I've had many opportunities to meet with high school seniors with hopes to enroll at VCU and VCU underclassmen already involved with the rigors of undergraduate engineering. But you've gotta mean it, not just say it. You've gotta feel it, not just say it. It's not reliving a second childhood, or having a mid-life crisis. It's reaching out to the next generation of kids and realizing that they aren't what you were thirty years ago.
Nothing is the same as it was thirty years ago.
No more slide rules, although they were pretty neat for their day. No more crew cuts. Instead, walk outside in front of Hibbs, or in the quad outside the Commons and just look and listen. If you aren't already cool, it'll take a bit of time to absorb and learn. But it's time well spent.