Lessons for the lucky few
The Class of 2012 first gathered on a memorably blustery evening in the fall of 2008 in the Science Center, where the new freshmen played games and ate pizza to wait out a power outage caused by a tropical storm. Their final meeting proved not so different, as hundreds of graduating seniors, rain boots and flip-flops poking out from beneath their black robes, poured into the Memorial Church on Tuesday to the drumbeat of steady rain. “From the day you arrived on campus nearly four years ago, events conspired to make you an extraordinary group,” President Drew Faust said in her Baccalaureate Address, only in part referring to their extraordinary bad luck with weather. Faust was quick to remind them, however, that there is “another dimension of this extraordinariness, another and parallel truth, which is that you — and I — are also extremely lucky.” If the students arrived on an “imperceptible updraft...