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My Monologue (Stephanie Calamia) <— I don’t know how this whole blog thing works or if my name shows up without me including it so there it is.

Many people ask me how I ended up at Baruch and why I didn’t choose to dorm at a school far, far away. The main reason I chose to attend Baruch is because it is not too long of a commute, it is a great school, and it is fairly inexpensive; so my parents loved it. I often wonder what it would be like to dorm at a school in the middle of nowhere, such as West Virginia University, nothing against that school, but I sometimes wonder why half of my graduating class went there. Yeah it is ranked one of the best party schools, but it is literally in the middle of nowhere. Completely surrounded by farms. I would not survive in a place where it takes 2 hours to arrive at the nearest coffee shop, which of course isn’t Starbucks. That is one of the reasons why I love the city, everywhere you turn, there is a Starbucks. If you haven’t noticed by now I sort of love coffee, it’s how I’ve survived so far in college.

My transition from high school to college wasn’t too bad…except for the fact that I didn’t sleep a single night in August because of how much I was thinking about school, some nerves, some excitement but mostly it was because I had no idea what to expect. You always hear people saying that college is so different from high school and there is so much more work but you do not fully realize it until you are actually in college, trust me. I was fairly shocked when I came to the realization that I like Baruch…a lot, and the commute really isn’t as terrible as people say it is, I get tons of reading and homework done during that hour. And I didn’t think I would make such good friends, I figured since many people at Baruch come from all over they’d want to just go to class and go home, but it’s not like that at all.

Ok now it’s time to get serious, career talk is always the worst when you don’t know what you want to do. When you’re little you always picture yourself as a lawyer or a doctor or an astronaut and some of these are just silly childhood dreams but some people actually know what they are interested in from a relatively young age. When I was pretty young I wanted to be a veterinarian because I love animals, but my sister started telling me that if I became a veterinarian I’d have to stick my hand down crocodile’s throats and horrific stuff like that, so that phase passed pretty quickly. I honestly don’t know exactly what I want to do, and my parents suggested that since I have no idea what I want to do and I enjoy math (up until this semester,) why not go into finance and if you’re good at what you do you’ll be swimming in money. And come on, who doesn’t want that? They 100% have my best interest at heart because they want me to be successful and not have any financial problems in the future but I realized that I don’t want to sit in a cubicle and work with numbers all day, it seems tedious to me. I’d rather wait a little and keep exploring classes and possible career choices and whatnot until I find something that I would enjoy and that will allow me to financially support myself with no difficulty. But I still have time and there are a few subjects I am very interested in so I’m not worried.

Overall I’d say coming to Baruch was a great idea, I’m really enjoying it and the city…and the coffee.

The End.