Nora Younger 800806195 Dear Malcolm, It surprised me that my first college riting assignment consists of ha!

ing to rite another "#$out Me% essay, due to that fact that I ha!e ritten se!eral during my senior year of high school& '!en though this assignment is technically a personal statement, there is a different goal in comparison to the essays I rote a year ago& During my senior year of high school, there as al ays the pressure to rite the $est personal statement& If my personal statement did not ma(e me sound li(e the most religious, caring, and outgoing student on the face of the planet, then I ould $e eliminated from the applicant pool of college and scholarship applications& )he pressure to $e perfect as real and it formed me into the student that I am today& *ith this $eing stated, I ould li(e to introduce myself to you, for ho I am in and out of the classroom, ithout trying to sell myself $ased on hat I ha!e accomplished in the past& My name is Nora Younger and I graduated for +ope ell +igh ,chool, a high school in +unters!ille, that is a$out thirty minutes a ay from -N..& In high school I as not interested in $eing in the popular cro d of girls, I as at school to learn& Do not get me rong, I as social, I /ust refused to get caught up in the daily drama that teenagers lo!e to create& During my first year of high school, I struggled to find something that I as great at, I felt as if I had no talent& It as not until my sophomore year of high school that I found D'.#& D'.# is an organi0ation of mar(eting students ho compete at a professional le!el& #s I continued to compete, my scores continued to rise and during my senior year I $ecame an international competitor for North .arolina& D'.# $ecame my passion and I hope to find something at .harlotte that I am /ust as passionate a$out& 1esides D'.#, I really en/oy running long distance and going to the gym& )here is /ust something a$out the adrenaline rush that I get during2 after a or(out that I cannot stay a ay from& )his ee(end I am actually running a 53 called the 45. 4ace6 the course is going to $e a *ipe 5ut theme& I am a Netfli7 /un(ie 8+a!e you e!er seen 9rison 1rea(:; and I am o$sessed ith $uying shoes 8mostly Ni(e <ree 4unner =&0; and allets& I cannot e7plain my addictions, they /ust e7ist and I em$race them& In regards to my family, I ha!e a mother 8+ind;, a father 8)odd;, a $rother 8>ad;, and cat 8)igger;& My parents got di!orced hen I as eight months old and neither of them remarried& My $rother is t enty?one and is still trying to figure out hat he ants to do for the rest of his life& If you (ne my $rother, you ould (no that he is al ays a day late and a dollar short $ut he has a heart of gold to compensate for it& My cat is the most $eautiful cat on the face of the planet, enough though I am allergic to him& +ere e go ith the allergy tal(@so I am pretty much allergic to e!erything good in life& I am allergic to e!ery type of tree, grass, pollen, tree nut, sesame seeds, cats, and

2 Nora Younger other random things li(e duc( feet& I am currently on a treatment called immunotherapy& Immunotherapy in a nutshell is $eing in/ected ith specific allergens for a period of three to fi!e years& Your $ody e!entually de!elops immunity to the allergens so that you no longer react to them& I am not only a student -N.. $ut I also or( at .hili%s as a ser!er& I ha!e had se!eral /o$s o!er the past four years, and you ill more than li(ely hear interesting stories throughout the semester& 5!erall, I am a hard or(ing young oman and I cannot ait to learn ho to $ecome a $etter riter&