Author Archives: SABINA MEHMOOD

Subject Line: Question Regarding Assignment

Dear Professor,

I was hoping that you would be able to help me with a quick question on this weeks assignment. For the essay you ask us incorporate a personal experience relating to our thesis, how recent does this experience have to be? I’m sorry to bother you, thank you in advance for your help and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Thanks again,
Sabina Mehmood
MTH 2207

Who am I? That’s a great question. If you know the answer to that, please, enlighten me. Truth be told, I don’t know who I am just yet, I’m a work in progress. I know what I like about myself, though, and what I don’t. I love my spontaneity. Yeah! Let’s go, right now to somewhere far! Somewhere fun! What I like least, I overthink. No, we can’t go out on a whim; I have school in the morning! Work hard, play hard. But the way I think makes me who I am, whoever that may be. I am a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a student. I am a family man for sure, without actually being a man.
I’m just a regular teenager, just me. I have irrational fears of course, who doesn’t? I try not to let them define me but, sure, they come up from time to time. I’m afraid of change, but it’s all around us. I don’t like when things are different but aren’t they always? I’m still learning to accept what I can’t change and what will change no matter what I have to say about it. Never the less, I have something to say.
Embarrassment? I just told you I’m a teenager, embarrassment defines my life. I can’t even walk straight and on stationary objects don’t even get me started! They always seem to be in the way and I bruise easily. Embarrassing.
So, I may not know exactly who I am but I know who I want to be, and for me that’s enough. For now, anyways. So I’ll just do me, whoever “me” is.

Who am I? Who are you?! If you can come up with an answer in just a few sentences I’d be amazed. Truth is, I don’t know who I am. Not yet, anyways. I know who I want to be and for now that’s enough. I don’t want to be defined, I want to be able to try new things; to reinvent myself over and over again. Isn’t that what college is for? I know that I want to be successful, but I’m still learning how I define success. Is it good grades, good friends, a good job, or is it all three? So for now all I can tell you is this; I am Sabina, I am dedicated to my family and friends, my school work, and my future, and that’s all I know for now. The rest is history in the making.

I wouldn’t say, necessarily, that I’m concerned about college but rather what comes next. Throughout high school all you would hear is that “they won’t take this in college, nobody will hold your hand, it’s real life!” But is it really? I like that nobody holds our hands, it keeps me on my toes. But it’s not exactly the real world quite yet. My top concern would have to be figuring out what I am doing here. Yes, I’m a finance major, I want a successful career, a successful life, but how? Figuring it out, what ever “it” is, is my top concern. I just don’t want to waste my time or anybody else’s for that matter. So for now I’m just going to roll with the punches and see where that gets me.

My college career is already a different world than my high school career. In high school I was concerned about my resume, joining every club and studying all the time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still focused on these things but in college it’s for myself, not for anybody else. I have found myself taking part in things that I truly care about, and not just because they look great on a sheet of paper. I joined an organization, for example, called AIESEC dedicated to a global perspective. In little over one month college has broadened my horizons further than my four years in high school ever did. As far as college changing me, we’ll just have to wait and see!