Hello everyone, my name is Abhinaya. I moved to New York exactly 2 years ago last week. Before that I lived in India where I was born. This makes my life very interesting as every day I notice the numerous differences between the cultures here and back in India. At the same time, I come across many similarities that seem to suggest that people around the world are the same in the ways that really count.

My family moved around quite a bit during my childhood due to my father’s job; this has given me a passion for languages and I am always learning a new language (my current project being French). I’m also a veritable bibliophile. I can’t imagine life without my paperbacks. I love to engage in charged, albeit good humored, debates about everything under the sun and was actually on the Debate Team at my old school in India. Lastly, I hope to be a lawyer in the future.

I’ll admit, I never imagined that I would commute to college, rather seeing myself at a residential campus in a small liberal arts college somewhere. However I have been pleasantly surprised by the interesting group of people at Baruch and college is proving to be quite challenging in a good way. So….that’s me! I hope to get to know you all better in the next four years and hopefully we will have lots of fun together while gaining a great education. All the Best!  🙂