"In the moments where you're not feeling good enough or that you're doing enough, remember that you're right where you should be."
"All my life, I've wondered, 'What if?' Now, I leave here with, 'What's next?'"
"Whatever comes next, I just hope it brings me a fraction of the joy I’ve experienced in the last four years. After all, life is better off with a smile when you're dancing like nobody's watching."
"Just because your picture isn't perfect doesn't mean the memories you've captured aren't meaningful."
"It's the people I was with that made my time growing up here so special. It’s the people I was around that made my time at Penn State so important."
A mousepad with a cheesy marketing campaign was the first puzzle piece of Michael Tauriello's quest to understand the ultimate industrial engineering optimization problem: Life itself.