I never thought about people building up other peoples identities. How could one person create who the other person is just by being? The affect of one person on the other is much more clear to me than it was before. It was never something I thought of because really we don’t think of ourselves being ourselves because of other people. We think of ourselves being ourselves because of ourselves. Even the way i look at interviews has changed. An interview isn’t solely about the interviewee, but about the actual interviewer as well.

Creating an Alter ego seemed much more difficult than it actually was. The moment I heard about us having to create an alter ego I immediately became worried; I had no clue what kind of person I wanted to create , or pretend I was. When I finally came up with an idea on who I wanted to be I could not stop writing.  I really enjoyed being someone who was almost the complete opposite of me, someone who does what they want when they want and lived spontaneously. Writing my alter ego essay and being interviewed as my alter ego really did make me feel like a whole new person and was actually quiet freeing.

Who am I? Whether it was my memoir essay or my first few months abroad that gave me insight on who I am, I can say that I have a much clearer idea on who I am and who I want to be than I did when I wrote my first essay. Now, more than ever, I know that I want to pursue doing what I am doing at Parsons. My last few months have affirmed what I said in my essay. I can’t say that writing my essay did not give me insight on who I am because really actually putting down on paper an incident where I felt self enlightened actually brought about a lot of enlightenment. I did not really know that the moment I wrote about meant so much to me until I actually wrote about it.