Dear Humans,

What’s the first thing I tell you to do when you get a piece of paper? Put your name on it. And even though a startlingly high number of you forget to do this, I can still usually match students with their no-name papers.

Because in life our names are written on everything we do, whether we put them there or not. Every word we say, every action we do, every opportunity we pass up. Our name is on all of it.

So it’s important that everything we do is the best we can do. No matter how small or seemingly inconsequential, if it has our name on it, it represents us. And we should act like it.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt