INSTRUCTIONS:

PART I

Your first blog assignment is to tell us about yourself!

1. Give us some Background: Some things you might include in your posting/blog: Are you new to Baruch this semester? Where did you grow up? What are your interests/hobbies? Is psychology your intended major? What have been your favorite classes thus far? Do you belong to any student clubs/organizations? etc.
2. Share something from the Web or from your personal archives that reflects a bit about who you are. This can be a link to a personal Blog or website, or perhaps to a YouTube video, song, poem, or picture that expresses a part of your personality. Have Fun with this piece J
3. Please note that other classmates will be reading your responses. This is NOT an iChat or BBM conversation, so please use proper grammar and full sentences.

PART II

1. Read through fellow students’ postings.
2. Comment and respond to what other people have posted. At MINIMUM, You MUST reply to ONE other student’s posting.
3. Be respectful of your peers and professors. Do not post messages that are disrespectful, insulting, or offensive. If your posting(s) are offensive to someone we will remove them and you will be held accountable for your actions.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This “Say Hello” blog post does NOT count towards your 2 Reflections + 4 Comments required for extra credit. However, you MUST post something here if you intend on participating in future discussions, which will count towards extra credit points.
• To complete the “Say Hello” prerequisite, you must post an original “Hello” message AND reply to at least one other student’s posting.
• For details on how to use the Blogs@Baruch system to post and reply to the extra credit assignments, see the “Using This Site” tab.
• Be sure to CATEGORIZE your posts. They will NOT show up on the site if you fail to place them in the correct category.
• For more details on how extra credit is earned through the Blog, see the “Welcome” tab.
• Please make sure you are familiar with Baruch’s Policy on Academic Honesty (see link below). You will be held accountable for any acts/behaviors/plagiarism that violate this policy during the course of the semester. http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/academic/academic_honesty.html

DUE DATES:

1. Submit your original “Hello” posting NO LATER than Friday September 23rd @ 11:55pm.
2. Post a reply to another student’s posting by Tuesday September 27 @ 11:55pm. DO NOT LEAVE THIS UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstance.

Hola, HOlaaaaaaaaa!!!

Hello, my name is Israel and i was born in Houston Texas, but if you ask me where i’m from? i’ll proudly say i’m mexican. Enough of this!

So, this is my second semester here at Baruch college and so far I love Baruch. Last semester was very challenging for me. well, its been a real challenge for me the past few years. First of all, when i came back form from México, yes i grew up there, i didn’t speak any english, but i’m hanging in there. My favorite subject is literature, chicano-literature, and I enjoy reading memoirs from people who’s been through similar situation as me. i don’t belong to any clubs, i don’t have the time for it, since i work and go to school.

Here is a picture of my familia, i hope you enjoy it.

I’m the boy in the middle.

Hey there, Psych. The name’s Roalt Ahmet. Born and raised in Albania until i was about 8 years old.  Came to the states then and I’ve been living in New York ever since

I enjoy the little things in life. I play handball every chance I can and I try to see friends from time to time. The main thing i really like is to sit out on a good day and enjoy nature. Nothing like a good breath of “fresh” air to really calm someone down. My other hobbies include reading and writing. I’m into short stories a lot and try to write a few in my spare time.

As for my time here at Baruch, this is my second year here. I enjoy the college and its atmosphere but at the same time I wish there was some kind of campus life. My intended major is something in International Politics, at least for now. I really like the professors I’ve taken thus fur and my favorite classes have been my English classes.

Thanks for reading, I guess. Sit back, and enjoy some Red Hot Chili Peppers  Time – Red Hot Chili Peppes

Hello Blogosphere!
First off, my name is Kevin Persaud. I am a sophomore at Baruch College. I was born and raised in Queens, New York, Briarwood to be exact and I went to Francis Lewis High School.

I find it hard to summarize my personality/life in one simple post so I will direct you all to my blog: stopcursing.tumblr.com.

When I first came to Baruch I noticed that there was a large amount of transfer students from many different CUNY schools. I really enjoy going to Baruch and have immense pride for Baruch and its Bearcats. GO Bearcats!

I have to admit this Psychology class is my favorite class this semester. At first I found the trade off from Professor Spalosky to Professor Sitt kind of weird, but I eventually grew to like it.  I particularly enjoy the efforts that each Professor goes to keep the class interested and alert.

Hi!
I’m a bit shy about writing about myself, but here goes…

My name is Dr. David Sitt and I am one of the Professors for this class. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and am the Deputy Chair of Baruch’s Psychology Department. Perhaps the first interesting tidbit about me is that I am actually a graduate of Baruch’s undergrad program, where I majored in Psychology. Due to my deep connection with Baruch, I have a great affinity for the students here and take great pride in teaching at my alma mater.

It was during my Intro to Psych class at Baruch that my passion for psychology sparked, though I did not change my major from Finance to Psychology until my Junior year. While at Baruch, I was fortunate to study abroad for not one, but TWO semesters! I spent the Fall semester of my Junior year in London, and then my Spring semester in Israel. That year remains among the most significant of my life. I highly recommend taking a semester abroad and would encourage you to begin looking into it FROM NOW.

Upon graduating from Baruch, I persued (I have no idea how to spell that so I will use the spell check tool on the top of the text entry-window indicated by a check mark and “ABC” on it…), ok, i meant pursued a Master’s Degree and Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from a school named Ferkauf Graduate school, which is part of Albert Einstein Medical College, which is part of Yeshiva University (and no, you do not need to be Jewish to attend that school).

Over the years, I have worked with children, adults, and geriatrics (>70yrs). I was able to gain experiences from all over Manhattan, including Bellevue Hospital, Lennox Hill, South Beach Hospital, the Veteran’s Administration Hospital, and NYU Hospital. Currently, aside from teaching at Baruch, I have a small private practice that specializes in the assessment and treatment of ADHD, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and other disorders. On top of that, I also conduct research on the impacts of Technology on social interactions and emotional wellbeing.

As far as links that reflect some of my various interests and pursuits:

• My Twitter Feed @Edgycator
• My blog for Psychology Today: “Dear Technology…”
• My Weekly Broadcast about Positive Psychology: The Sitt Down (Season 2 will begin in November).
• Facebook Page for Psychology In Motion here at Baruch College

Among the things I like to do on my down time are play guitar, hang out with friends, travel, snowboard, and recently started surfing again!

So as you can tell, I’m quite a busy fellow. Striving towards maintaining a healthy balance is constant work, but achieving such balance is, in my opinion, one of the keys to happiness and success.

As such, I encourage those who are reading this to give thought to how you plan to achieve your own personal balance. For example, try not to overwhelm yourselves with too many unnecessary responsibilities while in school. Prioritizing during college is essential, and your studies must remain at the top of your list. I know this is a constant challenge, but with a strong commitment, the right motivation, and good social support, you can accomplish great things!

And with those words, I wish you good luck this semester…

-Prof Sitt

ps I had over 12 spelling mistakes!!! Thank you spellcheck!

Hello everyone!

My name is Saleh but you can call me SAM. It’s so much easier and you might remember it better. I hope. I am an accounting major. FUN (dont freakout, i know it’s not so much fun). I’m not sure why i chose accounting, but it might be because i been working in our family business forever. At age 7, before coming to the United States, i built my own store (4 feet high) out of rocks; so maybe that explains why my roots have really been in business. Unfortunately i woke up every morning to find it destroyed. My hobbies/interests are poetry, photography, poetry, networking, watching all sorts of documentaries especially conspiracy documentaries, playing around with Garageband in my Macbook (makes your singing voice 10 times better), exploring high tech devices, making youtube videos (youtube.com/saleh426), reading and writing. Those hobbies for an accounting major dont go together in a way because a calculator is supposed to be my favorite electronic. Is it? Anyway, i am currently part of MSA (muslim student association), and i am trying to join into other clubs and i hope you guys are too. Again i love making YOUTUBE VIDEOS! CHECK OUT MY CHANNEL.If you have any ideas for me, i’ll be glad to have them. HERE’S A VIDEO I DID FOR HURRICANE IRENE:

http://www.facebook.com/zal.yey

Just wondering, have the reflection assignments been posted yet? I really feel like doing them right now and writing like XXXXXXXX pages each but I don’t see them anywhere on Blackboard. All this hype for nothing. ):

Sport plays a crucial role in  our lives and gives fun and psychological well being better then drinking a glass of wine in order to fill relaxed

Hello everyone!

My name is Evan Ng and I’m currently a sophomore at Baruch College.  I grew up in a small cozy neighborhood in Queens and now currently reside in a suburban town in Long Island. After moving from my hometown, I lost almost all contact with my childhood friends because at the time (just finished elementary school), I was not too fond with technology and phone numbers. At the start of my new middle school, I was insecure with who to talk with and what social groups to join in because many of the other students around me were more wealthy and outgoing then I was. It was definitely a big jump from Queens to Long Island for me and it wasn’t any easier for my brother and sister. It took nearly a year or two for me to finally understand about myself and to learn to never compare myself to others. After flying through middle school and graduating Glen Cove High School, I’m proud of who I am today and I hope that I can achieve even more at Baruch College!

I’m currently majoring in finance at Baruch College and I have to say thus far, Intro to Psych is currently my favorite class. To be honest, when I found out that we had to learn about the parts of the brain I wanted to smack my head repeatedly against a brick wall. I fell asleep everyday in my biology class in high school because biological science wasn’t my thing. After being in PSY 1001 for four weeks, I have to say I’m actually surprised that I’m enjoying every bit of it (including brain anatomy)! I’ve always had an interest in how the mind works and its influences through nature and nurture.

I don’t really use social networking media (twitter, tumbler, but rarely Facebook), but a book that really made an impact on my life and the way I think now is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. There are so many notable quotes in Pausch’s book that listing them here would take forever (and too much space, not like I haven’t made this post long enough already). If you ever have time, give this book a read!

When I’m not killing myself (not literally) over schoolwork, I try my best to maintain a balanced lifestyle by dedicating my time to my family and engaging in other activities with my friends. I play tennis (favorite sport) as much as I can, including other racquet sports such as badminton, squash and ping pong (not too good at ping pong though). I also play other team sports (football and basketball) so that I can hang out with my friends more often. I read anything I can possibly learn from and try to expand my knowledge of everything around me whenever I get the chance. I’ve always loved traveling and hope that in the near future, I will be able to travel to other countries and absorb as much as I can from there.

“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”

– Randy Pausch

I am currently an upper sophomore. I transfered from St. John’s University last semester. Some of my credits did not transfer and so I am a little behind. I grew up in Bayside queens. I think psychology is interesting but is not my intended major. I hope to get into finance.

My name is Rebecca He and I’m currently a sophmore at Baruch. I was born in China but grew up in New York. I’ve lived on Long Island since I was 5 years old.

If I wasn’t persueing a degree in business management I would see myself at a design school. Besides having a calling for art I also invest a lot of time on Music. I try to play my electric bass once a day however, with all the readings and homework this semester has brough upon me, I haven’t had much time for it. Now I just resort to my iPod for music.

This is a link to one my favorite artist. I always look at his work to seek inspiration. He’s known as greno89 on DevaintART. http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/160/3/6/12_by_greno89.jpg

Hi Class,

My name is Yuriy Minchuk and I am senior here at Baruch. I am an honors student in the Macaulay Honors College and I am studying Finance. I moved to New York City in 1992 at the age of 2. I was born in Gomel, Belarus, which was a part of the USSR at the time.

My interests mainly include watching hockey (New York Rangers fan), playing basketball, hanging out with my friends, and staying connected to the events happening in the constantly- changing financial world. I am really looking forward to graduating in June 2012 and to get out into the real world. I am currently looking for full-time positions for post-graduation.

I am also heavily influenced by music and the culture that surrounds it. I am a fan of rap, hip-hop, old school rap, house, electro, and dub step genres. I like listening to live music whenever the opportunity presents itself, and I enjoy being a spectator whenever my friends jam out at the studio. If anyone is interested in beat-boxing, which I personally find fascinating, check out a friend of mine who is really using his extraordinary talent to break out into the music industry.

Beats Myth Beatboxing

Hello, my name is Florence Bucsit. I came from the Philippines and this is my second year at Baruch College. I am aiming to be a CPA. In addition to that I like to explore different places and cultures. Therefore, learning a new language is a must. I am currently interested in Japanese culture and since Japan is one of the best places to do business with, it is very advantageous to familiarize myself with it. Therefore, I am intending to make Japanese as my minor.  I am also interested in learning Korean and French, but I think Japanese is enough for now :).

I am also interested in the field of science. I took Biology last summer and I liked it. So far, I am enjoying my Psychology class as well. I hope everyone feels the same. ^^

EDIT: I also watch some anime shows and came across to this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O9dZF2q6R8 –> I like this song because for the most part it explains who I am internally.

Hey,

My name is Robert Rahmanian and I am proud to be a New Yorker. I was born and raised in Long Island and just recently moved into New York City. This is my last semester at Baruch College (fingers crossed). I am a real estate investment major and I truly enjoyed my time at Baruch. I just feel it is time now that I graduate and live the next chapter in my life.

I love watching football and basketball. These are also my 2 favorite sports to play. When I am not in school, I work as a real estate salesperson, and help people find their dream homes. My family is involved with real estate so this is why I joined the field as well. I love my job and the people I work with.

Now here’s my favorite musical artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PN78PS_QsM&ob=av2e

So I guess, hello everyone! My name is Alice and I’m a freshmen at Baruch. Made in New York, raised in new york, and have been living here all my life. Besides school, I currently work 2 jobs to afford living in this hectic city. I have a big fat dog called Jibi Booboo Zeng, where the first part of her name roughly translates to chicken thigh. She’s a female pit bull who just turned 2, and she has been a big part of my life ever since I got her.
I like cows, photography, and food (mostly desserts). I don’t have much hobbies, nor do i do much besides taking pictures and eat. I do go biking or walking the bridge sometimes when I feel stressed — there’s just something about the the long walk or ride that soothes my mind. I am also obsessed with Starbucks, don’t think I could ever get enough of that caffeine.
My family owns a farm, yes, a farm, in New Jersey. Partially for a living, partially just because they like it. Every once in a while, it’s nice to take a break from technology, from society, and just relax in nature. It’s a very calm environment and nice for a short vacation. We have a lake there with a small boat or canoe sort of thing, and never-ending field of crops.
I can’t think of anything else for now, but hello again everyone!

Hello, dear classmates!

My name is Hanna Hupfeld, I am 25 years old and I am an international transfer student from Germany. I study accounting and live in Union Square, a wonderful ten minute walk from school away. I moved to New York City exactly five years ago as an au pair, an international nanny. After graduating from high school, I was about to get trained as a chef in a small castle on top of a small hill that you could see from my living room window. Since I love arts and the art of cooking this seemed like a wonderful job for me, but as live goes on one’s plans change. I did not want to work right after school and so I decided to go to the US on my own for a year, maximum two. So I left my family behind and moved from my 1,045 souls town to the city that never sleeps. With my second host family and also met my second family. They offered me to stay with them after my au pair job was finished, if I wanted to study and stay in New York. And so I did!

Sunday, two weeks ago I celebrated my five year anniversary in New York and I am sure that I will be staying here for a little while longer. Not only to finish my school, but also to enjoy this terribly exciting life in Manhattan. My passion is of course still for food and the arts. I am a passionate hobby painter and I enjoy drawing and sculpting.  Whenever a friend or family member’s  birthday or anniversary is coming up, I am getting busy making a present instead of simply buying one (unless, they told me I should buy them something in specific).

