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      LISA T. SU: All right. Good afternoon, everyone. President Kornbluth, Chairman Gorenberg, trustees, faculty, family, friends, and most importantly, the MIT Class of 2026, congratulations. You've earned this. And I can tell you that standing here feels very different than I expected. I've given a lot of talks over the years, but this one is quite personal. And as you can imagine with Murphy's law, I somehow managed to lose my voice this week. So please bear with me if I sound a little rough. But I couldn't be happier to be here with you, and if I give you a little bit of my story. I came to MIT in the fall of 1986. My parents dropped me off at Next House. I was 17 years old, born in Taiwan, raised in Queens, and I was pretty sure I was good at math. Then, of course, I walked into 6001 and 6002, and within about two weeks, I realized there were a lot of people at MIT who were very, very good at math. And I remember staring at those first problem sets thinking,...

  SALLY KORNBLUTH: Teddy and Heba, thank you both for your remarks and for your leadership. So technically, as MIT'S President, it is now my job to deliver a charge to the graduates. But this year, I faced this assignment with a serious case of humility. You are entering a world that I am certain you'll navigate better than I could. So for your charge, I decided to draw on a special resource, the collective wisdom of our alumni. I talk with a lot of MIT graduates around the world, across the country, and on our own faculty. They each put it their own way, but nearly all of them talk about how MIT changed their lives. It wasn't a subject they studied or a particular skill they acquired. It was the whole MIT experience of living and working here together and belonging to a community with our distinctive passions, and values. So as you go into the world, I want to emphasize a few of those values that will serve you wherever you go. The banners and Lobby 7 feature our MIT v...