Monday, December 11, 2006

Dear, Mr. Jim Hughes,

I believe that I am a person who has an open mind, can see both sides of an argument, and can decide what is right and wrong. The thing about reading is that I can only read for a certain amount of time without losing my focus. For example, "The Davinci Code" it was an epic non stop thriller; at least in my mind it was. When I do get to college I hope on majoring in psychology, and becasue of Dan Brown I want to enrole myself into philosphy class and other classes of that sort.

I absolutly love history, I believe that history is very important to our culture to know where we came from and how it got to be. Me for example, my great grandfather came to America from Italy in 1913 and then settled in Southfield, MI. That was on my mothers side of the family. I couldn't really tell you about my fathers side is for the simple fact that he was addopted and we have yet been unable to uncover anything about his biological parents.

I do have a question for you. Would you happen to have a way that makes it easy to study for you? I have tried many different ways to study and take notes and so far nothing has really worked out. I really hope you can help, and I really hope that I can finally aquire a way to help study for the upcoming midterm exams.

Thanks again,
Anthony Boyd

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Mentor

Mr. Jim Hughes

My name is Anthony Boyd as you may already know. I am 16 years old, about to be 17 on December 29th. I am a junior at Lee M. Thurston high school, and I am writing this letter to you as an introduction of myself.

My favorite subject in school is math, mostly because it comes easy to me even though it takes a lot of hard work to understand the matter. My most difficult school subject is science, because it takes a lot to remember everything. It has a plethora of memorizing and that is one thing that I myself am not good at. In all honesty I don’t know specifically where I would like to go to school, but all I know is that I want to go where I will get the best education in psychology. For a career I would like to be a psychiatrist for the simple fact that I want to help people in their problems and maybe help the cope with something that has happened.

In my family I have my mother and father of course. I have a 12 year old sister and a 14 year old brother. Also, I have a half brother who is I believe 22, he is my fathers son because he was married once before. I like to hang out with my girlfriend for fun but on the weekends when I can stay out later than usual I hang out with my friends that live a few miles away. I most definitely love to drive, except for the gas prices. My favorite movie is either saw or the Texas chainsaw massacre. I listen to a lot of rock but I also listen to some underground rap. I like papa roach, insane clown posse, dramadeus, and the used. I don’t really like sports all that much because I think it’s boring to watch somebody play a sport. My favorite books are Angels and Demons, or just anything written by Dan Brown. In 10 years I’m hoping that I’m seeing myself in college or graduating from college and getting in the field of psychiatric standards. Something interesting that not many people know is that if you give me a game to play, I will catch on really fast and my skill in the game succeeds anyone. (Except halo)

Again, in all honesty I don’t really like high school for many reasons. We have to get up to early, we have 6 different classes which mean 6 different homework each night, and lunch is way to short. I’m doing the best that I can in school but it’s just not cutting it anymore. I was wondering if you had any advice, any tricks, or some study advice to give. Also on a personal note in class it’s like “my mind is changing the channel” I can’t seem to concentrate for very long and I always end up day dreaming. How should I prepare for an ACT test? That is going to be a big factor in what happens with my future. Would you also happen to know what classes I should take to become a psychiatrist? Why did you decide to become a part of this mentoring program? And why did you become what you became today?

Hopefully I can get some advice from this mentoring program and maybe better myself for the future. Thank you for your time and I am looking forward to your reply soon.

Sincerely,
Anthony Boyd

Monday, November 27, 2006

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