My friends Sophia and Sasana Han and I dressed up for a Sprit day at our High-School.
I chose this picture to put on my blog, because this is a part of me that doesn’t come out very often. For a better part of my life i was raised to be this perfect son, perfect composure, smart, obedient, and I would be reprimanded if I did other wise. I was kept from a lot of things and constantly judged and modeled by my family, so when my parents divorced I was physically and mentally set free. I’ve always been withdrawn and reserved but always longed to be someone who had the courage, personality and charm to be who I am, and not give a shit about what others think of me.
Hi! My name is Ricardo Rivadeneira. At first glace you probably wont care too much about me, I’m a bit reserved and not really the life of the party, but I can assure you! I’m pretty dam interesting. So pay attention. I was born in Ecuador and legally came here when I was around 4 years old. I never absorbed too much of the Hispanic culture so I’m pretty Americanized in almost every sense, which, I guess is how I identify myself. I mean I don’t identify myself as any specific thing or with any specific quality but more of an array of different aspects that come together to form Ricardo.
I assume plenty of roles in my everyday life: I am a son, a brother, a lover, a peacemaker, ex-gymnast, a future lawyer, and at one point in life a home-wrecker. These roles don’t exactly make up whom I am but they paint a very decent picture. I feel that I have changed so much through out my life that it’s pretty difficult to get a super clear picture of who I am.
I went through a lot of phases in life, In a small recap of my high-school career I probably went through a few different social scenarios, I mean I don’t want to make it seem like I believe in labeling or anything but for the sake of argument: I think I went from dressing and acting like a “want to be” rapper to like a hardcore rocker, emo dude. I guess really took the whole teen searching for an identity thing very seriously and it all leads to the person standing in front of you.
The person standing in front of you also already managed to make a total fool out of himself during his first few weeks of college. The revolving door entrance, to the vertical campus, you know the one in front of the library, yea they spin pretty darn fast for some reason whenever I have to go through them. So, within the first week of being at Baruch college I someone how manage to get my book bag strap stuck in the revolving doors, backing up like 20 people and embarrassing myself. I had to push the doors back, so I could get my strap loose and then continue on forwards, I just ran jetted out, never looked back. Other than that, classes are going great and I’ve met really awesome people who I hope to remain friends with.
Coming to Baruch College was a decision that I made because of financial reasons and of course because Baruch is a really good College but one of the factors that also led me to choosing Baruch College is my overall happiness. I wanted to stay close to the people that I loved and cared about, they make me very happy each and every day and are apart of who I am and who I want to be. My mother and sister are the best part of my life and the only people in the world that I would give up anything for.
Who I want to be isn’t very difficult to understand, like the rest of me. Right now I am very focused and determined in continuing a business career at Baruch College and eventually taking that career into law, and thus becoming a corporate lawyer.
