We need your ideas, graduates. We need your resourcefulness. We need your inventiveness. And as the students who helped build this school, I ask you, make your legacy a lasting one. Dream big, think broadly about your life, and please make giving back to your community a part of that vision.Standard stuff, really, but where it was delivered is special. The more I know about UC Merced, the more I'm liking it. Oh, and it does happen to have a Korea-born chancellor, Sungmo Steve Kang (left).
Pearls of witticism from 'Bo the Blogger: Kushibo's Korea blog... Kushibo-e Kibun... Now with Less kimchi, more nunchi. Random thoughts and commentary (and indiscernibly opaque humor) about selected social, political, economic, and health-related issues of the day affecting "foreans," Koreans, Korea and East Asia, along with the US, especially Hawaii, Orange County and the rest of California, plus anything else that is deemed worthy of discussion. Forza Corea!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Mrs Obama tells UC Merced grads to be resourceful and inventive and to dream big
In a follow-up to this story, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the first-ever commencement speech to the graduating class at the University of California at Merced, the UC system's newest campus. The gist of her 22-minute address:
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