Taylor Swift speaks at NYU graduation ceremony in Yankee Stadium | full video

foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] fellow violets please give a hearty welcome to members of the new york university alumni association and to members of our 50th anniversary class who join us today to celebrate this year's graduates [Applause] [Music] [Music] please welcome new york university's 2022 school vanderbearers deans and class representatives marching in founding order [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] college of arts and science [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] school of law [Applause] [Music] grossman school of medicine [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] tandon school of engineering [Applause] [Music] college of dentistry [Applause] [Music] [Music] graduate school of arts and science [Applause] [Music] [Applause] steinhardt school of culture education and human development [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] leonard and stern school of business [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rory myers college of nursing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] school of professional studies [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] robert f wagner graduate school of public service [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good [Music] [Applause] silver school of social work [Applause] [Music] tisch school of the arts [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this [Applause] gallatin school of individualized study [Applause] [Music] [Applause] liberal studies [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] nyu abu dhabi [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] nyu shanghai [Applause] [Music] school of global public health [Applause] [Music] [Music] long island school of medicine [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] now entering the stadium are university leadership and honorary degree recipients led by our chief marshall [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] esteemed the provost of new york university catherine fleming here now in the presence of candidates for academic recognition members of the faculty and administration alumni trustees honored guests and friends new york university's 188th commencement is hereby convened please welcome lisa coleman senior vice president for global inclusion and strategic innovation and chief diversity officer hello i'm dr lisa coleman and my pronouns are she and her it is a pleasure to be here with you today celebrating the class of 2022 let us take a moment to acknowledge the indigenous peoples whose lands we occupy as we gather here in new york city across our various sites and virtually nyu acknowledges that the university as a global institution is located on unseated lands and was founded on the erasures of indigenous peoples globally as well as the discounted labor of many as a community we continue to address the legacies and of cetera colonialism and work to both recognize and dismantle any lingering system of exclusions or oppression i ask you to join me in acknowledging elders and those who have come before us ancestors as well as the current and future generations who continue to pave the way for us to be here today those who are known to us and unknown to us without these crucial global contributions we would not be here to build on nor continue this work we are appreciative and respectful of these foundations please join me in five second moment of silence in honor and recognition thank you and now please rise for the national anthem led by naima alakam who receives a bachelor of fine arts degree today from the tisch school of the arts [Applause] oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what's so proud we had the twilight's last gleaming who's brought stripes [Music] [Music] oh the hearts we watched [Music] were so gallantly streaming and [Applause] bursting in [Music] still there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] r [Applause] [Music] my [Applause] oh distinguished guest chair of the board of trustees william r berkley [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hello class whole class of 2022 [Applause] i'm bill berkley chairman of nyu's board of trustees and a proud 1966 graduate of the stern school of business i'd like to welcome you to yankee stadium for today's very special occasion i'd also like to welcome members of the class of 1972 who returned to the nyu community today for their 50th reunion times were a little different when i was an nyu student the university had five fewer schools just one study away site and no central library no bolts even though many things have changed you and i share something important in common our connection to nyu cemented at this very moment of graduation you are about to join an illustrious group nyu alumni numbering six hundred thousand worldwide nyu's network of graduates can be a wonderful source of support and connection throughout your life so think of this not just as the culmination of your time at nyu but also as the beginning of a lifelong relationship with your alma mater class of 2022 today marks a significant hard-earned milestone in your lives the empire state building glowed violet in your honor last night a symbol of our enormous pride in you and we're joined today by three distinguished honorary degree recipients each of whom has left an indelible imprint on their respective fields [Applause] what they share in common is that they broke through barriers and charted whole new territories in science in academic leadership and in music they stand before you as models even as the board is confident you the class of 22 will similarly leave your mark on the world in the future congratulations warm wishes and welcome to the nyu alumni family we now present a video tribute to the class of 2022 featuring graduating students from each of our schools [Music] i'm graduating from nyu college of dentistry and i'm graduating from the nyu grossman school of medicine and i'm graduating from rory myers college of nursing and i'm graduating from the stern school of business and i'm graduating from the graduate school of