Yello everyone! My name is Edward Mordechay and I forgot what we are supposed to do so here goes nothing. I was born in America to Jewish parents who emigrated from a small town in Azerbaijan.

I take great pride in my history and culture because I want to represent the fruits of labor of all that have come before me. I grew up speaking one language, Gorsky, and then went on to learn English at school. One thing that bothers me is that my teachers have told me my writing resembles a foreigners, which I had never realized and still can’t see; nonetheless, I have accepted it and see it as what makes me unique.

I have lived my entire life in Brooklyn and have never really gone anywhere else. I studied at Edward R. Murrow High School (if only I had a middle name with an r!) where I basically only did school related work all the way up to the last few months of my senior year. I hope that will be different at Baruch where, once I’m comfortable, I will be able to make some awesome friends and have a life outside the classroom. Last year I entered the Intel competition with a paper I wrote on hand gestures and their effects on learning new vocabulary. I never truly understood what it was to be a researcher because it is 90% reading and 10% actually doing. It takes a lot of patience and time, but even euphoria cannot begin to explain the joy in finishing a paper that took nearly two years to complete,

I am unsure what I want to pursue as a career path, but I was thinking of majoring in computer informations systems, but I would truly like to learn programming and follow a degree in computer science. Time will tell.

I am one awkward person and talking with me will be weird at first, but everyone I know lived so I think you guys could to. Honestly, I constantly question the point of college and garnering a career so I hope you guys can express to me the necessity of all of this and why it’s best. I will truly be indebted to all of you if you could help me learn something new about myself.