Grab the good people around you and don’t let them go.
The biggest asset this school offers you is a group of peers that will both be your family and your school for life.
I remember always being pissed at the spring here in Cambridge, tricking us into remembering a sunny yard full of laughing Frisbee throwers after 8 months of dark frigid library dwelling.
It was like the school had managed to turn on the good weather.
As a last memory, we should keep in mind that would make us want to come back.
But as I get farther away from my years here, I know that the power of this school is much deeper than weather control.
It changed the very questions I was asking.
To quote one of my favorite thinkers Abraham Joshua Heschel: “To be or not to be is not the question; the vital question is how to be and how not to be.”
Thank you.
I can’t wait to see how you do all the beautiful things you will do.