Hey guys what’s up? I’m Edwin 
. l’m 18, born and raised in Queens, but both of my parents are from a small town in the middle of mountains in Mexico. I’m very proud of where we’re from, and i’m big on Mexican music. Yes, i still listen to your typical teenage music (mostly J.Cole, Drake and Fabolous), but I can appreciate my father’s drunkie music or the ones that he “conquered girl’s hearts” with. Once a year I go to their hometown and enjoy a month with no tv, internet, or cellphone signal… oh the joy. I have a younger sibling that no longer lives with us, so I’m new to this idea of being spoiled, and I’m liking it. I almost forgot, I LOVE baseball. I was overweight as a young kid, and when we moved to the neighborhood i currently live in, I spent all my day at the baseball field, from 11am til dark. Thanks to that, i lost alot of weight, and it is now my biggest love <3.
As a freshman here at Baruch, my 3 biggest concerns are getting used to blackboard, learning how to manage my time better, and becoming better at baseball so that i’ll be ready for the tryouts come next year. Coming into our second month of school, i still dont feel safe with Blackboard. I feel like my professors wont get my work, or it’ll get lost in a vortex full of other students’ work and i’ll fail my classes, i just dont like it. Also, in high school all i did was come out of school and go to practice, party or hang out. I know that wont be the case in college. I realize i have to put work ahead of everything, and i say this because as i’m typing my friends are getting ready to go party without me…jerks. As for baseball, I think i missed out on the tryouts this year, so i’m willing to put in the work and be a Baruch Bearcat Baseball participant for the 2012-2013 season.
For high school i went to Robert F. Wagner, a high school nobody’s ever heard of in the 1st and 2nd floors in the middle of warehouses and other factories. On occassion we would have floodings or fires on other floors, and would get to leave school early. I really enjoyed my time there, everyone was cool with everyone, and there were no problems. My graduation class was barely 90, and it sounds corny but you could say we were one big family. Coming to Baruch,it was the total opposite. Hundreds of people walking up and down hallways, all of which i no nothing about. I must admit, it was an intimidating first couple of weeks. I even got lost for like the first 2 weeks of classes. But i realize that all this is for my good. I had to move out of my comfort zone. Not to brag or anything, but you could say i was well-known in my hs, and coming to Baruch made me realize its not all about that. I was your typical class clown, making wise comments in the back of the class and distracting others, but i now realize thats gonna change here. I know college will make me a more serious, more mature person. I realize people aren’t here to be amused, they’re here to learn. And i also realize i have to be in the same mindset. Plus, being the first in my entire family to even graduate high school, i know i can’t let my parents down. I have to be more mature, and take what im told seriously. Its time to grow up.
