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I suppose Baruch has lived up to my expectations. I honestly was not expecting too much when I came into the school. I knew it was a cuny commuter school and I was not waiting to join a sorority or live in a dorm or go to sporting events like a lot of my friends were looking forward to. All I expected from Baruch was to come to school do my work and go to my job in the city and come home. And that is exactly what I have done so far. Since I didn’t expect much from my college experience, it is kind of impossible for me to be let down.

My first semester has gone pretty decent. I made a lot more friends than i ever expected which I really enjoyed. School work wise, I definitely could have been more on top of myself. I honestly did not push myself at all and just got by doing decent work. My grades have not been bad but they could have been sooo much higher and I could have done a lot better. I also could have focused more in all of my classes because I always end up cramming to learn things on my own at home. If I would do anything differently about this semester it would be to stay focused starting from the first day of school. I would pay more attention in class and take more notes. I would also choose a schedule that did not have any class on friday!

I don’t think I have changed since I started Baruch, i just think there is a big difference in me from high school and now that I am in college. The way I act in school is very different now because I am no longer that social, I just go to class and go home which is very different than how I was in high school.

Coming to baruch made me realize a lot about myself, and not in the way i planned. I realized that i am very different in school then i am at home or with friends. When I am at school i tend to stay by myself majority of the time. During my breaks i sit alone, not because i don’t know how to socialize or don’t have anyone to sit with, but because i want to. I don’t speak up too much in any of my classes unless i have a serious opinion about something. Getting ready in the morning before i leave for school… well yeah that never ever happens. I wear sneaker and a sweatshirt everyday, but with my friends at home they have never seen me in a pair of sneakers. Some days I even wear sweatpants to school if I don’t have to go to work after.

The difference of the person i just explained at school, is that when i am at home with my family or out with my friends i am the complete opposite. I am never quiet and I am always surrounded by people. I go crazy when I am out and even when i am at home i always like to have fun everywhere I go. In my high school i was the same way always talking to everyone and having a good time.

Im not saying the way i act now is a bad thing, it is just different for me. College is definitely more serious and people are there to learn and don’t want to be distracted. I’m not going to try and change the way I act because I am comfortable in baruch the way I am now.

Who I am
My name is Julia Paternoster, I’m 18 and I’ve lived in queens my entire life. I went to a catholic high school called St.Francis Prep and I absolutely loved it. If I was asked the question who do I think I am about 5 months ago, the answer would be all about volleyball, I was the captain of my high school team and all four years we never lost a game. But since I’m all grown up and in college i have to stop pretending I’m still in high school. so basically now I’m boring and don’t do anything productive. I work in soho at a doctors office which is great cause i go in whenever i want to and they don’t care about anything <3.  Besides that I’m an aunt to the cutest 3 children alive and i love them to death. Im a sister, a daughter, a girlfriend, a really good friend, and i usually keep to myself with people i don’t know… unless I’m making some sarcastic comment that i can not hold in.

3 Concerns

1. One of the biggest concern i have about my freshman year is the fact that it takes me an hour and a half to get to school everyday… and that one day i will just decide i don’t want to do it anymore. I take a bus and two trains to get in and it usually doesn’t bother me at all but I’m concerned that when there is a massive snow storm and the gems of baruch don’t close school… that i won’t come in at all and continue to not come until all the snow is gone.
2. my second concern is that i will spend too many nights like tonight… taking 6 hour naps… watching hours of tv…eating everything in my house… basically anything i can think of to not do school work. When i know nothing is due the next day i don’t catch up on things that i should probably be preparing for, even when i tell myself i should be doing it… i just physically cannot do it.
3. my last concern is…. uhhm… failing math. I’ve always had 95 averages in math and that is the only thing I’m good at but my math class now is just impossible to me. i do not have any interest in it at all and its a problem.