-: I'm a Hokie, my wife's a Hokie, my son's a Hokie.
We love Virginia Tech.
I've loved Virginia Tech since I was young.
I grew up not too far from here.
The thing that I think Tech did for me,
my four years of being at Tech,
was, it taught me how to learn.
And it taught me how learning can be fun.
Because when I came in, and for the first two years,
neither were true.
I wasn't really good at learning,
it wasn't a skill set that I had picked up in high school.
You know, high school was different when I went through it
than it is today.
I think a lot of students, including my son,
learned to do that earlier.
But for me it was one of those things where,
Virginia Tech taught me how to learn,
and the joy of learning.
And I think, if I look at my last two years,
compared to my first two years,
and my years after Tech in terms of education,
the next four years that I went through,
it was very different than when I first entered the school.
So for me, it taught me how to learn.
And aside from the great community that I came from,
and I've always had a sense of belonging
into the Tech community,
and even more over the last five years,
as I've gotten re-involved to the degree that I have
with the college, and with the college of science
and with the school as a whole.
Tech means a lot to us.
It's part of our roots.