Dear STAC,

2010:

You are all amazing. You are all talented and creative and intelligent and just plain old amazing. I miss all of you insane amounts; even the ones I didn't really get that close to during the school year.

But the weird thing about the meaning of "that close" in STAC is that it is still incredibly close. When thinking about certain parts of last year I want to break down and cry. There were times where I felt like one person with all of you, like in Jim Bonie's workshop. How close we became was overwhelming.

That being said:

2011:

You are all amazing. You are all talented and creative and intelligent and just plain old amazing. I can not wait to miss all of you insane amounts.

It's a weird thing to say, I can't wait to miss you, but it's true. I can't wait to become so close with all of you that there will be something to miss. We're all going to separate at one point or another, and I just want there to be something amazing to miss when we've gone our own ways.

I know that we will all become incredibly close. I already feel so much closer to you all in the short time we've been here.

Why I'm bringing this up?

As most of you probably already know, old STACies have been visiting the past few days. Nikki (class of 2010) said something about how she tells her friends at Binghamton stories from STAC and they just don't get it. They don't understand. It's silly that I needed some one to go away to college and tell me that before I realized how true this is. I see it everyday. I can talk to my closest friends in the whole world - the people who know me best - and they just don't get it. You really have to be in STAC to understand some things, and thats what brings us so close.

Then while watching To Sir, With Love today I saw a little bit of STAC in the movie. I found a similarity within STAC and the class in the movie. Not because we smoke and curse in the STAC room, but because both STAC and the class in the movie have a "sink or swim" vibe

to them. Just the way the class in the movie was united - they could joke together, they could learn together, they could even stand up against the teacher for one another - was very STAC.

Bottom line: STACies stick together.