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That's a David Goggens thing ... 4x4x48
edit: its still INSANE. I have a friend who does it....
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Apparently he wasn't accepted for the Rhodes Scholarship.
What's next for Ohio State football's Harry Miller after he graduates?
Harry Miller, who retired from football last year due to mental health challenges, is set to graduate from Ohio State this weekend.
www.dispatch.com
What's next for Ohio State football's Harry Miller after he graduates?
15 Dec 2023
Harry Miller was at Ohio State on Wednesday to pick up part of his graduation regalia.
His time at the university winds down this week.
“It is one of those things where it feels like it’s never going to end,” Miller said, “like it’s going to be a perpetual state of scheduling the next semester. Now it’s like, ‘Here you go.’ It’s very cool.”
Miller took take part in an autumn commencement at the Schottenstein Center on Sunday, receiving a degree in mechanical engineering.
The ceremony capped 4½ years, a period that began in 2019 when Miller arrived in Columbus as a decorated offensive line recruit from suburban Atlanta.
He ascended the depth chart after a year with the Buckeyes, starting at left guard as a sophomore before medically retiring in 2022 due to mental health challenges that included contemplating suicide.
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Next year, he is considering reapplying for a Rhodes scholarship. A return to academia would involve studying much-needed public policy solutions to address mental health. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy referred to youth mental health as "the defining challenge of our country" when he met with The Dispatch last year.
“I think about Big Tech and its effects on mental health, especially younger users,” Miller said. “There’s a lot of policy that can be done to mitigate those issues.”
Challenges persist for Miller. He continues to deal with feelings of depression, though he has discovered more ways to manage them over the past few years.
He said he found a “fatal flaw” was limiting his communication with family and friends when he got down, a habit that resulted in isolation. To combat it, he makes sure he’s in touch with them when he’s low.
“It’s things like that,” Miller said. “There are fixes for everybody.”
Others involve hobbies. He goes on frequent walks and runs about 25 miles a week, exercise that has allowed him to slim down as a result. When he was an offensive lineman, he weighed about 320 pounds. He’s now 240 pounds.
Miller tries to channel his creative side too from playing his guitar to writing poetry or songs.
“I don’t let a feeling go to waste,” Miller said. “Even if it’s something like sadness. It lends toward beautiful creativity. What is so hard about being a former student-athlete or an engineer or a high-achieving person is that when you are sad, you feel like you're wasting time and you're doing nothing.
“But maybe it's a trick for myself where I feel like, if I'm creating something, then this sadness is worth it and it'll pass and when I when I come out of it, I'm going to have a souvenir. So let’s do it. That works for me.”
That is the course for Miller as he shares with others.
“I hope and I have faith,” he said. “Hope is pretending to believe in something until one day you don't have to pretend anymore. And it’s devotion to the rituals, and for me in this case, the ritual is living.”
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Just sayin': Just wondering how his life would have turned out if he hadn't come to Ohio State. He did get the support and help he needed from the school and Ryan Day to get his mental issues under control, to graduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree, and being able to look ahead to a very productive life. Had he of gone to some other school the outcome could have been a lot different.
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No matter what Harry does in life or where he goes from here, he will always have a huge fan in me. Hopefully he has, and will continue to be an inspiration for people trying to deal with issues that effect not just them, but their families and others around them. I've said before that my family has dealt with those very issues, so this is personal to me. Go get em' kid! Keep making yourself and Buckeye Nation proud!
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