This will likely be my last entry, but I suppose it's an appropriate sign-off to let you know that you never leave the Buckeye family.  Less than a week after graduating, I had two OSU experiences away from home, which shows how you really are a Buckeye for life.

Last Thursday my family and I were in staying in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.  On our way to dinner, I passed a young lad of about ten years of age wearing an Ohio State football jersey.  Four years of classical conditioning had me blurting out, "O-H!" before I even knew what I was doing.  He looked mildly surprised, smiled, and answered, "I-O!"  (I'm sure his mom later told him not to talk to strange girls in the woods...)

Two days later we were visiting colonial Williamsburg.  As we lined up to see the Revolutionary City reenactment, I recognized a guy sitting on a bench as a student who lived across the hall from me in my freshman dorm who was now relocating to Richmond to work as a consultant for his fraternity.  We had a few minutes of catching up and then went off to our respective groups.

I can only imagine the hundreds of other serendipitous "You're a Buckeye?  I'm a Buckeye!" meetings that await me in the future.  I hope to always maintain a link to the university and I expect that to be the case, especially since I will be an educator myself.  I couldn't have known this coming into the university, but the words of the alma mater ring true:

Time and change will surely show

How firm thy friendship, O-HI-O.