Author: bianca.work

Community Service – Bianca Work

Starting in my sophomore year of High School I started volunteering at a soup kitchen called C.H.I.P.S. Every Saturday I help open up the kitchen at 8am. For about three hours, myself and other volunteers prepare meals for about two hundred guests. The meals vary from week to week depending upon what we have available. Before the guests arrive we prepare boxed foods for them to take home as well. During the preparation time we sort clothing and regular house hold appliances for the guests to leave with. Once the dining area opens at around eleven, the volunteers and I begin to serve meals. I’ve done this now for about three years, every week, every single Saturday. After being there for so long I’ve come to develop a relationship with many of the people that attend the soup kitchen. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences that I’ve ever taken part in.

Monologue – Bianca Work

I wouldn’t say I’m a nerd, or a jock, or any specific stereotype. I spend my time going to the opera, volunteering at a soup kitchen, reading literature, and doing many other fulfilling things in my spare time. They’re a jumble of things that have no relation to one another. I guess that’s how you may explain me though. It’s probably because I spent a vast majority of my life always trying to live up to the standards that were set for me. But, I’ve always been confused as to whether or not what I am doing is right for me. Always allowing myself to be manipulated into doing what someone else wants because I crave others’ approval. And consistently trying to accomplish too much. I’ve always been pressured into being best at anything I do. I mean ever since I was a young girl it’s been drilled into my head that I must always succeed. How could I not be a perfectionist? Don’t get me wrong it has its highlights, but, over and over again I’m told never to waste my time doing something that won’t benefit my career in the long run. Learning to play the guitar was worthless, teaching myself to bake was pointless, and deciding to come to Baruch was a disappointment, according to my “elders”. Having a father who owns an Executive Recruiting Company, one uncle who is a licensed CPA, and CFA, another uncle who has been a lawyers for the past 30 years, and 4 cousins that all graduated from Harvard can put a lot of pressure on a girl. Of course everyone around me expected I’d end up somewhere like Boston University or NYU, but that’s because I never really told them I wanted otherwise. It explains everything about me. It is why I start studying for an exam two weeks early, why I’m in business school instead of culinary school, and why I’ve spent every summer since I was 14 at national youth leadership forums, yea fun. In highschool, I started studying for the SAT’s in freshman year. Sophomore year was filled with numerous visits to college campuses. Junior year I was juggling being captain of the mocktrial team, debate team, and being president of the community service club. In my senior year I enrolled in an international business competition, even though I have no interest whatsoever in finance, derivatives, or learning about anything that has to do with investing. I already have my course schedule mapped out until senior year. Always competing can be really difficult, and it tends to push people away as well. I rewrote this monologue 6 times because I didn’t know what I wanted to say and I couldn’t understand why it was so difficult to decide. I think that’s why it was so challenging to complete this assignment because I never really focus on me. I had no idea what I wanted to tell you about myself, but I guess that’s because I don’t fully know who I am yet.

Who am I? – Bianca Work

Aloha Fro-mates, My name is Bianca Work. Yes, Work, like the occupation. I’m eighteen years old, and am currently living in Rockaway, Queens; which I despise. This is only because it takes two hours to get to school every single morning, and two hours to get home every single night! Seeing as I had planned to go away to college, Baruch is a difficult adjustment. I’d love to major in Finance, or Industrial and Organizational Psychology,  so that I can work in Law. BUT that doesn’t mean that I’m always a serious person. I’m extremely creative and am always baking, cooking, or doing some artistic thing on the beach, which is conveniently located a block from my house.  Whenever I am stressed or overwhelmed, I take my beloved guitar and go sit on the sand. Speaking of the beach, I usually spend my summers in Sicily. I wish that I could live there permanently because my entire family and all of my friends live there. I have the traditional HUGE Italian family. That means the three thousand cousins, huge Sunday dinners, and barely being able to hear yourself think around relatives, because they’re all so loud, is all part of the norm for me. I’m used to my surrounding always being hectic and frenzied and that’s why I fit perfectly into the city life. Everything is quick, upbeat and always in motion. I am actually extremely shy at first which is sort of hard in College. I spend a lot of my time doing Community Service. Every Saturday I volunteer at a Soup Kitchen in Park Slope. Last night I actually part took in the “Light the Night Walk” in Queens. Toodles.