Any commencement speech is like a message in a bottle, cast adrift in the hope that someone will open it.
AB/AM and AB/SM candidates are not eligible to participate in GSAS commencement activities or receive guest tickets for any commencement activities through GSAS.
The biggest problem with any commencement speech is it falsely assumes you can control the outcome.
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He won't be invited to deliver any commencement addresses anytime soon, but he did bust out some lyrics for the class of 2014.
But humping boxes and suitcases out of my daughter's dormitory like a roadie for KISS had as much to say about college, life and parenting as any commencement.
But it's a question that will be answered by our lives and our choices, and Hawken phrases these choices as eloquently as any commencement speaker whose work I've ever seen.
Then there was the time, and time again, when there wasn't any profound, commencement-speech-worthy moral, but we just stayed up chatting, ordered Wenzels at 3 a.m., and we were here.
That said, if any prospective commencement speakers are reading, you might consider including some practical advice for the new grads, that just might make their lives easier for the next few years.
Except for the proverbial elephant in the room, this could have been any college's commencement.
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