My name is Julian Villanueva. I always wanted to study a career related to businesses or finance. BMCC is giving me the chance to do that. Even though, this is my second semester, the classes that I take are helping me a lot. Especially the English classes.
Since English is not my first language, I really have to improve it in order to have access to a white collar job, which is my dream. Education is the only window that I have to get there. I know, nowadays market still weak and it is not easy to be hire at one of those big corporations like Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, Citibank or Morgan Stanley. Obviously, I have to prepare my self very hard. Through my journey in the United States, I've have learned that nothing in life is impossible. It just take time and determination to get your goals. As somebody said "never give up your dreams and fantasies". Even though, you do not see results right away.
Essay in class/ JULIAN VILLANUEVA This is the paper I’m submitting to be graded for my final portfolio. I really consider that this is one of the best papers I’ve written during the course. At the same time, as immigrant, it shows significant details about my journey and the way I see my new life in this wonderful country. I’m aware that I still have to work very hard in order to improve my English skills.
CRITICISM PAPER/ JULIAN VILLANUEVA
Posted at Sep 10/2004 12:06 PM:
Ian Dennis: Hey, having english be my first language, i have no idea how hard it is to learn it after another. But it seems like you have done an excellente job thus far. Hope your soon able to get the right skills for a great job.
Posted at Sep 18/2004 08:03 AM:
Werner Macedo:hei Julian i am finance guy too, believe it's not impossible to work for those companies. I have a friend who just got hired my Morgan Stanley, he is making lots of money, and i hope we will to someday.
{personal Narrative} September 14 2004
THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS ARE NOT LEARN IN SCHOOL
This is a topic that really brought my attention. Real life is very difficult. In most of the cases, it takes a lot of pain and suffers to learn the lesson. For instance, I remember when I started to work, as a dishwasher is a restaurant when I just got here to this country. Back then I was trying to make some money to pay my expenses. Of course, I didn’t speak any English at all.
It’s funny but I’ve never heard in any of my classes how hard was the real world. I never heard any professor at my High School to talk about the life of the thousands of immigrants that crossed the border with the hope for a better life. Suddenly, I was one of them. I could not believe that none of my classes explain how to survive in the United States as an immigrant. I knew how to calculate the slope, or how to solve an equation of second degree. I also knew the countries and capitals of the entire world. I even knew the day the Red Army of Russia defeat Hitler and the day the amazing Soviet Union Failed. But no body ever told me how to deal with discrimination, either I wasn’t told that I had to work six days a week, 12 hours a day for two hundred twenty dollars a week, or even worse the high price that we have to pay in order to get a green card (if we get it). It’s very sad and depresses to know that they don’t teach you that at school. Until now I still don’t understand why schools all over the world do not tell you the way life is on the streets. Certainly, THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS ARE NOT LEARN IN THE CLASSROOMS.
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