Mandatory Post 1

I am often asked, “Who are you?” I always thought that question was very general and always responded with my name. It never occurred to me who I was until my brain ran its gears and thought about the question. Who am I? I am a South Korean American currently eighteen years old.  I have lived in Queens pretty much my whole life and consider that my true home. I have adapted to the life style of Queens, always being racially slurred by other races. However, because of those slurs, I’ve learned to love my nationality more and gave me a deeper connection to it. Many times, I consider myself to be ignorant to things that are right in front of my eyes. But hey, who’s not at times? I also often display strong narcissism because of the difficulties I’ve faced growing up. Most of the bad features about me come from the lifestyle I lived while young, but it also gave me the strong points that make me survive in the real world today.

I have many concerns as I enter Baruch. Everyone always told me college was about studying, studying and more studying. I guess the fear of constantly studying affected me because I am studying close to every night which is something I rarely did in high school.This leads me to how I am going to manage my time based on my studies and other necessities I have to carry out in my household. This leads me to my final concern of  how I’m going to apply my studies into the real world. College is the prerequisite of the real world; I have to make sure that I maintain a very high and steady grade point average and make it my top priority to successfully master my major studies I will choose within the next year.

I believe that the one main thing that separates college from high school is the cultural diversity. High school mainly focused on students that have lived in New York, if not the United States for most of their lives. College is the quite opposite. Many students from different countries attend Baruch that gives a diverse aura in the air. It allows us to get out of our little bubble that we trapped ourselves in and socialize with all the different groups that college has to offer. High school was all about just following what the teacher told the students to do and doing nonsense bull that had no advantage to us. On the other hand, college teaches us more than just the simple topic we take. It also teaches us about life and to better experience a different side from our normal perspective.

I guess  I can say that Baruch will change me into a more time manageable person and also give me the ability to function on barely any sleep. However, I do hope that I will mature during my freshman year and learn to better adapt to my current surroundings.