Hello Anna, nice to meet you! I’m excited to be a new student in your class. I’m a sophomore but at times I feel like I’m still a freshman trying to get used to college. Some of my biggest weaknesses as a student and a person are procrastination and motivation. As a kid, my parents always asked me what I wanted to do in the future. I always felt that I had to have a career to be fulfilled in life. My parents obviously didn’t do that with ill intent; they’ve always wanted the best for me and to strive to do better. But their questions made me want to move into the future faster instead of enjoying the present. Although one of my biggest weaknesses is motivation, one of my biggest motivations is to have a stable career so I can be able to take care of myself as well as my family. That motivation is what I consider my biggest strength.

As I said in the beginning, I am a sophomore but still, feel new to college. I  had most in-person classes last semester and I haven’t been on campus for that long. Last semester was an interesting experience because I felt like I could see how professors actually acted on a day-to-day basis and could see how professional they were. I realized that my professors were normal people that could be very disorganized. In comparison to my first semester, I felt like I had to communicate with my professors more often to be on the same page with them, which was ironic since I was completely online during my first semester. 

I have learned that it’s very easy to procrastinate and miss assignments especially if you have a part-time or full-time job while you’re a college student. I learned in the CUNY system to speak up and accommodate myself in different spaces. I worked retail for around a month and realized how much my managers abused their higher “positions” in comparison to people doing the work for the store. I told the managers that I would prioritize my studies over the job in a heartbeat and they continued to schedule me for days when I had classes and tried to wear me out as a new hire. Once I felt that I wasn’t paying enough attention to my classes I immediately quit because I didn’t want to let this store dominate my needs as a full-time student. CUNY’s environment isn’t the friendliest; everyone here mainly comes for classes so there’s not that much of a community here.

I’m not the biggest reader or writer anymore. I was never much of a writer but I loved reading a lot as well as listening to audiobooks. I don’t know what happened to me but out of nowhere, my attention span got so much smaller than it used to be. Now when I try to read, I read with my eyes instead of my brain. My short attention span affects me negatively because if I have to read bodies of work for class or homework I am not motivated to do it. My short attention span applies to different things, the apps I use like Instagram or Tiktok have very short videos and if the topic is really boring I can just scroll past, in a book or a story I have to analyze more of each chapter in order to understand the whole plot.

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