The President at University of Richmond

On September 9th, the University of Richmond was honored with the presence of the President of the United States. No matter what your political affiliation, to have the President of the U.S. speak at your University it is a Big Deal.

The news broke on Wednesday the 7th, when the White House officially announced the visit. What is hilarious is that I, being extremely busy with all my classes and jobs, walked into class that day having no idea that anything was different than the day before. When the person sitting next to me said that Obama was going to grace us with his presence within two days time, I simply didn't heed the comment, thinking of it as some sort of bizarre sarcasm. Why would Obama come to University of Richmond? Needless to say when I received the email notification of the visit, I cleared my schedule for the 9th so that I could go to see my President.

The morning of the visit I got a call from a friend, three and a half hours before the event, telling me that the line was spanning the campus, and was already across the lake from where the event would be held. After reaching the end of the line (which really was across the lake) we waited for several hours in order to finally enter the stadium where the President was to speak.

Despite the long wait it was worth it. To see the President of the U.S. run into your University's stadium with his shirts sleeves rolled up, seemingly excited to be there, is truly a unique experience.

Though I always have known life to be unpredictable, this was something that, even expecting the unpredictable, I did not think would happen during my time at the University. The speech he gave that day was on Economics, based off of an address to the nation he had given the night before. And as always, President Obama was a fantastic speaker.

Even after the motorcade zoomed off with the President within it, the whole thing seemed surreal.

Well, like I have always maintained, life is a collection of adventures; this being a superb one for my final year at the University of Richmond.

Until the Next Adventure!