The document welcomes students to their education and encourages them to succeed by being useful, mastering their tools, building something, catching F.I.R.E. through formation, instruction, research and extension, and being heroic. It notes that four years will pass quickly and this education is training for their career and life, and asks if students want to succeed.

1. Welcome!
(and welcome back)

2. Thank you for
entrusting us with
your education

3. Four years seems like a
long time but it will
pass very quickly.

4. Four years seems like a
long time but it will
pass very quickly.
Too quickly.

5. Here's a little
secret...

6. We want you to
succeed.

7. But we won't
make it easy for
you

8. Consider this
your training
for your career
for your LIFE

9. Because we want
you to succeed.

10. Do you want to
succeed?

11. Five things

12. 1

13. Be useful.

14. 2

15. Master your tools.

16. 3

17. Build something.

18. 4

19. Catch F.I.R.E.

20. Formation
Instruction
Research
Extension

21. 5

22. Be heroic.

23. This is how you
will succeed.

24. Be useful.
Master your tools.
Build something.
Catch F.I.R.E.
Be heroic.

25. Welcome!
(and welcome back)