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When you appeared for freshman registration in 2006, five years to the day after 9/11, President Bush was declaring us “safer” if  “not yet safe”; the Dow was climbing toward its all-time high; and the world was rumbling...

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Then came your junior year, and suddenly there was no script. The world had shifted. It was the year of Obama. Who could have anticipated that? It was the year of entropy, with catastrophic floods and fires, an imminent flu pandemic, and the biggest meltdown of world financial systems since...

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

The second lesson: Embrace risk—it is inescapable. You worry, I know, about the burden of Harvard, about “the pressure to be extraordinary” within a narrow definition of success, as one of you told me. “What will I say at...

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

And the fourth lesson: Living in a world without a script demands and rewards creativity. You need to be the authors, the entrepreneurs, of your own lives. Columnist David Brooks wrote recently of a process he called “leading with two minds”—the...

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

If any class knows how to do this, it is yours. It is what the world’s crises, and your liberal arts education, have trained you to do. Keep asking the big, irrelevant questions; keep thinking beyond the present. Then live what you have learned.

Author: By Drew G. Faust | Title: A Message from the President to the Class of 2010 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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