I'm probably already on a watch list, but I had written a persuasive essay in my freshman year of college English on the topic. Having waited until the night before to write an 8 page essay, drinking a beer or two with my roommate, and not sure what I wanted to write about, I wrote an entire paper on why it would be financially, socially, and morally acceptable to have Texans and Arizonians patrol the border with shoot-on-sight rules with hunting permits.

I got an F despite it meeting the requirements of the assignment and being well written. Although I had passed the class with a B anyway, I appealed the final paper to the English Department and it got an A. The hippy teacher was openly pissed when I met her to claim my paper. I hung that paper marked with red ink all over on my fridge for a decade. I had since lost it, but I'll never concede that I was wrong.