Although, I love living in the city, I am sad that I cannot follow all my hobbies and favorite activities here as I did back home in Germany. I love to drive fast German cars and Italian motorcycles. Here in the city, both is mainly annoying, too dangerous, and of course too expensive. The other main activity that I miss the most is participating in the volunteer fire department. In my home town, I joined the youth fire department with the age of 13 and got my first official rank by the age of 18. I am still a member in my town’s department, but sadly only passive.

I am very sure that giving up being with my family and some of my hobbies will pay off in the future when I have earned my degree and start real life in Manhattan.

My name is Toniann Donde and this is my first semester at Baruch. I grew up on Long Island in Shirley and I now dorm in the Lower East Side. My intended major is accounting and majoring in psychology has never crossed my mind but I’m learning that it is pretty interesting.

I love playing softball and I’m playing for Baruch. I also love to play any sport except basketball, because I stink at it but I do enjoy to watch it. Oh, and I’m a die hard NY Giants fan, so cheer accordingly (:

Hello fellow students and professors… oh and Teacher Assistants. I am a new student at Baruch transferred from Brooklyn college. Although I did take a college-Now class in high school, so am I still consider new? Anyways, I am pursing Marketing major (since they don’t have advertising). My interest is just hanging out with friends, wither it be playing any sport or just grabbing lunch. I am in the United Chinese Language Association (UCLA) at Baruch. I want to learn more about my culture. And on TUESDAY September 20, 6:00-9:00 there is a moon festival event hosted by UCLA. So if anyone is interest they can stop by, there are flyer’s posted around Baruch Vertical campus. So far my favorite thing about this class is the professor, they sure know how to make students laugh. As well as their entry speech to the class.

The only website I have, well the only website I use nowadays is facebook. http://www.facebook.com/Gaiii

i was actually wondering if someone really reads as this postings? my opinion that no one really cares about who is who and what are they writing here about. but who knows, i might be wrong. so, for those who have read all the was through here my name is artiom fetesco, (artie is fine). born and raised in moldavia(which is eastern europe). i’m currently junior at baruch. let’s see where this project will take us to!

My name is Alexa and this is my first year of college! I’ve been adjusting better than originally expected and I really hope the rest of the semester is as fun as this past month was. I planned on majoring in Psychology, but upon realizing that no one will call me “doctor,” I am now Undecided. Regardless of my major, I fully intend to go to Medical School…if I make it.

I’m also from Long Island, which is not too far away from where I now reside in Tudor City. I really miss my friends from my hometown, especially my best friend who moved to Argentina to study Film. Since the video of her going away party is a bit inappropriate for this forum, here’s the video of our Last Day of Kellenberg Memorial High School! They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.

Hope you enjoyed getting to know a little about me<3

Hello class,

I am Tamding Sherpa. I am an international student from Nepal, though I am originally Tibetan. This is my third year in Baruch and in the States. And I really like it here. Besides school, I intern for a Textile designer in the Fashion District. I love fashion!                         For my spare time, I enjoy playing basketball, sketching, blogging and hanging out with my friends.

I am really liking the Psychology class and will hopefully Ace it ^^. Since I am planning to major in Business Management, I have been taking alot of Business classes. I have not joined any clubs yet, but plan to soon.

Well, this summer me and friends took part in a basketball tournament and my team won first place (not bragging).

Tamding.

Hello, my name is Tiffany Chui and I’m a first semester sophomore at Baruch College. I grew up and was raised in new york city so I’ve been here all my life. My intended major is accounting but I’m still mostly undecided. My favorite class so far is business law. I don’t have a concrete hobby but I do enjoy doing artsy stuff once in a while, also I like baking desserts!

Hey My name’s Anthony Theodorou. This is my second year at baruch and I’m probably going to be an accounting major, but I’m not sure yet. I guess I like to play sports, like handball. I like to do some archery too.   http://ipolarberry.tumblr.com/ That’s my tumblr, it just shows the stuff I find funny or like.

Hi, my name is Anthony Fandacone and I am a freshmen here at Baruch. I went to Leon M. Goldstein High School in Brooklyn and played on the soccer and bowling team. An interesting fact about me is that I bowled a 290 twice last year. I’m unsure of my projected major but as of right now am looking to do Actuarial Science. Psychology is another subject I am beginning to consider as another possibility for a major mostly due to this class. My twitter is http://twitter.com/#!/Fandaconee in case anyone wants to follow me.

Hello everyone, my name is Jingjing He. I was born in Beijing, China. I transferred from New York Institute of Technology. This is my first year in Baruch. I’m a current sophomore. My major is Accounting, and minor in Mathematics. Glad to be with you all in the PSY 1001 class 😀

Hi my name is Raymond and I am a transfer student. I grew up in Queens, New York. My intended major is finance and I want to minor in psychology. My interests are cars, computers, sports, and I especially love to eat. I am currently not in any clubs or organizations.

My name is Ioannis Morales and I am a transfer student. I am half dominican and half greek. I grew up in New York and went to High School in the specialized high school at City College. Right after high school I spent the next semester traveling europe, spending most of my time in Greece and Prague, trying to find what I would like to study and attempting to find some inspiration. After about 5 months I returned and attended Lehman for a semester before transferring to Baruch. I am a sophomore and I am majoring in Finance. I enjoy music a lot, anywhere from psychedelic rock to some rap music from time to time.

Heres a video from Dave Chappelles standup at the Laugh Factory
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My name is Daniel Siryakov, i came to America 3 years ago from Israel.  It was a pretty interesting transition to say the least. Im a freshman at Baruch and I’m enjoying it so far; joining some clubs, frats, and meeting cool people which is nice. I’m very social and i love meeting new people and having fun. I try to balance parties and school as much as i can haha.
I signed up for psychology because its definitely an interest of mine. I find the standford prison experiment and the milgram experiments to be fascinating, though everyone finds them interesting so im not the first haha.

lets have a good psychology class 🙂

Hello everyone,

My name is Maurice Dweck. I am a sophomore at Baruch college. I was born and raised in Manhattan. I am a Transfer student from Muhlenberg College a small school in allentown Pennsylvania. I did not enjoy the suburb life so much and wanted to come back to the city life. I am a Business major, I am not sure exactly what field of business i want to go into. So I am exploring my options.

When it comes to hobbies, I enjoy watching and playing sports, particularly Basketball. I also enjoy playing video games and just hanging out with friends

Here is a cool Basketball youtube link I enjoy about one of the best in the game, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9QPMy__xKQ

Hello Everyone my name is Kiara Ramos. I was born here in New York, but my family is from Dominican Republic. This is my first semester at Baruch after transferring from Lehman College. I am supposed to be a junior but thanks to not all of my credits transferring my status is currently of an upper sophomore -_- I am intending to major in Economics but I am still not sure about what career I want after graduation. So far it has been a great experience at Baruch. I absolutely love the diversity of the students here!! I am definitley excited about being a student at Baruch College!!! =)

Hi. My name is YanWang SzeTo. I born in Hongkong. I am a transfer student from Brooklyn College. This is the 3rd semester in Baruch.I am major in accounting. I like to play basketball and swimming. I also like to cook for my family. I have a blog. However, I am too lazy and I never update it.
Glad to be with you all in the PSY 1001 class

My name is Vivian and I’m in my second year. I grew up in Elmhurst, NY and moved around quite a bit. I like drawing, but I haven’t been doing that so much lately. Tablets are so frustrating. Paper and pencil is just so much easier. I plan to major in accounting. I’m a bit worried I won’t be able to get a job getting out of college. Hopefully that doesn’t happen. I pretty much hated every class except Sociology. The professor was pretty chill and there were no tests, just essays. I wish every class I took was like that.

I guess I think too much (but it’s never about school work).

Hello everyone,

My name is Armando Aguilar. I am 21 years-old and I am a transfer student from Portland, OR. I was born in Mexico City, where I lived for eight and a half years before moving to Spain. I lived in Valencia for a year and a half before moving to Boise, ID in 1999. My major is International Business. I love playing soccer and my favorite football team is FC Barcelona from Spain. I speak English, Spanish, decent Portuguese and I am in the process of learning French. I’ve lived on my own since 2008. All my family is in Mexico City.

I love the outdoors, but I must say that New York is amazing. I am an extrovert and love the social life. Ironacly, all I do is school and work, so I don’t have much of one. I used to be a Regional Officer for Phi Theta Kappa. I would love to join a club on campus, but due to my busy schedule, I’m afraid I can’t.

This is a street soccer video link on YouTube. I hope you all enjoy it and see how crazy soccer can get. I hope some of you save some money and head down to brazil for the world cup 2014. Samba!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaaH-zv5nxI&feature=fvwrel

I gotta get going,

Adios !

Hey everyone, my name is Ga Ho Lin. This is my second year at Baruch and it’s alright so far. I took Psychology because it was one of those classes you have to take but it’s pretty interesting now and I’ve learned alittle. So hopefully, it’ll continue being a wonderful class.

I grew up in Queens, NY and I am currently in my second semester here at Baruch College. Before that I transferred from Queensborough community college, where I earned my Associate degree in accounting. Though I am not majoring in psychology, I plan on minoring in it. My favorite class so far here at Baruch is calculus because it was challenging and I have always enjoyed math.

i hope i did this thing right, majoring in math, love watching movies, from pakistan, any other questions email me.

Hello, my name is Andrew Lee and I am a Korean American born in Queens, NY. My personality is best fit as outgoing and friendly, also definitely easy to talk too.

What I usually do during my free time is either head to the gym or to play basketball. I also love to drive, either just to cruise or go on the road to think haha sounds corny but yea.

I just transferred into Baruch from NCC. My experience in Baruch so far has been great. Being able to roam the streets of NYC and I have a lot of friends in nearby schools so that’s another plus. Currently I am set on becoming an accountant, with a desire to seek more networking committees. Sooner or later I plan to plug myself into the business society and to continue my path in becoming a successful business man.

My favorite class so far is between History and Psychology. Most of my other Professors are pretty boring and monotone. Well other than that I am completely out of words so this is where I end it!

Hey everyone, my name is Steven Wong. I just transferred here from Pace University, the one around city hall. This is my first semester at Baruch. I grew up in brooklyn my whole life. Im sorry to say that psychology is not my intended major. I plan to major in Accounting. I do not know what my favorite classes are thus far. Most of them are just ok…Im interested in mostly all sport but mainly basketball.

http://luvul.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fun.jpg

I guess this would describe me since i love to have fun!

Hi my name is Wilson Ng. I was born here but I was being brought back to Malaysia when I was still a three-month-old baby. I just came here back alone last year and I found out that New York is a hectic city.The Big Apple is totally new to me and I can say I am still undergoing a severe transition period here because I don’t have many friends. I am a transfer student from foreign college and I hope I can major in Finance. Too bad the orientation for transfer student was only four hours and I can’t really meet new friends there. I hope I can meet more friends in the school so I am planning to join some club. I like to listen to music during my spare time and the song Desperado from Eagles remains one of my favorite song. Nice to meet you guys and take care everyone.

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I am not a great fun of blogging since I barely go to my Facebook. My name is Martha Githae and my middle name is Nyambura. But, mostly everyone i have meet here is never able to pronounce it correctly. I am from Kenya, which is in East Africa. I came to the United States in my Freshman year of High school and my experience was horrible because, I was not used to the brutal  cold winter. I am eighteen years old and a sophomore in Baruch. My hobbies are baking, reading and touring new places.  At the beginning of this year I decided to make a different New Year resolution  than what I was used to,which was to annoying my sister, the most the whole year. I am most interested right now is to learn Arabic. I have this dream that before i turn old and grey and have to account for every penny that i have to tour Asia and the Arabic nations. So far i was able to accomplish touring around Europe. Psychology is a great and fun subject but, I don’t think I am cut out to major it. Right now I think am interested with Economics but honestly still not that sure. I am in the African Association . My favorite class so far will have to be  political science but, that might be because I enjoy and love history.

This link is to a video that shows  my dream of touring the world:roject takes us though Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersbourg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New york and London.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgzxQ18fec Also  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l69jZFPQdo&feature=related

Hello eveyone, my name is Yanting. I came here from China one year ago.

It’s my second semester in Baruch. My favourate course so far is theater. i took this course last semester, the professor gave us quite many great experiences about the theater stage, and we also watch some Broadway shows. every show was unforgetable and i was amazed by the theater atmosphere in New York City.

Before i learn Phychology, i think it is like a riddle, but now every complex thing in humans motions seems to be reasonable after learning some basic knowledge about phycology. Maybe i’m gonna take it as a minor.

I’m interested in swimming although not quite skilled. I like the feeling of freedom in water. Here is a link to my favourate Chinese Song “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk46B7XibO4” it tells us to be brave. Just enjoy it.

Hi, my name is Raymond Smith. I’m a native New Yorker and I have lived in every borough except Staten Island. I have returned to Baruch after taking some time off. I was planning on majoring in Real Estate Development but I’m reassessing that since the industry is in turmoil. I am interested in traveling and Brazil is my favorite place so far. I’m trying to gain fluency Portuguese as well as Spanish. English has been my strongest subject at Baruch but I’m really enjoying psychology. I wish I had taken it sooner. I am currently working at JFK airport as a cargo agent and I’m considering making a career in aviation management.

Hi, my name is Ngawang. I was born in Nepal which is a small country between India and China. But, I am not nepali, i am Tibetan. I think i want to major in either finance or economics.My favorite sports are track and field and basketball. I always play basketball whenever i can and love to watch it as well.  My favorite basketball team is the Bulls. My favorite movie is fight club but i also loved the oceans movies. My favorite food is japanese food especially those cup ramens.  I love to travel and hope that i can visit most of the major capitals of the world.

Hey class my name is Jonathan. This is my 2nd semester in Baruch so I’m fairly new to the place. I transfer from QCC with an associate degrees in Business. Now I’m going to major in Management and Administration. My background is half Chinese and half Taiwanese. Psychology is not my intended major but it’s a good class to help get my BA Degree. My hobbies are just hanging out with the people I enjoy being with. My favorite class would probably be Math, because it’s something I understand the most. As of right now and the past I didn’t belong to any clubs due to time conflict with my work schedule. I would probably join some clubs in the future.

This is a picture of my uncle and I, just hanging.

Hi, I am a freshman here at Baruch and I plan on majoring in finance or marketing. I am originally from the suburbs of Long Island,  but now I am excited to finally be in the city, though I commute. I love to run and bike just to get away from everything and clear my mind. Though psychology is not my major, I have learned a lot in this class. I have recently joined the USG here at Baruch and plan on being an active member.

Hello, everyone! I am Jie Geng (just call me Jason).This is my  second semester at Baruch, but I am Junior. My major is International Business. I were born in China. I came to the U.S. 3 years ago. Before our psychology class, the ENG2150（English writing II class）has used this blog frequently. However, I switch that class to the ENG 2150T (because English is my second language )before they started the first blog. so this is my first post.

I transferred from Queensborough Community College at Spring 2011. By the way, Baruch is my fifth college I has enrolled. My first college is also a community college in China , then I transferred to Nankai University,  one of the most famous  4-year colleges in China. Unfortunately, I was not graduated since I came to the U.S.. The Third college is Queens college. I had learned language in there for 1 year. then I try to apply the Baruch。But unfortunately again, my application is too late to be accepted by Baruch. I did not  want to waste my time again, so I accepted the Queensborough’s offer. I had stayed there for one and half year.  Fortunately,  I can attend the fun psychology class with you guys today.

I like the soccer, tennis and swimming, even though I am too fat to play those things.  I like the writing,but not in English. I post my Chinese blog daily 4 years ago. however, I have no time to do it right now.

