Howdy I’m Nick Wait-for-it Gonzalez-san Miguel del Rio Sanchez the 1st esquire. I enjoy long walks on the beach assisting sick animals and helping old people who have fallen and can’t get up. Over the many years spending my time with the co-inhabitants of this planet I have accumulated a variety of friends and acquaintances that share my interests and helped develop me into the person you see before you. If I had to compare myself to a beast of the wild I share common traits of that of the noble lion. We’re both prideful beings driven by passion, desire and the sanctity of our pride. Just as the lion pounces upon a wild gazelle I equally take upon myself the ferocity of a lion in attacking any challenge of the human condition. I aspire to be a exotic male dancer because of it performance implications. Quick easy money accompanied by a large following….the life. My coaches often called me unorthodox in my style of doing things. On the wrestling mat I often thought of myself as a gladiator in an arena and whoever was sent out against me was another person I needed to remove from my coliseum. To me every battle was an opportunity to become a champion in my own mind. I have been called many a great thing… I have also been called a lot of other things I’m not permitted to share on a public website. Despite anyone else’s perception of me I know who I am, I am me and I love who I am, I am Nick Gonzalez.
I’m Liana, and I always find these introductions awkward. I’ve always thought that a list of interests and activities is in no way representative of a person, but hey, we might as well try, right?
First and foremost, I love music. I’ll listen to pretty much everything, honestly. My collection ranges from Gram Parsons and Johnny Cash, to Wu-Tang, to MGMT and Vampire weekend, to Michel Telo, to Sam Cooke. There will always be a special place in my heart for the late 70’s and early 80’s- specifically Bowie, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, and Bruce Springsteen. I’m also notoriously horrible with playlists, so what I’ve attached doesn’t exactly reflect my taste. It’s mainly summer music, because technically we still have a week left, and I refuse to let the weather convince me otherwise.
Aforementioned lousy playlist.
Literature is really the only thing I would call a “passion” of mine, even though I think it sounds pretty pretentious. I have a never ending love-affair with Kurt Vonnegut, but I also love Fitzgerald (specifically Tender is the Night), Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and Oscar Wilde. While I love Whitman, Lorca, and Edna St. Vincent Millay , I’m not too well-versed in the realm of poetry (bad pun, I’m sorry), so if anyone has suggestions, I’m open to everything.
I’m super into tennis, which seems like the most boring way to get whiplash to most, but I honestly love everything about it. I’m (unfortunately) a Mets fan, and get free tickets the whole season, so if anyone wants to go, (for the last, what, three games of the season?) you should hit me up!
Academically, I love government and current events, but it frustrates me to no end. While I’ll alway be extremely invested in it, I don’t know if I could subject myself to a lifetime of gridlock and political games. I hope to study abroad in South America, but usually you have to know what you’re doing to get approved, right?
If there’s one thing that could be said about me, it’s that I never know what I’m doing.
I basically just like to go wherever life takes me and enjoy the ride. I smile in response to almost everything and laugh to the point of tears with alarming frequency. I rarely say no to anything, and welcome every new opportunity.
So I guess this is me as of 10 am on September 19, 2013. See y’all in an hour.
Angela Tan
Hi, I’m Angela and apparently, I don’t sleep. I don’t know why I’m up right now at 2:00 AM doing this blog post. I’m going to feel like a zombie tomorrow. I shouldn’t complain, though, because even during the summertime I would stay up till 2 AM for no reason whatsoever. I guess I’m just a night person.
I like how quiet it is at night, when the whole house is asleep except for you. It’s also the best time to listen to music, because you can hear every last detail. Music is the most beautiful thing to me. I went to Laguardia High School, where I majored in instrumental flute music, and it has just changed me forever. I remember when I was in the 9th grade, I told my mom that if I could be anything, I would be a professional flutist in an orchestra. However, after seeing so many Juilliard concerts and getting more exposed to music, I realized how competitive the music industry is, and how you truly have to be a prodigy to make it, unless you want to end up as a “starving artist”.
