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The reason I chose to come to Baruch in the first place was because I was recruited to play for their basketball team.
But in combination with that,the Graphic communications program was also one of the reasons I chose Baruch. The experience has been great so far.
Over the pat few months, i’ve had the opportunity to be on a great basketball program. I’ve been training with the team since before the semester had even started and therefore got a feel of the campus even before i entered my first semester as a freshman.
My teammates as well as coaching staff have been extremely welcoming and made my fellow freshman teammates and i feel at home right away.
The season started only a month ago, but it feels like I’ve been playing with these girls for many years. We’ve already had the opportunity to go out of state and play and also hope to keep traveling around various parts of the country in order to play great teams. The experience is very different from anything i’ve been able to experience before. Although it is really hard to have to balance classes and athletics together, the various programs and resources that Baruch has to offer has helped me grow out of any adversity that regards  balancing the two.
Apart from being on a great team and having great friends, even the professors don’t fail to be good role models.
In addition to being on the team, the various clubs that Baruch offers has had a good impact on my social life and has taken away the stress when needed.
Overall, i have no regrets on joining the college and hope to have great basketball season this year and the next three to come.
But most importantly a great four year college experience.

On taking the various assessments that Focus 2 had to offer, it seemed pretty realistic as to what i want to pursue eventually.
The program definitely assessed all my skills well and gave me a clear sense of what i could  expect to be eventually doing. Although some of the careers had nothing to do with anything i’ve ever thought of doing, it was interesting to know that i have access to multiple options based on my skills.
I undoubtedly gained something out of taking this survey, because i know now that i do have multiple strengths that i can feed of off.

There is a fine line between getting involved easily and not getting involved easily in college, once you´re into getting involved it becomes easy to be interested in the events that go around. In addition to learning what the events have to offer culturally, you get a chance to meet new people which makes your college experience that much more exciting.
The highly anticipated Reggaeton Fest that had been promoted  and organized by LA UNIDAD LATINA, LAMBDA UPSILON LAMBDA, Fraternity,inc. WBMB THE Biz and Undergraduate Student Government was a huge success.  For weeks during club hours, people from all these organizations went around with flyers and a word to promote this Latino heritage party. It was held at the Multipurpose room on the ground floor of the Vertical Campus Building.The night kicked of with great food and socializing. To add to that was traditional reggae and latino  music and dancing. A great insight to the Latino heritage. The night ended with an opportunity to witness a probate (initiation into a sorority) .Probates in general is a “coming out” or crossing out into the pledges. Through the rain  and the 30 degree weather, the two pledges did their steps and stop surrounded by other sororities and fraternities in support of making it to the end of the pledging.
Overall being a freshman, my experience in a diverse college such as Baruch  broadens my outlook toward globalization or how the world is made of multiple cultures. The night was a memorable one and one that taught me a little about a culture that I might have not attempted to know otherwise.  It also taught me how strong of a brotherhood and sisterhood the fraternities and sororities respectively are.
A good, eventful and knowledgable night.

                     The Baruch Art Performing center had a staged reading of the Play Antigone. A staged reading in general is a non-rehearsed theatrical performance where the actors use their script for reference by reading right out of it and performing. My theatre teacher Prof. Debra Caplan gave us, her students this optional opportunity to watch Antigone in a staged reading.  The experience in general was extremely unique, like as though we were watching a rehearsal. The characters wore clothes they would wear on a regular basis, but still portrayed the characters as they were expected. Although the play lacked the props and the costumes, it still had the feel of a regular play. Overall  I would recommend everyone to go to the Baruch Performing Arts Center and watch not only this play, but any in general. The theatre experience in general at Baruch is well done and rehearsed. There somehow seems to be a connection the audience has with these characters, because of how relatable it becomes when watching a regular person in regular clothes act out a story. The audience will end having the exact same emotions the main characters feel. The characters all seemed very experienced with drama and their also were a variety of age groups of characters. Therefore, i would undoubtedly recommend everyone i know to watch any theatrical performance that Baruch stages.

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My group chose to use Urban Wars as our topic. The concept of the Chemical weapon attack in Syria was mostly discussed because it happens to be the most recent form of war (Civil War).  Being students it is beyond necessary for us to engage in politics and worldly affairs. We’re are merely the future of politics and what better than to be able to involve ourselves and give people our opinions on the issues of everyday.

Above are eight pictures that explain who I am to the best of what only eight pictures can do.
I was born and raised in a small city called Bangalore in  South India.
My family is originally from a state called Kerala also in South India.
Coming from an almost all rounded athletic family, it was only natural for me to also play sports. I ran track my whole life up to the tenth grade. But what caught me the most, sports related wise was basketball, it became my biggest passion and what I do best. In order to pursue basketball at a higher level I moved to America after my tenth grade and went to a mostly sports oriented high school in Queens. The transition taught me a lot of life lessons as well as culture differences, but having to be able to go through the American high school experience made walking into college in a different country than my original motherland easier.
I’m into photography and hope to be able to have a part time job in the field one day or at least have an exhibition, I take my camera or at least try to take it everywhere I go because I believe there is always something unique to capture because every person has a different eye behind the lens. The most fascinating thing I like capturing with my camera is graffiti and what better place than New York to find the most extreme types of graffiti. The picture of graffiti on the building is a picture I took in Williamsburg. It’s one of my favorites because it so easily portrays how different Brooklyn is.  My mom and dad both pursued creative fields and I too hope to do the same using my art skills and creativity.  My last picture explains how much I love New York City, the impression it’s left on me after two years of living here makes me want to get a job here and end up settling here, eventually.