We ARE Virginia Tech

In case you've been under a rock for the past couple of days. This is the transcript of Nikki Giovonni's Convocation address at Virginia Tech this horrendous week.

No matter where we went to school, we are all hokies this week. This week makes everything else seem, well, actually become, trivial. I cannot imagine how it must be to have gone to school there, to have lived in that dorm, to have taken classes in that building. What's more befuddling is how one man can have that much rage in him that he's going to kill that many people.

I also recognize the Hokie studeints that have been interviewd numereous times this week, those that say they'll go back. I don't know if I would or could go back to a place where a massacre took place less than a year prior. This heinous act of violence will forever be in my mind.

Back to Ms. Giovanni's speech. This was probably the most powerful mixture of words that I've ever heard. So simple, so eloquent. So powerful.

Thank you

We are The Hokies, We will prevail, we are Virginia Tech.

"LET'S GO HOKIES!!"