I am Elijah Sierra-Trustman;
but everyone calls me Eli. I am an 18-year-old Jewish- Porto Rican, born in
Truckee CA, although I was raised mostly in Santa Cruz. I grew up going to
alternative schools, where we learned many different things but didn’t learn a
lot in the traditional curriculum, for a normal school. Instead of learning how
to write papers and do more advanced math we learned how to garden, juggle, and
how to fix a real life problems. I learned there how to keep an open mind and a
calm head about whatever I might have to encounter in life, be it a challenging
class in school or a swarm of bee’s chasing after me. This type of thinking has
gotten me through a lot including but not exclusively, having an excruciating
time going through a college prep school whilst trying to figure out how to
learn better for myself because of my dyslexia and dysgraphia. I learned there
that my alternative schooling gave me not the traditional information for
school but problem solving and how to think out of the box to look at a problem
and figure out a way to solve it. I kept my sanity through the problem solving
and because of it; I also happened to learn how my mind worked and how I needed
to learn so I could retain the information. Ever since then I have always tried
to relate the problem solving modality of thinking into my life, in and out of
school.
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