BLOG POST NO.2 – MONOLOGUE
My name is Robert. I was born in Harlem, but have lived most of my life in the Bronx. I have also attended private school for much of my life (at a Lutheran school) where class sizes were very small in comparison. So of course in preparing for college, I was not sure how well I would integrate with the larger environment. However, I enjoy going to school in the city.
I am the youngest of three children and have two siblings—one brother and one sister. I was raised in a Baptist household and my parents are very religious, particularly my mother. I love watching sports, specifically basketball; and I’m really hoping the Knicks can finally get their stuff together this season, but at the same time, I won’t hold my breath for them.
I abhor waking up early in the morning (around 5:30) and having to take what I consider to be a long commute to the city just to go to class (which is about 1 ½ hours on a good day). With college, there always seems one paper after another or an important exam to take. I was never much of a studier, but now I find myself having to apply much more attention to studying in order to keep up. Fortunately though, we classes only from Mons-Thurs and thus have three-day weekends to prepare ourselves for following week.
Lastly, I think that the biggest pressure that I face right now probably is finishing college and earning a degree. This is because all my immediate family members have gone to college but unfortunately withered and never finished, or rather never earned a degree. The farthest one of them being my brother, who completed about three years but then fell off. So of course, there’s a lot of pressure and expectation there for me to succeed.
