Lila and John are, as it seems, a campus-famous married duo of card swipers at South. I initially asked John, "What piece of advice would you give the class of 2014?" He thought for a while, then finally decided he wanted to ask his wife.

He called Lila over and asked her my question.

Without hesitation, she looked right at me and said, "There are no failures. Nothing you do is a failure. If something does not go as planned, it simply means you have figured out what doesn't work."