This is pretty late, but my name is Amr Moustafa, and this is my third year at Baruch. I missed the first two weeks of the semester because I was in Egypt attending my cousins wedding. I transferred in from the University at Buffalo after my freshman year, and lost a couple of credits, so I’ll be at Baruch for an extra semester, three semesters in total. I was a computer science major at Buffalo, and now I have switched over to the finance major and economics minor here.
I was born in Alexandria, Egypt and came to the states when I was five months old. Growing up in Brooklyn in a magnet school for the arts, my childhood consisted of musicals, clarinet and chorus recitals, and soccer pick-up games at the local high school field. Unfortunately, I later moved to Staten Island. My family and I would spend our summers in Egypt with our relatives, and I used to consider it a burden sometimes when I was young to waste my summer vacation away from my friends. Some years I would choose to stay behind to spend the vacation here. But as the years passed, I started to feel homesick and resumed my travels back to Alexandria. However, I am afraid that soon I will not have time to go for more than a week once I start working a regular job.
For the past couple of years I have been switching majors, unsure of what I want to study and ultimately do for the rest of my life. I’ve decided to stick with studying finance and will most likely end up working in investment banking for the first couple of years after graduation if I don’t decide to switch career paths again. Since I have set up my classes so that I only come to campus two days a week, I have a lot of free time on my hands. I usually spend that free time writing and filming videos with my friends. But ever since I got Netflix and Amazon prime video back, all of that has come to a screeching halt. If I wake up in the morning and decide to watch one episode of The Sopranos, it’s game over. The whole day will pass by while I sit on the living room couch trying to finish season two before my parents come home from work. I have been watching so many movies and shows recently, my father often tells me that I should be studying film instead of finance. However, it would be three years too late for that kind of change. These online streaming platforms are truly the enemy of productivity. Hopefully, I’ll soon realize that Netflix is wasting all of my time and cancel my account. All in good time.
All in all, I am here studying finance but I’m not that happy about it, I am Egyptian, and I am a Netflix addict. That pretty much summarizes who I am. I look forward to the rest of the semester.
