I am a freshman at Chico State, originally from San Jose CA, majoring in Entrepreneurship and finance, and also looking to become a part time real estate investor and entrepreneur. When I graduate college I plan to become a investment banker as well as keeping my real estate investing strong. With the knowledge I get from investment banking being good with money and knowing the way behind businesses I plan to use it to become a successful entrepreneur.
My name is Austin Dippel but everyone calls me “Dipp”. Ever since my freshman year in high school people have always called me Dipp due to my Instagram profile username which is TheDipp. At first when a select few of my friends started to call me Dipp I didn’t like it because I liked my old nickname which was Ozzy. But then as time flew by more and more people started to call me Dipp and at that point I conceded to the fact that Dipp is my name to my friends. My parents and other family members only call me Ozzy, I’m not sure of the background of the name Ozzy but its rare that I hear my real name Austin coming from them. But whenever I do hear my real name I know I’m in trouble somehow because my parents would never call me Austin otherwise.
I’d say the biggest thing that people misunderstand about me is my age. Ever since my junior year in high school people have always thought that I was older then I really am. Which in some cases can be a good thing if you catch my drift, for example when I was 16 years old I didn’t have to sneak in to rated R movies at the movie theater, I could just walk in and nobody would say a thing. Looking older than you really are had some other good factors to it like when I would talk to adults such as family friends, teachers, and businessmen they respected what I had to say to them a little more because I looked older. And older people tend to be more mature in the eyes of adults from what I experienced.
What I wish my teachers understood about me is precisely what I try to emphasize to each of my teachers so that they can have a better understanding of what kind of a person I am. There isn’t anything that I want my teachers to understand about me that I haven’t already told or showed them. But anyway the things I like them to know about me is mainly my drive to succeed in my plans short term and long term. Short term being my wants to achieve a well deserved grade in the class I’m taking. Long term is my needs to become a successful soon to become real estate investor and future entrepreneur.
In my essay the photo narrative I put the photo of me taking my first leap of faith outside a plane at 14,000 feet up over the Hawaiian islands at the very top. I did this mainly because I wanted people to know what i’m talking about before they start to read the narrative. Also I wanted the reader see the intensity of the situation that I was in to help intrigue the reader right off the bat, luring him/her into my narrative.
How do I define “family”: Family to me are those who you can rely on for just about anything, lean on when you need it, and trust with all your heart. It doesn’t necessarily have to be an actual family member that defines your family instead it can be those who treat you as if your in their family and they are in yours. There is a saying “brother from another mother” I am a firm believer in this saying because I have a few people that I consider my brother of sister and we are no way related to each other.
Whats so special about my home?: I grew up at San Jose in a town called Almaden, which back at Almaden there isn’t really a whole lot that I find special about that place its just a medium sized peaceful little town. I cant say its the town that’s special but the people within it, because without the friends and family it would just be another boring town right next to some mountains. Now I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy growing up back at my home town I definitely had some good times, but that was all thanks to good friends and family that was there when I need them and vise versa.
Past self advice: If I were given the opportunity to give my past self advice I would tell my 8th grade self to start reading books that have to do with business and start coming up with ideas for products. If I were to start that early who knows where I would be today perhaps I would already have a product of perhaps I would be in the college of my dreams. But as awesome as it sounds to give my past self advice I know that is just about impossible so in light of that I have no regrets and look forward to the future that I will create for myself by focusing on the present and learning from past mistakes.
What am I really learning in college?: As of right now in my college experience I’m not really learning anything academically that I will for sure use in my future maybe except Microeconomics and a small hand full of communications. But non academically I feel I’m learning new and improved ways to network and socialize with others as well as ways to start taking care of myself instead of having parents to do it for me. Later on in college I know that I will be learning ways in which to be an entrepreneur as well as an investment banker because if not then I don’t know why the hell my family’s paying almost 25k a year for me to go here.
Most important challenge overcome?: Most important challenge I’ve ever overcome would have to be changing my ways of being a complete extrovert never doing school work and hanging out with friends a little too much. While I was an extrovert to that extent I was also a pretty good BMX bike rider focusing the majority of my time on that and hanging out with friends. But it wasn’t until I realized where my future really is that I started to really focus on school adapting to the introvert side of life, but still maintaining extrovert qualities when needed.
How do I help people?: I’d say the way I help people has to do with maintaining honor in my life. If I see someone in need of help whoever the person I will do whatever it takes to help that person even if it that means putting myself in harms way. I will be honest and say that I don’t always go out of my way to help people that I can’t see in the flesh, like charity, good will, etc. I just merely treat people the way I want to be treated and also how they should be treated.
How do you find peace in your life?: I really don’t think there is any real way to answer this problem because deep down I feel that peace is something all strive for and keep going through life in order to eventually achieve it. I believe that the only way to actually achieve peace is to do in this world whatever it is that your heart desires, then once you die you would’ve achieved your life desires and may then finally experience peace. But while going through life I’m a firm believer that nobody no matter who or how happy one is will never find absolute peace within they’re lives. As depressing as it sounds life if full of conflict, cohesiveness, hate, love, happiness, dreadfulness, etc and there is no way around it except to live with it and and do whatever it is that you want in this life.
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