English 106: First-Year Composition

Hey there 30 year old. I really hope you married Molly and are on your way to a happy family or even making the existing one bigger. Did you end up staying with Signature Construction, or did you find a different company? Hopefully whichever one it is, it's a good one and you're happy. I hope you're not living too far from home too, I don't want to regret not seeing our families while we've got the chance. Hopefully you haven't needed a liver transplant because of college yet! I'll try to keep that from happening, but I'm not promising anything.

Hey 10 year old pimp, its your 19 year old pimp self. Just kidding, we both know we're no pimps. Unfortunately you're already 10 years old so I can't tell you to watch where you're running on your birthday when you turned 10. But lessons are engraved in your mind harder when they hurt. Have fun growing up, enjoy all you can. The most important thing I can tell you is to not let Uncle Mike go to work on December 10 of your freshman year in high school. He died in my life, but he doesn't have to in yours. Whenever you get in trouble, don't say "Tell mom, she doesn't spank as hard," because when she hears that, she hits twice as hard. Oh and when you get a girlfriend and she cheats on you, don't let her come back to you, once a cheater always a cheater.

On my tenth birthday, I got this toy that had two things you held in your hand to catch this dart that had a suction cup on the end. My brother and I were playing with it in the yard and he shot it over my head. So being the awesome me, I turned to run and catch it over my shoulder. I happened to forget that the grill that we had recently grilled lunch on was behind me. I ended up running into it and fell on top of it. I got a second degree burn on my stomach and a third degree burn on my arm. Needless to say my day was a bit ruined. So always watch where you run!

My favorite place to study here at Purdue is just in my room. Real fun, right? This is where I do all of my studying, basically because I'm too lazy to go anywhere else and study. Occasionally, I'll go up in my loft and do my studying or reading, but most of the time I just do it at my desk.

My life has always revolved around sports. Even as a little kid, I loved running around and playing and being active. Throughout elementary school and middle school I played basketball, baseball, and football. In high school, Hamilton Heights High School, I played football and ran track. Football was my life, and I was pretty good at it. I got a varsity letter all four years, and numerous awards to go along with it. (I'm really not trying to brag, please don't take it that way. I'm a modest person.) When it came time to find a college, it seemed that I would just have to pick which one I wanted to play football at, right?