me in the long run.  Although I did well in high school I know that it doesn’t match up to the work load I will have in Baruch. Or the expectations. High School was fun but I feel that college all around will prepare me for life.  High School prepares you for more schooling, College prepares you for the real world. I feel that my first year at Baruch will change my overall attitude on school, it already has.  As I mentioned before I do all my work the night I get it.  In High School I put things off.  College has changed me more in less than a month then High School changed me in 4 years.