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First I will introduce myself. My name is Jonathan Brian Whitman and who I am today is most differently a reflection of how I was raised and my parent’s morals and values. I would consider myself a strong minded person who has been through and seen a lot. My experiences have also helped mold me into the person I am today. I have been very fortunate and lucky to end up where I did with such a loving family. My brother, who is two years older than me, and I were both adopted from different families pretty much at birth. My mother was fifteen when she had me and there was no way she could have done an adequate job raising a child at that point in her life. The way it worked out could not have been better. I consider my family, my family there is no birth parents and adopted parents my parents that raised me are my only parents as far as I am concerned and they are the people who made me the man I am today.

So, about me, I am at rider studying communications as a junior. Rider is the third college that I have been to. I went to Hartwick College in Oneonta New York for two years and then came home and went to mercer for a semester and now I am here. While I was at Hartwick I joined a fraternity and made some good connections with people. The reason why I ended up back in New Jersey is that one of my best friends up there and a fraternity brother was working for Aromark the food company in Greece and got hit by a car and killed. Everywhere I looked after his death reminded me of him and the things he used to do so I had to leave.

I am a loving and helpful sun to the best parents a kid could ask for. I have an older brother who I am extremely close with. I live in Hamilton with my girlfriend who is an accountant in Princeton. I am always doing something and never really get a chance to stop and ask myself questions like this. When I am not at school I am working in a dentists office in the Wilber section of Trenton, it is a Medicaid office and in one of the worst parts of the city. I like to see things for myself and experience them first hand. I would consider myself a good son, brother, boyfriend, and friend to my very close nit inner circle.

When I first read this assignment I wasn’t sure how it would go only because it’s hard for me to talk about myself and describe everything. I would like to work hard for the next two years in school and work with a sports advertising firm if possible. I try to live my life by a very simple quote that someone very close to me once said. “Being honorable is doing the right thing even when no one will know if you did wrong” That is such a simple line that can really shape how you act in your life and for me, I always keep that floating around in the back of my head.