My full name is Jean Carlo Estrada and I’m currently 18 years old. I was born in Medellin, Colombia, a place more known for its unpleasant history than its actual virtue. With the promise of a better education, I moved to New York City at the age of 10 where I began schooling in the public school system of Brooklyn. After understanding the ceiling of public school success in Brooklyn, I made a strategic move to a Manhattan highschool with the hopes of higher learning opportunities. Thanks to that choice four years ago I now sit here attending Baruch College, something that would’ve been unlikely anywhere else.

As a writer in particular, I have struggled with the fundamentals and material of past english classes. That includes simple things such as connecting main ideas, building off analyses, citations, etc. In terms of material, when I find myself disinterested in a topic or reading I struggle to produce my “best work”.

About Me

My name is Lucia Ku. I am currently 17 years old and have lived in NYC my whole life. Growing up, I have always kept to myself and maintained a quiet demeanor. As a result, I had a lot of trouble talking to new people and socializing in public situations. However, as I grow older, I plan to change that and learn how to communicate better with others. In my free time, I love listening to music, trying new foods, and traveling the globe. My major is currently undecided but I will probably pick something within the business field.

About My Writing

As a writer, I would describe myself as someone who likes to present the facts and evidence of a topic first. I like to focus on the bigger picture of a topic instead of concentrating on the details. I tend to have some trouble with putting emotions or feelings into my writing so I hope to improve that with this class. But overall, I would like to think that I’m a decent writer.

I am Josh Liang and I would describe myself as a quiet and shy person. I am often cooped up at home trying to hide from the outside world. However, I know I can’t keep this up for the rest of my life. It’s a trait that I’m not proud of, but it has been a part of me ever since elementary school. The reason being that I was bullied a lot and at a young age, I was emotionally scarred. For this reason, I never had the courage to go up to someone and introduce myself without fearing to be judged. Still, I have that fear lingering around me, but I am slowly overcoming it and I hope I’ll be able to be myself without feeling belittled.

Writing has never been something I excelled in. It’s not the length of a paper that makes me struggle, but what concerns me is the content I have to write about. Often at times, I would write excessively about things that do not relate to the topic and it seems to be my biggest weakness when it comes to writing. I like to be able to write whatever comes to my mind onto my paper without having any evaluations involved. However, when if a text is to be graded, I get nervous about what I should include in my writing and often feel stuck on what to write next.

Describe yourself

In most social situations, I am someone who prefers to listen rather than speak. I love hearing people’s opinions and ideas on different topics, and I think that it allows me to be very open-minded. When it comes to hobbies, I have a whole range of interests, so you may find me doing a numerous amount of things. For example, in high school, I sang in chorus before running off to study microbes and diseases in preparation for the Science Olympiad competition. At home, I teach myself how to code, doodle characters of my own, and type up ideas for stories that I’ll never write. During my time at Baruch, I’ll definitely be exploring more of my interests by joining different clubs while making sure that I do my best in every class.

Describe yourself as a writer

As a writer, I like to think that I write fairly well, but I’m not sure. I used to be quite confident with my writing, but I lost most of that confidence after taking a certain class back in high school. Due to how I constantly rewrite sentences over and over again, I wind up taking a significant amount of time to complete my work. I also have a tendency to worry about content and structure, which only lengthens the amount of time I take to write. Personally, I am not a fan of using outlines or writing drafts, and I would very much prefer to complete everything in one go. I do realize that this habit may be detrimental to me as time goes on, so I plan on changing the way I write papers. With this class, I’m sure that I’ll be able to regain my lost confidence and acquire new writing skills that will help me later on in the future.

My name is Damien Balchand and I live in Ozone Park, Queens. I was born in New York, but I spent most of my childhood growing up in Guyana. Typically, I am a very calm and quiet, but once you really get to know me, I am really outgoing. I am extremely excited to be spending the next four years in Baruch College and pursuing my career. My intended is Accountancy, which I know is probably the most common one there is at Baruch. I am a very family oriented person, but also love to just hang out with my friends.

