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About Edwin Gonzalez

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Freshman Year

Wow this semester went by way too fast. I feel like I’ve barely been to school, much less learned anything, and apparently we have 2 weeks of classes left.  All of my friends who are still in high school are just starting to get papers assigned, and we’re almost done with our first taste of college.  Its sad to say i barely met people outside my circle of friends, which is not what i expected.  In fact i expected to have no friends, and be a total antisocial nerd reading over his notes in the library all day. Surprisingly i made a couple of good friends that i know i will definitely not lose contact with, and balanced it with the (disappointingly) small amount of work.

I remember my first day of school i walked in thinking i was gonna seclude myself from everyone and just try to get A’s in all my classes, which went well til about a month in.  after that i had exams, which honestly could have gone better. I just wish a larger part of grades were based on homeworks and attendance, i’d be acing every class.  After all, the homework and papers havent been as hard as i was scared into believing they were by high school teachers, but the exams… those darn exams were something else.  Grade-wise, i can say im expecting a B in most of my classes.

If i could restart the semester, i would probably study more for exams and quizzes. That was the only part of classes where i slacked, i missed at most 2 homeworks, and wasnt absent. If it hadnt been for my testing mishaps, i’d be pretty confident about a high 3point GPA.

As a student, i know i’ve definitely become more responsible since coming to Baruch, being that in high school i worked only on trying to avoid work, and skipping classes. As a person, i feel like i’ve become more open, though. I came into the school with a very close mind, feeling like i’d be odd-man-out, surrounded by every race but my own.  But i’ve grown more comfortable in the environment, and dont feel like i need to be surrounded by my kind to be happy in the school. Sadly, i’ve lost touch with most of my other friends, and only talk to one or two people who i talked to before Baruch.

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Monologue

Where to start, where to start?  Everyone starts with their good attributes, so I guess it’s just about right to start with my defects.  I’m too skinny for my height, I don’t like working out, I cant eat too much or I become overweight, over the years I’ve spent way too much on sneakers, and I pay more attention to baseball stats than to professors during lectures… now that that’s out of the way… Hey guys what’s up? How many of you waited til last night to write your own monologue…? Yea me too.   I need to change that.  College has given me more free time than high school did, and I needa learn how to use it more wisely.  Apparently the obedient son, dependable teammate and responsible worker now needs to add responsible student to the list.  I have to; I gotta make momma and poppa proud.  Plus I gotta show my friends that just because they decided college wasn’t for them, I can’t take on the challenge either.  I’m not going to end up working 9-5 in construction like half of them are doing, or play Xbox 9-5 like the other half is. Nope, not me.

Ann said I had the personality for college anyway. And for a teacher who kicked me out of her class at least a dozen times during Freshman year in high school, I take that as a compliment. She must’ve hated the fact that I talked too much, or that I always had a smart remark to throw into a class discussion, but I guess she realized three years later that it would help make friends during college.  She could’ve warned me about time management, though.  The first couple of weeks had me juggling my homework and my baseball, and lets be honest, I leaned more towards the second. Its not that I don’t care about school, I do wanna have a 3+ GPA to brag about when I go back and visit my high school. It’s just that.. Baseball is love. Even after a couple of sprained wrist, jammed fingers, line drives to the body, and a dozen stitches after taking a bat to the face, there’s nothing I’d rather do than step onto a baseball field. But enough about my relationship with baseball, you guys would much rather hear what I’m scared of, I bet.

I actually have a short list of things, and zombies and planes are mainstays. After Dawn of the Dead, not only did I develop a liking for the movies and a fear of zombies, but I also got the great gift of recurring zombie dreams, oh the joy. I also don’t like planes. I don’t mind the landing, but airplane innovators have a lot to work on when it comes to the taking off. I’m also scared of being alone. If it’s at home, I don’t mind, I actually prefer having the house to myself. But at school, that’s a different ballgame. All of elementary and junior high I walked around without much conversation throughout the day, and after high school I honestly was scared that I would make no friends here. But luckily people were friendlier than I expected, and for now at least that fear has been put off. As for dislikes, I could care less about math. No offense to you math-lovers, but when am I going to need to know how to rationalize a fraction to pay for my groceries at the supermarket? Oh and don’t get me started on cats. They just look at you with their big creepy eyes, and press their body against your leg when they walk… I dislike cats.

But I think you all agree with me when I say studying is at the top of my dislikes. Its like professors enjoy saying “There’s going to be an exam next week.” Which brings me back to the point; I need to learn how to manage my time better. And I need to learn how to ignore my phone. I keep checking to see if Paul texted back but instead my boy Angel did, and he never takes longer than a minute to respond, which just leads to more conversation, and more distractions. But lets wrap this up. How to end this? I don’t even know if I followed the guidelines. But it’s all cool, I’m Edwin. What matters is not being nervous right? And I pass when it comes to that.

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Who I am

Hey guys what’s up? I’m Edwin :D .  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.

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