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I wish I had lavish tales that I could share but I can’t think of any right now, I’m from Jamaica Queens and there isn’t much to glamorize or embellish. So I’ll share a rant about a random thought:

Don’t you hate when you’re walking and the person heading your way is not concentrating on where they’re going. You try to adjust your path so it doesn’t conflict with theirs but they end up intersecting you regardless. Then there’s an awkward standstill where you both engage in a little shuffle of the feet, a retarded dance of some sort, both of you failing to choose the right direction. It can be annoying, baffling, heck even an embarrassing experience but after that you’re on your way and it’s a thing of the past. I think this is an interesting life analogy. There will always be awkward shuffles here and there but don’t let it delay and detract you from your path. Peace!

Clipse – Footsteps

Now we can all glamorize and embellish on certain traits and ideals that we’d like to say are true about ourselves but I’ll tell it like it is, as I always do. I was born/raised in Queens and grew up a humble, rough, rugged kid. My parents, like most immigrants, came to America in search of a better lifestyle and worked hard to provide for their respective families. They instilled in me that hard work was essential to success, and that is something I will never forget. So who am I? I won’t bore you with elaborate details but I’m an ambitious young man on the cusp of greatness and I won’t settle for anything less. I love to make others laugh, life is too short to dwell on negativity, if you’re not laughing, you’re not living comrades! I consider myself a music aficionado because I don’t just listen to it as a hobby, it’s an “instrumental” (what a pun!) part of my every day life. I dare anyone to compete with my iTunes Library, it is something to be reckoned with and is nowhere near completion. My favorite artists are Bob Marley, Eminem, 2Pac and The Beatles to name a few. Now this may sound cliché, but I strive to be my own person, unique is too mundane of an adjective but it will have to suffice. From the way I dress, carry myself, and speak I automatically distance myself from the average Indian kid that infest the area in which I live. I used to have long hair and recently cut it for a fresh college experience. But enough of that, on to the next one as Jay-Z would say!

My top three concerns about freshman year at Baruch are:

1. Applying myself to the college workload because I’m a chronic procrastinator and was warned by teachers that I will “drown” under the pressure if I don’t change my lethargic ways.
2. Interacting with such a vast, dynamic student body. Coming from a small, sheltered high school community of just 600 students this will be interesting to say the least.
3. Taking responsibilities and disciplining myself because I’ve never been one to actually sit and study… who does that? I guess we will have to find out!

I think the biggest difference transitioning from high school to Baruch college as stated earlier will be interacting with a student body amassed at 17,000. I attended Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School, yea that’s a mouthful. With around 600 students occupying a relatively small building, surrounded by the same faces, everyone knew one another and it was a small tight knit community. Simple liberties such as using your phone in peace are a sigh of relief as I can actually govern my actions and myself. I’m sure my freshman year at Baruch college will allow me to mature and embrace the character of a young adult, and what better place to do so than in the heart of Manhattan!