New Beginnings

Life will absolutely not be what you think it will be. It will be hard and wonderful and messy and rewarding, with more versions of you than you think possible.

Embrace your inexperience and keep taking leaps forward.

The scary news is, you're on your own now. But the cool news is, you're on your own now.

Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.

You don't have to accept what was considered normal before. You don't have to accept the world as it is. You can make it into the world as it should be and could be. You can create a new normal.

The simple truth is the program you ran here is the same program. Just run it again and again and again.

At this moment in your life you know fewer limits, fewer taboos and fewer fears than you will ever in the future. So do not squander your ignorance.

You're about to embark on careers that will take many of you to companies not yet founded, using devices not yet developed, based on ideas not yet conceived. That is how fast things are moving.

You are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children and grandchildren and therapists.

Graduates, you're on your own. Figure it out. I believe in you. Believe in yourselves! The world is starving for new leadership, new ideas.

Say Yes. Say Yes, And… and create your own destiny.

It's time to say goodbye to the person we've become, we've worked so hard to perfect, and to make some decisions about who we're going to be.