I love TLU in summertime.

I love the smell of the freshly cut grass and the friendly wave from the man who's cutting it.

I love walking into the library and being greeted by the friends who are working there.

I love coming to the ASC and seeing the middle school kids on campus for a tour excitedly flipping through their information folders.  We didn't get the backpacks when I came on my first tour, but the folders are exactly the same and somehow that's important.

I love how the guy who works in Lucky's seems to understand that coffee is really, really important and tells me to have a great day.

I love knowing that the slowed down pulse of campus during summer will be reinvigorated come fall when everyone's back on campus.

I love that even though I know that my classes will be challenging, I have a whole group of professors and friends who believe in my dreams, just as I believe in theirs.

I love sitting on my big yellow couch here in the ASC and looking around and truly being glad that I am here.

Mostly I love how all of these little things add up to make this place a home.  It's more than a school.  It's a community of people living and loving and learning together.

We learn boldly and we live to inspire.  I'm going to miss this place.