"Dear Irvin" Spring 2016 by Bill Syrett
“Dear Irvin” A note from your faculty adviser Spring 2016 Dear Irvin Hall residents: Happy New Year! Welcome back (or for a few of you, welcome!) to the best living option on campus, and possibly in all of State College, and possibly in all of Pennsylvania, the U.S., in North America, the northern and western hemispheres, on the planet and across the universe… Anyway, Irvin is a special place for many reasons and I am sure many of you appreciate that. Sometimes I tend to overlook what’s good about my life and focus on the negative, often stressful things going on around me. Don’t we all? So, in case you aren’t 99.5% pumped up about the new semester (I’ll allow a half percent negativity as a healthy dose of reality) I would like to let you know what makes me happy to be a part of your college experience. First, I thank you for allowing me to feel welcome in your “home away from home.” It is always nice for me to see how some things have changed since I