1. I believe that I am much pretty much an average eighteen year old girl. I am kind, compassionate, understanding, and fun. I enjoy hanging out with my friends, shopping, learning, listening to music, watching movies, and playing tennis. I absolutly love traveling, taking care of children, and reading. I can also be very clumsy, disorganized and I procrastinate a lot.
2. My first concern is handeling all of the reading/hw I am assigned because I heard that in college there is a lot of work and I do not have the best time management skills. My second concern is balancing athletics and academics. I am on the Baruch women’s tennis team so I fear that I will be too tired or not have enough time for all of my work. And my last concern is choosing a possible career/major. A lot of students seem to know what they want to do and I feel a little uneasy knowing that I do not.
3. I already see that Baruch College is in a number of ways different from high school. The main differences I think are that in college all of the responsibilities are on you and you are also responsible for keeping up with the work. I believe that in college you really become more independant and mature. I also think that in some ways you begin to enjoy learning and going to class as well as taking adavantage of everything the school has to offer. In high school, students mostly complain about work and school but in college I feel like its about finding yourself and broadening your horizons. I also feel like its the time to try new things and explore your options.
4. I think my first year in college will change me for the better and make me more responsible and eager to learn. I also hope to stop procrastinating and to develop better time managament skills. I hope to meet new poeple and make friends with people from various nationalities as well as become more open minded.
Describing myself may be the hardest thing to do. Everyone is there own person and explaining who you are, is more difficult than it seems. Also, no one knows you better, than yourself, so this may be the best summary of who I am. In all honesty, I can say I am a very down to earth person, never really angered, but I can be easily annoyed. I grew up a Christian, and still attend church very regularly. I am not really family orientated, except I love my immediate family. I think I am a very caring person and may be too nice sometimes. I also think I am too lazy sometimes and procrastinate way too much. Also, I find myself to be very outgoing and and enjoying a good time.
My top three concerns at Baruch are probably similar to many others. My top concern obviously, would be my grades. I want to try and get the best grades possible so that the admission into Zicklin can be as smooth as possible. My next concern would be the commuting process because I feel as if I get no work done at home. Even though Baruch is a commuter school, getting an apartment closeer to the school would make everything easier. My last concern about Baruch would be the classes for spring semester and my professors. I want to try and get a good schedule while also having solid professors.
I am not sure so far what can make my college experience different than my high school experience. Honestly, its just different going to school in the city with this many people. That itself is a big difference. I think knowing that I have to have more responsibility and be up to things will make me think and know the college experience is different. Already seeing the amount of sources available to students make this college experience different. For example, the library is one of the most state of the art facilities, and access to the computer labs is amazing.
I think my first year at college will change me into being a more responsible student. It will also help me realize the realities of college and how it is no joke. You basically cannot bullsh*t your way through college.