I am at a point in my life where all I have in front of me are choices. These are not simple choices we made as kids about what clothes to wear to school or if it was worth missing homework to watch that favorite television show. These are not choices that will have minimal impact on my life, but will ultimately define my career path and me as an individual. Choices. The world itself is kind of scary because there is always the chance that I will make the wrong one and I will have to suffer for it. That cannot be changed. That fear will always be there. However, I have realized during my first few months at Baruch that I cannot let that fear stop me from making the most out of my education and college experience. I have had to make choices in these last couple of months, and I will admit that not all of them have been right. Mistakes have been made, but at the end of the day I am glad to have made those mistakes because they have changed me as an individual and altered my thinking in terms of what others expect from me, and what I expect from myself. Most importantly, I have realized these choices are going to be there all my life. There will be a point where I will be at crossroads in almost every situation. There will be an easy way and a hard way. An ethical way and one that is not ethical. A choice that is selfish and will only benefit me and a choice that will benefit everyone. I will have to choose when I am at that crossroads and if there is one thing that I learned from my first semester here at Baruch, it is that I cannot let my fear of choosing wrong stop me from choosing at all. It has been a great first year, and this period has made me mature in ways that four years in high school did not. I came in complaining that the atmosphere at Baruch was mundane but I have realized that I have to make the most of it or it will be boring no matter where I am attending college. As such, I have made the choice to get involved and it is starting to pay off as there are opportunities here to grow my skills that I could not see before.