An Open Letter to the Colleges of Texas

I always knew that Aggie jokes were ironic, even as a kid. There was a father figure in my life who graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in biomedical engineering. He pioneered technologies used in clinical labs to help improve how children with prostheses move. Brilliant guy. His career alone was evidence that A&M was a distinguished college. But it wasn’t until a conversation in my early twenties that I understood it to be a singular institution.An acquaintance mentioned offhand that she was going to attend Muster in a few days. I’d never heard of it. The solemn tradition she described—Aggies gathering in groups large and small across the country and reading the names of fellow A&M students and alumni who’d died in…

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