Hello Steemit! How my brother, the Bears, and a train got me here today
As I have been told is customary my first post here is my #introduceyourself post. My name is Luke and I am an engineering student at the University of Illinois and I am so excited to be a part of this community. Phew... boring part done. Lets get into my story.
About me: I grew up in a small town in central Illinois. For those of you not aware of what is in small town Illinois, you aren't missing much. Just a lot of fields of corn only broken up by a lot of fields of soybeans. While not the ideal place to develop a love of technology, that was exactly what my brothers and I did. We have always loved technology and are always pursuing what the next big thing is going to be. This is how I got introduced to cryptocurrency. My brother showed me BitCoin and I was confused what the point of it was, like sure there is a new way to store data why is it being traded for so much money. Since being introduced to it I have drug my feet getting involved with it but I have finally decided that I will give it a try... maybe.
I decided that if I was going to do this, I would need support from my team, THE Chicago Bears. So, before their game yesterday, I made a bet with myself that if they won I would start Steemit. Well, for those of you who follow the NFL, the then 3-9 Bears routed the Cincinnati Bengals 33-7 and here I am now.
Going forward: For a long time I have considered writing a blog of some sort. At this point I haven't nailed down exactly what I want to talk about so it may vary from post to post, but I will likely focus on sports, video games, and potentially book reviews if that is something people would be interested in. I look forward to seeing if people would be interested in this and getting feedback.
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Thank you for reading and welcoming me to this community.
-Luke
P.S. If you want to show your support comment INI! below.
P.P.S. Oh and about the train, I just like trains and needed a 3rd thing for my title.
Welcome to Steemit! You are going to love it here :)
I wish you the best! Hope you gonna have fun with our community and see you soon.
Welcome to Steemit! A Chicago fan huh....ugh I guess we can be cordial. Packer fan here. Look forward to more posts, feel free to follow or contact me if you need anything! Talk about whatever you like, great community!
Haha I guess that can be acceptable. I'm really excited to just share. Just looked at your feed briefly and definitely following. You have some good stuff.
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I think we are a part of something truly special here, and I welcome you! Another early adopter to this amazing technology.
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