So, these past twelve months have not been the greatest. A lot has happened since last August, so I thought I’d give an update on what has transpired.

A little over a year ago, an Aunt, who had been fighting cancer, was told to make her final life preparations.

Because her sister and niece (my wife) …

College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain

While Twain’s tongue-in-cheek observation about the traditional college model held true in Mark Twain’s day–up until about ten years ago the …

Despite everyone being exhausted, sometimes speaking in incomplete or undecipherable sentences from lack of sleep, a murmur of expectation was building in the air.

Though everyone else had two days of the residency left, for the graduating class, today was graduation day.

In the morning, the last …