I am Jocelyn Ramirez, a small town girl looking for adventure and new opportunities in a big city that is located hundreds of miles away from home. I am also a lover of classic rock and nature and every summer I am a farm-worker, but most of all I am
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Why do I do what I do? Everything that I’ve done thus far has been things that are expected of me and by complying to those expectations have been an acquired trait mainly to give back for all that I’ve taken in life. I live an average life, doing al
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October 4, 2002, 10:47 am: the moment that changed the course of my life and my perception of the world. For twelve years, I was the youngest child in my family. I never took responsibility for anything. “Because she’s the youngest…” was the excuse m
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Jerome Ma503594623Discussion 1MJust listen to the air:The tranquillity, the isolation, the sound of silence.I listen to the air every single time I go cycling.Every single time I spend at least four hours on my carbon saddle,Every single time I navig
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I am a 19-year-old Mexican American who believes that everyone should enjoy life to the fullest. To live my life to the fullest, I keep in close contact with the people I care about because material possessions will not matter at the end of my life.
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Posted by Wendy Trinh on October 16, 2009 at 6:28pm
There are many reasons for why I do the things I do, but my family, above all influences who I am and what I do. Since I was born, I have lived in a low income household with my single mother and two younger brothers. Being the eldest and the only on
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Bisrat ZerehaimanotArt & ArchitectureMy name is Bisrat Zerehaimanot and I hail from Eritrea, a small country located at the horn of Africa. My parents were born and raised in Eritrea in the midst of a bloody war between its southern neighbor Ethiopia
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Posted by Heejin Kim on October 16, 2009 at 5:35pm
It would be a lie if I said I fully enjoyed pulling an all-nighter at my high school. But it turned out to be not as bad as I thought.As a yearbook editor at my high school, I was finishing up the yearbook with my teacher on a Friday after school. Th
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This is who I am. I am girl who was raised to obey my parents and become successful so that when I get older, I can help them and take care of them the way they took care of me. I do what I do because it was how I was raised to be. It is not because
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Posted by Brian Park on October 16, 2009 at 4:45pm
Because I don't know what else to do.There is so much to change, but very little power to do so. It has left me jaded and pessimistic. A little doubtful, cynical and bitter. Perhaps, detached and indifferent. They say to be constructive, to get out t
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Tyler HeinemanArt and Arch10/16/09Who Am I?My name is Tyler Heineman. I am an 18-year-old student who is currently a freshman at UCLA. I also happen to play on the baseball team. I play baseball all the time and it is my passion. When I am not studyi
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Posted by Remi Spiro on October 16, 2009 at 4:40pm
WDYDWYD?I’ve been sitting in this lounge thinking about this question for a while now and the only answer I can give myself is that, “I do what I do because its just what I do. If I do what I don’t do then I would be bad at what I do!” Therefore, the
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I am a musician. I can’t read music and I probably couldn’t tell you what chords are being played in a song just by listening to it, but nonetheless, I am a musician.I started playing acoustic guitar when I was 15. No one in my family had ever picked
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I do what I do because of the values I hold. How I was raised and what I believe in makes me the person I am today. I do what I do because it is who I am.Everyone has their own past and the way I was raised and influenced has contributed tremendously
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Posted by Cody Regis on October 16, 2009 at 4:17pm
Cody RegisOctober 9, 2009Who I AmI am Cody Regis, an eighteen year old college freshman at UCLA. I am a brother, a son, a cousin, a friend, and everything in between. But more importantly than all of that, I am a baseball player. When I ask myself wh
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Posted by Shirley Lee on October 16, 2009 at 4:10pm
I have never thought about why I do the things I do. At first when I think about the question: why I do the things I do, I feel like for quite some time now I have been doing things as if I were a robot. Everything I do is basically planned out throu
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“Everyone dies but not every man lives” – William Wallace.I live as a hiker and what I do is…I explore places in nature and go on journeys through time and space, with nothing in my heart but desire for a place. A place that I can escape the noise of
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Working and entertaining, this is what I do as a science student and it is also what we do in our life. Every day, I do what I love to do and what I have to do to be successful. In my perspective, working is the way to achieve my dream and goal. And
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Posted by Fanny Zheng on October 16, 2009 at 3:28pm
Many people want to be different and unique but we are already all that in our own way. We try to become that we ourselves are proud of or think is right. I am someone that listens to only three people: me, myself and I. It is common in an Asian fami
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Posted by Zack Torres on October 16, 2009 at 3:10pm
WHY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO?I am an athlete. Not a runner, not a track jock, just an athlete. I don't run each day because I "like" to run, or because I enjoy the feeling, I run because desire the taste of victory. I am addicted to pain, obsessed with
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