Reflective Essay: Moving To The City Of New York

In New York City many people are considered selfish, greedy and close minded. New Yorkers as well as non-New Yorkers think these things are due to the fact that we are always on the move and don’t like waiting for anything. As a New Yorker I don’t see my city as what everyone portrays it to be. I see NYC as a very caring and open minded city with a large variety of many different people. On a chilly Friday night around mid-November I was on my way home with a good friend of mine, Ashley. We leave school as we make our way to the 5 train in grand central. While in the train headed to the Bronx we talked and laughed for a while. While we were talking I notice this elderly man sitting on the seats diagonal from me struggling to get up from his seat. My mind told me to help him but by the time I went and got up I noticed that some other individuals helped the man get up to get off the train. After they helped the man get off the train immediately after the elderly man falls with his legs in the train and the other part of his body outside of the train resting on the platform. Once me and Ashley saw this we immediately started laughing hysterically because we never seen someone fall like that. A few minutes later I realized that I …show more content…
Just like for one instance I had to ask my professor in college algebra what is 26 to the zero power because I had a brain fart. Everyone knew the answer was one because anything to the power of 0 is 1. I noticed that no one answered the question but the professor so I felt good that I asked that question because it seemed like a dumb question that none of my peers would ask. I was the only one who asked because I’m not afraid to ask professors questions about anything I don’t understand. I promoted my civic responsibility here by asking questions that my classmates were too embarrassed to