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”.