Bon Jovi closed his speech by returning to its central theme — 'the power of we' — and contrasting it with his earlier advice about planning in pencil. Throughout the address, he had built the case that no one achieves anything alone: 'Not government alone, not the private sector alone. It takes great partnerships... It takes everyone from nuns to rockstars.' He pointed to the graduating class's own record as proof: over the course of one school year, Rutgers-Camden students had performed almost 35 years' worth of community service. They had used technology not to play video games but to map their community and ensure services reached people in need. They had come together to reopen Cooper Park. The callback to his pencil metaphor — 'you can write that one down in pen' — was the speech's best rhetorical turn. While career plans should stay flexible, the commitment to building a life around collaboration and service was permanent. That was the one thing worth committing to in ink.