You have the knowledge and potential to do great things. Now is the time to think about the fact that you are the leaders.
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Other than catching up with your loved ones and friends who've had to be put on the sideline, and the TV shows you've been missing? What now? I often view getting a graduate degree as like being a parent: No matter how much you think you know, you can't really understand it unless you've been there. I see it in the countdown clocks of Executive MBA cohorts, the workup to the final dissertation or thesis defense, the graduation dinners and celebrations, and meeting the families who are the "silent partners" in these degrees (without whom many of us would not be here today). I experience it in the great joy we see here today. Since then I've experienced graduation differently, but no less significantly. Attaining education enabled me to do things and to contribute in ways I would never have imagined. I remember my own graduation, especially my doctoral hooding. How exciting, and what an honor for me to be sharing this day with you. To be about to hold in your hands that piece of paper you've dreamed of for so long.and the anticipation of which has kept you going. So let's get right down to it: You're graduating! What a great feeling! It's so nice to be on this end of it, isn't it? To have made it through all the trials and tribulations, the stresses and sacrifices, the lost sleep.
Graduates, regents, faculty and administrators, friends and family, welcome, and thank you for inviting me to be here with you on this very special day.