Elizabeth Warren, the United States Senator from Massachusetts, delivered a commencement address at Suffolk University that drew directly from her own wildly unpredictable life story. She had wanted to be a teacher since second grade, but at 19 she married, dropped out of college, and gave up her scholarship. She became a teacher, then lost that job when she got pregnant. She went to law school, couldn't get hired, and ended up teaching law for 30 years before a financial crisis led to a phone call from the Senate that changed everything. Warren's point wasn't that planning is useless — it was that rigid adherence to a plan can blind you to better possibilities. She had never planned to be a law professor, never planned to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, never planned to run for Senate. Each of these defining achievements came from an unexpected turn she had the flexibility to embrace. The humor in her delivery ('I never imagined I would be a blonde, but here I am. And I can tell you, it is life-changing to be a blonde') kept the message from becoming heavy-handed. For graduates who felt pressure to have their lives mapped out, it was liberating to hear that uncertainty isn't a bug — it's where the most exciting chapters come from.