about me

Suhail Ahmed
Eng 101 2611
Dr. Smith
9/11/07
Essay 1.1

My name is Suhail Ahmed and I’m a freshman at LaGuardia College. I am 18 years old and I recently graduated from Newtown high school. I played Junior Varsity basketball for Newtown High School Pioneers for my freshman and sophomore years and then moved on to playing Varsity basketball for my junior and senior years. I wanted to continue playing basketball in college, but unfortunately in my senior year of high school right before the varsity basketball playoffs started I suffered from a heart problem. This caused me to miss the remainder of the season and the playoffs. My heart problem came out of no where and hit me with a real big surprise. I recently had heart surgery and I’m back to normal with no problems. So now I’m slowly recovering from not playing basketball for so long. I need to get back on the grind because at the moment I’m not very good due to lack of practice and playing time.
I live in Elmhurst, Queens not to far away from LaGuardia College. I’m originally from India and came to New York 17 years ago right after I was born. My dream is to play basketball for the rest of my life, but if that doesn’t work out than I would like to pursue a career in Business Management or Business Administration. At the same time I am open to anything and everything that comes my way. I would like to transfer to Baruch College next year and get by Business degree over there. My main goal in life is to be successful at everything I do. I want to be able to buy anything I want, go anywhere I want, eat wherever I want and just be able to live a very happy life. I really enjoy playing many sports like basketball, baseball, football, handball and a couple others. When I’m not playing sports I really enjoy playing poker. I love poker and I love to win money. My friends and I have a real big group that comes out to play poker on a regular basis. We have tournament and play 30$ buy ins on the regular. In the last 2 years of playing poker I have profited of about 500$. Its great and I’m really good at it. Who knows maybe ill be on TV playing on ESPN for the world series of poker main event?
I am also interested in collecting sneakers. It’s a little hobby of mine. I’m a very big Jordan, and NIKE fan. I’ve probably been collecting Sneakers, also known as Kicks for the past 3 years. An addition to that is that I work in a sneaker store in the mall called FOOTCO. It’s a great job, I worked there in 2005 but then quit and I recently started working there again in June. I really started working again because it so close to my house and it really helps me get sneakers I want easily. Also I get discount so that’s great! I’m not really looking forward to the theme this semester because it sounds kind of boring. I would prefer a theme on sports or girls. Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen but I’m really open to anything so it doesn’t really bother me.