Chancellors Zeppos and Williams,
The very first moment I stepped onto Vanderbilt's campus as a seventeen year old, I knew it was the place for me. It was a new beginning for me in many ways, and the beginning of a new life full of opportunities with some fantastic people. Just a few months later, I was a Freshman and starting on a long journey which would end up with me graduating from Vanderbilt, getting a PhD in astrophysics from LSU, a prestigious postdoc, and eventually get work in the private sector.
Vanderbilt University was very much the start of the path of my adult life.