Steven Aldrich:  

DEVELOP A FUTURE LIFE, WHICH IS VERY SELDOM THE CASE DURING OUR COLLEGE YEARS FOR THE MAJORITY OF US. I BELIEVE THAT THE KEY TO BEING ABLE TO PULL OFF THIS FEAT IS HAVING VERY LITTLE TIME TO GET INTO TROUBLE OR TO SPEND WONDERING WHAT TO DO NEXT! MY CLASSMATES WHO SEEMED TO NEVER HAVE TO WORK AT A THING SEEM TO BE THE ONES WHO REALLY GOT VERY LITTLE OUT OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE YEARS. IN HINDSIGHT, I OFTEN WISH THAT I COULD HAVE HAD A BIT MORE TIME TO "GET INTO TROUBLE", BUT EVEN SO, I STILL MANAGED TO GET INTO SOME PRETTY TIGHT SPOTS NOW AND THEN. AFTER ALL, KIDS JUST NEED TO DEFINE THEIR LIMITS AND THEIR PARAMETERS. HOPEFULLY, THEY MANAGE TO DO THIS WITHOUT LOOSING A LIMB OR SOME OTHER PHYSICAL CAPACITY! DURING MY UNDERGRADUATE YEARS, I WAS SO FORTUNATE AS TO MEET SOME ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL PROFESSORS AND FRIENDS, SOME OF WHOM BECAME MY LIFETIME MENTORS, WHETHER THEY KNEW IT OR NOT. FOR THIS REASON, I AM SO VERY GLAD I REMAINED CONSCIOUS THROUGHOUT ALL MY YEARS THERE OR I MIGHT HAVE MISSED OUT ON SOME OF THE MOST WORTHWHILE PEOPLE AND INTELLIGENCES I WOULD EVER MEET. IT GIVES ME GREAT PAIN WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE DISDAIN AND LACK OF INTEREST THAT SOME YOUNG STUDENTS SEEM TO HAVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. YOU MISS SOME EXCEEDINGLY WORTHWHILE OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS WAY; I AM VERY GLAD THAT I DIDN'T MISS OUT!