Bisrat Character Analysis

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Who is Bisrat? Well, it is a question that I never took my time to answer. Understanding one’s own character traits is proved to help them understand the ones around them as well. I’m from a busy city in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, where I spent most of my childhood. I then moved to the US in 2011 at thirteen years old where I spent my teenage years. It was not difficult to adopt to the American culture but was a bit challenging to practice two cultures at the same time, one at home and the other everywhere else. I come from a family and culture where education and religion plays a big role in life. I believe these cultural experiences made me who I am today. The three character traits I would use to describe myself are humble, patient and self-reliant. …show more content…

Being humble is putting one’s own importance aside. The way a humble person reacts to success very much differs from the reaction to success of the arrogant. One experience that defines me as humble is my decision to attend montgomery college. Most of the people I surround myself with look down at community colleges and assume that only students left with no other options settle for it. I applied to eleven colleges and got accepted into ten, but still chose montgomery college because it saved me the most money. My friends, who are paying more than 10,000 a semester to the only school they were accepted into, tease about how MC is basically a high school since it doesn’t have the “luxury” of living in dorms. But I don’t brag to them how I could’ve went to any of those ten 4 year colleges if I wanted too. I personally don’t believe my decision process is an important factor to discuss with anybody because, at the end of they day what matters is the decision I made and how comfortable I am with it. This specific experience is one of the reasons I see myself as a humble person. One thing that influenced me to become humble isn’t only the way I was raised but also observing the difference between people that are all talk but no action and those that are no talk, all

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