FRO 14 DTI

Throughout my entire life I have been living up to everyone’s expectations,more specifically my mom’s expectations. I grew up in a very loving but serious household. I was allowed to have fun and mess around at home but for free time, it was usually spent at after school programs, homework groups, Chinese classes, and prep school. My upbringing was the standard Chinese way, go to school, study, do homework, study some more and then go to sleep. Even the extracurricular activities were controlled by my parents, I was forced into every single sport possible: Basketball, Tennis, Soccer, Baseball, Swimming, etc. Nothing was in my control and everything that I did served a greater purpose. I followed my brother into the middle school Christa Mcauliffe and went on to being in the specialized high school Stuyvesant. After I got into Stuyvesant the nagging stopped temporarily and it was then that i realized that school bored me and that I didn’t like the environment there. Everyone was studying for tests on things they don’t care about and they were stressed about studying and homework. Instead of taking the good student route, I went out and made friends rather than studying and hung out with people. This made me feel much more happier at school and less stressed. Of course I kept up with my grades but they didn’t mean as much to me at all. For me going to college was the least of my worries, I took the sat and got relatively high and was expecting everything to come to me as it did in the past. I was wrong, I messed up in more ways than one and ended up in Baruch. Coming into Baruch, I thought it would have been a total nightmare but surprisingly it wasn’t. I got to meet so many new people that I would have never meet if I had gone somewhere else. Coming to Baruch also taught me that I had to take school much more seriously but that everyone should have a two sides to them. One side is having fun and goofing off but the other side is their serious side, the side that professionals want to see and how you want others to see you. I learned that I have to take responsibilities into my own hands and that I had to take my life in my own hands. I cannot let others tell me what to do but do what I want to do. What I want to do, I do not know yet but it’s alright because I’m fine with that.

This is a picture of a troll which is basically my personality.