As a person I consider my identity to be my name, Gautier Godard, as well as where i come from, France. These two things are the two aspects of my life that have the biggest impact on me from day to day. My environment has made me into a person that is comfortable yet reserved at the same time, therefore depending on the situation and my surroundings I may respond to an event in different ways. From an early age i have always been very attracted to sports and anything that requires physical training or is a physical challenge. Coming for The Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Astoria NY, i have been a part of an educationally intense program that has trained me well in regards to time management and self learning. For these reasons, i am not very concerned about the my freshman year as well as any of the upcoming years that i have here at Baruch College. This confidence comes from knowing that hard work pays off. The grades i obtain reflect the attitude i have towards my classes as well as the work that i put in (likewise i think this could be said about most things in life). Baruch College being in the city and also being a very big and diverse school, i think it is fair to say that my experience in this school will be more social than the one i had in high school. Academically the main difference i see is that i am in college to study something that i am interested in, rather than topics that i am forced to learn. Making this a crucial distinction between my high school and this college establishment, i hope my expectations of being able to choose what i want to learn will come true in the following semesters. I change and adapt to the surroundings i am placed in, therefore i do not see why Baruch College would be any different. During my first year the people i meet and socialize with will change, but my personality and goals will most likely stay the same. Although college is said to be a great step after high school, i feel that in the society that we live in college is simply another step — not necessarily one that changes a person more dramatically than any other four year experience. Of course, the knowledge i have now is nothing compared the knowledge i will have coming out of college, however i don’t think being more intelligent has to change the person you are.
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I agree with you that college is one step in a lifetime of “steps”. That certainly has been the case for me. I grew up in a small town in the California desert. Going to college was a big step out of that town and into a series of steps that two years ago brought me to NYC and Baruch. If you had told me at 18 years old that I would wind up living in New York I would have said you were crazy. But there were all these steps: graduating from college, going to graduate school (twice!), moving to Seattle and teaching at the University of Washington, taking the step to move to Hawaii and teach at the University of Hawaii, taking the step to do consulting work which got me to do some work for Baruch, and then two years ago taking the step to accept a teaching position at Baruch and leave Hawaii. Taking the steps and taking the risks.