Now, nearly 8 years later, I will finally start my senior year at OU. I feel that I’ve come far in life, learned a lot, and grown a lot. Despite this progression I know I still have more to learn and more growing to do. All during this time of growth the clock tower has stood ticking away and counting down until the time I walk beneath it to graduate, and all the time after it will continue to count. My life will change and I may move away from Oklahoma, but OU will remain here and with it a monument to my personal growth and struggles as a student and as a man. I will forever remember the clock tower, a starting place, an ending place, and everything in between and beyond for my life.