 My name is Chris Emerson, hometown Addison, Maine. My aunt and uncle live in Birmingham. My uncle is from Southern Alabama. And during high school, they would invite me up here every summer to work for them. And I started school at the University of Maine. That summer of my first year, I came back down to work for my aunt and uncle. And my uncle said, you know, I've never taken you to Tuscaloosa. We should hop in the truck and drive over and take a look at the campus. He came over and I was floored. I had never seen a campus as beautiful as this. You know, the huge trees, the president's mansion. At that moment I said, you know, can we just go to the administration office? I did not leave the building until I was enrolled. I actually did not go back home until Thanksgiving. Shocked my parents, packed up my suitcase as I came back and finished off here in Alabama.