So here I am at Baruch. I’ve realized that I do have other interests besides music. I’m interested in the field of business, and I want to understand how the global economy works. I like a fast-paced environment, and hope to travel and work overseas one day. I haven’t given up on the flute yet. My ideal life would be to have the best of both worlds, to work in business full time while being involved in a community orchestra during the weekend or something.
It is my dream to be able to play the Chaminade Concertino perfectly one day; it’s what I practice nowadays in my spare time in the kitchen when I’m waiting for the pot of water to boil so I can make soup. (I hate wasting time) I’m a very open-minded person, especially when it comes to music. I’m not a religious person at all, and yet I think the Chichester Psalm 23 is stunning. I really do listen to everything.
check out my stuff =) https://play.spotify.com/user/1225251093/playlist/6UGxCpsGo1d6KTBv7jtEiK
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My name’s Alexandra Lopez. Writing about myself isn’t one of my best skills but here goes. Im Colombian and extremely proud of it. I went to Brooklyn Tech HS, but I still wont rep Brooklyn: Queens all day! I can be kind of quiet when I don’t know people but that changes once I get comfortable. Ive been told I can be very sarcastic but its not purposely. Im very opinionated especially if I feel strongly about the subject. I will sit there and argue for hours. I know what I want and ill do what I have to to get where I want to be. I have varied interests and I like to try new things. My music tastes reflects me because theres a little bit of everything. Its a little random but it made sense to me.
Hey peoples! My name is Asif Kamal. I love playing soccer and football. I’m really open-minded and and accepting of any ideology, way of life, lifestyle, whatever you want to call it. I know it’s a real cliche but I feel like it’s something that a lot of people say because of social pressure and don’t necessarily mean it. That’s another thing about me you should know; when I say something, I mean it but don’t let that scare you I’m a really nice guy and I love having conversations and connecting with people. I reI really don’t know what i want to be or what I want to major in right now but I hope that with some deep soul searching I’ll be able to find out what I want to do/be. One thing I really want to do though is to travel around the world and help people along the way whether I achieve this by volunteering with the Peace Corp or by myself is still in the works. Enjoy the playlist, hopefully you’ll find some of the stuff on it really cool.
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Hello!! I am Adiba. Well, I went to Francis Lewis, I loved it there.I learned Japanese, Spanish and how to navigate through crowded hallways. This summer I travelled all over the country from Pennsylvania to Florida to Georgia and everywhere in between. I still don’t know what I want to major in but I know that, eventually, I want to work for a human rights organization like Amnesty International. I am also an obsessive lister, so I’ll just list the things I like: summer, poetry, jewelry, dogs,cats Christmas carols, polka dots, bows, sun, stars and sleep.
That’s it and here is a playlist:http://open.spotify.com/user/1245438562/playlist/1LnKWVtDYkv2nYLm6M97Pu
Idle Hands are the Devil’s Work
My name is Christopher Wassif and I’m just trying to get the most out of life. The pictures posted speak to many aspects of me, and what I do for fun, directly and indirectly. My passions include scuba diving, fishing, boating, anything centered around the ocean. While ocean adventures are my first choice, I also pursue adventures of other varieties. I am en route to a pilot’s license and am a firm believer that adventure can be found nearly anywhere. Most of the pictures taken were in NYC/ Long Island and vary from 5 minutes to 2 hours away from my home in Brooklyn. In terms of my personality, diving is a very technical sport that requires a lot of careful planning and execution; but at the same time, has a surreal, almost dreamlike quality while exploring underwater. Similarly, I am a very methodical person, that likes to plan things out, but I still dream and often feel that, compared to those around me, my head is very far in the clouds. To me, my car represents the actualization of a childhood dream, as I’ve wanted a Mustang for as long as I can remember. It also represents freedom, as all of the adventures shown in the other pictures would not have been possible without my own car. Finally, it represents responsibility and the hard work that comes with it. I worked hard to get the car, and I continue to work to pay for insurance, maintenance, gas and anything else that it requires. I am a strong believer in individuality and personal fulfillment, I try not to get stressed over the small details of life and instead just try to go with the flow. I always have many plans, (like moving to an island), but at the end of the day, I never really know where I am headed, which is exciting. I am in school for Real Estate Development, another passion of mine, to say the least… but who knows, maybe one day (after a successful development career), I’ll just become a fisherman.
