My name is Cary Socci. I was born in the
Bronx at Albert Einstein Hospital. I lived in
Westchester in the towns of Eastchester and Yonkers until I was 6 years old. Then I
moved to Suffolk County, Long Island when
I was 9, to the towns of Kings Park and Ronkonkoma. I still
live in Ronkonkoma. I’ve lived there the longest so I’d say that’s where I grew
up
When I was
little I was really into ninja turtles, I had a loot of ninja turtles. Then I was
really into wrestling like WWE, well it used to be WWF, I had a lot of those
too, you could probably fill a closet with all the action figures I had. I used to
be really into comic books and video games. The first game I ever played was
Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo. I’m
talking about the first Nintendo. Some of you have probably never even seen
that system. Then I used to play Super
Nintendo at my cousins house. We also played Super Mario 2 and 3, Mortal
Combat, The Ninja Turtles and the Simpsons game. Then I had Sega Genesis , Nintendo 64 and
Playstation. Sega was Sonic the
Hedgehog. I used to play Golden Eye for Nintendo 64 and Playstation was Crash
Bandicoot. As far as comic books I was
really into Marvel. I read everything from the Hulk, X-Men, Punisher,
Spider-Man was my favorite. I have a ton of Spider-Man comics. I used to
be really into horror movies. I watched everything from Universal Monster
movies from the 30’s to Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre
I have
cousins who live upstate on the outskirts of Kingston and I would always take
trips up there, and we would play baseball or basketball in the park, or play
in the creek and catch crayfish. It was very rural. My cousins had a lot of
land so I got to experience that which was nice. I always
played outside and I always played sports but I was never really into one sport
enough to play year after year in a league. I never really had the attention
span for it. I usually would just play something for like a year or two and
then get tired of it. I played basketball and football but those were only for
like a year or two and then I gave it up
I was
always really into music but I never played any instruments. You can call me a
loser but I played the saxophone for like a week. I just remember it hurt my
lips so I gave it up. When I was probably like 10 my cousin got me into hip hop
so I used to listen to a lot of hip hop like DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem of course. I
was also into alternative rock like the Offspring and Blink 182, Limp Bizkit,
but I felt like I hadn’t heard music until my dad introduced me to classic rock,
He introduced me to artists like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and bands like
Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
As a kid I
used to draw a lot. I was always drawing monsters, wolves, guys with guns, lots
of bloody, gorey stuff like typical stuff a boy would draw. I actually took a
drawing class once, and I was told by my cousin’s boyfriend who drew comic that
I could be really good some day but like anything else I gave it up
-My dad has
a fence company in Westchester so I got to work with my hands at a young age
and it’s really hard work so I definitely learned the value of a dollar at a
young age. His partner is from Mexico and all of his brothers work there and
have been working there for years. This
definitely gave me a view of a different culture other than mine, and I was
forced to learn some Spanish, because sometimes they would only speak in
Spanish
As far as
growing up my parents had two different styles for raising me. My mom was extremely strict and she would
yell at me for just about anything, but my dad was much more laid back, and not
that he would let me get away with a lot more but he would just would handle it
differently. He wouldn’t just blow up
over anything. But the thing about that
is when he got mad like you did not wanna be around. I was probly more scared
of him, because when he got mad like watch out.
I was
always a good student in school until I got to high school. I made some bad
decisions in high school. I started smoking weed, stopped caring about much of
anything. Fought a lot with my mom. It
wasn’t good. People didn’t take me seriously, because I didn’t take myself
seriously. I wasn’t thinking about my career or my future. All I cared about
was when the next blunt was going to be rolled. It was the wrong way to think
about things and I realize that now. I lost a lot of friends, but I realize now
that I made a mistake and I’ve learned from it.
I’m
extremely Italian, I’m an FBI, not an FBI agent. I love being Italian American.
I feel like it’s the best thing in the world. I grew up on pasta and tomato
sauce. My mom is famous for her sauce
and her meatballs. My grandma is also an
excellent cook. We go there for
Christmas Eve for whole fish thing. Every
time I go to her house she tries to literally kill me with food. And the funny thing is she’ll make like 10
things and then she’ll be like “Sorry I would have made more. I didn’t know you
were coming.” “Like you just tried to kill me with food and you’re really
apologizing to me that it’s not enough.”
I love to
travel, I’ve been to Italy, I’ve been to the Caribbean, I’ve been to a few
states- Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida. I’m
going to Virginia Beach for Spring Break. I haven’t been nearly as many places
as I want to go but there’s always next year and hopefully when I have a career
I can travel a lot on vacation. I also
love exercising and staying active. I try to go the gym at least every other
day, but up here at school I drink about 3 times a week so it kind of cancels
it out. I try to watch the news as much as I can so I can figure out what’s
going on in the world. I watch educational shows on Discovery and History
because I love to learn. I also really
like to laugh so I like comedy shows. I love Seinfeld and South Park. I love
Family Guy. I love movies. My two favorite
movies are Godfather and Old School
I’ve always
been really into history. I used to love social studies class. It was always my
favorite subject so I thought I could teach social studies. But during my time
here at SUNY Oneonta I’ve realized that teaching may not be for me. All of the
lesson plans, dealing with parents, grading papers, dealing with troubled
students, the difficulty to find a job in New York and the fact that I don’t
feel like teachers make enough for what they do. Just the fact that I’m not
sure if I’m organized or dedicated enough to be a teacher. I’m just not sure
it’s for me.
But I still
love history and I’m now studying history here at SUNY Oneonta. I feel like I love history so much, because I
like knowing why things are the way they are.
They say history repeats itself, so I feel like if we don’t know much
about history we’re doomed to repeat it.
* Topics that I would like to debate today's hot topics in politics such as guns and immigration, and I would like to debate safety issues in football
*I thought that it definitely helped to be humorous at certain times, because people respond to humor and like to laugh. I thought I definitely earned some points for going off the paper and speaking from memory and giving good eye contact. However it is true with speaking from memory that you often forget what you wanted to say, and have to improvise and it may not be the exact thing that you wanted to say.
*I thought that it definitely helped to be humorous at certain times, because people respond to humor and like to laugh. I thought I definitely earned some points for going off the paper and speaking from memory and giving good eye contact. However it is true with speaking from memory that you often forget what you wanted to say, and have to improvise and it may not be the exact thing that you wanted to say.
