As cliché as it sounds, it genuinely seems like yesterday that I first set foot on the Texas A&M campus. And now, to my disbelief, I have five days until I walk across the stage at Reed Arena...

When I was in high school, I shared a truck with my dad. It was this half-ton white-and-dust colored Dodge that was consistently filled with tools I didn't know the names of and empty cans of dipping tobacco....