Kaling closed her Harvard Law address on a note that landed with surprising weight after fifteen minutes of rapid-fire comedy. Having spent the speech joking about her own unsuitability as an advice-giver — noting that 'celebrities give too much advice and people listen to it too much' and that 'most of us have no education whatsoever' — she flipped the dynamic entirely. She told the graduates that they, not celebrities like her, should be the ones giving advice. She acknowledged that some of them looked terrifyingly young and that 'a couple of you are probably evil — that's just the odds.' But beneath the humor was a genuine charge: these graduates were about to wield extraordinary influence over people's rights and lives, and the decisions they made in the next five to ten years would affect the country in fundamental ways.