I like writing because I am shy man. I like to share my experiences, my stories, and any else by using my word. I was born in the city that is one of the best cities in China, and  I went to the one of the poorest  counties to attended the high school when I was 16 years old. I came to the U.S. when I was 22 year old(it is too old to learn writing in English). Therefore, if you guys interest in China and Chinese culture, or you guys want to learn Chinese (I get 2 As in my Chinese class at Queensborough, and one is honor program), I will gladly  help you guys.

I had learned International Business for 4 years, it is  the reason I choose IB as my major. the second reason is a lot of my friends and classmates are doing international business. some of them are employer in the world best freight forward company, some of them own company in China. It is a big deal and social net for doing international business. if you guys are in the international business major,or you are interest in,  I will gladly be a friend with you.

Of course, I am glad to be friend with everyone. This is about myself.

Everybody have a nice Weekend!!!

Hello class, my name is Karl. I’ve been at Baruch now for almost 3 years. I am a transfer student from Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. I was there for a year and a half and transfered here. I went to a military school in Canada for half of the eigth grade and all of high school. it was a weird place, very strict. Canadians are very cool people, and canada was very nice but the school was rough. It was in the middle of no where. Awful expierence, great once youre done though. I am not Canadian just to clear things up. Ive always lived here in New York, besides the boarding school.
So after that back to NY for college. Now im at Baruch trying to figure out what id like to do for the rest of my life. i have not picked a major and i think they automaticly assigned me to liberal arts. im very behind in school as the math above shows and my transcript really emphasizes. i find lectures to be harder than regular classes because of how easy it is to wonder off mentally. I hate blogging. This topic isnt bad because we all have something to say. But when a teacher asks an entire class one question that we have to blog about, i find it difficult to really make your answer stand out as opposed to the class repeating the same thing over and over.
Does anyone know where i can find a spell check button on this? (easy response for someone else)

Hello everyone. My name is Allen Hamouch. I am a transfer student from DeVry where I received my associate’s degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering. For fun, I always seem to find myself staying up to the minute on sports, particularly my NY teams (Jets, Rangers, and Mets). I also have recently gotten into golf and although I am absolutely horrible (shooting in the low 100s), the phrase “a bad day of golf is better then a good day at the office” always seems to be true.

My name is John Zhang. I was born in Brooklyn but currently live in Staten Island New York. I’m enjoying Baruch as a sophomore not sure what i want to study in major or minor. I enjoying reading manga and fanfiction, listening to Asian pop music, watching anime, playing custom games on Starcraft and playing the piano. I am currently attempting to play “Those Who Fight” a song from final fantasy and the Pokemon theme song “Gotta Catch em All”. Classes just make me tired in general, so I don’t really have a favorite class. I am currently a part of the Japanese Anime Asylum, for obvious reasons. We can always use new members “hint hint”. Looking forward to conversing with everyone.

John Zhang

Hello, everyone.My name Yunyan chi. I am a Chinese. I have been America for two years. This semester is my third one at Baruch College. My major is Accounting. I am also interested in Psychnology. Maybe my minor will be Psychnology in the future. I have a dream which is to travel around the world. Even though I have only one travelling experience so far, I believe that I will reach my dream.

Hello everyone. My name is Gong Qi Chen. I am a senior student. I was born in China and came to U.S. with my family 11 years ago. I am majoring accounting. I like to read and draw. I am planning to graduate in 2013. Then I will take CPA exam and hope can work at anyone of the Big Four accounting firm. I want to earn as much money as I can and want to retire before 35. After retirement I want to travel around the world and then I want to go back to university and continue studying. My favor subject are philosophy and mathematics. Also my favor psychiatrist is Sigmund Freud.

      My name is Joseph Gervasi and I am a first semester transfer student.  I spent one year away at school living in Albany and my previous year at Brooklyn College.  I plan on staying at Baruch until I graduate because this was the school I had originally planned to attend.

      I grew up in Staten Island which is where I live now.  My hobbies are hanging out with my friends and family.  I enjoy sports whether it is sitting in front of the TV for hours or being outside all day and playing baseball, basketball etc.

      Psychology is not my intended major but I am enjoying this course.  It is interesting and I feel like the information I am learning in this course will be useful throughout my life.  My major is accounting and had nothing to do with any type of science but psychology has been my favorite class so far.  As for being apart of any clubs or organizations I am not involved.

This picture is a good picture describing my personality because its a bunch of kids that are friends, being clowns and playing baseball.

Hi everyone. My name is Jalal Vardag. I was born in Pakistan, but have been in the United States since I was 11. I am currently in my junior year. I came to Baruch a semester ago from the College of Staten Island. It has been an interesting experience at Baruch. It has really helped me discover the city. I have been technically a part of the city, living in Staten Island; but coming to Baruch has really given me a new outlook on the city. Oh and my major is accounting and this psychology class has been fun thus far.

thanks for giving this a look.

Jalal

Hi. My name is Shane and I’ve been a student here at Baruch for a few semesters. Honestly I’m going to try my best to share because I don’t do much social networking. One of my fears is speaking about myself in detail. I was always the quite shy kid. I went to the same private school for my entire academic career until coming to Baruch. I still live in the same small town where I was raised. Located right above the Hudson River with New York City for a daily view.

Psychology is not my intended major at Baruch but I must admit it is very interesting especially the section on the brain. I’ve got my eyes set on an MBA in the future. I’d like to build my own business. So far my favorite class has been believe it or not, Physics. So far I’m still enjoying the college experience being exposed to so many new ideas. I still haven’t had the chance to join any clubs or anything. The only thing I don’t like is homework like most people.

My interests started out with music, after I took piano lessons I had a passion for music more than anything. Then I got my first computer around age nine and that became my new interest just how they worked and how to manipulate a computer to do exactly what you wanted it to do. My latest passion is photography, which started after my father passed who was into photography. It started out as my way of coping with losing him but soon turned into my way of making some pocket change here and there. The best part about it is being able to look at a picture and remember everything in the moment. It’s almost like time traveling.

A picture taken on my iPhone from where I live.

My name is Milton Aguirre, I was born in Ecuador but came to the United States as a baby and have been living here since.  I am a transfer student from LaGuardia Community College and I’m currently a Junior.  I have an associates in Computer Technology and I’m planning on majoring in Computer Information Systems. I love technology and I guess I can be considered a computer/tech geek.  I’m the type that always has to have the newest technology out there, newest cell phones (going to jump on that iphone5 when it comes out), newest computers, newest game systems.. etc.

While Psychology is not my intended major, I do find it very interesting, and is actually one of the most interesting classes I have taken at Baruch to date. I can really see myself getting into the field of psychology , however my passion for technology and computers is just greater.

As for hobbies, I love music (all types), dancing, computers, video games, movies(especially comedies and scary movies), travelling, and exploring nature in general.

Below are links that I frequent, and I guess in a way they say something about me..

www.lifehacker.com
www.pandora.com
www.macrumors.com
www.epicfail.com
www.digg.com

update: forgot to categorize, original post was made before deadline.

My name is Chung Sing Chen, but u can call me Mike. I was born in Taiwan and came to the US at the age of 8. This is my second yea at Baruch college and it’s been fun so far. Psychology on a Friday morning, not fun. Since I live in queens it takes a while for me to get to school. I also sit in the last roll so paying attention is very tough. On my spare time, I like to play handball. I also enjoy  I would like to join a club but I still haven’t decide on which to join. I am friendly, kind of, so add me on facebook, I don’t bite.

i am Louarbour Bado and majoring  in Mathematics. i love finance and used to work in that field but things didn’t work well for me during the financial crisis so i decided to come back to school which was part of my plan. i plan to use my background in Mathematics to build a trading system involving the quantifying of words or rumors on the internet like,panic,low interest rate,fear,bull market,bear market,shorting,missed earning etc to anticipate investors reaction.

I’m currently a sophmore and I am undecided about my major.  I grew up in Brooklyn and still live there.  I like reading books when I have time – I am reading The Time Traveler’s Wife at the moment.  I also like watching How I Met Your Mother and TVB series.  I am the Events Coordinator for Phi Eta Sigma (here at Baruch – contact me if you are interested in us!).

I sell some of my old/vintage things on my tumblr (right now there are not many things up, but follow me if you tumblr!) – www.francescee.tumblr.com

Cold Cave is my favorite band & here is one of their songs that I like the best, check them out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRt-IzBXdNY

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My name Padma but you can call me Cindy. I am a transfer student from LaGuardia where I majored in Business Management. This is my 3rd year of college but my 1st semester at Baruch. I was born in Brooklyn, New York but I grew up in Queens, New York. In my spare time I love listening to music. Music is something that helps me relax especially if I have had a stressful or bad day. I am not currently part of any clubs but while I was in High School and for a year after High School I was involved in the Thespian Society which was a Theater group. A group of friends and I wrote plays and scenes and acted them in front of high school students and sometimes junior high school students. We also learned how to film these scenes and edit them by using Adobe Premier. SO far my most interesting class during my college years has been Business Law in LaGuardia. The class was very informative since I am a Management major. I found all the differnt laws and the numerous execptions to each law very interesting.
To learn more about me feel free to take a look at my ePortfolio from LaGuardia.

Feel free to take a took at my ePortfolio from LaGuardia.

https://lagcc-cuny.digication.com/padma_ghamandi

Hello 🙂 My name is Elaine Choo.  I’m a freshman at Baruch, and this is my first semester. I’m enjoying it so far although I don’t really have the slightest clue as to what my intended major is. What can I say besides the fact that I’m more than meets the eye? I’m ABCM. (American born Chinese Malaysian) I’m tiny but don’t let that fool you 🙂 Unlike many of my friends and people I know I actually enjoy going to school and psychology so far is my favorite class . But I love to play volleyball & I was on the volleyball team at my high school- Baruch College Campus High school. I love watching Teen Wolf, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Yes i know the typical girl but I also like playing video games although i’m not that good 🙂 Call of Duty or Capcom vs. Marvel three anyone?! But yeah besides all of this I’m the typical girl I grew up in Brooklyn but i spend most of my time in Manhattan go figure. Anyways 🙂 this is me I hope I didn’t bore any of you. Oh yeah I like to eat 🙂

Hi Everyone,

My name is Lukasz. I grew up in Poland. I came to the United States 5 years ago. However, I graduated from my High School in Poland. Now, I live in Queens. I’m an upper Freshmen at Baruch, so I’m  accustomed to this school. So far, my major is Finance/Investments. But, I’m going to transfer to another college to prepare for the medical school. (It’s a long story why I ended up at Baruch.)

My favorite classes at Baruch are Philosophy and Psychology – especially, the part about neuroscience. Mainly, because it is connected to Biology. Also, my cousin studies Psychology in Poland and I like talking about psychological disorders with her. Additionally, my hobby is collecting coins. I’m crazy about that. Another thing that I really enjoy is listening to music. This is the link to my favorite song  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUJIbXN0WY
My life is somehow connected to music because I play instruments (the accordion, the piano, and the keyboard… basically, on everything that has keys and buttons).
If you want to ask something or comment, do so 🙂

Hi everyone my name is Harleen! I live in Queens with my family. I’m a transfer student and this is my second semester at Baruch College. I’m in the Zicklin Business School and studying Accounting. I enjoy reading, shopping, traveling, eating, and basically having fun.  I enjoy fashion as well.  My favorite class at Baruch so far has been English. Psychology is not my major, but I find it very interesting learning the way we think.  I hope everyone has a great semester!

Hello everyone! My name is Chun Ling Hung, and since people seems having difficulty to pronounce ”Chun” so you may call me Ruby. I am a transfer student in Fall 2011 and intend to major in accountancy next semester after fulfilling pre-business requirement in this semester. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong (yes! I love my hometown very much!). Besides parents, I have an elder brother who is six years older than I do but there’s no gap between us as we used to have sibling fights even until now! One thing interests me the most would be languages. I love learning languages as each has its way to express people’s thoughts and ideas. Therefore, I took Italian for three years back in high school period as foreign language course. Unfortunately, I forgot most of it already. I only memorize those simple greeting phrases, like good morning, how are you, and goodbye. But I guess it’s better than forget everything. Anyway, nice to meet all of you and have a great semester! 😀

Hey, my name is Phillip Choe and I am a freshman straight out of Brooklyn Technical High School. I have hopes in attending the Zicklin School of Business with the intention of majoring in either Business Management or Accounting. Honestly so far I would say that Psychology is definitely my favorite class thus far being that both professors are very interactive and lively. I was part of the Brooklyn Tech Football team and you can see my highlight tape in this link [ http://www.hudl.com/athlete/272539/phillip-choe ] . I also like to dance. Dancing I would say is on of my favorite hobbies because even though I’m a big guy, I am very capable of tearing up the dance floor. HAHA. One of my dance crew performances are shown in this link here [ http://youtu.be/rYl3vG0A4nE ] . You can fine me at Facebook @ [ http://www.facebook.com/phillipchoee ]

Hey My name is J’Lear pronounced Ja-leer and 18 years of age. Im in my second year and Baruch and enjoying it still. I was born in Brooklyn but Ive lived in queens for the last 10 years but my family is from trinidad. I sing, dance, design clothes and pretty much just like to have a great time. Psychology is pretty interesting but isn’t an intended major for me at baruch, Im all about business.Although i getgood grades im not to fond of school so i cant say i have had a favorite class. I am apart of WIB(women in business) as well as Caribean Student Association(CSA) along with others to come.If you would like to talk more add me on facebook. www.facebook.com/jlearsybil

Hello all, my name is Sheron Elliott and I am a junior. this is my first semester at Baruch, i transferred from The College of Staten Island. I was there for 2 years and will spend my remaining two years here at Baruch, majoring in Accounting. My experience here at Baruch has been good so far, the only thing I dislike is the crowdedness when class end,I’m not use to that, because CSI was a big campus (203 acres).

I was born at a manhattan hospital (St Vincent) but was raised in Brooklyn. I have 3 silbings (2 sisters and a brother). I also have a 10 month old nephew. My parents are both hearing impaired, so I am fluent in American Sign Language.

As far as hobbies, i really dont have much. I love to watch tv and listen to music.

I look foward to a wonderful semester here at Baruch and getting to know some of you as well.

Hello everyone, my name is Kimberly Delgado and I’m a second year student at Baruch. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Psychology is not my intended major; however, it is my favorite class for the semester. I had planned to major in mathematics but so far I seem to have a lot of trouble doing integration and finding the area of a curve. Thus, it has caused me to reevaluate my decisions and continue to explore my options. I don’t think its ever too late to change your mind because I rather spend my life doing something I love than rush through school in a field that I either hate and dread. I don’t mind taking an extra year to reassure myself of what I want to do. One of my biggest interests are animals; I have a bichon frise and he is one of my greatest friends and the joy of my life. I love spending time with him, even it is just laying down watching television together. He is a great listener and a stress reliever. One of the reasons I didn’t go away for college was because I couldn’t bear being 4 years away from him. In dog years, that is one fourth of his life. I wanted to spend every second I can with him to enjoy his presence and playfulness.

Hi everyone! I’m Jenna. I’m from Staten Island and I am a freshman here at Baruch. So far it’s not too bad although I do still find myself trying to adjust to everything. As of right now I am leaning towards a career in Accounting but to be honest I’m not entirely sure what I want to do with my life. It may change, but for now accounting is what I see myself doing. Almost a month into classes and I would have to say that psychology is one of my favorites which is interesting because I was never much of a science girl. My friends and I enjoy coming into Manhattan and just walking around, my favorite area is definitely Lincoln Center! I just love it! I don’t watch much television but my favorite shows are Glee and One Tree Hill (yes, I still watch it, season 9 starts in January). I love listening to music although I don’t really have one specific taste. Well, that’s pretty much it. I hope I didn’t bore any of you too much!

