57. Describe a personal habit that defines you as a person.
During the beginning of the semester, one of my dorm neighbors came into my room and was shocked at how neat and tidy it was ... well my side anyways. She asked me "How do you manage to keep your room so neat all the time?" I answered, "I can't study in a messy area." Shocked by this answer she said, "My mom would love to have you as her daughter," walked off, and left my apparently tidy room.
My friends think that I'm the neat one and someone even said that among the two of my closest friends I am the "hard working one, the intelligent one" (Jyotika). I doubt I'm the intelligent one as we all have things that we're good at, but I can say that I'm the more hardworking one from the two of them. Not trying to sound egoistic here. But honestly, the only way I can be "the hardworking one" is if I'm living in a neat and tidy environment. Yes being a teenager, I am messy at times. But when it comes down to sitting and studying, I will spend more time cleaning up than studying if I had to.
On thursday night, I came back from the first of the fall concerts at around 8:30 pm. I saw that my room wasn't tidy enough and spent around half an hour cleaning and stayed awake till midnight finishing my synthesis oral presentation outline. Only if I had just started working the minute I had reached dorms, I would have gotten an extra half an hours sleep and would not have been as cranky. But honestly, though this may sound weird, I don't regret that half an hour of "OCD cleaning attacks," as my roommate calls it. I wouldn't have been focused and I would have felt disgusting sitting in a "pig's stye" (mom) and working on a major assignment.
I feel like I am a much more logical person than creative. I need my things to be orderly and disciplined. I guess my parents had always taught me to keep my room and surroundings clean. Even though there are workers helping us out at my house, back in Nepal, my parents still make me clean my room on my own and makes me make my bed as well. Though I procrastinate cleaning at times, I know that it will eventually have to be done. Similar to Ms. E feeling giddy and happy inside after eating a bowl of ice cream on stage during assemblies, I feel the same way after sitting in a nice clean room and focusing on my work.
Though strange to many, this habit defines me as the hardworker that I strive to be.
During the beginning of the semester, one of my dorm neighbors came into my room and was shocked at how neat and tidy it was ... well my side anyways. She asked me "How do you manage to keep your room so neat all the time?" I answered, "I can't study in a messy area." Shocked by this answer she said, "My mom would love to have you as her daughter," walked off, and left my apparently tidy room.
My friends think that I'm the neat one and someone even said that among the two of my closest friends I am the "hard working one, the intelligent one" (Jyotika). I doubt I'm the intelligent one as we all have things that we're good at, but I can say that I'm the more hardworking one from the two of them. Not trying to sound egoistic here. But honestly, the only way I can be "the hardworking one" is if I'm living in a neat and tidy environment. Yes being a teenager, I am messy at times. But when it comes down to sitting and studying, I will spend more time cleaning up than studying if I had to.
On thursday night, I came back from the first of the fall concerts at around 8:30 pm. I saw that my room wasn't tidy enough and spent around half an hour cleaning and stayed awake till midnight finishing my synthesis oral presentation outline. Only if I had just started working the minute I had reached dorms, I would have gotten an extra half an hours sleep and would not have been as cranky. But honestly, though this may sound weird, I don't regret that half an hour of "OCD cleaning attacks," as my roommate calls it. I wouldn't have been focused and I would have felt disgusting sitting in a "pig's stye" (mom) and working on a major assignment.
I feel like I am a much more logical person than creative. I need my things to be orderly and disciplined. I guess my parents had always taught me to keep my room and surroundings clean. Even though there are workers helping us out at my house, back in Nepal, my parents still make me clean my room on my own and makes me make my bed as well. Though I procrastinate cleaning at times, I know that it will eventually have to be done. Similar to Ms. E feeling giddy and happy inside after eating a bowl of ice cream on stage during assemblies, I feel the same way after sitting in a nice clean room and focusing on my work.
Though strange to many, this habit defines me as the hardworker that I strive to be.
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