It's mindboggling to me to think that we're at thirty-four thousand students.
We're the largest campus in the UNC system
and the things that NC State's doing to impact now not just North Carolina
but the world,
are just mindboggling.
We've got a wonderful new chancellor who has got great vision as well.
That's the other thing. NC State's always had--well North Carolina
has always been able to have very, very strong visionary leadership
to lead us over the next hill, the next horizon, if you will,
and we've got that in Randy Woodson. Randy Woodson is going to do wonderful things at NC State.
Governor Perdue is going to do great things with North Carolina,
just like Governor Hunt did back there in his day.
NC State changes lives.
It makes leaders, develops leaders. If you've got just innate skills or even if you don't have very good skills
the things you can do at NC State can in fact make you a great leader, a good leader.
It depends on how much energy you want to put into it.
But when I describe NC State to people I say to them, you know,
this is an institution like all the other institutions in the UNC system,
and Duke and Wake Forest as well and all the other colleges in North Carolina,
but I know NC State better than those.
NC State has the ability to shape and form lives in ways that you can't imagine
when you enter there as a student.
It depends on how much energy and time and stick-to-it-iveness you've got. If you've got the desire
to come out the other end being a better person, State can help you do that.