Hello class, my name is Wanying Wu. If my Chinese name is too hard to pronounce, you can call me Iris. I am a sophomore at Baruch and my intended major is finance. I like math and science because it doesn’t take me a long time to finish my math homework. While for liberal art subjects such as English, it takes me forever. I like biology because I want to know more about our bodies. I want to know how the body works and what kind of nutrition we need. My favorite classes so far are economics and biology. Although in biology, we have lab and we need to dissect a pig, I still enjoy learning how the human body functions. For example, I learned how our kidney works and I learned why people have diarrhea and constipation. I used to panic when I hear the word “Psychology,” but I found out that it is actually a quite interesting field since I have taken PSY 1001. I wish my passion for this never runs out.

I have never had a job, probably because I look too young. People always thought I am 15 or 16 years old. Actually, I do not want a job until junior year in college because I want to be more engaged in school work. I want to be focused and get a decent GPA. I only have 3 or 4 more years in school, while the rest of my life will contribute to my work. My memory will become worse as I age, thus I think I should learn the most in these years. Currently, I am one of Hong Kong Club’s staffs. Hong Kong Club is an amazing place to make new friends and relax. Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong culture and food should join our family!

Lastly, I want to post some of the pictures I took. I am fond of photography and music. A couple of years ago, one of my dream jobs was to be a piano teacher. I don’t have piano class anymore because college is busy, but I still practice when I have free time.

Hello! I’m Kristi Zhang and I’m 19 years old.  I just recently transferred into Baruch from Brooklyn College and before that, from Fordham University. I’m loving Baruch, especially psychology. I’m not planning on majoring in Psychology but I do plan on majoring in Accounting and then continuing onto law school. I’ve recently joined the swim team here, and I’m excited for an amazing season. I was born and raised in Brooklyn but I’m always excited to go traveling. One day, I’d like to visit all 5o states, so far I’ve been to 23 and counting…  🙂

I love to try new things, and this summer I recently learned how to windsurf! My current favorite song is “All My Loving” by Across the Universe. I’m currently reading “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, and my first impression of this book was, “Why in the world would someone read this book?” but after flipping through a few pages, and then going on to reading half the book, it’s influenced me to eat healthy and to be more mindful about food production and surprising truths about what we’re eating.

I hope to have an amazing semester with you this year!

Hi everyone. My name is Ghilmar but i usually go by Jay. I am a junior and my major is accounting. I graduated from Francis Lewis High school in Queens. I recently graduated from Laguardia Community college and attained my AS degree in Accounting. I have a beautiful daughter that is turning 6 in a couple of weeks. I am very determined to pursue my goals of being successful and providing for myself and my family. I genuinely enjoy learning new things and I hope to absorb all the valuable information this class has to offer!

Hi everyone~!

My name is Amanda. I am a transfer student from Hunter College.This is my first semester here at Baruch. My intened major is Accounting. I choose Baruch College because it has better business program. I was born in China . My hobbies are baking ,shopping and slepping!!!!!!!!!Even though psychology is not my intened major ,but by far this is my favorite class in Baruch college because  I learn some many interesting thing.

Aside from school , I work part- time in a dessert house.I love my job because making dessert is my favorite thing to do. My dream is to open up a dessert house in the futher!!

Here is a picture of the cake that I made~ =)

I wish everyone the best of luck this semester! Get A’s!!!

Hello everybody. I am Alan. I was from Sunset Park, Brooklyn but I recently moved into the Lower East Side. I attended Midwood High School. Currently, I am a sophomore and I somewhat enjoy this college experience. I feel that there is not enough interesting classes to take; however I do enjoy being close to the heart of city. My intended major is accounting or something business related. I am still somewhat undecided on it.

I like to play sports on my free time. I prefer to play basketball, handball, or volleyball. I am not the best person to play the sport. I would rank myself as a below average player. I also like to go around the city and find new places to go to. New York City is a big place and I just want to expand my knowledge of it. I love to eat and I recently tried Korilla BBQ and like it. Too bad the portions were kind of small especially for the taco. Another bad note is that they left =[ and are not coming back. I guess I will search for more places with good food and reasonable prices.

I look forward to a great semester in Psychology with all of you. I hope you take a lot out of this class. It is a lot more interesting than statistics in my opinion.

Hello classmates! My name is Louis Lee and this is my first semester at Baruch as a transfer student and I’m planning on majoring in Marketing or Accounting, still undecided at the moment. Prior to coming to Baruch College, I attended Queensborough Community College as a Business Administration major, and I also worked at QCC as a College Assistant. And before attending QCC, I actually went to Vancouver Film School and enrolled as a 3D Artist in order to fulfill my childhood dream. Unfortunately, the 3D industry is very weak at the moment and although I got into a few internships, I began to realize that this route wasn’t the best choice for me at that time.

To tell you a little bit more about myself, I was born in New York so you can consider me as an American but my nationality is Korean. I’ve spent almost my entire life in New York and also lived in Vancouver, Canada for 2 years, which was awesome! If you ever get the chance I would highly recommend going to Vancouver for a short vacation (or even long-term). My hobbies are made up of a few things, I like to snowboard during the winter, camping, fishing, or hiking during the summer, and do some 3D freelancing on the side if I do get some time.

As for my intended route at Baruch, I’m not planning on majoring in Psychology but I’ve always wanted to take this class because it’s always interesting to learn not only of humanistic qualities but also of myself as an individual. Since I’m a fairly new student at Baruch I don’t have any favorite classes thus far but something will surely stand out on its own. Lastly, I haven’t joined any student organizations/club but I will join one asap as I’ve done at QCC.

Thanks and good luck to everyone,

Louis Lee

(above is a picture of the view from my dorm at Ludlow)

For those of you who don’t know me (and in a class of 400 students I’m guessing that’s just about everyone) my name is Nina.  After a toilsome college decision process I decided to go to Baruch and I guess I kind of like being a Baruch student at the moment.  Even if it means I’m a freshman again and I have to start from the bottom of the totem pole and build my way up.

Oddly enough one of my favorite things to do is blog.  In fact I’ll admit to feeling a little self conscious when one of the first chapters in our psychology book spoke about a woman who was completely fine with sharing her life with hundred of people, because in a way, I do that myself and quite easily.  There’s something so comforting about writing how I feel that I can’t find anywhere else.

But other than blogging I am a closet video-gamer, but don’t get to excited I mostly play Animal Crossing or the Sims.  And you’ll likely find me curled up with a good book (I know I’m nerdy :P) or watching The Office or Modern Family on hulu.

My intended major is Marketing with a minor in Psychology although I’m pretty sure that this will change many times over the course of my next four years at Baruch.  I’m still figuring out what exactly I want to do with the rest of my life, which can seem like a daunting task as the clock ticks away.  My favorite classes so far would include Psychology and Philosophy.  I just love the idea of trying to understand the human mind and why we think the way we do and how this affects us.

I am currently a member of Intervarsity Christian fellowship (if you want to join message me and I’ll give you information) as well as WBMB but I literally had my first meeting a couple of hours ago so I’m still figuring out my footing there.

As mentioned before I am a sporadic blogger and this includes tumblr.  I have a twitter but I think I might have two followers, one being myself so I’ll refrain from posting that link right about now.

If you happen to see my in class, don’t be afraid to say hi.  I’m the type of person who loves meeting new people.  And I guess this concludes my hello 🙂

Hi, my name is Avigail Resnick. I am a Senior at Baruch college, majoring in International Business. I was born and raised in Israel. I moved to New York City about 4 years ago, and have been enjoying every minute. I currently work as a nanny, which is a lot of fun. I especially enjoy applying my knowledge from this psychology class to understand the children behavior.

Hello everyone, my name is Carolina Perez, and I’m a junior at Baruch. This is my second year here since I transferred from Queens College after freshman year. I’m an Accounting major and yes it can get very tedious but I don’t mind (okay sometimes I do mind ha-ha). My favorite classes have been Law, History, and Psych 1001 (of course). The professors have definitely made Psych the most enjoyable and fun thus far.

Both my parents are from Ecuador but I was born and raised in Queens with them and my older brother. I work at a pizzeria/restaurant in Fresh Meadows during the week and the weekends so yea my days are pretty packed with work and school. Therefore, on my downtime I really just like to relax. I’m into music, fashion, makeup (http://frantasticmakeup.com/blog/), and hanging out with friends. I love shopping, watching scary movies and eating junk food.

So this has been a little bit about me. I hope we all continue to have a great time in our Psych class this semester.

Hello fellow classmates, my name is Nikola Vulicevic and I am currently a Junior at Baruch College and I am majoring in Accounting (150 cr.) and minoring in Mathematics. I am looking forward to gaining my CPA and I enjoy following almost anything that can come to your mind.

I grew up in Serbia (Eastern Europe); to give you a better sense of the location, Serbia is north of Greece and East of Italy BUT not directly on the border with both Greece and Italy. I came to New York City in 1999 and there on after I spent most of my life in New York City (taking vacations occasionally over the summers to Serbia). My hobbies involve a huge variance, from playing volleyball, enjoying chocolates, watching tennis, to following the stock markets, and international affairs. Psychology is not my intended major but it is a subject of interest to me as are almost all the areas of possible exploration and studies. I am planning on actually joining a multitude of student clubs and organizations this following Thursday.

Rather than showing a website or a poem or a song that best describes me, I would like to show a quote that best describes my personality of being outgoing and looking forward to new challenges.

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” -Sylvia Plath

SO HELLO EVERYONE! – Nikola V.

Hello everyone, My name is Julia Sung, this is my second year at Baruch college, and I was born and raised in Queens. I am on the swim team here at Baruch and have been competitively swimming since I was nine years old. I love being active and playing sports, besides swimming, I am also an avid snowboarder. Psychology is not my intended major but I find all the new information I am learning fascinating and can definitely help me in my major. I don’t have a blog of my own or any youtube videos about myself, but I do have a athlete profile for Baruch http://athletics.baruch.cuny.edu/roster.aspx?rp_id=1183&path=wswim. Swimming is my passion and I intend to stick with it for the rest of my life.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Oksana Hera. That is my third semesters at Baruch. I was raised in Ukraine. Four years ago I immigrated to the USA. I would like to be a part of the American society and an education is the  way to achieve my goal. My major is Accounting. I have worked as an accountant for seven years in my native country. I love this occupation. I intend to take  Psychology as a minor. I will help me to understand people much better and also learn how to cooperate with my coworkers and clients.

I like cartoons. Sometimes it helps my to relax after studying and working day. My favorite cartoon is “Chip and Dale”. This cartoon inspires me in the morning. Here is the link to the cartoon:

Hi, my name is Keith. I was born on Long Island but lived in a small town upstate for most of my life. This is my first year at Baruch. Although psychology is not what I plan on majoring in or pursuing, this is my favorite class at Baruch so far.

I like computers and one of my biggest hobbies is playing The Sims. In the game, I mostly design houses and other buildings rather than play with the people, although both aspects of it are fun. Some people that play post their creations online, sometimes in the form of youtube videos. I have never bothered to do this but the one showed off in this youtube video is similar to something I would make in the game.

Some of my other hobbies include photography and, of course, watching TV and movies. just a couple of my favorite shows are Modern Family, Bones, and Family Guy.

Thanks for reading my post and, even though the class is too big to get to know everyone, I’d like to get to know as many people in it as I can.

My name is Kat Shing Kam, my nickname is Steven, you may just call me Steven. I’m from Hong Kong. I’ve been New York for 4 years ago. I transferred from LaGuardia Community College which is a 2-years cuny program. Unfortunately, I only left an internship in order to graduate, which makes me a bit regret. Because i found out that if i graduate and obtain the Associate Degree, i can waive plenty of class that I don’t need to take. However, times cannot go back. Right now, i look forward to my future and study as hard as i can.

Right now, I’m working on my off-campus internship for financial position, my duty is about working on financial basis data, and approach the problem then i need to analysis the data and report to my director. It’s complicated! I’m a ambitious person, i love to investigate things that i’m interesting. I always remember that life is short, go for everything that you want. Today, i want to study hard and work hard for my future. I wish all people surrounding me are happy and world in peace!

Hi everybody, my name is Funlola Otukoya. I am really excited to be at Baruch College for this semester. I was born in Brooklyn, NY and I moved to Long Island when I was 4 years old. I enjoy reading, writing and doing volunteer work. My intended major is Economics and I hope to focus on Public Policy. When I was in 11^th grade I started a non-profit to promote education in minority communities. One of our new undertakings is to promote financial literacy so people especially teenagers can make informed decisions. For right now I am loving this class. I took it in high school, so it brings back memories!!! For right now I joined the Finance and Economics Society and I am focusing on that. Hope to speak to you all in the upcoming semester.

Hello everyone.

I’m Serena Kuang. I’m currently a freshman in Baruch College. I sit in seat D10 in Psychology class. I love reading about the Sciences, but I usually end up nearly failing the course. This has held true for Chemistry, Physics, and Geology. Maybe it won’t this time around?

Ehh. I grew up in NYC. I’ve gone to China once, but I remember nothing about it which is kind of sad. I have many hobbies, some of which includes drawing and writing. Psychology is a very interesting course, but I don’t think that it’ll be my major. It’s too close to the occupation of a doctor for me and I think I’d freak myself out if I ended up pursuing a career in some sort of medical study. Yea, I’m afraid of doctors.

My favorite class so far has got to be… Psychology. All my other classes are just kind of.. fail. Math, I usually really like Math but the professor just kind of ruined it for me. English makes me want to sleep and Library Studies is nice but still meh. I don’t really count Freshman Seminar as a class and History consists of being in the Land of Boredom.

I don’t really post on the web very much so I don’t usually blog or use Facebook but I do frequent a website called PokeFarm.org. I’ll just post a single post from my Journal from my account. I was depressed at the time so that’s why it’s so.. unhappy. (I hope the link works.)

http://pokefarm.org/forum_singlepost?pid=1348494

Well, have fun reading my short post.

~ Serena Kuang

My name is Drenushe, and I’m from Kosovo. And if you might ask yourself where is that, its a small country in Europe. I lived there till I was 11, then my parents decided to move to NY, which in my opinion, it was the worst decision they ever made, but at the end, didn’t turn out so bad.

I am a transferred student, transferred from College of Staten Island. This is my first semester at Baruch College and so far its treating me well. I am majoring in Accounting, however, leaning more towards Taxation.

Hope you enjoyed my short story. =)

My name is Yolibel and I’m a sophomore (: I am origially from the Dominican Rep. and i live in the Bronx! I would like to major in International Business and get a minor in French and Marketing (Hopefully if i dont change my mind) lol Hopefully you all enjoy this class as much as I do, because is one of the few that do experiments with the students and let us be actively engaged in class! (I wanted to minor in psychology before, but oh well i changed my mind maybe i’ll do it again XD) xoxo

Hi, my name is Michael Grasberg. I am from Ozone Park in Queens, New York. I attended Lawrence Woodmere Academy for high school. I am a freshman and this is my first semester at Baruch. Some of my hobbies include baseball, basketball, football, and listening to music. I am a die hard Yankees, Knicks, and Jets fan. My favorite type of music is hip hop and my favorite artist is J. Cole. In high school, I played on my school’s baseball and basketball teams (which isn’t really a great accomplishment because the teams were walk-on). As of right now, I plan to double major in math and business. My favorite classes thus far at Baruch are psychology and Arts in New York. I do not belong to any student clubs at Baruch yet,  but after the club fair on September 22, I am going to join a few clubs. One interesting fact about myself is that I have never ventured out of the United States. If you want to learn more about me, you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/Babyballa929 or friend me on Facebook. I only have five followers on Twitter (not because I am a total loser, but because I just started using it), so please follow me.