arts and sciences and i'm graduating from canada school of engineering and i'm graduating from wagner school of public service and i'm graduating from the nyu long island school of medicine and i'm graduating from steinhardt and i am graduating from the gallatin school of individualized study and i'm graduating from nyu school law and i'm graduating from the school of liberal studies and i am graduating from the nyu school of global public health and i'm graduating from the tisch school of the arts and i'm graduating from school of professional studies and i'm graduating from the silver school of social work and i'm graduating from the college of arts and sciences i'm graduating from oahu shanghai and i'm graduating from nyu abu dhabi it feels great to be graduating it feels like a long time coming because it has been i would say that i feel empowered because i'm going to be part of the nyu violet community we've been through so much together a global pandemic four years of college there's nothing the world can throw at us now that we can't handle so you know let's get it we're nyu graduates my first day at nyu was why on i felt super lost i had heard really scary things about law school i just moved to new york city i didn't know how to get around new york i was um overwhelmed by the number of people the cars the noises you don't want to put the siren in the video it's so new york today leaving nyu i feel nervous it's kind of makes feelings i feel like i've been spoiled by such a diverse and warm and loving community there's just like a lot of stuff that i'm gonna miss that i want you i'm gonna miss the opportunity to just sit at the park and just enjoy the sun or enjoy some music i'm gonna miss the food the most nyu has prepared me very well to kind of start this next journey i've grown into a confident person i feel like i have things to say and things to share feel like a different person i think i've learned a lot about myself i've matured a lot i found my my strengths and my weaknesses [Music] the best thing about being an nyu student is being in new york city oh the city the city the friends you can meet anyone that you want to while you're here in new york being in new york city teaches you that everyone can be of some sort of help i really was able to build my own small community here within nyu i'm surrounded by classmates that are changing the community for the better they're changing their field for the better one of the best things about being an nyu student was all of the resources that we got we got to go to shows and we got to participate in stuff in the city what can you not do in new york every door is open for us here i just have to figure out which door to walk through i interned at a hospital i never thought that that would have been a thing that i would have done i was part of a club called feminist i was also the executive director of hack nyu i was able to spend an entire academic year at oyu paris where i was fully immersed in the french language and culture and then during the pandemic i was going local at nyu shanghai i was in abu dhabi for two weeks we got to experience some of the most incredible parts of that city like the louvre this experience really shaped my understanding of this part of the world i studied abroad at nyu london to be in another city completely unknown to me and actually have the nyu kind of endorsement behind me i never felt like i was alone i always had my nyu buddies all around my first time going to accra ghana we met with a group of community gatekeepers and healthcare providers and then came up with a research project to better educate people about stroke prevention the academics here at nyu are tough it doesn't matter what school you're in but we made it here today all the late nights at the library constantly studying constant tests so what i would say is we get the adequate support to carry us through all of the faculty members they are really high professionals within the industry and they always wanted to help you and support you in any ways that they can let's talk about the elephant in the room coven well i went to med school during cover 19 and that was a different time to be in healthcare i think it taught us how to be strong mentally emotionally and physically i think it is a testament that we can make it here in yankee stadium today just to be with our loved ones to celebrate this gigantic milestone in our lives we made it and i hope you have a wonderful rest of your life no i don't want to say that i want to thank my talented classmates who never cease to inspire me go far away and continue to spread our network but also don't be a stranger and come back and let's stay connected always keeping in mind that you can achieve anything because you are the person that you are as we look back on one of the most rewarding days of our lives i just want to wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors and it's great to think that some of our best days are still ahead of us congratulations congratulations class of 2022 congratulations class of 2022. congratulations congratulations class of 2022. we did it from all of us graduating from nyu new york congratulations to those at nyu abu dhabi and nyu shanghai mubarako we did it congratulations to all the graduates we did it [Music] [Applause] please welcome rodney anderson who will receive a bachelor of fine arts in the tisch school of the arts and who will now address his fellow graduates [Applause] good evening i first want to begin by asking the class of 2022 to just take in this moment right now look around you and see all of your friends and family in person here to support you on this special day and can we make some noise for making it this far name is rodney anderson some of you may know me by my artist name rodney crone but today i want you to see and hear something so much more than my name i want you to look at me and witness that anything is possible that you can be black that you can be gay that you can be from the middle of nowhere chasing a dream that so many people told you that you would not achieve [Music] but yet here i am me [Music] graduating with the class of 2022 from new york university [Music] you see i was born and raised