Monthly Archives: February 2019

Hello everyone my name is Arun and I am forty years old. I came to the US when I was eight, I was born in Kuwait, and have lived in New York City the majority of that time. I am from India and have family in New Delhi. I try to visit every two years or so and last time I went and saw a few of the famous sites in the north. The Taj Mahal is breathtaking and its hard to imagine how it was built in its time. Ajanta and Alora caves, both built by Buddhist monks are also amazing and I encourage people to visit these locations at least once in their lives. I myself wish to see the Great Pyramids someday and it’s on my “bucket” list.

After graduating high school I attended Columbia University for a year and decided that college was not for me. I was working at a restaurant at the time and loved the hospitality business. I’ve done almost all of the “front of the house” positions and worked my way up to becoming a general manager. Working in both casual restaurant as well as fine dining establishments has taught me an appreciation for the dining experience. After all, we eat meals everyday in our lives so what can a restaurant do to make it something to remember. However, after twenty three years I’ve decided its time for a change and am pursuing a degree in Statistics and Qualitative Modeling. This is my first semester at Baruch, though I have enough credits to be considered a sophomore.

A few fun facts about me, I love food, both eating and cooking, and will try anything once. My favorite sport is boxing and am also a fan of both basketball and football. Two years ago I trained to participate in a boxing tournament but unfortunately my opponent backed out at the last minute. I still practice here and there and will be getting myself back into shape this year. I’m a kid t heart and still like watching cartoons like Naruto and reading manga.

Hello, my name is Phillips Li. I’m a junior studying Computer Information Systems. I’ve lived in NYC my whole life. Native to Queens, I went to high school in Brooklyn, and currently go to college in Manhattan. Before high school, I was a very awkward and introverted person. But being a commuter drastically change my life for the better, for it forced me to develop and hone my interpersonal skills. The most difficult transition I would have to say, was going from my middle school to high school. Very few people from my middle school actually left the borough. Not only did I have very little friends to begin with in middle school, my few friends that I did have remained in Queens to attend zoned schools. This meant that I was walking into a new building, new environment, and turning a whole new leaf all by myself. It was a very lonely but eye opening experience. The first two years of high school, I made it my personal goal to become a socialite within my grade. I was successful in doing so. The time I spent learning social queues was not time wasted because these skills carried on into college. It made my life significantly easier. Not only did I become a very sociable person, I became someone good enough at the trade that people around me aspired to be just as good. But being such a sociable person is extremely exhausting. It takes a lot of energy and focus and takes away from a lot of other great parts of life and I’m now on a little break from this. Purposely being a little more introverted, I’ve been focused on developing myself further by picking my guitar up again after over a decade of having it sit in the dust. That’s pretty much how and why I spent my break.