Hello my name is Tanvir. My pronouns are he/him. There are many things about me that I want my peers to know and you the reader as well. Starting with sports, I love playing many sports especially basketball, volleyball, badminton and recently taken up the sport of swimming. Whenever I play sports I am super competitive some people even refer to me as a “try hard” since I try very hard to win at any game in a given a sport. Even outside of physical activities and inside a classroom setting I am just as competitive I always work to get the best grade possible, work to win as much as possible in educational games that are planned for the class and think of most of the things in my life as a challenge. Sports wasn’t the only thing I liked, I also really like going out with friends, watching tv shows and anime. I use to really like playing games as well but ever since the end of last year I basically stopped playing games as a whole. I have found it to be very time consuming and takes majority of my day and really causes my emotions to fluctuate which wasn’t that good for my mental health. It was so time consuming that I didn’t have time to do other important things in my life like giving time to school, family and friends. Your probably wondering why I didn’t just play for a little bit and then make time for the other things that were important to me, well for me it wasn’t that simple whenever I would start up a game I find myself to be attached to the screen and lose track of time and forget to stop playing as the thrill of playing and excitement continues to rush in and out when playing the game. I tried using an alarm to stop myself from playing but it just didn’t work, so I just stopped playing games for a while and found other things to do and now present me either does not play games or when I do I spend only like a couple minutes playing. One thing that is very important to be and was life changing to me was getting my shoulder surgery when I was very young like around 13 I had dislocated my right shoulder and ever since then every time I would try to play any sort of sport my shoulder would dislocate. During the dislocation I would feel excruciating pain for 5-10 mins, the pain was unbearable and during the dislocation I could not move my whole right shoulder to hand at all, since after a dislocation my shoulder which connects to the upper part of my body which connects to the brain when disconnected is basically uncontrollable and not functionable. To deal with this I would most of time have someone call an ems for me who would push my shoulder back in place and sometimes It would go back in itself, but it was just too much of a hassle for me I decided to take the leap and get surgery done for it as recommended by a bone an joint doctor I spoke with. After the surgery I had to go and have rehab where they helped me gain strength for the right shoulder again, but it didn’t fully heal it and I have yet to regain the mobility and strength I had before the procedure. I had rehab for a couple months then was told to stop since they believed I gained my mobility back which I thought wasn’t true, so now I have to take the initiative to work on it by myself, thankfully I was given proper instructions to be able to do that but I find myself not giving enough time to be able to actually work on the shoulder. But I try to now and then work on it with my current strength I am able to play sports but don’t have the same mobility as before but am relieved that it hasn’t dislocated yet ever since the surgery. The last thing that was very important to me that I did this year was go swimming! I was afraid of swimming as when I was little I drowned 3 times and didn’t want to experience that again. Now that I am taller and can basically stand in pools. My friends one day took me to a public and for the first time I tried swimming without drowning. It was pretty easy as the instructions were actually very simple with the help of my friends I was able to swim through water and learn to float under water. With these experiences I find myself now enjoying going to swim a lot more then other sports and just recently I went swimming every week. I still have more to learn since I haven’t fully grasped the concept of floating as I find it hard to float above water and swim with my head up but I am going to continue try to learn those techniques. Below I have attached a cool place that I recently went to.

Hi my name is Jiahua Lin or you can call me by Jerry. My pronouns are he, him or his. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York but originally I lived and was born in Guangdong, China. As an immigrant from China, coming to America was a step towards a better future for both my parents and for myself. Starting out in America was at first a struggle for my entire family. My family and I didn’t speak English so getting a job and place to live was hard. Overtime my parents learned some English to adapt to the neighborhood and I attend school. I was an ESL student because I needed help learning English. At first it was hard but gradually I evolved into a normal student. As a first Asian America generation education is very important. As someone who is the only one in the family that has an education higher than high school, I must lead my future and my family to a better life. One of many things I like to do is to play sports. Sports is one way I get my mind off of things. My favorite sports I like to play is basketball and badminton. I used to play basketball everyday after school with my friends for hours until the pandemic happened. Another thing I like to do is math in general. I think I was born into liking math because I was able to use the abacus at an early stage. Anything in math regarding solving problems or finding a solution is in my interest. Math has lead me to come to Baruch college as a finance or accounting major because it is a top public school when it comes to these majors. This is a picture of two adults which symbolizes my parents. My parents has been there since I was born and has been my motivator. I think my interest in math came from them. Even during through the darkest time they have been there for me when I needed help the most.

Hi I am Daniel, I live on Long Island but I was born in South Korea. At Baruch College I am planning on studying Actuarial Science. I have the typical two parent two child household in which my mother is a teacher, my dad a custodian, and my sister and I work in the restaurant industry. We need to get our money somehow to be able to go through college. Throughout my life I had done a lot of different extracurriculars that have made me who I am today. Starting the summer before Kindergarten I remember my first piano lesson on an upright piano my parents were lucky enough to find on Ebay for two hundred dollars starting my career as a musician. I have been playing piano ever since and have joined the band and the jazz band at my high school. Throughout my life like many other kids in music, I have gone through the treacherous levels of NYSSMA trying to make your parents happy while you spend countless hours practicing your one piece of classical music, scales, and sight reading. This is just one part of me though. Although I do not exactly look the part, I love sports. I spend too many hours watching Soccer, Football, and Basketball, but I tell my parents maybe I’ll be doing sports analytics one day so maybe this is important for me to be watching. During high school, I played basketball and soccer in which our Soccer Team won the country championship in my senior season. Although it is sad to say goodbye to that part of my athletic career, I plan to pursue powerlifting in the winter. With my genetics, my squat is extremely strong, but we do not talk about the deadlift. Academically I have always been interested in mathematics and philosophy, weird combo right? I have loved the definite answers of mathematics and mainly just because it is interesting to learn the different methods we can solve problems in the world as mathematics is in all aspects of everyday life. With philosophy I have been interested in the ambiguity of the answers about how we look at life in which we do not have the answers to everything. This picture is of my mom and I before prom. The most important thing in my life I believe is family, and that is why I treat the time I have with my parents very important.