Will Nonfiction

I'm a little below the word count, so if there is anything I could expand on tell me Prompt I used: What marketing slogan would you use for your hometown? "Boring, but safe and athletic" is my hometown in a nutshell. St. Joseph, Illinois isn't all that interesting, and I think the common perception from outside isn't totally accurate. When I've talked about my hometown with my friends at Uni, there are two ideas that are inevitably brought up. To begin with, a lot of people have no idea where St. Joe is, despite it being less than miles away from Urbana. You'll pass it anytime you hop on I-74 and head east. But when I tell people it's a town ten miles away, the logical conclusion is that its a rural farm village in the middle of nowhere. This isn't accurate at all in the case of St. Joe, however. While it is a town completely separated from Champaign-Urbana, its more like a suburb than anything else. A very large part of the residents ar...

This is very much a work in progress. If I could get suggestions on organization, focus, and things to add that would be great.      Much of my free time these days is used on various electronics, whether it’s my laptop, phone, or desktop computer at home. Whenever I’m bored, I’ll just turn one of them on and watch YouTube, play games, or just browse the web. While this does take up a lot of my time, I could certainly live without it, and I know that it would improve my life too.     Back when I was younger, browsing the web or were very fun to me. I was first exposed to the internet through school computer games time back in kindergarten or first grade. The two websites or games that I remember the most are “Funbrain” and “Poptropica”. Us grade-schoolers had a very limited amount of time to play them during these school periods, so it made those short periods all that more important. Back at home, it was the same. My mom was quite strict on my i...