How is everything going back in Thief River?? I just wanted to write you an email to say THANK YOU!! I found out a few days ago that I have been accepted into the UND nursing program and I will start in January! You are probably wondering what on earth this has to do with you, but as it turned out we had to write a paper as a part of the admission process. This was probably the hardest paper that I have ever written, and not because of the criteria, it's just so dang hard to write a paper about yourself! I sat and stared at my computer for hours and hours at Starbucks (yes I am now addicted to coffee because of college). I started to think about comp and everything that I had learned from you and I even looked at some of my old papers. The one that stuck out to me was my paper that I wrote about talking and how I was sooo very good at it :) After a few laughs I got the confidence I needed to write the single most important paper of my life, so far. This paper had to be a complete reflection of who I am and I had to basically sell myself in 2 pages! I brought my paper to the UND writing center and to my surprise it was virtually error free and it all made sense! I attribute a lot of my writing ability to you! Between both comp 1 and comp 2, I learned how to write a paper that reflected my personality all while staying on a professional level. This whole experience can kind of go along with the phase "So when am I ever going to us this??" So you can let all of your students know that yes, they will use every bit of information that you are teaching them! They may use the information to get an A on a paper for biology or they might even use the information to write an awesome paper that opens the door to their new career (like myself)!! Thank you so much for putting your whole heart into teaching us all how to be great writers and for actually caring about us! Now that I am in college, my name is 0805609 not Carli Sandahl; that is the biggest adjustment that I have had to get used to. I wish I had more teachers like you who actually care about their students and want them to succeed. I feel very blessed to have had a teacher like you who valued our education more than their paycheck, because now my professors could not care less if I got an A or an F, as long as I pay my tuition. At the time, comp was just a class that I enjoyed going to but now I realize how much we all actually learned from you and you really can't put a price on that! Thank you for writing corrections all over my papers and for ripping them apart if they were bad, because you know what, it prepared me for what was in store for me at college. So I feel that I can speak for my whole class when I say that I appreciate absolutely everything you did for us and how you valued each and every one of us, and i'm not being facetious! :)
-Carli
P.S. I know that this email has a billion grammatical errors... Don't hold it against me! I like to use commas! haha
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