Although it may be difficult for most people to understand and impossiblefor others to believe, the future has already happened. This is one of thefundamental concepts in the area of time travel. I'm sure you haveheard of instances where people have placed various objects in asealed container (time capsule) to be opened at some time in the future

Although you are currently in high school, in the future you have alreadygraduated from college and begun your career. The purpose of thisassignment is for you to send a message to yourself, 10 years into thefuture. Unfortunately, the US Postal Service is unable at the presenttime to deliver mail to another time, so we will just have to wait for themail to catch up to the future

What you write in your letter is totally up to you and confidential. I WILL NOT READ IT. YOU WILL PLACE YOUR LETTER IN A SEALED ENVELOPE. You should address it to yourself(use you present homeaddress). I will collect the letters, put them in a folder, and exactly tenyears from today, I will mail it to you. By then, you will probably have forgotten ever writing the letter and will be surprised to receive amessage from the past.