Hello! My name is Kevin. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Even though I have spent my entire life in New York, I have been to many places and seen many things. I am set on having Finance as my major, but that is subject to change.
I am shaped by events in my day-to-day life. In New York, everyone seems to have a place they want to go and a dream they want to achieve. Anywhere I go, there are always people who are motivated and that in turn motivates and changes me. Because I am only 18 years old, I haven’t had any specific moment that defined me. The changes and experiences that I have been through were not entirely world-changing. They were small and gradual. However, they still shaped me and changed who I was.
As a college student, I don’t have extremely high expectations. As much as I would love to receive A’s on all my exams or have everything go my way, I expect some failure and some success in school. There will be bad days and there will be good days. I hope to meet new people and learn new things, but I also hope to manage my time efficiently and remain happy and healthy. The biggest concern that I have so far is with getting enough sleep. I plan to make changes to my schedule and lifestyle to accommodate my sleep schedule and to get enough rest.
Thank you for reading!
I like that you pointed out how your day to day life in New York molds you into who you are and who you’ve become, and I completely get that! Everyone seems like they have so many dreams and goals and sometimes it either makes you motivated, or it even makes you feel like you’re behind. I also share your concerns, but hopefully we all find a way to adjust!
I hope you are able to sleep better. I do not know how you could survive when sleep deprived when I get about 7+ hours a sleep a day and still feel tired most of the time. It is nice to see that you already seem to have looked far into the future in terms of your grades and how college will be like. I still have been trying to just survive though this semester but, we both come from Brooklyn Tech. So, I think we will do fine. :3
Coming out of Brooklyn myself, it’s frankly amazing to see the similarities in lifestyles within the area and always finding people who put themselves on a mission to make their dreams transform into reality. I share your pain in the part about expectations. We can all have really high expectations, but, like always, we’ll have our good days, while others may not be as great. But, with determination, we can all rise up and meet our expectations – I wish the same for you as well.
I resonate with your paragraph on feeling as if you haven’t done much or haven’t had a life changing event yet. Sometimes, when I look at how much other people have done, yeah I get motivated but I also get discouraged as I compare myself to them. Why haven’t I done anything? Is it just the way I am? Am I lazy?