{"id":658,"date":"2026-08-25T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/?p=658"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:20:25","slug":"first-year-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/first-year-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"First Year Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, my name is Emma \u00c7abej, I\u2019m a finance undergraduate at Macaulay Baruch! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An affirmation that I find comforting when approaching this new chapter is that I\u2019m allowed to not have everything figured out all the time. From majors to career paths and opportunities, I believe that college is the time to figure out what you want do and not a place to \u201chave it all figured out\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing I am excited about at Baruch is to get involved with the various clubs like the student newspaper and magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039-1300x975.jpeg 1300w, https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2026\/08\/DSC02039.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Emma \u00c7abej, I\u2019m a finance undergraduate at Macaulay Baruch! An affirmation that &hellip; <a title=\"First Year Expectations\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/2026\/08\/25\/first-year-expectations\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Year Expectations<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/classof2030\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}