Pardon my french, but I felt extremely moved to share this article written by a peer of mine.
I first met Hannah Billings during the time that I served as the Student Government’s Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion during my senior year (2011-2012) at Virginia Tech. She was also on SGA Exec, and while we didn’t cross paths often, I definitely knew who she was just by virtue of her exceptional work with Hokies on Fire, a student initiative to get students pumped up about Hokies basketball!
All of this was part of the reason I was kind of surprised but moreso honored that she Facebook messaged me one morning to see if she could interview me for an article for her magazine writing class. I was happy I had some extra time on my calendar that night, and I wasn’t sure where the conversation would go, but I wanted to help Hannah out with her article. If I’m being honest it felt a lot like sitting on Oprah’s couch:
And if I was President, my socks would NOT be black. Just saying.
He feels that he has been given an amazing life, and he wants to be the motivation for others to know that they can do whatever it is that they want to do. He wants some form of, “do whatever the hell you want,” on his tombstone when that day comes.