Technique Analysis – Practicing Introductions

Introduction #1

I never thought it would take me close to a decade to graduate from college, though I guess my life is filled with lots of things I hadn’t thought about before. I knew I wanted to go to BYU since I can remember, but now that I’m here my main goal has gradually turned into developing an effective way to get out of here. It seems that many people know exactly what they want to do with their lives from a young age, and college is just a quick stop for them as they proceed with the rest of their lives. Me, I just knew that I wanted to go to BYU. And as much as I love it here, that particular dream has extended its welcome a bit too long. Is it better to map out your life while you’re still a young teenager, or should you let experience and time decide what route you should take?


Introduction #2

My Grandpa Bagley is the smartest person I know. He knows just about everything there is to know about apples. And about chemistry. And about Africa. And about chickens (which absolutely terrify me, so I won’t talk much about them). One thing I’ve come to learn over my 25 years of life is that there isn’t much that my grandpa doesn’t know about. He worked as a physicist for the government, makes the best apple cider in the world, taught chemistry at the University of San Francisco, and served as a mission president in Zimbabwe. Regrettably, he has also had chickens for as long as I can remember. He is kind, gentle and charitable, and he would claim that he is no different from anybody else in the world, but I know better.