Greetings everyone. My name, as it appears on official records, is Ravendra Persaud, but don't feel bound to address me so formally. Many call me Ravi or simply Rav. Anyway, as you may know by now, I am of Guyanese descent. For those who do not know, Guyana is a small country in the northernmost part of South America. It is also the only country in South America which has English as its national language and is home to Kaiteur Falls, the highest single drop waterfall in the world. I live in the Bronx, an apparently underrepresented borough in the honors program. I have lived there ever since I came to America when I was two and a half years old. I went to large, public elementary and middle schools within walking distance of my home. In these early years I did have some interesting experiences, including playing the trumpet at Carnegie Hall and going to the Lion King, my first Broadway show. I eventually graduated middle school as valedictorian and played a duet with my music teacher at the ceremony. I went on to Stuyvesant High School and greatly enjoyed my four years there. I made friends there which I keep to this day, some I have known even since middle school actually. I developed interests in basketball and poetry, which I maintain to this day. I, however, was not involved in the Stuyvesant community. I vowed to rectify that in my college years. To this point, I have become secretary for the Society for Human Resource Management, vice president of the American Marketing association, and am a recent inductee in Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society that I am very involved in. I have also wrote a poem for Encounters, Baruch's literary magazine, continuing my poetic ambitions. I have become a captain for a Relay for Life Team and hope to help raise a great deal of money for the American Heart Association. At the moment I am working on an application to study abroad in China this summer. There is a lot left to do for me, but I have thrown myself into environment. I plan to pursue marketing as my career, and I suppose the rest of my story if left to fate and ambition.