Me by the Numbers
by Jared Korotney
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This number is important for me for several reasons. I spoke my first word at the age of three (my first word was "trapezoid", if you can believe it). I graduated from high school on June 3rd, which was also the first day ever where I was able to pull an all-nighter. My AP Calculus AB exam in high school was the third AP exam I ever took, and I ended up getting my only 5 on that exam. Many important milestones in my life happened during the month of March, the third month of the year. The biggest thing was my discovery of Asperger's syndrome, which I was diagnosed with at the age of, you guessed it, three (At least I think. It was somewhere around that age.). March was also the month when my grandmother passed away, and it was the first time ever where I was able to mature myself up to comfort my mother when she needed it. My brother was born when I was three-years-old. And last, but not least, I believe strongly in the holy trinity in my religion of Judaism. 
Another number that comes to mind when I think about who I became today is the number 17. Almost all of the important things in my life that involve this number happened when I was at that age. At the age of seventeen, I was able to finally stand up for myself and realize that the friends that I was hanging out with were not good people, so I got myself out of that situation and into a new, good group of friends. Also, I started to learn how to take care of myself at that age, and it was also the age where I felt closer to God than any other time before that. I also got involved with many clubs during that age that helped to build me into the man that I am today, such as Key Club, a service organization that I am currently going further in getting involved, with me being a part of Circle K. One more thing to add is that I found out that I was diagnosed with Asperger's at the age of 17. 
The last number that comes up on the top of my head is the number 13. When I was 13-years-old, I had my Bar Mitzvah (a Jewish holiday celebrating the transition from boyhood to manhood in Jewish tradition, which happens at the age of 13). Also, 2013 had my favorite collection of movies of the decade, so far. It was also the year where, in my opinion, the Best Picture winner was honored to the most deserving film of the decade, that being 12 Years a Slave. Also, I used to play trumpet in high school, and in my freshman year, there were 13 trumpet players. Finally, I love movies with a PG-13 movie rating, because the movie is not too childish, but yet not too mature to make me want to walk out of the theater, regretting the graphic content I had just witnessed (my first PG-13 film was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; the Harry Potter franchise, from the first book to the last movie, lasted 13 years in the United States).
