You couldn’t have asked for a better day on Sunday, September 5th. A thousand students were in the process of checking out their new campus and checking in for four years of experiences that they could not even guess at. I was able to meet many freshmen and their parents, and often younger brothers and sisters and even grandparents. We offered them free T-shirts that said “Sacred Heart University” quietly on the front, with the reverse side shouting “Graduation or Bust!” Graduation seemed a long way off for many; the immediate concerns were more compelling: How long will it take to get my things onto the sixth floor? Where is the mail room? What do I do about parking? And of course, where is the bathroom? As I looked out at the hopeful and somewhat confused throng, I thought, as I always do on Move-In Day, here are the future stars of Sacred Heart. They might not even know it yet, but here are the biology whizzes, the prize-winning poets, the nurses who will save lives, the football champions. In this maze of people are future husbands and wives, future rivals, future best friends forever. On Move-In Day, everything is possible.
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