Ramon Rodriguez

When Ramon Rodriguez was a little kid, he dreamed of being a baseball player; however, those dreams were smashed as soon as Rodriguez realized that he is bad at sports. Or, perhaps Rodriguez is just bad at team sports; after all, he loves skateboarding, where rules and regulations are thrown out the window. Rodriguez likes to make his own rules, or he at least questions the existing ones.

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19-year-old Rodriguez was born and raised in New York City, which is evident from his love of pizza. Although he lives with his family in Long Island now, Rodriguez commutes to the city almost every day to attend college at Eugene Lang, The New School for Liberal Arts. Now, Lang was not his first choice of schooling, in fact, after attending Xavier, a Jesuit all-boys high school in Manhattan, Rodriguez wanted to go to Emerson College in Boston. But, when he was offered a full ride to join the student body at Lang, how could he pass it up?

Rodriguez, an undergraduate sophomore, usually strolls into a classroom with his skateboard in hand and most likely headphones on. He tends to sit quietly through his classes. Rodriguez may speak up once in a while, but mainly he sits there, just smiling and taking in information. Rodriguez says that he wants to be a writer, but he’s not sure about whether literature or screenwriting is up his alley. Regardless of this predicament, one thing is for sure: Rodriguez gravitates toward comedy. In fact, he has written two comedic plays that have and will take the stage at Eugene Lang. His upcoming play is about how girls behave in the bathroom, specifically the peeing “stand off”, as Rodriguez has called it.

“It’s about how girls don’t like using the bathrooms when other girls are in the stalls,” he said while chuckling, “Is that why girls take so long in there? They’re just waiting each other out.”

This is Ramon’s type of humor, he investigates the weird and overlooked aspects of reality and brings them to attention. He may also pull tricks from time to time, such as making people believe that he’s immortal. In either situation, it is hard not to laugh around Rodriguez because of his easy-going demeanor.

When asked, Ramon Rodriguez would describe himself as being funny, chill, reflective, creative, and friendly, which is not at all far from the truth.