
The following post is adapted from Richard C. Levin's Yale Baccalaureate Address, delivered May 19-20, 2012. I imagine you are finding it difficult to believe that your time here has come to an end. Let me tell you from experience: your memories of Yale College, and the lessons you have learned here, will endure, but you have so many exciting possibilities ahead that the sense of loss you feel today will fade quickly. And think of all that you have accomplished! You have opened for yourselves worlds that you never knew existed when you came here four years ago. You have discovered that you love philosophy, or music, or art history, or archaeological fieldwork, or analyzing economic data or computer images of the stars, or ...
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