After spending years simply studying the night before the exam and getting an A, I quickly realized the same could not be done in college. Getting home late at night every other day from work certainly didn’t help my study habits. But like everything in life, sacrifices must be made. Whether that was missing a social event or missing some hours of sleep I did it because the ends justified the means. Despite the struggles I have taken a liking for Baruch College. Although the same cannot be said about the MTA subway system. But there’s more to Baruch than just academics, coming to Baruch every day, I realized why NYC is the capital of the world. Every day is an adventure and I hope to continue this adventure with the friends at school and professional connections at work I made this semester.
7am, first alarm sounds, “wait five minutes” I tell myself. 7:05am, second alarm rings, “just ten more minutes, I still have time”. 8am, “Holy cow, I’m late!” The funny thing is that I’m not actually late. I set my alarm an hour earlier. Technically I’m late to being early. I know that doesn’t make sense, but that’s me in a nutshell, you’re not supposed to understand me. I’m different and no I’m not making a 2chainz reference.
Now, I could talk about my ethnicity but it’s not hard to see I’m from Mexico and growing up in a fairly “white” neighborhood I’ve heard just about every Mexican joke in the book. Curiously I also went to a Jewish primary school; I’m catholic by the way. “It was the closest school from our home, I didn’t even know it was Jewish” my mother laughs when we talk about it now. Although I can’t really blame her, at the time she was an immigrant, who barely spoke English and worked all day. I guess that explains why I always sang Hanukah song on Christmas; to this day I’m still catholic, just clarifying again.
And what can I say about myself: I’m a perfectionist. In the first grade I got student of the moth for September. Then came October, the second month of school, I didn’t get student of the month this time. My tiny self was confused, “I’m obviously smarter than them” I probably said to myself, it sounds a bit egocentric but I couldn’t help myself. I asked my teacher, why? She responded by saying that “we can’t always be the best, we have to give others a chance”. That was the moral of the story, but not to me. When I see the big CEO’s and the bankers I see men who were the best at their “craft” and became so successful because they were always the best. So, the first grade, that’s when I learned that we don’t need a reward or recognition to be the best. Every 100 I get on a test or that future million dollar contract I’ll sign, that will be the real proof I am “the best”.
This is the draft of a self portrait I created on adobe illustrator
I choose to do a slideshow, consisting of eight images because I wanted to give a visual representation of who I am. First and foremost I think I have been a good friend to anyone who knows me well. I am also an athlete; having played soccer, tennis, and most recently track I have developed many skills outside the classroom. Television shows are a temporary escape away from our own lives, it is a way to immerse ourselves in another character and be inspired by their actions. My four favorite shows are on the third slide. Aside from playing sports, I also enjoy watching them; anything from the English premier league to a good old game of football on Sunday nights always entertains me. Another thing I do a lot is eat, constantly; I always look for new places to eat and new foods to taste. Oddly enough, my love for food has led me to meet incredible people who I now call friends. Above all the sports, the entertainment and all the distractions is school. Studying is a regular habit I have, it doesn’t matter if I’m on the subway, if there’s something I have to study for, I will. I take my grades very seriously and I make sure nothing puts them in jeopardy. Ignorance is not an excuse for failure. My seventh picture is that of a speaker. The picture is not meant to say that I enjoy or am good at public speaking, what it says about me is that I like to speak in general. We all have a voice, one that I like to adequately use. At the end of the day when all is said and done the most important thing for me is to have fun. By fun I’m not necessarily referring to a “Social gathering”. We go through life always rushing through things and never take a chance to just stop for a second and appreciate the moment we are currently living. I like to smile, laugh, and say jokes, because it’s what makes us human, the ability to feel emotions. Ultimately what we all seek is happiness and that is the way I try to structure my life, to achieve happiness. The song I choose to go along with this song is a different version of an LMFAO song I heard one day on YouTube and I decided to put on this slideshow spontaneously because being spontaneous keep life interesting. Regardless of how I describe myself however, everyone will view me differently, which is okay. In this slideshow I described how I think others see me based on how I see myself, but it up to these “other people” to agree or disagree. After all who am I to form their opinion?
