To be a student means

to be an artist, a writer, a thinker.

An explorer, a researcher, a producer.

To be a student means

to design, to read, to listen

to learn.

To lead, to inspire (and be inspired),

to strive.

To think, to plan, to solve,

to invent.

To study, to present, to construct,

to apply and re-apply.

To have interest and curiosity

potential and skill

patience and time

joy and contentment

for that goal

which leads to our unknown future.

To be a student means

To care, to respect, to be modest,

to overcome.

To grow, to encourage, to search,

to be independent, to challenge, to withstand,

to dazzle.

To be stubborn, to hope, to dream,

to doubt.

To play, to wander, to laugh,

to cry,

for the time we’ll go off to college.

To make mistakes and fix them,

to protest against the unjust,

to not always make up excuses,

to break away from the habit of making excuses,

to be different.

To be bold and fierce,

to never cower away from unlikely situations.

To do the unexpected and unpredictable,

to be unpredictable,

and seem unpredictable,

always to be unpredictable and

go beyond our limits.

To observe, to attain, to exploit,

and to observe again.

To explore, to experience, to mature,

and advance to the next step.