Monday, February 16, 2009

botheration of time!!!!!

i think its safe to assume that everyone shares a similar notion; time is something we never could get enough of. especially for those procrastinators who defer action until an opportunity is lost. as a full time student, part time employee and an appetite for fitness and working out at the gym, i constantly find myself lagging behind, battling for time as 168 hours a week, to me, is inadequate. as a potential solution, this is my first semester in college where i fabricated a schedule where i attend college 5 days a week, as oppose to 2, spreading out my classes as well as the area of concentration (1 class/2 class a day). yea, going to school 2 times a week sounds utopia, and enables more personal time, but it is really mind drenching and slowly but surely, deteriorating. as convenient as 1 class a day may seem now, time still remains an obstacle (i.e. look at the time this blog was submitted- 15 mins till deadline). time management has always been a huge issue and i wont neglect to mention how poor of a manager i am in that department.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

conglomerating life

where do i begin?... my name is Nader but all my life friends called me Nate. I turned 21 last month and have yet to encounter this facade everyone talks about when turning 21; its overrated! I was born and raised in the U.S. but my parents are Egyptian. I don't speak Arabic fluently nor have i been to Egypt for a couple of years now. I am currently a shift manager/supervisor at Jamba Juice Company at the store on Union Square; I've been there for almost 3 years. This is my 5th semester in Baruch. I'm a transfer student coming from the College of Staten Island. I transferred because Baruch possesses the business environment which is my area of concentration (Accounting). Actually, coming out of High School, Baruch was my first choice on my college application, but they denied me due to poor academic performance. I would say it was then when i developed this tenacious attitude and began to take my life/career more strenuous. So i attended College of Staten Island for a year and received nothing below an A for all the classes i was present in and pretty much gave Baruch no reason to deny me again. So i re-applied and here i am.