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Yes we can. In the wake of election night, I find myself a mixture of joyous and somber — two feelings that admittedly don’t “go together.” And I feel the first thing I should address is my somber emotion. I am somber because I am sorry. Sorry for how rash I was the day after Bush Jr’s re-election four years ago. I realize now, I like to think mostly because of my age, that insulting a president-elect in the days immediately following an election does not insult the man so much as it insults his supporters, and, more importantly — your fellow citizens. I am sorry for doing my part in that terribly immature practice four years ago, and I just hope that we are better than that today.

Over the last few months I’ve really felt myself begin to understand the meaning of faith. It comes down to believing that what you are doing and who you are becoming is what and who you are meant to be. It is being able to find peace in your decisions and comfort in the unknown. For someone so used to planning every detail of my life, lessons in faith have been hard to learn and have never come easily.

I think I will always wonder what could have been with Dickinson. Really and truly, I think I could have found great friends there and am truly sad I will never have the chance to find out “what could have been” at Dickinson. It really is a great school and I would have loved to go.