Prepoceros

To the Harvey Mudd College class of 2006:

Congratulations! I hope the weather behaved today, and that y’all weren’t too exhausted from your theses/clinic presentations/other amazing things/packing to enjoy it properly.

I was reading some of the email discussions on the class list, and it looks like they moved graduation somewhere else on the 5C’s? And that Prof. Platt was the commencement speaker? I hope all the 50th anniversary hullaballoo didn’t get in the way too much.

But seriously, wow. It’s hard to believe you guys are really really graduating. Frosh orientation feels like it was an eternity ago. Congratulations on sticking it out—you all have my deep, heartfelt respect and awe. You are amazing, hard-working, BRILLIANT people, and I know you’ll go on to do all sorts of fabulous things in grad school, the “real world,” or wherever else you’re headed after this. I’ll be looking for your names on the Nobel Prize and Fields Medal rosters of 2046*.

Sorry if I’m being cheesy, but those diplomas are, like, certificates of awesomeness. Sure, it might be annoying to explain to the thirty-thousandth person that no, you didn’t say “Harvard Med,” and it’s actually a small, high-caliber math and science school just east of LA, yes, like CalTech but better. But to people who know what Mudd’s all about, y’all are ROCK STARS.

I had vague plans to drive out to Claremont this weekend to watch the ceremony and to say hi and bye to everyone before y’all scattered to all corners of the globe, but that plan never made it out of the “wishful thinking” stage. I’m sorry I missed it, but I was thinking of y’all today**. Got a song stuck in my head…

There’s a college way up north that’s made for you and me
H-A-R, V-E-Y, M-U-double-D
Harvey Mudd (HARVEY MUDD!), Harvey Mudd (HARVEY MUDD!)
Forever let us hold our slide rules high (HIGH! HIGH! HIGH!)
Calculus and Newton’s laws and relativity . . . SUCK!
H-A-R, V-E-Y, M-U-double-D

Woo grads!

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* More like 2021 for the Fields, because of the age limit. But you get the idea.

** As I worked for nine hours. On Mother’s Day—what’s up with that?

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