in a small town of little rock arkansas [Music] as a black male growing up in the hood i didn't see possibilities outside of poverty i didn't see someone who was creative and instead of selling drugs they were selling art i didn't see someone who was in my community and trying to make a change but instead i saw people who were just trying to survive to just make a little change i didn't see someone who was black who was gay who was also unafraid of any opinion that's formed against them so you know what i did since i didn't see that image i created it for myself [Applause] after becoming something that i did not see within my community i realize that i cannot do this all alone growing up my mother always told me that it takes a village to raise a child and as a kid i didn't pay any mind to what she was saying but when i came to nyu i finally understood how much that statement actually meant days when i was overwhelmed with assignments ran out of meal swipe so i'm asking my friends can i borrow some of theirs [Applause] then to also experience a global pandemic in the middle of our four years i had no other choice but to lean on my village i know some of you are sitting in this audience thinking i don't know what my next move is or what my next job i'm about to receive or what city or country i'm going to live in but i'm here to tell you that it's okay to not know what the next step life has set out for you [Applause] we all have witnessed how easily our lives can be altered in a matter of seconds but i want you to remember that you have a village of individuals sitting in this very audience sitting right behind me and even myself ready to support you in every way possible graduating can feel like the most successful but also terrifying experience of your life but you have to remember that you have found a village within nyu that will not let you fail and before i leave i want you to take one final look around you witness the many different journeys that you have all experienced within these last four years that you and i my village the class of 2022 we made it thank you chrome those who are about to receive honorary degrees will now be presented senior vice president lynn brown will call upon distinguished members of the university faculty to present the honorary degree candidates assisting with the investitures will be provost catherine fleming mr president i would like to introduce lynn keorpia dean of the graduate school of arts and science collegiate professor professor of neuroscience and psychology in the center for neuroscience and professor of ophthalmology grossman's school of medicine who will present the candidate for the doctor of science will trustee mark bell escort the candidate to the lectern [Applause] susan hartfield distinguished neurobiologists first woman and first life scientist to be president of the massachusetts institute of technology you have focused your research articles books and patents on identifying changes in the molecular structure of the brain and their implications for devastating disease you've pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research identifying proteins through which neural activity early in life affects brain development a strong innovative esteemed leader at yale and mit you have shaped more in inclusive educational environments for students faculty and citizens while deepening global academic engagement by influencing national policy on energy technology and next generation manufacturing you have modeled the responsibilities of academic and public life championing advances in the convergence of life sciences with engineering and physical sciences you have founded new institutions that accelerate research policy education toward a sustainable energy future bringing together the emerging frontiers of biotech i.t and energy in your leadership at mit you invested in talent broadening the pipeline for women and underrepresented scholars to foster a scintillating culture both rigorous and more generous susan hockfield your groundbreaking professional life and commitments cross-disciplinary boundaries creating contexts designed to address among the most significant global problems that we face by virtue of the authority vested in me i am pleased to confer upon you the degree of doctor of science honoris causa [Applause] i would like to introduce angie cometh dean of the school of professional studies who will present the candidate for doctor of humane letters will trustee kelly kennedy mack please escort the candidate to the lectern [Music] [Applause] felix matos rodriguez historian professor author and former govern government official for the commonwealth of puerto rico you are the eighth chancellor of the city university of new york cuny the largest urban public university system in the united states you have broken ground at cuny as its first educator of color and the first latino in your distinguished role with a career that spans both the academia and government a dedicated champion of accessibility and excellence in higher education you are among the select few american educators to serve as president of both community and four-year colleges during your tenure at cuny's eugenio maria de hostos community college in the bronx you dramatically improved the college's retention and graduation rate for students who had not been well served by institutions of higher education your legacy as president of queens college includes extraordinary success in advancing diversity as puerto rico's cabinet secretary of the department of family services you helped protect children families and the elderly your extensive scholarship has contributed to several fields women's studies puerto rican caribbean and latino studies and migration studies since 2015 you have also served on the steering committee of the research alliance for new york city schools housed at nyu steinhardt felix mattos rodriguez in your lifelong commitment to education without barriers you demonstrate the implications of your research by opening doors for millions of lives by virtue of the authority vested in me i am pleased to confer upon you the degree of doctor of humane letters honoris causa i would like now to introduce jason king chair and