Hi! My name is Sally Liang. I identify myself as a young adult who tries to make the best out of everyday. In my life, the most important role that I play is being a college student. As a college student, my first priority is schoolwork. When I first entered college, I tried to get rid of my procrastinating habits and finish my work ahead of time, but it didn’t exactly happen during the first few weeks of school. It is getting better though.
What I like best about myself is when I start something; I always try to finish it. Sometimes, I would run out of patience and be on the verge of giving up, but in the end, I will always go back to it. One example of this would be when I first learned how to play sudoku. On my first attempt, I tried plugging in numbers for about an hour and still I couldn’t solve it. My eyes were getting blurry from looking at the numbers and I was just running out of patience. At that time, I did give up on it, and left it alone for a while, but my mind kept going back to that one game. Finally, I just restarted the soduku all over again. It took me even longer, but in the end, I got it. I guess I integrated this habit of mine into my daily life too.
My personal motto is you should always finish one thing before you start doing something else. This is only because I don’t like multitasking. When I multitask, I can never finish both things. I find that when I multitask, it actually takes longer to complete them, as oppose to doing one thing at a time. One classic example would be doing homework while watching TV. The homework may take me only an hour to complete, but when I watch TV, it takes three or four hours. In addition to this, I was rushing through it, so the quality is not as good.
The thing I enjoy most is traveling, but sadly, I do not do this often enough. Traveling makes me happy because I like the anticipation of what I will see when I get to a new place. I like to get out of the city and see something other than tall skyscrapers and feeling the rush of New York City. I like it when I am at a place where everything just slows down. A couple of years ago, I went to Texas and I found this in Texas. The streets were practically empty, except for cars. You can maybe see three people on the street at one time. During the evening, I went to the nearby lake and there were a lot of people just strolling and relaxing near the banks of the water. It was just so different from New York because the atmosphere was so much lighter and stress free.
A very distinct memory of when I felt empowered was on the ride to take the specialized high school exam. On that day, my uncle was driving my cousin and me to take the test. At that time, I think my uncle was actually more nervous about the test than we were because he kept asking us what we need help on. He even brought along a practice book to show us how to do a certain math problem. As we were getting off from the car, he encouraged us to do our best and kept telling us that we can get into one of the seven specialized high school. After the test, I got a major headache, but a few months later, I found out that I got into Tech. Then, four years later, I am here at Baruch.
When I first got into Baruch, I was intimated by the school itself. It might sound surprising, considering I came from a big high school, Brooklyn tech with its nine and plus floors, but I guess it just seem bigger because I was unfamiliar with everything. At first, I felt that it was a lot to take in, but gradually, I assimilated into the school. I finally got used to my schedule; know where I am supposed to be at and that feeling of being “lost” went away. My biggest challenge right now is managing my time. I feel that this is the time where work starts piling up and I just need to get rid of procrastinating habit. If I can manage to do that, then I think I will do fine in college.
