By Laura Teague
Today kicks off one of my favorite times of year on campus – Homecoming! As I’m sitting in Barfield Drawing Room writing this post, it just kind of hit me that this is my last Homecoming as an undergraduate. Preparing for Homecoming can be extremely tiring, and it’s so easy to just want the weekend to be over. Thoughts of free time fill your mind, like “After Homecoming, I’ll do this” or “Once Pigskin is over, I’ll have all this free time to do that.” However, I’m trying to ignore these thoughts, so I can experience this weekend to the fullest.
I have so many awesome memories from Homecoming, and I can’t wait to make more this weekend. But in the midst of it all, I’m trying to pause – to take a deep breath and remember how truly blessed I am to be a student at Baylor University, to look around at my friends and roommates and let them know how much they mean to me, to take in this last float all-nighter tonight and to perform our 2nd place Sing act with everything I have. Because once this weekend is over, I know I will want it back.
So whatever you are doing this weekend, whether it’s a football game your senior year, hanging out with your friends at someone’s house or just spending time with your family, approach it the same way. For you seniors in high school, things will look so different for you this time next year, and while it’s so exciting to see what the future holds, take time to appreciate where you are right now. I can’t wait for all of you to experience Baylor Homecoming as students. There is truly nothing like it in the whole world.
So I’ll leave you with this – one of my favorite quotes I’ve heard during my time at Baylor. As we all enter seasons of change, let’s remember to look forward to what’s ahead:
“Because of what Baylor has meant to you in the past, because of what she will mean to you in the future, oh, my students, have a care for her. Build upon the foundations here the great school of which I have dreamed, so that she may touch and mold the lives of future generations and help to fit them for life here and hereafter. To you seniors of the past, of the present, of the future I entrust the care of Baylor University.” – Samuel Palmer Brooks, Baylor President 1902-1931
Happy Homecoming!
