i found this today.

i mean, i knew this was coming. they had been talking about Tyler moving since BEFORE i even applied there. but seeing the plans, the sketches, and the time-lapse pictures of the construction of the new building just made me amazingly sad.

i know, in every way possible, that this is a good thing. Tyler is an amazing school. it’s my dream to someday move back to Philadelphia and teach there. but in a matter of months, the Tyler that i knew, the campus at Elkins Park, will no longer exist. i won’t be able to go back there and visit, won’t be able to walk through the dusty old studio and revisit my corner of a table in the senior room, the one that still has “RUSEN” written on the shelves in Sharpie. it will be gone.

i know, come December and January, i am going to spend some quality time sitting on those green benches, saying goodbye.