About Me:
Born in Utah. Stayed in Utah. Still in Utah. I'm an average resident of Magna, Utah that happens to go to the Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science! I get by in school and try to get things done. I'm not an overachiever, I'm pretty laid back, although sometimes I get too carried away by effort of passion at times. I treat school like work and made it work in my life as a routine, as my schedule at school goes from 7AM-5PM until i get home. Outside of school, I work hard at home and help family while making money at the same time. I've worked hard enough to be proud to say that I resourcefully saved enough to be able to pay for my whole course through Community College at SLCC. On regards to future plans: I plan to start slow with Community College and take my time figuring out my career path carefully (I'll explain into greater detail in my college readiness section). Other than that, my character is: honest, sincere, genuine, laid back, and friendly. I'm also very thankful for AMES for making it's environment so open that people are allowed to be themselves without harsh backlash from social misunderstandings or ignorance. It's thanks to this environment of open minds that I was able to communicate effectively enough to make myself as socially active as I can be with my peers and it honestly made me who I am today.
Quote: "Humans are born to Live. From the moment you are thrown into the universe: you breathe, eat, drink, procreate, it is what we do as living organisms. But why would one procreate let alone find a reason to stay alive, without something to stay alive for. Humans don't stay alive for the sake of survival, but rather for the sake of things that bring purpose: Religion, art, music, love, in an endless oblivion of darkness and space, humans are the only species primitive enough to care. You must do what you love. The best things in life will always end in conflict."
Reflection: This has been something that's been troubling me in school, let alone my whole life, and that is finding a purpose and the will to live. I'm not talking about "a will to live" in circumstances where it would be right to take my own life, but in a circumstance where I can decide to myself what's the general worth of life in this American society and the worth of my own life. Although I have not found that exact purpose, it shows that others like myself, as a human beings, won't go on merely for the primitive and selfish aspects of life, as that's what makes us human: This is the struggle of finding purpose, I struggled trying to find myself and I still am even today. Fears of the future and how temporary everything in life is except time itself, fear of losing your own hopes and dreams, fear of losing a self of worth, fear of losing others or their care: this is a result of caring in this world, a human example of caring. You have to care so much to not only to get yourself through this world, but care about the others around you too. Because this is a stuggle we all face as humans, the most effective way of communicating ourselves is through our expressions and work, our gestures towards others and how much we care about them. Fields in: Art, Science, Math, Engineering, are all examples of finding a worth in a field and sharing that with the rest of the world. You must find what you enjoy doing in this lifetime, this world, and you must do it without being fearful of the conflicts that will come with human interactions or self of being.
AMES MEMORY:
In 10th Grade English class, I was a shy little boyo. I thought looking for some sort of affection from my class peers would give me a social satisfaction. I had this mentality until we approached the mock trial part of the class. I sat around some really cool students and I felt that I could impress them by ironing out issues in a mock trail from the testimonies of Arthur Mobo and those siding along with him. At first, I got really into it and convinced the others in my group that I can break the case. Turns out that I found out some loopholes in the testimonies of Mobo and friends. But, when I tried confronting the suspect of these loopholes, I was met with a purposeful lack of answers. Arthur Mobo took the approach of purposely avoiding questions and I was left defeated. I thought that I had everything down in the case, but I was shut down by the execution from my lack of confidence and conflict of the whole matter. Afterwards, I tried to get everything that I can and came back to my group empty handed. I came back and not only disappointed my group, but myself. I was left in conflict for the rest of the period and lunch afterwards. I became distraught with myself and broke down while staying in the class. This taught me not only rejection, but also how things don't plan out how you'd want them to be. Life isn't working for you, you're working for it and it really stuck and changed me since then.