My name is Andrew Namdar. I come from a private high school on Long Island. I think I am a goof student and always put effort into what I do. I am not always the smartest, but I work hard to do the best to my ability. There are some subjects that I tend to be stronger in than others, but for the most part I think I am a well-rounded individual. If I had to choose my greatest weakness, it would be reading and writing. I feel that I have a lot to improve in those two fields. Other than school, I enjoy playing all kinds of sport. In the summer I like to play tennis and basketball and in the winter I enjoy going snowboarding.

One concern I have about my freshman year at Baruch College is getting along with all the new people. I am going to a school where I do not know all the people around me, so it is important to get to know all the new faces. Another concern I have is staying on top of all my work. People always tell me there is a lot of work in college, so I need to just stay on top of all of it and hand everything in on time. One final concern I have getting to know the buildings. I need to be familiar with where everything is so when I am going to class, I will not get lost and be late.

My Baruch College experience is different than high school in many different ways. For on thing I went to a high school with only in hundred students in each grade, now going to a college with thousands of students is a big difference. Another way it is different than high school is the size of the chasses. In high school I never had a class with more than twenty-five students. Here at Baruch, you can take a course with 30 students in a classroom setting, or a course with three hundred students in a lecture hall. I hope to start my first year at Baruch right by making an easy transition from high school to college.

I think my first year at college will change me by making me a more responsible individual. Now that I am in college I have to take care of everything on my own. I am the one that is going to be responsible to make sure I am taking the right courses and have the correct materials. I also hope to improve in to fields that I need to work on like reading and writing. Overall I think this is going to be a very productive year at Baruch College.