Kevin Deane – Baruch Reflections

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I chose this image because it’s wild. Everywhere. Chaos. A blur. That’s exactly how my first few months at Baruch has gone

Not that it has been bad. Actually, in my eyes that’s a good thing. It means I’ve been busy living my life. Every moment has been used and every second had a purpose. I didn’t have time to be lazy or distracted or anything BUT focused. These past few months have forced me to be exactly what I wanted to be, and that’s determined.

I’ve always been a fan of street art. Murals, graffiti, you name it I like it. What I love so much about graffiti is that it’s raw, but controlled at the same time. With the rough edges comes character. Discipline. It can only go so far. It spreads itself to its own capacity, and when it can’t go any farther it stops. And through the picture’s journey of “finding itself”, it obtains color in the process. It earns its street stripes that give it its niche. Its edge. You won’t fine any two pieces of graffiti the same. They’re like fingerprints. Or better yet, urban snowflakes.

At the end of my time at Baruch, I want to be that much closer to knowing exactly how far I can go. What standards I can push and what challenges I can conquer. It’s more than just book smarts. I want my experience at Baruch to be a total life experience that I can look back on years from now and say that I learned a lot during that time. And so far that has happened. In just 3 months I feel that I’ve become so much more goal oriented than I was in the past. I understand now that there’s no looking back to high school, and now I really have to be independent. For good.

But it’s cool. I’m ready.