My name is Sheridan Taylor and I am a freshman here at Baruch. I am from Westchester County, New York. I attended my four years of high school at Peekskill High School. I played Softball, Volleyball and Basketball and helped to lead my girls’ basketball team to their first state championship. I am a very active person between school and sports. Besides sports I like to hang with friends and family, shopping and doing anything that catches my eye. I can say that I enjoyed my high school career, but looking forward for college to change my perspective.
The college life is the best thing ever. Who would ever want to pass up the opportunity to go away from home? I took this chance the first time that it was open to me. College is a lot of hard work, but it’s going to be worth the time in the long run. Partying is one the other great factors of going to school. These parties aren’t your average parties from high school, there are so much more to them. The college experience is so much better than my high school experience. I enjoyed high school, but I enjoy the fact that I’m going to a school in New York. Coming from a town with 23,000 people (believe me its smaller than expected) to a school with more than a million people is something that I never expected.
My fist year has already changed me and it barely started. I had to change my studying habits and my timeliness. In high school, I didn’t study as much as I should have and it sometimes showed in the work and the tests that I had to turn in. I had to make sure that I gave myself enough time to complete the homework assignments that are given to me. I learned to manage my time or I wouldn’t be able to make it through the week. I didn’t have much problem when it came to time management in high school because I played three varsity sports and was active in several clubs.
Basketball has put me in a stand still. I never met something, so demanding before like this before. I’ve always enjoyed the sport and will continue to play it through the four years of college. College basketball differs from high school that there’s weight training. I expected it, but didn’t think it would be as intense as it is. I don’t mind working out its just the amount of time that I have committed into working out and making sure that I was on top of my game has taken a slight toll on me.
I miss do have some things that I miss from home. The home cooked meals, the driving, my sisters and a small amount of friends that I had. The cooking food every night or ordering some fast food isn’t a healthy lifestyle that I should have. Like who wants to be part of the ‘freshman 15’ because I know that I don’t especially being an athlete. My sisters were my rocks. We had our arguments, but we had more laughs than that. They are some of the few people that keep me sane. Ugh, taking public transportation every day is the worst part of the commute to school. I wished that I had my car and drove to the campus, parked, went to class and practice and then drive home. But of course, I have to rely on the subway for my commute to school and back. The $104 that I pay for a monthly Metro card can be spent else were for better money. I’ve bought three metro cards since moving into the city and I can rent an apartment for all of the money that get to New York City transportation.