Hi, my name is Anthony Phung. I was born and raised in New York. I am currently living in Queens, but I was born in Chinatown. This is my first semester in Baruch College. I am currently an lower sophomore since I transferred twice. The first college I attended was St. Francis College, then I work to York College and now I am at Baruch College. This is definitely the last college I’ll be transferring to. I am trying to major in finance and investment right now. My favorite class that I have this semester is  psychology.

I love playing and watching sports (basketball is my favorite sport). I also love playing video games or just hanging out in the city with my friends or girlfriend.

My name is Shuk Lin. This is my second semester at Baruch College. I am a transfer student and also just got into the Zicklin Business School. The classes I’m interested in so far are music, history, philosophy, psychology, and calculus. Some of my hobbies are cooking, baking, sleeping, gaming, and shopping. I hope this semester will be enjoyable for everyone!

Hello fellow intro to psychology members, my name is Tedd Zel.  And yes, I will be the only “Ted” you will ever know that spells their name with 2 “d’s” at the end. Just a little fun fact about me, the reason why my name is spelled with 2 “d’s” at the end instead of the traditional 1 is because “Ted” is normally short for Theodore, but my mom didn’t like the name Theodore, so I am simply “Tedd”.  It’s pronounced like “Ted” though, not “Ted-duh” the second “d” is just there, you don’t actually sound it out ;). I am a sophomore here at Baruch and I’m from Queens.  I am a vegan, for those of you who don’t know what that is, it means I don’t eat anything that comes from animals.  Don’t assume that while walking and approaching a tree I run up to it and hug it just because I’m vegan [don’t assume that, but I do ;)]  I’m an outdoors person, I enjoy camping and all sorts of outdoors activities.  After going to the club fair the other day, I decided to try out the environmental club here at Baruch, so we’ll see how that goes, it seems like I would like it.  As far as hobbies and interests, I play the piano, listen to music, I’m a devoted LOST fan, and always interested in learning new things about health and nutrition. For music I mainly stick to classic rock, The Beatles are my favorite (this Kings of Leon morning music shenanigans needs to stop lol). Nirvana is also one of my favorite bands.  Right now I’m currently a full time student, no job. I am majoring in accounting, and I plan on possibly doing some type of study abroad next year if possible. My first choice would be London, second would be France.  Who knows what the future has in store for me, for now I’m just looking to make the best out of college.

Hey everyone,

Let’s see, what should I share about myself?

I’ve been teaching at Baruch for over four years now and believe it or not I’ve actually taught 7 different Psychology courses (Introduction to Psychology duh, Abnormal, Child Development, Personality, Life Experience, Evolution of Modern Psychology, and Interviewing Techniques). Of course I like Introduction to Psychology the best! During all that time I’ve also been working on my dissertation so I can complete my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University Brooklyn. I already have my Masters in Psychology, and once I finally finish my Ph.D. I would love to return to Baruch to teach here full-time.

Like Prof. Sitt, I also had an unforgettable experience abroad in London, while I was in college, although I went to college all the way up in Rochester, NY where it’s so cold you’re not allowed to go outside some days. Luckily we had an intricate system of tunnels. It even snowed at my graduation…. in May!!!

Did I mention I grew up 7 blocks from the Baruch campus?

Aside from teaching and attending graduate school, I’ve worked in so many different settings with so many different types of patients. I’ve worked with patients in hospitals, residences for the formally homeless, substance abuse clinics, a psychoanalytic institute (we’ll get to what that is), a high school, a college clinic, a homeless outreach center, and even a daycare center and a nursing home. I’ve worked with patients of all ages and backgrounds and I’ve seen almost every type of Psychological issue you will learn about. The strangest thing about my work experience is that before I went to graduate school I actually worked as a detective. It was my first job out of college and what a terrible detective I was! But look where I am today! I like Psychology much better.

In my free time I like to travel, hang out with friends, write songs (I sing and play guitar and I was once in a band that traveled around England), root for my football team (been a Jets fan since birth), go running, play tennis and ping pong (I’ll challenge anyone), and go to Blues clubs. When I do watch TV, I almost exclusively watch comedy shows; often standup comedy. While my dissertation takes up most of my time outside of class, I hope to finish soon so I can resume all of those activities I mentioned above.

Well, I guess that’s more than enough about me.

If I had to give you a piece of advice to take with you for life it would be to remember not to take yourself too seriously and that things are usually never as bad as they may seem.

Prof. Sapolsky

Hello there! I’m Lily and currently a lower sophomore. I plan to double major in Corporate Communications and Philosophy. Probably will double minor but I have yet to decide what else I’d like to study.

I work at the Weissman Center for International Business. It’s the tiny building right in between the Welcome Center and the Newman Library. The center offers help with domestic internships, work abroad and study abroad. I work with the domestic internships side formally called the Internship Placement Program and the program basically helps you find internships based on your interests and majors (it’s kind of like STARR but we email you directly instead-and it’s free). And no you do not have to be part of Weissman nor do you have to major in International Business.

I used to write a lot of poetry and some short stories but lately I have not had the time to do so. I’m a super amateur photographer. And I’m not good at any sport. But I do enjoy ping pong and some volleyball.

My name is Juan Aristizabal, and I have been in this country for almost 8 years. I am from Colombia and this is my fifth semester @ Baruch and my intended major is International Business. I am planning to double minor in Psychology and History.

I am a passionate, dedicated, and driven individual. I work at a Greek Restaurant as one of the floor Managers, and I have been working there for over 4 years. I am most definitely proud of what i have accomplished in such a short period of time from the moment I moved to this country. (Mind you, I did not speak a word of English until I came to America.)

Some of my hobbies are playing soccer, eating out, traveling and enjoying a few nice cold Coronas with my closest friends. My highest priorities are definitely my family, my friends and my education.

A video that expresses my passion would be this one … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foCJDVTbYg&feature=fvwrel

In here, some of the best goals in the history of soccer are shown, bringing back memories of world stars and showing why soccer is the most played/watched sport in the world.

I tend to read the New York Times to keep myself up to date with what goes on all over the world.

To finish it off, i believe that education and ambition are in my opinion crucial to being succesful in today’s world.

Hi everybody! My name is Ka Fun Kwan, but I prefer others call me Katherine instead. I’m new to this school, and this is my first semester here. Also, I’m a transfer student so the surroundings is new to me. My major is accounting, and I started some accounting classes in another CUNY school. I migrated to this country 7 years ago from Hong Kong. I live with my parents, brothers, and sisters. I think my family is kind of big because I live with my grandparents as well. At home, I’ll speak two languages (English and Cantonese)because I need to communicate with my grandparents. I think many of you will speak more than one language at home, right?  When there’s free time, I’ll read novels and watch movies.In high school, I joined a few clubs such as Key Club and the Red Cross. Now in Baruch, I’m looking forward to join more activities and clubs. Does anyone has any suggestions?

Hi everyone! My name is Ellie, I’m a sophomore at Baruch and working on a degree in Journalism. I grew up in Clearwater, Florida, and moved to New York a year ago for school. When I’m not working on class assignments, you can find me blogging for my personal style blog, City Brewed, covering fashion related events, or writing for an online magazine. This year I have a column in The Ticker (The Style File), and am planning on starting my second internship. Nice to meet you all!

Hi Everyone!  My name is Allison.  I grew up on Long Island and graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2008.  At URI, I studied Fashion Merchandising and Art.  After graduating I started working at a jewelry company in the city.  It was a wholesale company, where I was doing both design and production.  After a year and a half at this job, I decided I wanted to leave, and work at my family business.  My family runs children sleep away camps upstate New York.  I work for the camps full time year round, learning different aspects of the business, and am also taking classes in Camp Administration.  I just spent my first summer at camp working on the Administrative staff in the office. Before that, I used to be the Arts and Crafts counselor, so I am an expert at Popsicle sticks, friendship bracelets, and tie-dye.  One of the best parts of my summer was going up in a seaplane and taking pictures of the camps from above, but I also had just as much fun making candy sushi with the youngest campers.  I say that I get the best of both worlds now, living in New York City during the year, and at camp during the summer.  I have been living in the West Village for a little over 2 years.

I am taking Psychology classes at Baruch, so that I can eventually go to Graduate school for Art Therapy.

Hey everyone! My name is Anna and I’m currently a freshman at Baruch College. I’d like to learn about Business but I do not intend to major in anything business-related, which might be a bit of a challenge at Baruch. I’ve met a couple of Psychology majors though, so maybe having a non-business major here at Baruch won’t be too hard! Aside from that, I like it here so far at Baruch.

I live and grew up in Manhattan. My travel time to school takes around 10 minutes and it’s really funny to see the looks of disbelief and hatred on other student commuter’s faces when I tell them this. I love the city, which is a reason why I chose to go to Baruch after getting into the Macaulay Honors Program. I cannot imagine living in another place other than Manhattan.

I love playing Ultimate Frisbee. I’ve played ever since my sophomore year in high school, and I really miss playing it. It used to be my main form of exercise, but since Baruch doesn’t have an established team, my source of exercise is now gone. I’ll try to find a way around that though. Some of my other hobbies include swimming and wandering the city alone. Maybe I’ll bump into one of my fellow Psych 1001 classmates on one of my solo journeys!

My name is Justin Lee Serioux, I’m a transfer student and sophomore at Baruch and working on a degree in Finance. I am from Trinidad & Tobago, i have lived in Brooklyn since i was about 7 years old. I’m an executive board member in the FES Club and i just got an internship at UBS and i think I’m going to enjoy it.

Hello everyone! My name is Kevin Lee and I am currently a lower Junior at the Macaulay Honors College here at the Baruch campus. I am pursuing a goal in accounting, hopefully being able to join the 5-year program they have here at Baruch.

I was born in Manhattan, NY and have been living in Flushing, Queens my entire life. In my spare time, I enjoy playing a lot of sports including playing for the Table Tennis Team at Baruch College. I am currently ranked #2 in the school. In addition to playing sports, I enjoy watching a lot of different kind of movies.

Though I have been in Baruch for 3 years now, I have not been actively participating in many organizations. However, I am currently the treasurer of the Table Tennis Club, which has now turned into a team. We have won the New York City division title two straight years and were invited to participate in the National Tournament. It’s been a great experience as I was able to travel to Wisconsin my Freshman year and Minnesota my Sophomore year for the national tournament. I am also currently rushing for Delta Sigma Pi, a well-known business fraternity.

Attached you will find a link to a YouTube video of my participation in the National Collegiate Table Tennis Championships in Wisconsin. The reason I posted the video, is to show everyone that table tennis can be an exciting sport, similar to basketball, baseball, etc. Having been a table tennis player a long time, I would like to share with everyone the true colors of the game.

Baruch Table Tennis

Hello, you must be really bored if you’re reading my post. Joking! Anyways, my name is David Qiu and I am a transfer student. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and my interests and hobbies constantly change but my main interests are to sing and doodle on my notes. I am in the Accounting major but I want to do Psychology as my minor if there is. So far, most of my classes are enjoyable except for math cause you know, math is boooooooring. I don’t really have any interesting online blogs that I own myself or a Youtube channel but I DO own a Facebook. 🙂 Anyways, I don’t know what to say so I’m gonna end this by saying I’m a funny/stupid person so if you want to know more about me, uhh, message me or stalk me on Facebook. Thanks for reading my post and hope you guys have a wonderful semester!

Hey guys, my name is Basm Mohsen, and since I just transferred from the College of Staten Island, it’s my first semester at Baruch and I have to say, I really like it here! I was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, but at the age of 6 I moved to Egypt and lived there for 3 years. I have to say, I hated it back then, as it was hard to adapt to a whole new culture and lifestyle at such a young age. As I got older though, I realized how significant the experience was, and now I’m beyond grateful for what I’ve learned in the 3 years of living there. My intended major is International Business with a minor in Finance which means lot’s of work to do for the next 2 years! I don’t mind though, it’ll hopefully pay off in the end. My favorite class so far has to be Psychology actually. I mean, I’m taking calculus, law, and business administration classes, Psychology wins hands down! I was actually originally a Biology major in my previous institution, so some of the terms we use in class are familiar to me, but it also brings back horrible memories of Chemistry and Physiology study sessions…yeah, not good! Anyways, I’m looking forward to spending the rest of the semester with you fine people, so enjoy it and make the best out of class!

Favorite artist? AJ Rafael! If you like to listen to good music that isn’t mainstream, give this guy a chance, you’ll like his music!

http://www.youtube.com/user/ilajil?blend=1&ob=4

Hello fellow classmates and professors, my name is Iqra Yaseen. I am a current junior here at Baruch College and interested in accomplishing a degree in the medical field. I was born and raised here in Long Island City, New York and my background is Pakistani. Though I have not visit Pakistan, I would love to go one day. My favorite classes in Baruch are in the literature and anthropology department. My hobbies are to sew and knit and organize/decorate places. I am liking this psychology course so far and very interested in the topics we will be learning in the future also.

Hello!

My name is Abraham Lin. This is currently my second year at Baruch. I grew up in Bayside, Queens for most of my life. I graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2010. I enjoy playing handball and ultimate frisbee but it is both something that I do not do enough of. I also enjoy hanging out with friends.

Psychology was one of the majors I was thinking about. I am kind of in between a lot of majors but mostly between psychology and some part in business, probably accounting. I am really confused as to what I will be doing in the college, but hopefully I will figure it out soon.

This is song that I really like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nbvplgElw

Hello!

My name is Areum Han. I am a transfer student and this is my first semester in Baruch College, majoring in Economics. I am a Korean-American, but I was born in Dominican Republic (so I always get asked if yo hable espanol, unfortunately I don’t). Initially, I chose Baruch for accounting and hopefully work for the top four firms. But after interning at a corporate firm this summer I realized that isn’t the path I want to take. I hope to have a career where I can help people who are disadvantaged.

I love traveling. So far I’ve visited South Korea and Dominican Republic within the last three years. I hope to study abroad to the middle east, specifically Egypt or Jordan (depending on how the events turn out, of course).  I enjoy being exposed to unfamiliar cultures, food, people, and learning about them as well.

During my free time, I go out to hole in the wall type of restaurants in the city, trying out different menus and drinks. Recently I went to Long Island visiting vineyards. I definitely recommend this to people in the city. We’re mostly compact here, but over there, it was a completely different scenery, everything was wide and open. I’m also physically active, I do yoga, lift small weights, jog, bouldering, and racquetball.

This semester, I’m taking all liberal arts classes, including psychology. The lectures for psychology aren’t boring at all. Although I walk into the lecture hall sleepy, I am awake during the entire lecture. (I probably will never forget the first day when Prof. Spolasky made a very dramatic entrance with his little skit.) I’m more observant with infants and other people around me by incorporating what I learned from class. Aside for taking classes, I applied to the GSC which is the global student certificate. And I also hope to do volunteer work, like an outreach program, for a club.

I am planning to be very productive while attending Baruch College without being too overwhelmed. And I hope to learn and participate in all my classes!

www.facebook.com/rachael-areum-han

Hi, my name is Helen Ho-I wish I had a middle name.

I identify myself as being as an Asian-American. Both my parents are from China, but I was born here, being the first generation to be born and grow up in the United States. I came to Baruch not because I was influenced by the prestigious business aspect, but because it’s a half-hour train ride away from my house. In fact, I have no intention of becoming or being nearly associated with anything business related in my life. I think I lack the patience. As far as hobbies go, I’m really interested in a lot of aspects in art, such as: photography, drawing (even though my hands are always shaky and i’m not too good or creative), and interior design (even if my only experience of interior design was shopping for furniture and unnecessary decor at Ikea with my mom, I always found it to be abnormally fun). I’m more of a jack-of-all-trades kind of person, okay at everything, not great at anything.

