Celebrity I Chose to Write About

Will Smith

The person I am writing about is Willard Carrol Smith, Jr. A.K.A. Will Smith. Will was born on September 25, 1968 in West Philadelphia. Will Smith was raised Baptist and attended Overbrook High School. One thing that is pretty neat about Will is that he did not apply to college but his mom’s friend worked in the admissions office of Massachusetts Institute of Technology which would have given him a high chance of getting into MIT. Although he did not want to go to college, Will wanted to build a career in the rap industry. He gained a lot of success in the rapping industry back then and went by the name of “The Fresh Prince”. Will received a contract by NBC to become an actor for the famous sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” at age 28 (1990-1996). The production of the show was the start of his acting career. Will never thought that he would become an actor but he had no choice because of the bankruptcy stage he went through that got him a contract NBC. Will went into bankruptcy because he spent his money freely in 1988 and 1989 and the Internal Revenue Service assessed Will with a $2.8 million tax debt. In other words, NBC saved Will’s career and pulled him out of bankruptcy.  With all that being said, Will wanted to study the film industry and set a goal to be the most powerful actor in the world. Coincidentally,  he has established himself as a “Powerful Actor”.

Update on Things / Something About Me

College has not been stressful to me yet. I’ve kept up on all my homework assignments and have not gotten behind on anything at all because I spend about 4 to 5 hours in the library every Monday and Wednesday. I want to keep this going throughout the whole year because it will help me in all my classes. The things I have learned so far in these first few weeks of college is responsibility and time management. Learning both of these will bring me good fortune in the future, if managed well.

After the first week of college, I endured a feeling of nervousness that school would get a little stressful. The good news is that it really has not gotten stressful at all. I enjoy working hard and obtaining the responsibility to get all my work done in my freetime. What I really enjoy about college is my Tuesdays and Thursdays and the reason why is because I am at school from 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. The best part of those days is being in my reading class because I feel like my vocabulary is already enhancing just from being in that class for 3 weeks so far. My other favorite class I enjoy is economics because it has to do with businesses and how shortages and surges can cause the market prices to drop or rise. Money interests me and I know for a fact that I am not the only one interested by it.

The other good news is that the other day, when I was in the library, I believe I have finally made my decision on what I want my major to be. I have decided to major in Computer Engineering and the reason why is because growing up, I have always loved playing with my computer. I hope to specialize in hardware designing for computers because  I built my own computer at the age of 14 and still till this day, I am always adding more onto it. In other words, yes I am a nerd, But no one would ever think that I am because I don’t seem “nerdy”. With all this being said, I guess I can say that I am really enjoying College so far.