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Joshua Kelsey

01/22/04

Writing Sample

Unfortunately, I could not come up with an ingenious way to start this essay off so I’ll just jump into it. I am two decades old and was born in Jamestown, New York. I’m a huge fan of all types of games: computer, board, card, and consol games. In fact I even play a computer game for money and sell my, "findings" on ebay. On the weekends I put in about 20 hours a week helping deaf and hard of hearing individuals make telephone calls. It’s a very interesting experience and sometimes feel like I am deciphering code, American Sign Language doesn’t look very nice on paper. I have a little sister and a little brother. My fiancé and I live together in Syracuse. To be frank, I’m also a pretty big procrastinator, just wanted to give a heads up.

After high school I did not immediately attend college; I waited a year and attended ITT Technical Institute in Pittsburgh. I only attended ITT for one semester but was very disappointed with the professors and also the curriculum in general. My fiancé choose to go to ESF and so I tagged along and followed her to Syracuse. OCC was convenient and for a college, inexpensive. I would like to attend Oswego in the Fall of 2004.

In ten years I would like to be a software engineer, preferably for a company that produces computer games. Hopefully I’ll have a big white house, picket fence, two and a half kids, the "norm." But, as I mentioned before I have a tendency to procrastinate, so I might still be attending college somewhere, balding, and looking like I swallowed a bowling ball.

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