Hopefully, I’ll finally decide upon a major, although the idea of picking something you want to do until you retire is a little weird. Psychology is something that’s always interested me. My interest in this field started I had social-anxiety disorder a little while ago. After finally seeking therapy, I was disappointed and I hated it. It was extremely awkward talking to a middle aged woman about my problems. I didn’t even get to lie down in a cool looking staring at the ceiling, like in the movies. It was unhelpful that everything I said was just observed, while nothing was done, no advise was given and in the end I was just suggested medication. I didn’t want to sweep my problems under the rug, I actually wanted to solve them. What sparked my interest in psychology was the way we think, analyze, and behave amongst given situations-I also thought I could do a much better job then her.

I also have a chinchilla named Mochilla. It’s Spanish for backpack.

Hello, everyone! My name is Yan Jiang who is a new transfer student in Baruch College. I grew up in China. My hobbies are watching movies, reading books, and dancing. Psychology is not my intended major, however, this course is really interesting. One of my favorite class is literature. I joined VITA just several days ago. I love to talk with people and analyze data, therefore, I am excited to work in the business field. Besides that,  I also have the passion to teach students Mathematics because I love children and mathematics natually.

Hey Everyone,

My name is Abhinaya and I’m a Freshman here at Baruch. I came to New York two years ago from India and I’m still fascinated by the city, one of my hobbies is simply walking around the city like a tourist – there are just so many interesting things to take in! My biggest interests are reading books, learning new languages (I currently speak four apart from English), meeting new people and traveling. I will most probably major in Economics and hope to be a lawyer in the future.

Introduction to Psychology has been a very informative class especially since I have a young sister (she is 7 years old) and the chapter about development really explained a lot of things I had observed as she was growing up. Hope everyone is learning a lot in this class like I am.

So far, I’m having a great time at Baruch and am looking forward to an interesting college experience in the next four years.

Greetings! My name is Andy and I’m a junior.  I’m also a transfer student from City Tech.  I majored and got my associates in accounting there and decided to transfer to Baruch College to continue my education. Hopefully I won’t forget everything I’ve learned since I haven’t taken any major courses for one year now.  I’m born and raised in NY, so I’m pretty much stuck here all my life.  I previously wanted to attend college outside of the city but it’s cozy and more convenient here at Baruch.

Psychology is not my intended major, but it is by far the most interesting class thus far this semester.  Some of my interests are reading articles, listening to music, and watching shows.   After learning the brain chapter … I finally understand something watching House.

I hope everyone have a wonderful and fun semester!

Hi everybody,

My name is Alexandra, while my friends call me Sasha. I was born and raised in Russia and came to the US 5 years ago when I was 20. So to say, I’m a bit too old to be in college 🙂 Back in Russia, I studied Linguistics and International Communications, and when I came here I decided to major in Finance. It’s my 3^rd year in college and based on the amount of credits I’m a senior.

I do enjoy studying psychology, however, I’m taking this particular course because it’s a requirement. I don’t have intent to study it further.

I’m an easy-going and fun person and enjoy meeting new people. Most of my free time (whatever is left after school and work in real estate) I spend with my friends. I enjoy jogging, swimming, doing yoga and playing ping-pong. And of course, going to parties 🙂

Hi everyone. My name is Maciej. Friends call me Matt. I was born and raised in Poland, and I came here for college 1 year ago. I’m currently in my second year at Baruch. I’m enjoying living in New York City, and everything the city has to offer.

Psychology is not my intended major. I’m planning on going more towards finance or real estate development. To be honest, though, Psychology classes are interesting and exciting. One can learn a lot about various aspects of human mind and what makes people behave in certain ways. Moreover, I also enjoy traveling around the world, sports, hanging out with friends, and striving to achieve my goals every day.

My interests also include photographing New York City, and here is one of my pictures:

Hello, everyone. My name is Yuvraj Singh. Right now I’m a freshmen at Baruch. Unlike most people I’ve met so far, I’m actually not from New York. I came to Baruch from San Ramon, California, which is around a 45 minute drive from San Francisco and around 30-45 from San Jose. I guess I just prefer New York over California (although I still love California). As for my major, I intend to do either Finance or Statistics and a minor in something business related as well, most likely. As for my favorite classes so far, I’d have to say Psychology and English, probably. As for a club, so far I’ve applied to FES.

My hobbies include reading comic books (Avengers, Captain America, Green Lantern and Watchmen being my favorites). Other than that, I like to read, watch TV/movies and play some video games from time to time.

My favorite lines from my favorite character in one of my favorite movies.

Hi! My name is John Ortiz. I transferred from Binghamton University. This is my first semester at Baruch College. Like most of you, my major is finance and investments. I am also a pre-med student. I was born in the Dominican Republic but I grow up here in Manhattan. I finished my last two years of high school in the Dominican Republic at a school called “El Dominico Americano” (Class of 2007); It was awesome, imagine “senior skip day” at a beach resort! I am known as the “techie” of my family. For those of you who do not know what a techie is, a techie is a person who is good with manipulating technical gadgets such as computers, cellphones, etc. My favorite class thus far would have to be Cell molecular biology but I am growing fond of this class so we will see by the end of this semester.

A video that would pretty much sum me up would be this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2Bt0C4ZeI

But quite frankly, I would like to be more like this guy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ

My name is Helen Lien. I grew up in Brooklyn until the age of 11 when I moved to Philadelphia but ended up moving back to New York for college. I  am a transfer student from St.Johns University so this is my first semester here at Baruch. The transition for me wasn’t too bad since I knew a bunch of people from my sorority, Kappa Phi Lambda. Being part of a Greek organization has definitely helped me be more sociable, more open-minded and grow as an individual. I love meeting new people so being part of Greek life opened many doors for networking. Some of my interests are singing, dancing, playing volleyball and badminton. shopping, traveling and just hanging out. I also very much love hugs, sparkles and mangoes. Psychology is not my intended major but is my favorite class this semester. I find the subject interesting although I do wish class didn’t start so early. I’m pretty sure my fellow classmates would agree with me!

I love shopping so here is a site I love to shop on! asos.com .

Hi everyone, my name is Sharmin Pala. I was born in Bangladesh and moved to New York when I was three years old. I am currently a sophomore here at Baruch and I plan to double major in economics and mathematics.

Some of my interests include traveling, listening to music, biking, painting, and reading a good book once in a while (although I should read more often).

My favorite classes thus far have been English and history. Currently, I really like my microeconomics and Japanese classes. I write for the opinions section of The Ticker at times and copy edit occasionally. I am also hoping to get more involved in school activities this semester.

Something about me: I really like anything that has to do with water. But unlike most people who love the beaches in the summer, I actually like them more in the fall or winter. I guess they look more peaceful at that time of the year.

Here are pictures:

Fall: http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/493204-bigthumbnail.jpg

Winter: http://www.corsicajourneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/snowy-beach.jpg

Hello Everyone,

My name is Junko. I’m from Japan. I graduated from LaGuardia Community College and transferred to Baruch. This is my second semester. My major is marketing. I took Eng2850, Mgt3121, Acc2203 and Fin3000 so far and am taking Mkt3600, Mkt3650, Soc3085 and Psy1001. Is anyone taking the same courses in this semester except this class??? I like the professors in our class and am enjoying this class so far.

I like reading books(except text books:P), playing tennis, sking(because I’m from countryside in Japan and there are many mountains in my prefecture), snow boarding, scuba diving(even though there is no ocean in my prefecture, I have PADI advanced licence), and I also love creating stuff such as candles, jewelry, and so on.(even though there is no enough time to enjoy my hobbies because I come to school in the daytime and work at night) My favorate novelist is Haruki Murakami! If you want to learn who he is and his works, visit the website http://www.randomhouse.com/features/murakami/site.php

Hello everyone! My name is Elizabeth Olaya, but everyone calls me Eli for short.  This is my third semester here at Baruch.  I transferred from Polytechnic Institute of NYU last fall and am currently majoring in International Business.  Thus far my college experience has been quite a roller coaster ride, but I have found Baruch to be quite welcoming.  I’m originally from Peru and have been living in the U.S for about 17 years already.  I’ve spent most of my childhood here in the U.S, yet, I love to travel back home whenever I get the opportunity.

I like soccer and tennis and hope to someday actually go to a U.S open game!  Being that I have lived in Queens for 17 years and never attended a U.S open game really upsets me, but I’ll eventually get to it.  I like to watch documentaries and Discovery I.D, I just really like forensic shows.  In my free time I like to listen to pretty much any type of music although I grew up listening to mostly songs from the 80’s (thanks to my dad!).  I’m a very crafty and hands on person.  Before college I attended Fashion Industries High School.  Those were some great years in which I learned a lot about fashion design and garment construction; during senior year we even threw our own fashion show for the public and the industry (how I changed my mind to study business- I don’t know!)  I like to make amirugumi dolls, crochet, knit, plastic canvas, and cross stitch and am self taught in all those.  I am currently trying to find the time to learn some wood working but can’t seem to, at least not yet, but I eventually will.  After three semesters at Baruch I have yet to join any clubs but I am really eager to do so.  So, if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!  I really like this psychology class, it is very interesting and I just wish I had more time to enjoy it.  Thus far some of my favorite classes have been HIS 1001 and ART 1012.

One of my favorite paintings is Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2)” from 1912.  I love cubism and art that really makes one wonder and think, such as this painting which has the viewer trying to decipher what is on the canvas.  I find this to be a beautiful piece of art because there is much more to it than what meets our eyes.

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html

Hey there,

My name is Natasha Cepeda. This is my second semester here at Baruch. I would like to major in business management. I already have an associates degree in the baking & pastry arts from The Culinary Institute of America upstate in Poughkeepsie. The first two years there was the cooking part and the next two would have been the business aspect. It was just too expensive and the business program was not that impressive – so I decided to come to Baruch. I have a job that I work on the weekends as a pastry line cook. I absolutely love what I do. Here is a video just to get an idea of what I do at my job! =]

Michelin Star Meal Preparation

I was born and raised in Queens, NYC. My father is from the Dominican Republic and  my mother was born here, but her parents are Polish. We are a family that loves to travel – this past summer my family and I went to Rio de Janiero, Brazil. I also love going out to eat, reading, swimming, and just trying new things as well.

Hope to see you all in class!

My name is Mohammed Ali. I am a transfer student from Lehman College. I am supposed to be a junior right now, but all my transfer credits were not accepted. Therefore, I am a sophomore. I plan to major in accounting. My favorite courses are subjects related to math because I like solving problems and dealing with numbers. In addition, I am drawn to courses in entrepreneurship due to my desire to open my own business. The student body in Baruch College is very diverse and I enjoy interacting with students from different background. Also, I like international food and I enjoy watching the show, “No reservation”. There is a link below and you can see all the episodes for free so feel free to check it out. :)PEACE!

http://www.1channel.ch/tv-9555-Anthony-Bourdain-No-Reservations

Hey! Everyone, my name is Shijun Xiao, I’m a immigrant from China, came here when I was 11. I’ve been in New York for about 10 years. I’m a sophmore in Baruch college, and I really enjoy the environment here. I liked most of the classes i had so far, especially my Public Administration and this Psychology class. Reason? Because the professors are so cool, they make me laugh all the time, really funny people. Even though it’s my second year in college, but i still don’t belong to any club or organization i’m a very irresponsible person and enjoys freedom, thus, group work is not for me. I’m a easy going person, jokes with people a lot, so i hope i won’t offend you if i’m joking around with you.
By the way, enjoy this video i made when i was in high school

Hi, my name is Li Hong Huang, I am currently a sophomore planning to major in accounting. I was born and raised in Guang Zhou, China. I came to the US about 5 years ago, this transition has been hard for me during the first 2 years, but no longer a problem anymore. Just like many you, who has been an immigrant yourself, you will understand. I love watching movies, dramas, anime, manga. I like sports too, such as basketball, tennis, badminton, skiing and many more. That’s about it for now.

Hi everyone!

My name is Kyung. I transferred from SUNY Old Westbury to Baruch two years ago. I’m a junior in Baruch and my major is Accounting.I was born and raised in Korea until I was 8 years old. Moved in to the states and been living in Jersey ever since. Yes, commuting from Jersey to NY sucks.

I enjoy snowboarding, fishing and watching sports. Like to spend time with friends in the weekend. I got to say Psy1001 has become one of my favorite classes. Nice to meet you all and good luck this semester.

My name is Zhen Li. I’m international student and I’m from china.  This is my second year at Baruch, and I’m major Accounting .

I heard from my friends that psychology is a really really fun class, but up to now I haven’t gotten interested in it yet, may be later I will. Throughout my college life at Baruch, Business Law class was my favorite class among all the courses. I have  a lot of hobbies, bowling, movies, shopping , traveling and I’m really interested in learning other languages, such as Spanish and Japanese. Since school started, unfortunately, I ‘m having no time do enjoy all my hobbies.

Here is my favorite piano song from Yiruma- kiss the rain

As you can see from my username, my name is Marlenny and I am obsessed with youtube (but i wont go into those details here.) Im a sophmore at baruch and I cant wait till the day I graduate from baruch and have a job as a realtor. however, for now… im a dancer. I’m part of a group called Thorns of Hope. We dance latin music but our trademark is in dominican folklore. We are from a catholic church on the upper west side called St. Rose of Lima. That church means everything to me. if there is a place i can call home in this world… it is that church. I often say I was even born  in that church cause i was born in the hospital across the stree from it.  If you would like to see some of our dances ill link my sisters youtube channel which has some of our dances on it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/glenyssyf

 Im also addicted to tumblr… so follow me

http://www.tumblr.com/starzdanceonmarz

My name is Nan. I am originally from China. I moved to the United States with my family in 2005. This is my first semester at Baruch. I have received a A.S. degree in Accounting at Nassau Community College before I transferred here. So far everything is going great with me. I am having a lot fun with things that Baruch are offering me. I like this school at lot. The major I am going to pursue here is Public Accounting.

wassup my name my name is gonn and imma freshman…i like it at baruch but im planning to transfer outta here. commuting from long island way too expensive and long…dont know people here anyways…anyways good luck to all going into business. i imagine it to be hard not to mention boring unless you like numbers and stuff.

anyways my hobbies and interests are…

tv, sleep, eat…playing sports (i suck so i look like a fool)

Hi everyone. My name is sharissa verastegui and I’m from Ecuador. I came to this country eight years ago with my family. I could say that I loved it here because I get to meet new people and new cultures. Right now I live in the Bronx.

Well,  I transfer to Baruch College last semester and I’m planning to major in finance but That’s if I don’t change my mind !!. Before coming to Baruch College I was attending Lehman College as a business major. I was there for two years. I’m hoping to get the best education and experience here at Baruch College.

My favorite things to do is listen to music, watch movies and go to the gym, well sometimes !!!!!.

Hi, I am Sarah. This is my first semester in Baruch! I just transferred from Hunter. Undecided major. It has been a hard time for me to choose a major but either Finance, Accounting or CIS. 🙂  It’s so excited to be a student at Baruch.

I grew up in China. So I am still working hard in English. Hopefully one day I can get rid of my accent.

I always like to challenge myself but at the same time I afraid that I won’t be successful. It’s ambivalent.

