This is your intro to me, even if you think I already know you...

Being homeschooled is of assistance in many respects. I would not have learned near as much going through the public school system as I did learning myself. At a school, they probably would not have let me do preschool, kindergarten, and first grade all in one year. That gave me a head start.

Sports were my major occupation besides homework, and as a result of having better coaches, I ended up playing baseball the most.

I made three all star teams through little league, finishing fourth in the state once. Then, in Junior League, we reached the state championship game. In Senior League, we finished it off finally by winning the state tournament and heading to the regional tournament.

I also continued playing baseball into college. It is wonderful to have good coaches. These ones are the first coaches I have ever had that actually consider fielding important. That is why I started the majority of the season in the outfield. Most coaches at the little league level are managers, not coaches. These coaches on the college team actually try to teach and improve the players on the team. It is most definitely my favorite team that I have played on in any sport, considering that I started when I was eight.

I was 14 by the time I reached tenth grade, and I decided that I didn't really need to keep doing much more of this, so I started applying for college when I was fourteen. I was accepted and started classes just after I turned fifteen. I have enjoyed college greatly, starting off slow, with six credits in my first semester, then ten, then thirteen, then seventeen. For a while I had not really decided what I wanted to do, so I just took general courses and courses that I am interested in.

One field that always interested me was math. I have taken a math class every semester, and was taking Calculus II when I was sixteen. This will be my first semester without a math class, as Calculus III was cancelled.

I discovered a GIS class at one point. Geographic Information Systems fascinates me, with its manipulation of maps and data. The teacher was highly enthusiastic, and made the subject more interesting just because of how excited he was about it.

English is the other thing which I have always liked. Reading is something that I have been devout about forever. I did not have as much experience with writing, but I enjoyed that as well. After a little difficulty with the accuplacer's english part, the writeplacer, I got into English 101 because of doing well on the essay part of the SATs.

I have taken an english class every semester since then, and this is the first semester I will take two english classes. The one thing I think that the semester lacks is time to read, so, I figured that if I took a class where reading books was required, then that would take care of it for me. So I am taking online True Crime this semester.

In terms of what I would like to do next, I want to pursue something in English and GIS. Online GIS programs are available at the University of Maine at Machias, so my idea would be to take those there, and at the same time to be getting a degree in English someplace else. Where that someplace else would be, I am not sure, but English and GIS are two things that I love to do, so what better to try to pursue than those?