City College of New York 

160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031

917-565-5587 [email protected]

February 4th. 2024

Ms. Julianne Davidow

Adjunct Lecturer, English Department

City College of New York

160 Convent Avenue 

New York, NY 10031

Dear Ms. Davidow, 

I hope this message finds you well. I am John Cuzco, a first year student at City College of New York, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. I am more than happy and eager to be part of your class and learn more about English along with Engineering under your guidance.

Growing up I’ve had a pretty interesting life from being the troublemaker in the family and almost failing all my classes. I can say my life so far has been a roller coaster that has almost crashed a handful of times. All my life I have done many things that I am extremely proud of, which included obtaining a  FAA license along with working in a major airline company and many more. 

Ever since a little child in elementary school and middle school, I was not the brightest one in my class, I would always fail many tests and essays along with a handful of assignments, especially in Language and Literacy classes. This upset me very much because I would always get failing grades in my report card while all my peers excelled in the class and I just could not get the hang of it even if I tried my hardest, I always asked myself why? And till this day there still isn’t an answer.

Although I am much older now I believe I improved significantly, to the point where I went from not liking school to looking forward to it. As a student at City College I plan on majoring in Mechanical Engineering, I am mostly doing it for my family but I am also doing it for myself too. I got inspired by my older sister who is a Civil Engineering major, and she was the first ever graduate with an engineering degree in my family. I told myself if she can do it, then I can and I put some thought into it. I told myself “would it not be cool if there are 2  engineers in the family?” and surprisingly it is a major accomplishment and a mothers dream, which is why it’s one of the reasons I’m majoring in mechanical engineering. 

Growing up in an Ecuadorian household was very fun and interesting, although I did not have much of a choice I am more than grateful to be Ecuadorian. Since I am the baby in the family I grew up with two older sisters who purely spoke English to me, and my mom and dad who spoke Spanish to me. This had many pros and a cons, the pro being since my sisters spoke English to me as a young child then I would get a hang of the language but the con being the Spanish Language, although my dad and mom spoke fluent Spanish to me, I got used to English before Spanish therefore my Spanish is not as fluent as I want it to be compared to English. 

Like I said earlier there is so much about me that I could go on and on about but these are just a few of my major troubles and successes I’ve had so far in my 20 years of being on this earth. I am more than excited to have you as my professor and I look forward to a calm and fun spring semester!

Sincerely,

John Cuzco

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