Where have I been? I think the better question is where haven’t I been. I grew up in Jamaica, Queens, the same place where 50 cent was shot three times. My parents weren’t exactly overloaded with cash money so I grew up with some humble roots, roots I will never forget. When it came time for me to start attending school, my parents moved around a lot to find a place with a good school. That was PS131. The school was good, I was just a complete deviant. Both my parents worked all the time so I had to teach myself a lot & I didn’t even understand the English language so I had to take ESL (English as a Second Language). I was made fun of because I couldn’t understand English and to cope with all the kids making fun of me, I did stupid things to get people to laugh because to me at the time, it felt like they were laughing with me as opposed to at me. I also had this crush on this girl in Kindergarten because I fell back in my seat and I started crying and all the other kids thought I was joking and she came over and helped me up. She was the only person from my kindergarten class who was in every single one of my classes all the way through fifth grade. She was pretty cute, I’m not going to lie. I wasn’t exactly a player though. In fourth grade she asked me for my pink crayon, I had some cool crayons at the time ( A cool box of Crayola), I think that was probably the most romantic thing that ever happened between us. If you’ve ever seen the AXE commercials about Susan Glenn, they are all over the place, she was my Susan Glenn.
Junior High was boring. Nothing eventful happened at MS216. I became very quiet because I got more serious about my grades. I took the SHSAT and I got into Stuyvesant and that’s where the Squeege was born. I was a real tiny kid when I first stepped into high school but I had this bizarre desire to play football. At first it was terrible but then I realized I was really great at running away from people. My four years of football went great because I just excelled at running away from people. That also translated onto High School Lacrosse as well.
As far as Baruch goes, I plan on taking this one year at a time. I just want to concentrate on branching out and visiting a bunch of interest meetings and finding out where I want to be. I just want to set the foundation before I start thinking about building upon that. I’ve met tons of cool people. I really love the people in my LC. I do know that I plan on majoring in Finance or Actuarial Science so if the opportunity presents itself, I’ll start building upon that with internships and the like.
