I honestly didn't know what I was going to write for this year's rallying cry for the new freshmen. I spent most of last season punched out for personal reasons (don't worry, it's all good now) and haven't been entirely plugged into what to expect this year. So instead, let me offer you an extended quote from Nick Hornby, whose alma mater I visited just last week:
"I used to believe, although I don’t now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments.