Before ISU lets you get on with your lives, I want to focus on the rest of Lincoln's famous statement at Gettysburg. Having suggested that people would forget what he said there, he said they would never forget what the soldiers had done there. I ask you to think for a few minutes about some of the things you did while you were here. You learned a trade. Some of you complained.
Discovery is what universities are all about.
Perhaps you assisted in a laboratory or a clinic where cures for diseases are being sought or ways of changing human behavior are being refined. Maybe you wrote an article that will be published. Some of you waded in streams collecting samples that will improve the quality of Idaho's waters. If you went to archaeology field school, you pushed open the frontiers of knowledge about human habitation in this environment centuries ago. I hope at least one of you created something that no one else understood.