This week I have thought a lot about my BYU experience. The realization hit me that I will be graduating and moving on to another chapter in life, and that thought seems surreal. Because I have been at BYU for five years (with a 2 year mission break), I am just so used to it being pretty much my whole life that the thought of my time here being up feels strange. I am the kind of person that loves to get into grooves and routines, not strict routines but general patterns of life. Whenever there is a major change, like graduation, I feel nervous but excited at the same time. I know that I will be going to dental school after graduating, but I also know my daily life will be different. Different because there is only one BYU, and one BYU experience. If I had to say what the best thing about BYU is, I would say it is the teachers. The general student body has a lot to do with my experience, but because the bulk of my on-campus time has been spent in lecture and lab, the teachers have made the greatest impressions and not only taught me the lesson material, but also important life lessons. The funny thing is that I don't think I could ever list those things out, but I know they are there because of the way I have changed. The greatest change has come in my process of thought, and that is what I am most grateful for. Many professors throughout the years have pushed us students to think for ourselves and use logic, deductive techniques, and always ask ourselves if something is concurrent with what we know to be true. And I love most of all the simple things in the classes that help guide me towards the gospel, such as the prayers in class, the continual references to Jesus Christ and the plan of salvation, and most importantly the spirit that each professor has brought to the class with their sincere desire to help us students gain not only temporal knowledge, but spiritual knowledge. I wish I could always be here at BYU, but the lessons I have learned and the feeling that have come will never leave, and I can feel how I have become a better person because of this BYU experience.