Jamie Goldstein:  

Life Anyone who went to Hewlett with me would probably agree that gradating was not only an unforseeable acomplishment but also frighteningly similar to being released from prison: Once you get out, you're not quite sure how the rest of the world compares to the world that you've become all too farmilliar with. The G.W. Hewlett High School was a very plastic and materialistic cookie-cutter world where charecter wasnt'e messured by grades, potential, or values, but instead the clothing and car companies that attending students advertised for on a daily basis. Therefore, bondage pants, blue hair, and grunge-rock band shirts didn't help my social status very much. This, however, was fine by me considering that I was still lucky enought to find friends like Frank "Bean" Scurachio and Jonny "Elbows" Squichurini to ditch prom with to attend a metal show in Manhatten, both of whom I'm still very close with today. Since then I found a group of friends who's values, interests, and divrse cultual backrounds I can relate to at the John Jay college of Criinal Justice where I majored in Forensic Science. The school was located on 58th Street in Manatten so my commute brought me and my father - who owns RichMar Printting on Canal Street - through Penn st...Expand for more