Freshman Seminar 2011: CFA

My name is Helen Ho. I recently turned 18, and I’ve been living in Manhattan for all my life. I came to Baruch because it’s a convenient distance from my house on 107th street. I don’t intend to have any association with anything business related. I hate everything about it, especially the knee length skirts and awkward high heels I see students wearing sometimes. I think I identify myself more with art rather than anything else. Except i’m not an artist because I don’t like it when people call themselves that. And i’m not too good at it either.

My top 3 concerns about freshman year at Baruch would be the incredibly unnecessary amount of work that needs to be done. It’s like I can never get a break anymore, there’s always more work to do. And i’m a pretty big slacker so thats an even bigger problem. Another concern I have is picking a major that i’m passionate about and that i’ll be dedicated to trying hard. The third concern I have is binge eating and being morbidly obese. I love indian food, and conveniently enough our school is next to little india. L0v3ly.

Baruch is already really different than my high school. An obvious reason is the radical size change. My graduating class consisted about 150 students, and now I have 500 classmates in my Psychology class. Baruch is also different because of the workload. I passed with a very low gpa but I also didn’t do any work and came to class late or skipped almost every day. Now I have to be responsible and independent or else the consequences will be much more severe.

I don’t really think Baruch will change me that much, I think i’ll just mature on my own. Everything comes naturally, and being in a new environment is scary but I don’t think i’ll be dramatically effected.