Who says you can't go home?

When I was invited to speak at Texas A&M this fall I jumped at the chance to have a valid reason to spend a few days in College Station. I begged my bestie to come down for a few days and spend sometime at our old school. I headed down to CS on Thursday morning to guest lecture in an intro Chemistry Class, CHEM 100.

I rocked my talk. I tend to have a few slips in the majority of my talks but this one I nailed. It was at that moment that I realized that I wanted to be a professor and stinking soon. This was a talk about one of my projects that we are about to publish a paper on in a few weeks. I loved the feeling of standing there and sharing what I thought. The questions at the end were a little fun but I think my favorite was the one about whether or not Mike Evans should be a heisman candidate. For the record, maybe but I would love for Johnny to repeat.

The water tower aka. home

The next day I had several meetings with different faculty about being a professor or different parts of academics. It was neat to hear different perspectives than I usually hear but I did enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out what type of school I want to teach at (someday there could be a post about this, no promises obvi). But in between meetings I took a few minutes to walk around campus and see some of my old haunts. It was fun, a little weird but all in all good to see the school.

The clock tower

Academic Building, I used to read for class in this plaza

The H2O fountain outside of the Chemistry Building

The chemistry building, I lived here

Walking through campus on the way to the game

It was so fun to get to see so much of campus and several different faculty while I was there. I am pumped about the next steps in my life and I think I am going to try and hit up a game next season. I realized that I need to spend more time (and probably donate) to my Aggie Home as I may not be this close for much longer.