At one point, out of sheer enthusiasm, I wrote a letter to a newspaper I admired very much at the time called PM.

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Along with maintaining a top ten ranking, I was a member of three different National Honors Societies (officer of one), played on both the Academic Decathlon and Mock Trial teams, and wrote for the school newspaper and the special teen section of the local daily, The El Paso Times.

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