I’m Naomi, I’m from Long Island and I’m Persian which I think plays a major role in who I am. Because I’m Persian, I like to spend all my time with my Persian friends from Great Neck, and we do everything together because we have such a tight community. I like to separate my community into two types: the traditional and the modern. The traditional girl is someone who is usually born rich and very conservative in terms of religion. They grow up wearing only the most expensive designer clothing and not taking education too seriously because they know they’re going to get married at 19 or 20 to a rich Persian man. Once they get married, there is no need for them to work so they stay at home and become housewives. The modern woman, or as my friends like to call them, “the career woman” is takes education and work very seriously. Rather than spending their lives preparing themselves for marriage, they prefer to live life. They’re usually characterized by their lack of religiousness, getting married around 30, and their high profiled jobs. Though I was not born rich or in Great Neck, so I like to think of myself as a mix. I’m not too religious, I don’t want to get married too young but not too late either, and I want a great career but I want to raise my kids as well.
My top three concerns about my freshman year are not being able to make friends, not being able to have good grades, and not being able to see the city. I didn’t really like high school because I didn’t like my grade and theres nothing in my town except for my high school. Now that I’m in college and theres an endless amount of people I can meet, I’m hoping to make great friends that I can have a fun time with. While having fun with new friends, I need to make good grades so I can get in the Zicklin School of Business. As of right now, I’m only starting to feel the pressure and stress of my classes, but I’ m nervous of what’s to come. I’m nervous that my grades won’t be good enough. Aside from that, there wasn’t much to see from where I lived in Long Island, so I’m hoping to see something new in the city.
Like Baruch, my high school was very diverse, so the only thing that will make my college experience different is if I see the city more. I think I’ll change from my freshman year at college by becoming more independent. In high school, I was so close to home and my family knew where I was and what I was doing at all times. At Baruch, I’m mostly on my own.