For this entry, you are to consider your own personal biography and how it intersects with the 
social world. For this journal entry, you will draft a letter to yourself OR a significant other 
(parent, sibling, close friend, child, partner, spouse, or other loved one). You may consider this 
entry as an opportunity to reflect on your life amid the uncertainty of this period. Your letter 
must include at least FOUR of the statements below. 
These prompts are just meant to help you brainstorm and/or get out of your head and write a 
letter to yourself from the heart. 
Include at least FOUR versions of the following prompts in your letter. Everyone must include 
the prompt with the asterisk* below.  If you are writing to someone else, then you will simply 
change the pronoun. (For example, What I want to know or What I want you to know...)
Required Letter Prompt*
**Using my sociological imagination has allowed me to... (this portion must demonstrate that 
you understand what the sociological imagination is, how it connects to your experiences in the 
midst of a pandemic and why C. Wright Mills and sociologists believe it to be important)
Select three other prompts from the list below to include in your letter.
What I know now...                                        What I want to know/What I want to learn...
What/who I miss...                                          I did not expect to...     
My community...                                             I have felt so...
If I had known that...                                       I believe...
I am prepared to...                                         What/who is getting me through...
The song or album that will be the soundtrack to this moment.