English and Writing has honestly not been one of my strengths throughout my middle and high school career. When taking English in high school, I wasn’t really excited to be taking that class and didn’t really look forward to it at all. However, I have a strong feeling that it will be much different entering college. Even though my intended major is accounting, I know that both English and Writing plays a massive role in the Business field. I am entering this class as a way to start over and rewrite my own history regarding English class in school.

I would describe myself as quiet, kind, and creative. I am a pretty introverted person, I only have a few close friends but I enjoy meeting new people. I’ve always been a quiet person but I try to be friendly to whoever I meet. From a young age I have always had an active imagination and liked to think more than speak. I enjoy movies, TV, occasionally playing video games and have a hobby of drawing/sketching. I’m not quite sure what career I want to have yet, I’m not even sure about keeping my major, but I believe I will find what I want to do during my time at Baruch.

As a writer I would say I’m thorough. I’ve thought of myself as a decent writer for a while. I always try to explain everything I can think of when writing. I’ve always enjoyed writing because it’s a way to explain and expand upon ideas you may have, although it can prove to be very challenging to find the right words that express what you think. Especially on more complex topics, putting coherent thoughts and ideas can be difficult. Properly expressing ideas with words and formatting it in a proper structure is the hardest part of writing for me, but overall I think I’m pretty good at it.

Describe yourself

I am Muhammad Aziz, an immigrant who moved to New York City about 4 years ago. When asked to describe myself, I would probably say that I am a person who likes to enjoy and cherish every moment I have. Not only this, I personally feel that life is short and it shouldn’t be taken for granted at all which is why I try to live it as much as I can. I also like exploring and discovering different parts of the world and what it holds special. In addition to this, meeting new people and having small conversations about them and their lives have a personal meaning to me because I believe that sometimes its just that one conversation that can turn anyone’s bad day into a good one. Aside from this, I love sports. Even if I can not play, I like to watch and cheer on the teams I support. Sports is one of the only fora where everyone can come together and work together as a team which is a very essential characteristic that I think everyone should have. Lastly, I am always eager to improve and learn more in order to keep myself from making mistakes that I would regret later on in life.

Describe yourself as a writer

As I mentioned it before in my previous response that I am an immigrant which is why English is not my native language. As a result, I am not the best writer there is. But one thing I am pretty confident about is that my written English is better than my spoken one. Just like everyone else, I have common problems with my writing too. I try to improvise and use vocabulary that I am not sure off just to make my writing look better when I should focus on how clear the message is, not how fancy it sounds. Also, instead of keeping my ideas simple and straightforward, I tend to add information that might help my writing advance and add weight to it but in doing so, I usually face myself with the most prominent problem: running into tangents. After this happens, it takes me a while to think and find a way out of it. But not all the time am I successful in doing that. So overall, I would regard myself as an average writer that has the potential to improve as he moves forward with a little help.

About Me

I am a humble, shy, introversive individual who does not like to be in the spotlight when in large group settings. However, around people I know and am comfortable with, I speak very loud and freely as well as take a leadership position. I am honest with a very rigid mindset believing rules should always be followed, honesty is unconditional, and bad actions should have consequences. I am a hands on and visual learner, and completely lack any hand-eye coordination. I am very independent, while I enjoy spending time with friends, I don’t mind being by myself or doing things alone.

About My Writing

I very much enjoying writing so long as I can understand and relate to the topic I’m writing about. I prefer writing about information or non-fiction because I’ve realized, after being told many times to write something fictional, that I lack any and all sense of imagination. My favorite tool in writing is the Thesaurus as it expands my use of synonyms and other vocabulary. Whenever I write anything that is to be submitted, I must type out what I’m writing because I tend to be all over the place with my ideas, and I just write whatever comes in mind at the moment. With typing, I can easily add in ideas, move sentences, or temporary omit sections until a clear picture forms as to where I’m going with my writing piece.