The UNC community seems to be universally pleased by the announcement that Holden Thorp will be the next Chancelor of the University, and as the news spread around I kept thinking, I know I've heard that name before.

Then this morning it struck me. Holden Thorp was my professor in Chem 21. My Chem 21 class is also renowned for my stirring rendition of the "Photosynthesis Rap" (written to the beats of Coolio's Rollin' with my Hommies and performed in costume) and my A+ essay that used Star Wars as a metaphor for electron orbitals and spin. I always knew Holden and I had a connection.

Chem 21 is also one of those classes I wish I had back. Yesterday, I had a laugh with Dave, Elizabeth, and Skip about how much of a slacker I was in college. It's funny in a way, but when I think seriously about it, I think I was way too immature to take advantage of the opportunity that college could have been. I wasted alot of potential for 2 and a half years before I realized that, and by that time, it was mostly too late.

I hope I get to hang out with Holden again some time, and I hope he remembers me (he knew all of us by name by the second week of class). If he does I might tell him all of this and see what he says. That would be an interesting conversation.