Major Distraction
So here's the plan. You go to college next year, and you want to meet all sorts of new people, right? Well asides from the kids in your dorm or your classes, where are you going to meet new people? Facebook? The local 7-11? I have a way better idea.
There is something called a letter. You might know what they are because your school assigned you two mailboxes this year. One of them is the convenient one you can access from your laptop, and the other one is the one you have to trudge down to the student center for. It's that second one that's relevant here. Basically, you get paper and a pen, and then write a bunch of words on it. Except instead of taking notes for class, you write as though you were talking to another person. A person that didn't say anything until about a week after you were done talking to them, but a person nonetheless. It's a pretty obselete form of communication, but I think we can revive it.
Here is what I propose we do. First, you fill out this form, then I take the results and, in about September, mail you who you should write a letter to, then you take the address I gave you and write them a letter. You will notice I inappropriately used "they" as a third person singular pronoun back there. I'll let you do that in your letters. In fact, I won't even grade your letters at all, especially since I will never get to see them. As you may know, writing is ridiculously time consuming compared to such activities as instant messaging, playing video games, and eating ice cream from the dining hall. It is also amazingly fun to write long letters to people. That is why I am calling this Major Distraction. (Props to Jessi for the name).
There are absolutely no requirements to participate, except that you know me somehow and be a high school graduate. You could be going to school on the West Coast, majoring in nutrition, or unable to count higher than seven without using your fingers. I don't really care, I just want an excuse to write people snail mail!