Ryan Hurd

My name is Ryan Hurd and I am from Winston-Salem.  Winston-Salem, for those who do not know, was once the tobacco capital of the world, but in recent years we have shifted most means of production towards fast food and, somewhat obviously, health care.  My chief interests in life include music and entertainment in general, so naturally I am an Econ major.  As far as my favorite pastimes go, I spend several hours watching really bad TV, like the History Channel.  I cannot stand Pawn Stars though.  My economics training makes me furious when I see a guy sell something like Jimi Hendrix’s guitar that has been in his family for roughly two hundred years for five dollars (if that is historically inaccurate remember that I watch the History Channel).

Currently I am a second semester junior at this university.  Over that period of time I have learned a few things about classes here, the most important of them being to take a course whose material you believe you will be interested at some point, even if you begin the class deficient in knowledge of the subject (other rules include: never use contractions in a writing assignment with a length requirement, the university schedules CCI printers for lengthy maintenance based upon your due dates, etc.).  For that reason I settled on English 128 after trying out a few other English courses.  I look forward to the readings and hope by semester’s end to be knowledgeable about an area of literature I have always enjoyed.