Author Archives: leon.vatmakhter

my experience at baruch has lived up to my expectations for the most part. everyone is nice and helpful, the professors are very knowledgeable and the work load isnt too bad. but i think preparing for the finals will not be as pleasant.

i think my first semester has gone pretty well so far i only did bad on one of my midterms which i will hopefully make up for. and the classes that i thought i was going to do bad in turns out im actually not doing bad at all

if i could do this semester over, i would of studied more for the midterms and have kept up with the reading from the beginning. now i know what to do for my following semesters.

i dont think ive really changed in these couple of months. maybe ive gotten a bit more independent but the only thing that definitely is different is that im always tired. but i could of seen that one coming.

Leon Vatmakhter

Asking a person who they are is a very complex question, and so this assignment brought me great difficulty. Everyone knows who they are but the problem is putting that into words. Although the following may not be exactly who I am, I believe its close enough.

I feel that to fully understand a person you must first know his past because his history is what makes that person who they are today. So as for me I was born on July 25^th 1992 in Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. At that time my family and I were living on ocean pkwy and 18^th ave. In an apartment building in which almost everyone knew each other, all the kids played together and all of the adults sat around chatting. Such circumstances brought everyone a lot close together and so growing up in such a tight knit community brought me to become a very family oriented person. I know that I can always rely on my friends and family and they know they can rely on me. Also from this unique situation I learned that sharing really is caring, sounds corny but is actually true. Because when you’re hanging out with the same people everyday it’s nice to have everyone happy and then everyone has a good time.

The summer when I turned 6 was the first summer that my parents sent me away to summer camp. At first I was a scared of being alone the entire summer, but now I’m very grateful to my parents for all of the lessons that I learned there over the course of 11 summers. Independence was a key trait that I acquired there, as I learned to be self sufficient and learned how to take care of myself, including any problems I ran into. I learned how to make friends and how to keep them. This I find to be very important since friends, real friends, are like your second family and will always help you in your time of need. Lastly I became a pretty good athlete even won the very prestige’s Jeff Herman award for the best athlete in camp.

I think when people first look at me all they see is a skinny, average height, white kid but thank god there’s more to me than that. I’m kind and most of the time will help those who need assistance if they deserve it, because what’s the point of helping out someone if when you need their help they are nowhere to be found. I am trustworthy, always holding my promises. I feel that I have a pretty good sense of humor that I use to break tension and lighten the mood, as one of my philosophies is if everyone is laughing then everyone is happy. And who wants to be serious all the time anyway, that gets boring quickly.

One of my other philosophies that I live my life by is that you live to improve your soul. If you live your whole life and end up the same person as you started then I say you have achieved nothing. I myself don’t know exactly how I plan on improving myself but I know that when the opportunity comes, I will not waste any time. I also believe that hard work is a very important factor of life, especially in a land of opportunity such as America. If you want to make it in this world then you have to work for it, it’s not just going to jump on your lap. Even if you win the lottery there is still a lot of work involved, no one wins there first time.

So in conclusion, next time someone asks me who I am I know exactly what to say. I am Leon Vatmakhter, five foot nine, blonde hair, athletic, funny, kind and believe in hard work and improvement. Other than that you are going to have to come hang out with me.