Insights Dinner

When the staff members of AGS announced this morning that we needed to be at a certain building on campus today at six, looking our best for what they called the "Insights Dinner," nobody knew quite what to expect. Regardless, we all dressed our best (or at least made a feeble attempt) and had an interesting dinner where those who had attended cotillion sometime in the past felt right at home. The rest of us, however, felt even more out of place when the traditional seven course meal table setting was combined with a buffet style food line.

Our guest speaker for the night was Robert Record from southern Louisiana, and the main thing that he emphasized when he got up to the podium was about failure:

"We all have dreams, hopes, and lofty goals. I hope you fail. Because when you fail, you find out whether that something is truly what you want to pursue. If it is what you deeply and truly care about, you will get back up, let your failure roll right off of you, and keep trying. If it is not, then you will find yourself free to pursue whatever project or cause you wish until you find that something that means something to you."