Hochul asks graduates to imagine their 50th reunion. They'll return to a very different campus, and some of their friends won't have made it. They'll reminisce about the spring of 2020 when everything was turned upside down. But then one question will be on everyone's lips — the last question on their Syracuse final exam: What did you do? She frames the entire arc of a life as a 50-year journey toward being able to answer that question. The simplicity of the answer — 'I made a difference' — belies its difficulty. It started here, she says, and every choice from this day forward either builds toward that answer or away from it.