Growing up in a Greek community, the idea of becoming successful was in everyone’s mind. The parents were telling the youth to go to school and become educated, the priests were advising the kids on how to become good people, and the coaches were not only coaching but training the youth to be strong individuals, not only on the court, but off the court as well.

Today, i have these people to thank, for i am heading in the right direction without there help now; and this is how they set it up, to raise children so that they can survive on there own. The main people who raised me to become the man i am now are my parents and my brother. There is no way i would have made it into Baruch without there constant nagging and arguing. I guess you can say i am motivation by pain, because they told me exactly what my life would be like if i did not attend  college, and it hurt.

The college experience so far is just a lot of work. I do not believe in going to college for “the experience”, but rather just to learn and move on toward my real life after school. I attend classes and try my best to do well, but i do not forget that the happy cows are the ones which produce the best meat. I guess what I am trying to say is that it is those who enjoy themselves in school are the ones who do well. But not too much partying and laughing, because just like everything in like, there is always a limit.