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elizabeth video
Hello everyone, my name is Elizabeth and I am a dancer. I’ve been ballroom dancing since I was 6 years old. I compete nationally and internationally. I was three time Junior National Champion, and I represented the US 4 times as a junior and 2 times as an adult in England at the World Championships. I’ve also been on Dancing with the Stars (when I was 12) and America’s Got Talent (last year). I am currently placed 17th in the world in the adult category, and last year I placed 2nd at a World competition in Paris, which is very exciting for me. This blog post is mostly about dance because that is what my video pertains to. You’ll see in the video that I eat, drink, and sleep dance- and even when I’m seemingly not dancing- I’m still dancing.
But there is more to me than just my dancing. I love learning and going to school. I especially love the sciences- biology, chemistry. I’m interested in anatomy and physical therapy, as I plan to find work in that field because it closely relates to my dancing. I’m also interested in studying business management and even law. I basically want to learn about everything.
I also love my family and love spending time with them. I cook for my family all the time, to make it easier for my mom, and also to watch people enjoy my creations. I don’t particularly love to clean, but I love cleanliness and neatness so I’m also the designated housekeeper.
I did spend a lot of time creating this video, because a) I’ve never really done anything like that b) whenever I do or create something, I go all out- otherwise it’s not worth doing at all. I hope you enjoy my video!!!
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Hey! I’m Tiffany Tang, Tang like the drink. Sorry, that was really corny of me but I couldn’t help it. Sometimes I introduce myself as “Tiffany Tang, Tang like the Pu-Tang Klan” but I really meant you know the Wu-Tang Clan. As you can probably tell I am really not a funny person. I really like to be random and whimsical because the standard is just boring, right? It is really important to be spontaneous to keep things interesting because being bored is well, boring.
I don’t really know what to say about myself because well, no one really likes to talk about themselves, right? In High School I did policy debate, which sounds nerdy but it really wasn’t, promise. This gave me the opportunity to travel across the country and meet different people. It was cool because, although, we were all different we were all interconnected through this activity. Debate is like an exclusive evil cult filled with geeks and nerds who like to talk about real issues and real problems: policy, theory, government, racism, and basically every other –ism you can think of. I know it’s weird talking about our high school experiences in college, it might even be a taboo but this definitely molded me into the person I am today, the girl sitting alone. in the library. blogging. If anything it made me more prepared for what was to come here. From interacting with different social groups to getting no sleep preparing briefs and arguments, I feel ready. Ish. Maybe ready. Just kidding, not ready.
I really like clothes. I really REALLY REALLY love clothes. Okay, maybe not a love, maybe just a fine appreciation. I think I would be perfectly content if someone just left me in a room with Vogue or Harpers Bazaar. (I have a life, I SWEAR!) I am done with this really long ramble, partially, because I don’t know where I am going with this. It has been a pleasure (indirectly) talking to you and I bid you farewell! Just kidding. I attached a random video I made because kitchens are awesome.
whatsuphomies <– press me. or not. thats cool too.
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I know exactly who I am because I know that I don’t know much about myself. If you didn’t quite understand that, don’t worry, it only took me 18 years to come up with it. Every day I learn something quite new or different about myself. For example, it was only a couple of months ago that I learned that I am deathly afraid of spiders. Or that I don’t want to be a fairy princess anymore, but the medicine field is looking pretty good right now. Of course, there are things that I knew about myself from very early on. I knew in the first grade that I loved to talk, and that I am what some might call “bossy.” I love trying new things, and I invite you to try a new thing by listening to my playlist:
I am aware that I can be quite abrasive. I like what I like, and I know exactly what I don’t. I don’t find that being sly or clever with words gets me anywhere, and I am not going to lie to you if you look fat in that dress. I am a firm believer in passion: if you are going to do something, you might as well do it well. I love food, and dogs and I am convinced that cats are the devil in a fur coat. I speak very fast, and I’m not sure if that’s because I’m a New Yorker, or because I was a rapper in a previous life. I would go on further about myself, but much like how you’re probably feeling about my playlist, you wouldn’t understand.