I love my Economic class. I think this because I like math. I haven’t touched math for like a year. Now I am so slow.  🙂

Hello! My name is Seongmin Kwon and I’m from Korea. This is my first semester in Baruch college. I’m transfer student from Northern Virginia. It is nice to take PSY class with you all. I grew up in Seoul, Korea, came to Virginia five years ago. I have never been to New York before. I think it is awesome to live in New York though it is a little bit tough life so far. PSY class is one of my favorite classes I’m taking. Also I like Math class.  I’m not any member of organizations, but I will join later. I’m looking forward to studying PSY course with you!

Hello, everyone. My name is Yan Jiang who is a transfer student from beautiful San Diego. It is my pleasure to meet all of you here and hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the nice weather!

My name is MiaoHua Zhou.  I am from GuangZhou, China.

I have been NewYork five years. I transferred from LaGuadia Community College. I had my gradate commencement from LaGuadia today.  I was so happy!

I am not sure my major, but I am interested in International Business.

I like to cook and enjoy different food!

Jinlong Was born in Hong Kong to Business woman Amanda Yip Mui Tong and immigrant father Cai. After graduating from High School in 2005, he moved to Beijing to pursuit his dreams and career. Flabbergasted by the city’s rich mixture of modern life and ancient history,  jinlong worked as an employee for UNDP AIDS programme, where he aided in sample researching and date collecting.

In the year of 2007, Jinlong switched his job and became a food critic for a national recongnised magazine, where he tasted all kinds of food from all over the world.

During his stay in Beijing, China, Jinlong became aware of the human right abuses, he later became an advocate of Human Rights movement in China.  Jinlong is a strong supporter of Jasmine Revolution happening in China.

Jinlong is an anti war activist, animal rights activist and life time vegetarian. he has been engaged in charities since high school, he is an active member of Jet Li’s One Foundation.

Growing up in a single parent family, Jinlong developed his independent side. He started to travel at age 16, left his footsteps on 4 continents and 29 countrie, Jinlong completed his two months long “tour de USA” in the summer of 2010.

Although growing up with Buddhism and Christianity, Jinlong became an atheist at an early age. He strongly believes the universal value of equalitarianism. Jinlong is a strong support of female rights, gay rights and abortion rights.

In the summer of 2008, Jinlong decided to leave Beijing and started his life in the United States of America. He is currently attending the City University of New York.

Jinlong listens to Mary Gauthier and Karen Mok, his favourite writer is Yik Sue. Jinlong is also the creator of the cocktail Hong Kong Sway.

Jinlong has been happily committed in a relationship since 2010. He currently lives with his cat Jupiter in his Forest Hills apartment.

I just copied and pasted this from my old eportolio.  Write something about yourself isn’t an easy task at all!

My name is Altin Krcishta, born and raised most of my life in a little town in Macedonia. So far I am in my junior year as a international student. I came into U.S. in 2007 as a exchange student in Minnesota, and graduated high school from the same State in 2008. In Fall 2008 I came into New York and started my freshman year at College of Staten Island, I had pretty good two semesters there, than I transferred to Baruch for more challenging education. Here I am know with one more year to finish my Bachelors Degree in Accounting. If anyone has any question feel free to ask??

My name is Jarlyne and I am currently a junior and my major is Human Resource Management. I am happy to be taking this class. I took intro to psychology when I was attending SUNY Oneonta, but it only transferred as an elective. However, this class more interactive so I have been enjoying it more than I did before.

So, a little bit about me… I was born and raised in Brooklyn, but come from a Dominican family. I consider myself a young soul, a thinker, an artist, and a positive individual. Drawing/painting and coloring/collecting vinyl toys (ex. Kid Robot) are my hobbies. I love watching documentaries. That’s part of the reason why I really like the phrase “Knowledge is power,” because it really is.

If you genuinely love art and want to check out some inspiring artwork, some of which I have contributed (this includes poetry, videos, drawings, paintings, photography and much more), you can go to findinguniversalcreativity.tumblr.com

This is the facebook page too if you like it! http://www.facebook.com/pages/fINDING-uNIVERSAL-cREATIVITY/151095971638934  Feedback is super appreciated especially since it’s fairly new. ENJOY!!!! 🙂

Hi everyone. My name is Teona. This is actually my first semester at Baruch. I transfered from Brooklyn college. This is the first time a professor asked to blog about myslef for extra credit. I like it here already.  I was born and raised in Republic of Georgia, the country not the state by the way. I came to New York when I was 10. Yes, a very long time ago but still adjusting. I dont really have much to say about myself. I dont think I can tell about what is so unique about me. Thats for others to decide.

My name is Kate and I am a transfer student from Belarus.My dream was to study at Baruch college and here we go, I am a student now. interesting in traveling, reading.My hobby is sport, and to be specific, bodybuilding and running on long distances.Working in retail.love to meet new people and interesting in making friends.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Sung Kim.  I am a lower junior and Accountancy major. I transferred from one of CUNY school, Laguardia CC, a few semesters ago.  I spent my childhood in my home country, South Korea. When I was 19 years old, I moved into New York.  I enjoy my school life with good faculties and friends.

I am interested in listening to music, watching movies and drama, and playing soccer.
Thank you, all my classmates. See you in class.

I am happy to be here, in Baruch, with you all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1Je1JcFNE

Hello,everyone!My name is Zhenke Deng.I was born and raised in GuangDong,China.Cantonese is my first language,and currently I’m  living in Brooklyn.This is my second semester in Baruch College.I choose Baruch College  because it has better business program than other cuny schools. My major is Finance and  Investment, hopefully I can graduate as soon as possible. Soccer is my favor sport, and i will watch couple soccer games during the weekend.I’m also interest about the new technology in computer and electronic device field.Other than study, I want to make some new friends in Baruch college. This is my first psychology class in Baruch ,so i don’t have any comment on it. I expect this class is interesting and useful class , and I wish everyone will get a good grade in this class. See your guys in the class!!!!!!!

Hi, My name is Antonio Ra. I am currently a freshman in Baruch College. I was born and raised in Queens, New York. Psychology isn’t my intended major but I do enjoy the class. I plan on transferring out to USNA in Maryland after a year or two, It’s going to be hard but i’m going to try my best. Some things i like to do during my free time is to play or watch basketball and to hang out with my friends.

Hi there, I’m Ivana :). My interests and hobbies are in photography and design. I intend to major in Marketing, with Graphic Design as my minor. I love bicycling and yoga, but only when I’m not feeling lazy. During my free time, I also love hanging out with my friends, watching movies, being a foodie, playing tetris, blogging, reading magazines, and shopping. Definitely can’t forget shopping..

Although psychology isn’t my intended major, it has always been a class I wanted to take. The way people think and how our mind works always intrigued me. With all the different parts of the brain to remember though, this class is definitely harder than I expected. I’m not in any clubs or organizations as of now, but I’m looking for something to join. Commuting to college feels a lot like high school, so hopefully my experience will change soon.

Last, but not least, this is my blog on Tumblr: http://ivanalychee.tumblr.com/. It’ll show you more of my personality and what I like!

Hi! I’m Valentina. I was born in Argentina, but i grew up in Ecuador. My parents decided to move to Ecuador when I was about 2, and about 4 years ago me, my mom and sister moved to New York. I’m not going to lie, the new language and everything made it hard, but I got used to it and now I love this city.

I’m a really happy, friendly and energetic person. I’m honest, responsible and crazy at the same time (in the good sense). I think my family and friends r the most important thing for me. I also rather have 5 true friends than 100 people called “friends,” and i love people for who they are and not what they do or have. I love dancing, traveling, eating and the beach. Some day I want to travel the world, or at least as much as i can. I cant wait to meet all these places, people and cultures.

This is my first semester at Baruch, and I’m loving it. I transferred from BMCC and I’m a business major, but I’m still not sure if I want to go for accounting or economics. I would say my favorite class this semester is logic so far because i find it really different from how I expected it to be. I’m also enjoining psychology and all the in class experiments. I haven’t join to any club or organization this semester because my schedule between school and work don’t let me, but I’ll try next semester.

I attached this picture because I think it says a lot about me. Its me and my dad in Cusco-Peru, excited to go to Machu Picchu for the first time

This pretty much describes me and I’ll see you next class.

Chao! =)

I’m starting with  a big hellooooo to everybody here!

Ahh..I’m little too excited to write my first post for Baruch blog. So lets introduce myself! You can see my entire name with this post but I prefer to be called Sam. Yes, that’s because I don’t want you to ruin my name while pronouncing!

Now a bit more about me…I was born and raised in Bangladesh and came here at the end of 2006. I did my high school here and finally came to Baruch in 2010 and it’s my third semester here. It feels great to be Baruchian not because it looks gorgeous but because of the diversity, quality of education, and the faculty.

Shopping and sleeping are some stuffs that I enjoy doing. Okay, this does not sound productive enough. I love to read literature, do photography, and work for social welfare organizations. I would also consider myself as a community activist.

And here is the frustrating part, one thing I always run out is time. Wish days were 48 hours instead of 24! 🙁

Hello Everyone my name is Khushboo Jain. I was born in Queens, New York, but my parents are from India. This is my second semester at Baruch after transferring from LaGuardia Community College. I am a upper level junior and I am intending to major in Public Accounting. So far it has been a great experience at Baruch. I absolutely love the diversity of the students here!! I am definitely excited about being a student at Baruch College!!!

Hello! My name is Isabelle Muhlbauer, and although my name does not give it away I am, in fact, Brazilian. But that doesn’t represent who I am, at all! Only explains why I sometimes don’t understand what the joke is about. I am currently a sophomore and my intended major is political science.

I am also currently a waitress at Red at the south street seaport. Although I love to work, serving diet cokes and burritos to Europeans and French-Canadians has really been my biggest motivation to do EXTREMELY well in all my classes. I also hate New York. ( :O she what?!) Okay, hate is a very strong word, but lets just say I love quiet places where I can actually not hear anything. Plus, I need to live in a place where it’s cheap to support my shooting hobby. Not like I’m any good at it, but I still love doing it. No, I’m not republican, I’m just a country girl stuck in New York.

On to my favorite classes. Psychology is a lot of information to take in at once, but so interesting that it’s worth it, and required. Sadly, it isn’t my favorite class thus far. That would be globalization, political thought and political theory. Of course, my political science classes. I was briefly involved with USG my first semester and less the second, but a job kind of got in the way, which is a shame. USG is amazing!

Because I also love tennis, not just country…

Hello,everyone! This is Jing Qi! You can call me Sabrina!I came from Shanghai, and this is my second year in U.S now. I’m a transfer student and I’m sorphemore now. My major is accounting and my favorite class is accounting. Most of people thought it was boring, but I like it.I want to be an auditor and work in one of the big four after the graduation. Although I’m a Chinese, I love Korean songs so much. The usual process before I sleep was that I checked my YouTube account to find whether there are new Korean music videos upload today. I’m so glad to take the same class with you. Hope all of you have a nice weekend!

Hi, there~ This is Jiaying, or you can call me Kary if that makes things easier~ 🙂

I have already completed a two-year degree in Nassau Community College and this is my first semester in Baruch.

I grew up in China and I have been here for 4 years.I lived on long island since the first year in the United States. This summer, I moved to NYC and I found out that I love the city life much better~

Accounting is my major in Baruch. But if I could choose again, PSY would be my first consideration. I’m kind of sad that now is too late to change my major.

Anyway, really nice to meet you all here! d(^_^)b

My name is Ha Jung Lee but I prefer to be called Unice… yes, without the “E”. I am currently a freshman heading towards Accounting. I am able to speak English, Korean, and a little bit of French. I live in College Point, Queens, and it takes me approximately an hour and half to commute to Baruch every day. Unfortunately, Baruch was not my first choice of colleges and I plan to transfer out after my freshman year. This is my first time taking a course in Psychology and I’ve enjoyed it from day one. Out of all my classes, I must say that Psychology is the most interesting. Math is one of my favorite subjects. I’ve always found it easier to understand compared to other subjects. On my free time, I enjoy reading, jogging, and listening to music. I love to travel and try new foods of all cultures. I plan to make the best of my freshman year at Baruch by meeting new people and joining clubs that will help me in the future.

Hello everyone! My name is Yuting Luo, but I also encourage people to call me Michelle because it is easier to use an English name in a foreign country. I just transferred from Hunter college, and I am going to major in Accounting (yes, one more Accounting major). Psychology is social science, and I am very poor at every science class.

Recently, I am working at Quickly bubble tea store in Elmhurst, Queens. Just for making a little extra dollars to afford my hobbies. I love arts and shopping.

Ok that is all. English writing is killing me……-.-

Hi, my name is Hao Lin and i am a sophomore in here.  The first year in college is fun and it is different experiences to me. Right now, i am already enjoy the life of college which we manage our time to do what we have to do. Same as most chinese immigrant kids I was struggling with the new language which it is most difficult problem I had faced. Before, I used to be a quiet person in the school who did not like to be involves to the group.  However, when I came to the U.S, things changed a lot.  The high school teachers more encourage student to participate rather than the exam grades.  It is very different from the education system in china.  I am just a normal teenager which no much different from the other people around my age.  I would do the same things that teenagers will like to do such as computer and basketball.  Nothing thing special about me, if I must to tell at least one thing that represent myself, I will say l like to laugh.  It makes feel better and brings you an optimistic view to this world. Even thought i decide not to major in psychology, but i still hope this psychology course can be fun and i can make more friends from here. You can find me with facebook which search by my name.XD

Hello people, im Yong Chen and this is my third semester at Baruch. i was born in China and i came here when i was around 10 years old and now im 19 years old. My hobbies is handout with friend and some computer game. I love psychology, but I want to major in some things related to math because math is my favorite subject. 🙂

My name is Cherie, I am from hong kong china. I have been living in USA for 4 years. I am a full-time student and work as part-time. I also a transfer student from Hunter college. My major is accounting and I love shopping!!

Hi everyone, My name’s Jennifer Tejada I am a transfer student and this is my first semester in Baruch. I graduated from BMCC with an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science (in short an AAS). Psychology is one of those classes I’ve been dreading but hopefully its not as bad as I’m picturing it (cuz of all the memorization).

ummm a little more about my self is that I was born and raised in New York, but my parents are from El Salvador. I’m shy in small groups but I do love performing in public (yea weird). I don’t like the color pink but do love me some Lasagna =D. I like baseball but don’t like basketball.  And yea, that’s about it. Hope my first Semester goes great.

Good Morning!

My name is Andres, and according to my degree works audit I am a Junior II. I grew up in flushing, but now I live in Manhattan.This is my second semester at Baruch, I transfered from Brooklyn College Spring 2011.

I am presently working toward a degree in actuarial science, with a minor in accounting. My favorite course at Baruch  so far has been Chinese 1001/1002; I think learning differant languages is awesome! I havnt joined any clubs or groups in my time here, but I am interested in checking out the archery club.

I love dogs! My girlfriend and I have 3 (it’s a his/hers/ours kinda thing). I also love photography, food, programming, and skiing.

My name is Elsie. I’m a sophomore, my intended major is International Business. I am an Orientation Leader at Baruch College, which is part of T.E.A.M. Baruch. I will also begin working at the SACC center this semester. I live on Long Island but I’m living in Brooklyn this year because I got a RA job at a student housing facility. I was born in New Jersey but my parents are from the Dominican Republic. I have a passion for different languages and cultures. I participated in a summer home immersion program in Sicily, Italy for 5 weeks in the summer of 2009. I hope to work abroad this summer with AIESEC and travel as much as I can throughout my life.

I know I’m very late with this post but thought I should do it anyway..so here it is..

My name is Eliza Udrea, I was born in Romania and been in New York for 12 years.  I came with my family and my sister who is a junior in high school.  I’m a junior at Baruch College majoring in Finance.  My minor is Psychology and this is my first class in psych ever! I love it .. and because I have an anxiety disorder myself, this class is definitely helping me understand a lot more.

