I am Jeremiah Rodriguez. I am 18 years old and the unplanned product of my parents random November day back in 2003. Fast forward 9 months later and on July 21st, 2004 I was born. Growing up in an NYCHA apartment sports have always been in my life, cooperation however took me a while to understand. I used to be the biggest sore loser back in the day about absolutely everything. And that would lead my mouth into getting me in some type of trouble quite often. But eventually I realized that getting mad about everything was not helping me in anyway and in actuality a lot of the stuff that I would let bother me is not and never was that deep, so at some point I just grew up a little bit and stopped. I started to learn how to just enjoy things for what they are. So now I often attempt to try new things whenever I can hoping that this new experience may be fun. I tend to avoid things when I find them boring. This is especially true for school. I am horrible at writing poetry because I usually do not give what I am writing any second thought just to get it over with. I enjoy math though, I like straight forward things so the open endedness of history and english school work has always plagued me. Especially when there are a bunch of other more fun things around me to do in class. Like socializing, I enjoy starting and having conversations with people around me even if I do not fully know them yet. My seat got moved around a lot in my english classes throughout my career as a student. I have lived in Brooklyn for my entire life and enjoy living in the city. I could not imagine myself living in a rural area. I like to try things at least once. Somethings I have tried that I enjoy are off of the top of my head are playing football, playing steelpan, watching and performing stand up comedy, playing volleyball, riceballs, skateboarding, The Outsiders by  S.E Hinton, dancing horribly, having cats, walking aimlessly, washing dishes, and the movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once”. A couple things I can say I do not enjoy are poetry, brusselsporuts, riding in cars, running with no destination, country music, 42nd street, wearing converse sneakers, taking pick up sports too seriously, my aunt’s cooking, walking in crutches, doing laundry, and having a 4 hour gap between classes, and the uncomfortability of writing about myself. I hope that this was at least somewhat informational about me as a person. 

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