FRO 14 DTI

People often have the impression that if you are an Asian American, you have to grow up to be a lawyer or a doctor, and anything else was out of the question because other jobs don’t promise high salaries. Come on, face it, if you are a doctor or a lawyer, then that profession had been forced upon you. I mean, what kind of Asian likes History and Science? Gross! Asian Americans are typically represented as intelligent overachievers with higher grade point averages and Math grades. Can you imagine the parents of these poor children? Well, I can picture my mom running after me with my report card in one hand and a clothes hanger in the other, yelling with her Chinese accent, “What is this B+?! Huh? I understand if it’s for English, but Math?” Actually, I don’t even need to imagine this situation because at one point, this “imagination” was reality for me, but that story can be told some other day. Despite being an Asian American, I wasn’t really pressured with too many expectations from my parents. The only hopes my mom puts emphasis on are that I get into a good high school and a good college so she could show off in front of her friends. Yeah, you read that right, she’s using me! Boy, you should’ve seen the look on her face when she was able to tell her friends that I got into Brooklyn Tech, while her friends told her about their children’s acceptances into other specialized high schools, such as Bronx Science and Stuyvesant. I really got on her nerves, though, when I didn’t get into Harvard or NYU. Besides excelling in my education, she also really wanted me to be able to speak Chinese and English, not necessarily fluently, but well enough so that I could communicate with others and find a good job—and no, I’m not going to be a doctor or a lawyer. Boy, did I let her down, by choosing Baruch College and going into the accounting major. But I will continue to work hard and make myself proud, and hopefully, make my mom proud too.

Source: http://www.8asians.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nerd.jpg

I chose this picture because I see myself as a math nerd. I love math, and plan on majoring in something math related.