All About Me

    I've never been one to stay in one place, or stuck to one thing, and now the diversity of my life experiences is becoming the "X" factor I need to start my writing career: perspective.

    My 21 years on this planet have been spent on extracurriculars very different, and throughout all of these experiences I've seen my own identity change quite a bit over the years.

    Starting out as an Irish-Catholic private schoolboy in San Francisco, I spent the first 9 years of my education at a religious school that was extremely conservative. 

    I was a total stereotype (and in many ways still am) as a white private school kid but going into my first of 4 years at an underprivileged, overpopulated high school changed all that. 

    Looking back on my early high school days, I slowly realized how completely shielded from the real world, while many of my peers had already experienced the realities of life in the underbelly of San Francisco.

    I always had to hide my shock when my young classmates recounted tales of drugs, gangs, sex, and shootings. 

    It was also here that I became known as the "designated white guy" of my friends. There were actually plenty of white people that came from my background and went to this same high school, but I couldn't stand to hold on to old ways, instead opting for new friends and new experiences, embracing my new high school for what it was. 

    These new experiences came in bunches, and instead of keeping to myself I played football, wrestling, and tennis as well as played saxophone in the band all 4 years. 

    More elite schools encourage their students to specialize in only a few things, meaning that if I had gone somewhere else I wouldn't have been able to do as much there.

    Landing at SJSU as a Business-Marketing major originally, it helped with the adjustment because I had already experienced so much in my life.

    It also meant that I had gained enough wisdom to know when something wasn't working, and so in the middle of a pandemic I decided to switch from Marketing to a Journalism major.

    One of the most valuable things I have learned in my life is take as much knowledge from your past experiences as possible, and try to apply them to your new goals in life. 

    Now I am trying to take the knowledge I learned as a Marketing major and apply it to a new sports media brand (called goatednbanews.com) trying to build a following for myself before I graduate college.

    I am excited to learn more about writing and the media industry, as that is the beast I am trying to tame. Only time will tell if it works out.