Hello!  My name is Nina Thomas, I am a junior here at Baruch College as well as Corporate Communications major.  I hope to minor in Business writing as well as Graphic Design.

This is my first “real” journalism class but I’ve taken journalism classes in high school as well.  I’ve only taken intro Management at Baruch College,but back in high school I was able to take Marketing, Accounting and lastly a class called Virtual Enterprise.

Back in high school I was the “business” girl.  I was part of the Business Club, competed in “business” competitions and intended to be a business major.

I’m at an odd cross roads in my life right now because I came into Baruch thinking I would be some kind of business major.  I always wanted to follow a very direct path.  Get a degree, get a 9-5 job, make enough money to pay my bills.  But I found my passion lies in communication which is Weissman.  How unfortunate is that?  I wish my passion could be finance!  But I am who I am, no sense in changing that.  I love to communicate.  I’m even a COM1010 tutor at the SACC center.  I never thought I would enjoy a part time job so much.   I don’t know what my life will look like 5 years from now and that scares me because I love being the person with a “plan”.

What I do know is that I love writing, reading and communicating and I want to develop these skills as much as I can.  Even though I do feel very weak in my writing skills compared to my public speaking ability.  I sometimes wish everything I ever needed to say could just be said out loud but I have also found a certain kind of beauty in writing.  It’s incredibly easy for me to be transparent when my words are written down.

I’ve found my passion here at Baruch within InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.  Have you heard of us before?  If not, you should check us out.  It’s funny because back in high school I never wanted to be a part of the “Christian Fellowship”.  The very idea of it had a negative connotation in my mind.  But then again, I am not the same person I was in High School.  I’m very grateful for that.

I’m actually both the “Large Group” coordinator and the “Price of Life” Coordinator with InterVarsity.  Large Group is our weekly gathering aimed towards the Baruch Community and Price of Life is a campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking.  Large group tries to address important issues that impact Baruch students, a few include: immigration, love, identity, and even self worth.  It all feels very intimidating to be essentially “planning” this, but I trust that God will guide me in everything that I do.  Somehow I’ve found myself doing a whole lot of event planning.

But yeah, this is a mini introduction to me.  I hope that it wasn’t too boring!