Pledge Class 51
Class of 2008
Big Brother : Shane Webb
Nickname : Black & Decker
Major : Political Science
Hometown : Mission TX
Birthday : 4/20/86

The miracle of my birth took place on the 20th day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1986 in McAllen, Texas. I cannot quiet recall the first several years of my life, but I have a feeling that they were indeed spectacular and was spectacular to everyone who knew me. While many of my peers spent time burning ants with electric fences, I spent the early years of my life reading and educating myself on the ways of our world, accepting even then that I would be of incredible significance to our planet in the future. Beginning when I was just seven years old, I created a legacy, a memory of greatness if you will, that I burned into the minds and hearts of every lifeguard at Gus & Goldie in which I placed first for three consecutive years at every pee wee swimming competition. I believe there was no doubt in anyone’s mind at that point that I was a swimming prodigy, and that is why I walked away from it. I had become tired of total domination at everything I laid a figure upon, so I begin a period in my life that I would like to refer to as “the cleansing.” At this point, I decided to actually humanize myself by gaining a considerable amount of weight, not taking proper care of my own hygiene, and behaving awkwardly towards members of the opposite sex. No doubt it was difficult for me to take this challenge, but I believed that it was important as an outstanding individual to walk amongst my peers almost as a leper. Throughout those years from 5th until 8th grade, I had lost almost all amazing status amongst those who knew me and was belittled among those who did not. It was then, once I had reached the bottom of the abyss and even my own relatives had lost complete faith in me, that I began “the comeback” just because I could. I began the revolution and its effects can still be felt today in the hearts of every woman at Sharyland High School. At this point, I became more than just a man, I became an ideal, an ideal that I will continue for the rest of my life. I was active in a variety of organizations and the school tennis team, and left my high school knowing that I had completely changed their minds on what education actually was. Going to college was obvious, but I wanted a college that would challenge me the most, and I knew that that school was Austin College. It is not just the academics that I have had to endure, but Sherman, an area that I was unaccustomed to. It was hard at first, not having any kind of substantial restaurant that could even be remotely considered Mexican food. I am now at Austin College, am heavily involved in the Pre-Law Society and Student Assembly, and in continuing with my lifelong theme of excellence, pledged Gamma Gamma Gamma in the spring of 2006.