Hi everyone,
My name is Agnes. I am Polish and most of my life I spent in my home country. After completing some college in Poland I felt like I needed some change in my life. I came to the United States 6 years ago with hopes of improving my financial situation and acquiring some English proficiency. At that time I didn’t even dream of being a student at an American University. That’s why today I feel so proud of myself and very fortunate to be a part of the Baruch community.
Before transferring to Baruch I graduated from LaGuardia Community College with an AA degree in social sciences and humanities. At Baruch I intend to major in I/O psychology or human resource management. I haven’t decided yet. I am a very curious individual and I like to learn new things. I suppose that is the reason why it is so difficult for me to narrow down my options and finally choose my major.
I can think of so many things I could do if I only had some spare time. I love music and I took several years of music lessons in the past. Today I don’t play the piano any more but I still sing. I enjoy reading magazines about social sciences or psychology such as Scientific American Mind. I love meeting new people and visiting new places and I hope that in the future I will have enough time and money to travel a lot. If I have some free time, which doesn’t happen often (never happens during a semester!), I can spend hours doing jigsaw puzzles.
In my busy schedule I always try to find time to get together with my friends and spend as much time as I can with my family and loved ones. I believe that supportive family or friends are essential for achieving one’s personal goals.
I wish we all have an inspiring and full of fun semester.
Thank you for visiting my blog. Your comments to my posts are very welcomed.
4 comments:
Hello Agnes. Thank you for sharing. Is there any classical music (neo-classical, Baroque, Russian, et cetera) musician you like? As for singing, what genre and range do you sing? I know many immigrants come to this country and study psychology or some health related field (less toward the academic research in psychology). I do not know what is the intent behind that, may be it has to do with interest, may be some immigrants know where they can get a job or know someone who can help them, or both, or some other reason. All I know is psychology is useful and applicable in many area. Where there is human, animal, or some sort of social interaction, there is psychology. However, to be actually to become a psychologist and make money as a professional psychologist, I do not know, but I heard there is difficulty. Psychologist can choose to work in other fields if they want to, but being a strictly psychology professional, there is definately a need of excellent merit and skills as well as compassion and ethics. Otherwise, what is suppose to be a honourable and respectable profession will give into the stereotype bad reputation when people become suspicious.
There is more employment opportunity in human resource management. Of course, the world need both good and skillful psychologist as well as human resource manager, especially in military and in academic education. By the way, the academic education industry in the United States of America, especially the public education, is an industry that urgently needs a new, creative improvement reform in its management. This is my opinion that many people in the United States happens to agree with.
May be more people like you can bring change to that problem and save our future.
It is my wish that we can learn as much as possible in this course and from each other.
Your fellow classmate, Joey Fong
Hey, neighbor,i am from Belarus, close enough.Last year i've been to Warsaw-and liked it. Actually as far as i remember we were once a big country together, right?
Anyway, i can totally relate to your experience- icame to the US 5 years ago and didn't paln to stay but the now i feel a great sense of accomplishment realizing that i study at Baruch and have all the opportunities awaiting me in America.
I have a couple of people from Poland -they are very cool people.
So,i guess i talk to you late.
Bye,
Tatsiana
No problem,you can brush up on Russian and i can refresh my Polish. Well, i didn't study it but it is very similar to Belarusian, i think. So, we can help eah other out, i guess:)
Lesson number 1: Kak dela?
Answer: _______
Just kidding , i'm pretty sure you know it.
Talk to you later and see you in class.
Tatsiana
Hey, hope you're enjoying your semester at baruch and that you can have some spare time to enjoy the life of new york!
I definitely can relate to you in the sense that I never thought I'll graduate one day with an american diploma, but here Iam in my last semester, time goes so fast...
Good luck
Magali
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