In 1996, the year you began high school, diversity was a battle cry on most elite campuses in the United States. I am, we all are, profoundly uncertain. I am, we all are, profoundly uncertain. I am, Al Gore is, George W. Bush is, we all are, profoundly uncertain. Our world is changing more rapidly today than perhaps ever before.
Uncertainty abounds over things economic, scientific, political, social, and cultural.
You are about to obtain the skills necessary to confront this uncertainty head on. You will obtain a college education. I know, I know, you're probably thinking that everyone gets a college education these days. To be sure, it won't be easy. And you budding social scientists and entrepreneurs will learn that reading the New York Times is insufficient to master the intricacies of economics, business, and political science.