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My first semester at Baruch has been great. I really haven’t had any problems, I met some really amazing people and now I’m kind of sad the first semester is over. I have loved all my classes, despite the crazy English professor and stressful research paper. Although Baruch and living in NYC have been amazing, I am looking forward to going home for the summer. I miss my dogs! And family and friends.

I have just got the keys to the apartment my friends and I are sharing next semester which is soooo close to school. So, goodbye dorms! I am excited for the fall semester now, but I REALLY need a job on campus. I’m not liking being a poor student.

The main theme from my free writes seems to be the problems with having two lives. My life is now transatlantic. I love being here and I’m so glad I came. I feel like it was something that I had to do and is one of the only things I really felt sure about even though it meant leaving my life in England. I applied to university in England, even though I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, so applied for psychology. I never actually sent the application as I decided I would take a year off and go to Australia with my friend. We ended up not having enough money to go to Australia and the idea of my gap year would be changed.

I got a job doing club photography and promotion and met some really amazing people and had the best time. After summer, all my friends from high school went away to university and my friend and I were left behind planning to go to Australia. We didn’t save enough so ended up coming to New York to stay with her sister. We had the best time together exploring New York city and Long Island and Queens- where we were living. I decided to apply to college in New York. We stayed in New York twice for two months each visit together. After I came back home from the second trip, I didn’t want to leave, I hated being back and didn’t do anything for a month. Even being at the airport hearing British accents made me depressed. Then I decided to apply to CUNY colleges and get back to New York.

Once summer started all my friends were home though and I had so much fun. Then when they all left again, the students at my local university were back so work got really good again. I ended up spending a lot of time on the campus promoting and met loads of people. I used to hate my hometown and complain about it all the time but the time between coming home and going to college, I really started to appreciate Norwich. I had a great job, a boyfriend, great friends, I was really loving my life. I got my acceptance letter for Baruch really late and I didn’t think I was going to get my VISA in time so I kind of convinced myself I would have to defer. I got a cancellation visa interview and got it in time.

Leaving was hard but I wasn’t excited. I didn’t want to leave the life I had built in Norwich but I felt like it’s something I really wanted to do but also had to do. I feel like it was important for me to get away from my hometown otherwise I would’ve stayed there not really experiencing anything else. I love it here now but sometimes I really miss Norwich. One of the free write prompts was where do you see yourself in 5 years, really made me realize that I have no idea which continent I want to end up living in. I love both so much and can’t choose.

I haven’t really had any problems at Baruch so far, I’m really enjoying everything and I’m not really finding it that different to the last 2 years of high School in England. Living in the dorms is interesting… I’m glad I did it as a life experience but I like my own personal space and sharing a room with two other girls and sometimes one girl’s boyfriend is crowded. I’ve had some really good experiences so far and I’m so glad I’m here but I’m also looking forward to going home for summer for the other half of my transatlantic life.

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