I also love the city and of course Starbucks!;) One of my hobbies is to walk dogs in the park and read…a lot!

So I guess you can say this is me in a nutshell..

Hi guys, my name is Robert and I’m a sophomore here at Baruch. I’m from here, Brooklyn specifically. I grew up a fan of many sports such as basketball, baseball, football, track, and bowling. Basketball is the sport that stayed with me all the years and I’m really passionate and active in following the NBA. My favorite classes so far would have to be Business Law and Psychology. Unfortunately, Psychology isn’t my intended major, but it has proven itself to be very interesting.

The following is a picture I grabbed off my Tumblr that shows my passion for basketball if you get the meaning behind it.
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky8aylGCkj1qam8ufo1_500.jpg

Hey guys my name Liliana Reyes, but I go by Lily. So please just call me Lily. I’m a 21 year old transfer student trying to find her way. I love sports, anything from snowboarding to softball, you name it I’ll try it. I’m definitely a shy girl, but very friendly once you get to know me…(hmm trying to see what else is interesting about me…)Well I was raised in a very christian conservative home, which has become a little difficult since I have strayed away from that upbringing. On another note I’m from Long Island, and the commute sucks everyday. I have the worst schedule, but I guess thats the perks of being a transfer student! (sarcasm) Well there’s a lot about me I hope to figure out throughout these years at Baruch, and hopefully become that successful Accountant I strive to be. Over and out.

My name is Elizabeth. I’m from Brooklyn, born and raised, even though my parents moved to the USA just 3 months before I was born. I’m a sophomore at Baruch and am planning on studying finance. I have many goals for myself, but I’m not gonna write it here because I don’t wanna jinx it. =) I work  after my classes. I do work a lot, but I spend a lot as well. That might be a problem.

I really want to study abroad sometime during my undergrad, I want to visit Italy and France really bad. Hopefully, I can convince my parents to let me. I do speak very little Italian, that I learned in High School, so if I were to travel to Italy I can put all those classes to the test.

So that’s a little bit about me!

What’s up Baruchers? My name is Chandrapaul Latchman. Pronouced chaun-dra-paul  So it’s phonetic for the most part. I am a Freshman. I went to school in Long Island (Valley Stream Central High School). Had some really great times there being President of the Student Council and a couple of Honor Societies.  Decided I would come to Baruch after getting into the Macaulay Honors Program and I have to say it was one of the best decisions of my life. I love the city, I love the people. I love the school. I look forward to a great future here. I plan to major in Finance, depending on how my first year goes, we’ll see. I’m very versatile so I may change fields completely, but willing to try anything. Thanks for reading.

My name is Syeda Tina Hussain (but I usually just go by Tina) and I am currently a sophomore. I intend to major in Operations Management, but we’ll see how that goes! However, I do know that I will definitely be minoring in Psychology. I am a Freshman Seminar Peer Mentor, which is a part of T.E.A.M. Baruch, I am involved with USG, and I am also the secretary of the Collegiate Association of Women in Business. I’m spearheading WIB’s Annual Dress for Success Fashion Show so I am super excited for this semester!

I’m actually blogging when I should be studying for tomorrow’s (well now, today’s…) psychology exam. I wish you all the best of luck!

See you around!

Hello everyone!!!!

My name is Jingan Hu. I know it is a hard name to pronounce, so just call me Joanne if you want. As you probably can tell by my name, I am Chinese and I was born in Shanghai, China. Actually, I came to the United States a little bit more than two years ago. This is my first semester at Baruch as a transfer student. I transferred from LaGuardia Community College. Since this is the first semester, my transfer evaluation has not yet been completed. Thus, I suppose I am still a freshman at the point. Although Accounting is my intended major, I am always interested in the field of psychology. I think it is just amazing how differently people would react to the same situation. I really enjoy talking to different people with different backgrounds just to see the difference. Math might be my favorite subject so far. (I guess you guys are probably thinking, What a surprise to know a Chinese who likes math! :))  In this semester, I made a super intense schedule; therefore, I do not have any time joining any clubs now, but I surely want to attend one later on.

Aside from works in school, I really love photography. However, I am just an amateur. Here is a photo that I took when I was in Shanghai. Please, do not make fun of my rookie camera technique. 😛

All right! Let’s keep up the good work in Psychology! Fighting!

09/23/2011

Hello everyone!
This post is late -.-” But my name is Liangchi whatever, just call me Martin. I’m a sophmore at Baruch and psychology is an interesting subject. It’s just a bit difficult for me because I’m not a memorizing type of person, but I’m trying to do well in this course. I commute all the way from Flushing, Queens, takes like 1 hour or so, it sucks.
Anyway on my free time usually I either hangout with my church friends (eat, and eat…) but would like to go to some more paintballing events!
I also play League of Legends, if anyone wants to play, hit me up! IGN: demminex

Thanks for reading! (or skimming)

Hi my name is Matthew Huie. People say I am a boring person but i am actaully quite interesting. My hobbies are drawing, playing handball and play video games as well as watching anime.http://www.gogoanime.com/ this is the site that I watch all my anime and my source of inpiration for drawing. Enjoy! Listening to my hobbies one can think that I don’t do homework or a procrastinator.  But I’m not, I tend to do homework ahead of schedule so i end up having free time to do the things i enjoy. I am a freshman in college and it is definitely a lot harder than high school. I went to Baruch College Campus High School or BCCHS for short. This high school really prepares me for what is installed in college.

I hope that I end up learning a lot in psychology because I have always had an interest in the subject. I took a psychology elective in high school and it was really interesting and i always want to learn more things. So far the class its pretty good, but still not use to the 500 students in the room. Maybe this is because my high school has only 400 people for all 4 grades.

Well, professor Sitt and Sapolsky have done a great job keeping the class engaged in what they are teaching and the readings that we do prior to class really halp us understand the topic better when it is explained the day after. Well this is it for now, I can’t wait what is installed for the rest of the semester.

Hi guys, my name is Kayla John and I am a freshman here at Baruch and although I was born in Brooklyn I was raised in Queens and now live in Brooklyn again. I’m pretty boring when it comes to hobbies because it mostly includes reading (you will never catch me with out one or two books) and hanging out with my friends. Although I do love to travel when I can and often spend my summers in Barbados where some of my family lives. I’m not very good at describing myself but if you want to learn a little more about me you can check out my facebook and add me as a friend :D.

Hi everyone,

My name in is Kimberly Chau. I was born and raised in Venezuela. My parents are Chinese. I speak three languages (Spanish, Chinese, and English). I moved to New York when I was 15 years old. I didn’t know English when I first came here, it was really hard for me to adapt to New York life. However, I managed to over come this difficulty. I graduated from Saint Joseph High School and I transferred to LaGuardia Community College. At LaGuardia I earned two degree, one in International Business and the other one in Business Administration. Later on, I transferred to Baruch and here I am taking psychology class!!! Looking toward opening my own business and traveling around the world. Also, the most important thing for myself is to help people with everything I can and to spend time with my family and friends.

Hi. I’m Dianna.

I’m a sophomore, graduated from Wagner High School on Staten Island.  Baruch’s been okay so far. Sometimes I wish I moved away from the city for school to experience more of a campus life. But since Baruch is in the middle of the city, I’ve gotten the chance to explore and discover this borough.  Even though I grew up on Staten Island, I rarely came out to Manhattan and was terrified of getting lost on the subways. But, it is a pain to travel at least an hour and a half to get to school every morning; I can never tell if I’ll be on time or late because of the MTA and ferry delays.

I currently am undecided major however, I am leaning toward international business. At Wagner, I was in the Hospitality and Tourism Academy so I am familiar with business and would like to have a career that has something to do with communicating or servicing other people.

As for my hobbies….I suck at sports and essentially I’m a book worm. My weekly routine consists of school, work, church, and homework. Whenever I get a chance to relax, I would sit and have a marathon watching some show like White Collar or Criminal Minds. But whenever I get a chance I love to write. I’be written a few poems and short stories but haven’t had all the time in the world recently to sit down and write these days.

And.. I think that’s about it. (My days are pretty routine and habitual haha) I look forward to having a great semester in this class! :]

Hi, my name is Josh Nussbaum. I grew up on Long Island, but I am living in Manhattan now. I was a student at Boston University for two years, and I am now taking classes at Baruch as a visiting student and hope to transfer full time in the fall. I was a communications major, but I think I am going to do finance at Baruch. I was in a fraternity at Boston University, but am not involved in anything at Baruch yet. I enjoy sports, both watching and playing, as well as technology. I enjoy spending time with friends in my free time. I am also an intern right now 3 days a week at an advertising agency in Manhattan only a few blocks from Baruch.

This is my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/josh.nussbaum1   I do not have a twitter, and although I have a google + account I have never used it. I have never blogged before either.

I hope everyone did well on the exam and I look forward to meeting you all.

-Josh

Hi, my name is Israel but my friends call me Izzy.  I transferred here from Florida and this is my second semester at Baruch.  I am seeking a degree in Bus. Mgt. and I also work full-time at Yankee Stadium HRC.

My two favorite things in the world to do are travel and go out to eat.  I love thai, sushi, and Italian food.  I am Puerto Rican so I don’t count Spanish food in that category because it’s usually a given.  Some of my other hobbies are hanging out with friends, going to the movies, listening to R&B, dancing salsa, and just having a good time.

I moved here about 2 years ago by myself and I really haven’t made any friends.  I am a workaholic so I go to school 5 days a week and work 6 days.  But every so often I made time for myself even if it’s a short period.  I always say, “life is too short, so live it to the fullest.”  I am very outgoing and spontaneous and love to try new things.  I feel like I am writing too much so on that note, till next time!!!

Hey everybody, my name is David.  I am a transfer student and this is my first semester at Baruch college.  I am Chinese and my favorite hobby is playing video games on my free time (typical right?).  My intended major is undecided management.  I find Psy 1001 a more interesting and fun class compare to my other classes because of activities and interaction between teachers and students.  I grew up and live in Brooklyn throughout my life and I feel pretty fortunate growing up here.

Hello!

My name is Navjot Rani. But I would rather be called Navi. I am way to shy, and get extremely nervous when talking to new people. I am a transfer student from Adelphi University and this is my first actual semester at Baruch College. I grew up and lived in Queens since I was 5 years old (I was born in India).

During my free time, I like to go out with my friends, watch movies, read and watch TV (rarely). I also like web designing during my free time(Websites, photoshop graphics, etc). Psychology is not actually my major, I am currently a Business Management major. So far I have liked all of my classes this semester (Since I haven’t been dosing off in any of them). I do not belong to any clubs or organizations just yet, but in my old college, I was actually a founder of a club as well as the president for one and a half year (Since the day it was founded).

I don’t know what else to say. So, I suppose this is it.

Hi :).

My name is Kelly Wei, and I am Chinese; my parents are from China. I’m a freshman at Baruch. This is my first semester here. I was born in Manhattan. Some of my interests and hobbies are reading, hanging out with friends, going on the computer, watching movies and drawing. Psychology is not my intended major. So far my favorite classes have been psychology and music history. At the moment I haven’t joined any clubs but I am planning to soon.

I’m quite addicted to tumblr at the moment: cheekydollface.tumblr.com

Hey, my name’s Nathan. I was born and raised in Long Island and I currently live in Lawrence. I’m a transfer student here at Baruch. I was at City College for my freshman year, and I transferred here to major in Actuarial Science. Though it was a little tough to leave all the friends I met there, the transition has been pretty smooth and I’ve definitely been enjoying my time here in Baruch.

I don’t really have much hobbies. I do like to play tennis. I like to brag that I was the captain of my tennis team at my high school, though I never mention that the team never won a single game. Other than that, my only hobbies are playing video games and watching t.v. My favorite shows to watch are Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons (Some of you might have even caught the Simpsons reference in my title).

Overall, I’ve been enjoying this semester a lot. Though I don’t plan on being a psychology major, I have to admit that this class has been a lot more interesting than I though it would be.

See you later everyone.

Oh, and here a video of a cat singing an annoying song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

My name is Abui Tamakloe and I am a junior at Baruch, and my major is Business management. I am originally from Togo (West Africa) and I have lived in New York for the past eleven years. I live in Brooklyn and I am a part-time student. I work full-time and unfortunately, I do not have the possibility to focus totally on my education. I am a runner and work in running store; I have completed the ING New York City marathon in 2007 and several races including few half-marathons. My hobbies are sports and reading. I do not have a lot of free time to participate in college clubs or activities. I am a bit older as well compared to the average of Baruch students.

My goal in life is to own a hotel in my country of origin in the next 10 years or so. I am working really hard to achieve this goal, while trying to complete my college education

I will be graduating, hopefully in 2013.

My name is Christina He, and I am a sophomore student. I plan on majoring in Finance, but I am not entirely sure. My favorite classes here at Baruch so far has been anthropology, communication, and living environment. (Nothing related to the business field!) I am a member of Beta Alpha Psi and Ascend.

I grew up in Chinatown, but since 2002, I have been living in Queens. My favorite hobbies are listening to music, reading a good book and online shopping. I haven’t found a good book in a while, so I haven’t been reading much.

A link I would like to share will be to a song from my favorite band Maroon Five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67amigWwAJQ&sns=em

Hi everyone! My name is Philip Loew. I am currently a junior here at the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College. So far, Baruch has been an awesome experience with great friends and great classes! Anywho, I thought I share a few things about myself.

I am originally from Manhattan, New York, spent a few years in Brooklyn and eventually moved to New Jersey for high school. However, once I received acceptance to Macaulay, I moved back to my apartment in the city yet still travel back to my house in New Jersey on weekends. In my spare time, I love to hang out with friends and family as well as walk around Princeton (I live ten minutes away from the University).

Having been in Baruch for three years now, I plan to major in Finance. While school work has been my top priority, I did recently become more involved in school. I am currently rushing for Delta Sigma Pi (a business fraternity) as well as in Phi Eta Sigma- the honors society at Baruch College.

Attached, you will see a link for the American Cancer Society. I am currently a volunteer at the American Cancer Society: Hope Lodge on West 32nd st. The reason I post a picture of this facility is because it is an organization I not only volunteer at, but is also a place I hold very dear to my heart. Having family members who previously had cancer, I wanted to volunteer my time at a place that help patients with cancer in hopes that they live a little easier- even small things help! Trying not to boast, I would just like to say that I often volunteer here in hopes that I bring smiles to patients’ faces amidst their treatments.

Hi guys, so my name is Lysandra Dillon.  I was born in Colombia and was raised and is still living in the Bronx.  I plan on majoring in human resource management and minoring in law hoping to eventually do H.R. in an entertainment, music, or sport industry.  As far as hobbies I love sports and music is my life.  I’ve played both basketball and softball since the fourth grade and I definitely miss it considering I don’t play for Baruch.  The reason I don’t is because I just decided to dedicate my time to school work, finding a job and/or internship.  Every now and then though I’ll play basketball with a few friends at a park by my house.  As far as music, I love HipHop, R&B, Rap, Reggaeton, Bachata, Salsa, oh and I LOVE to dance.  Whenever I’m down I listen to music and sometimes dance alone like a loser in my room and I feel much better; I really think music is my cure to everything, or at least most things.  As far as my favorite class- it’s definitely psych.  Right now I’m trying to get more involved in SHRM because they have great opportunities that are definitely helpful to those majoring in HR.  And lastly, I think we have to share something from the web or something that describes us so I guess I’ll just put the link to one of my favorite songs right now which is: Next To You by Chris Brown and Justin Beiber http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEuQU6a90Pc