317 East 196^th Street

Bronx, New York 10458

February 3, 2020

Susan Delamare

Instructor

1605 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10031

Dear Instructor Delamare:

My name is Christian J. Lozano, and I am currently a Freshman at City College and intend to pursue computer science as a major. However, I am also open to pursuing other majors in the engineering field. I decided on engineering as the field I wanted to enter because I have always liked being able to test out ideas and see if they could be made real. In addition to this, engineers are in demand engineering jobs pay well, which makes becoming an engineer even more compelling. Over the last few months however, my perspective has changed. When I got the opportunity to take a class outside of college on stock trading, and soon, options trading, I couldn’t free myself from the idea of becoming an entrepreneur because there is nothing I dislike more than not being control of my own life. So instead of using what I learn in engineering to work for people, I want to try and use it to create things that will help people, and therefore get people to work for me instead of me working for them. I understand this will be difficult to do and will take discipline on my part to succeed. However, I only have one life to live, and I do not want to spend most of it slaving away at a job that would destroy my livelihood were I to lose it.

In addition to my goals of graduating from college and becoming financially successful, I also want to take the time to improve my foreign language skills. Although I grew up speaking Spanish, my reading ability is sub-par, and my vocabulary is limited. I also want to work on improving my understanding and use of accents in Japanese and increase my vocabulary so that I can more easily read a larger variety of Japanese books. These are things that I want to do for myself but improving myself in both languages would also provide me with more opportunities because I would be able to communicate more people and cultures, and have a more globalized view of the world.

I am trying to do a lot, and many people may wonder why, and well, it is just that the idea of working for the rest of my life until retirement at over sixty years of age is unappealing. I dislike working and knowing that an employer can toss me aside at any time is terrifying, so I do not want to live the rest of my life that way.

Sincerely,

Christian J. Lozano

Undergraduate Student