-: For someone who doesn't know,
I would describe the Virginia Tech experience as
amazing.
It's service,
it's people who care,
it's gorgeous geography in the mountains,
it's people who are passionate and spirited,
whether it's about academics,
whether it's about class,
whether it's about food,
whether it's about anything,
the Virginia Tech experience
has everything to do with being committed.
Committed to good things of course.
Things like service and caring for your common person,
being compassionate.
The Virginia Tech experience,
everything about it is
fantastic I think,
but also very hard to explain.
It's something that I've never really
been able to
kind of like, bottle up succinctly and give it to someone.
More often than not,
even if someone was not a student
or was not officially a Hokie,
maybe they're a Hokie by marriage
or a Hokie by adoption,
once they come to Virginia Tech,
and they experience all of those things
that I just mentioned,
then they get it.
You can see that lightbulb go off and say
"Wow. Now I understand why you're obsessed with that place."