Every trip I take now begins and ends on an airplane, and every time, I marvel at how man strapped wings on a tin can and pushed it into the air, asking it to fly. The Wright Brothers lept into the air on their canvas wings and an immense level of faith, and it stuns me how much we’ve deepened that faith in a flying aluminum tube to this day.
In many ways, returning to Georgia Tech for homecoming is a version of that same faith (please bear with me on this metaphor). Regardless of where you now live as an alumnus/alumnae, returning to our humble campus in Midtown Atlanta is a pilgrimage and a recurring payout on an investment of faith pledged long ago.