associate professor of the clive davis institute of recorded music tisch school of the arts who will present the candidate for doctor of fine arts will trustee brett rockhan please escort the candidate to the lectern taylor swift blazing singer-songwriter producer director actress pioneering and influential advocate for artist rights and philanthropist you have brought joy and resolve to your hundreds of millions of fans throughout the world one of the best-selling music artists in history you have crossed genres demographics age groups and borders of all kinds to touch lives around the globe with nine original studio albums two re-recorded studio albums five extended plays three live albums and 14 compilations you have sold well over 100 million album units earning awards and honors in every category you have used the remarkable platform you earned to galvanize support for the equality act to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and you have spoken out and you have supported initiatives to protect women and girls from harassment and sexual assault you have donated significantly to victims of floods and tornadoes for cancer research literacy programs for children and public education you have fearlessly challenged the exploitation of music artists and successfully championed their right to be compensated for their work [Applause] taylor swift you are a role model across the world for your unprecedented talent and accomplishment your fierce advocacy for protection of those facing discrimination and your commitment to speaking out forcefully eloquently and effectively on behalf of all artists by virtue of the authority vested in me i am pleased to confer upon you the degree of doctor of fine arts honoris causa i am now pleased to introduce taylor swift who who will respond on behalf of the honorary degree recipient [Applause] hi i'm taylor [Applause] last time i was in a stadium this size i was dancing in heels and wearing a glittery leotard this outfit is much more comfortable i would like to say a huge thank you to nyu's chairman of the board of trustees bill berkley and all the trustees and members of the board nyu's president andrew hamilton provost catherine fleming and the faculty and alumni here today who have made this day possible i feel so proud to share this day with my fellow honorees susan hockfield and felix matos rodriguez who humble me with the ways they improve our world with their work as for me i'm 90 sure the main reason i'm here is because i have a song called 22. and let me just say i am elated to be here with you today as we celebrate and graduate new york university's class of 2022 not a single one of us here today has done it alone we are each a patchwork quilt of those who have loved us those who have believed in our futures those who showed us empathy and kindness or told us the truth even when it wasn't easy to hear those who told us we could do it when there was absolutely no proof of that someone read stories to you and taught you to dream and offered up some moral code of right and wrong for you to try and live by someone tried their best to explain every concept in this insanely complex world to the child that was you as you asked a bazillion questions like how does the moon work and why can we eat salad but not grass and maybe they didn't do it perfectly no one ever can maybe they aren't with us anymore in that case i hope you'll remember them today if they are in this stadium i hope you'll find your own way to express your gratitude for all the steps and missteps that have led us to this common destination i know that words are supposed to be my thing but i will never be able to find the words to thank my mom and dad my brother austin for the sacrifices they made every day so i could go from singing in coffee houses to standing up here with you all today because no words would ever be enough to all the incredible parents family members mentors teachers allies friends and loved ones here today who have supported these students in their pursuit of educational enrichment let me say to you now welcome to new york it's been waiting for you i'd like to thank nyu for making me technically on paper at least a doctor [Applause] not the type of doctor you would want around in case of an emergency unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section or if your emergency was that you needed a person who can name over 50 breeds of cats in one minute [Applause] i never got to have a normal college experience per se i went to public high school until 10th grade and then finished my education doing homeschool work on the floors of airport terminals then i went out on the road for radio tour which sounds incredibly glamorous but in reality it consisted of a rental car motels and my mom and i pretending to have loud mother-daughter fights with each other during boarding so no one would want the empty seat between us on southwest as a kid i always thought i would go away to college imagining the posters i would hang on the wall of my freshman dorm i even set the ending of my music video from my song love story at my fantasy imaginary college where i meet a male model reading a book on the grass and with one single glance we realized we had been in love in our past lives which is exactly what you guys all experienced at some point in the last four years right [Applause] but i really can't complain about not having a normal college experience to you because you went to nyu during a global pandemic being essentially locked into your dorms and having to do classes over zoom everyone in college during normal times stresses about test scores but on top of that you also had to pass like a thousand cova tests i imagine the idea of a normal college experience was all you wanted to but in this case you and i both learned that you don't always get all the things in the bag that you selected from the menu in the delivery surface that is life you get what you get and as i would like to say to you wholeheartedly you should be very proud of what you've done with it today you leave new york university and then go out into the world searching what's next and so will it [Music] so as a rule i try not to give anyone unsolicited advice unless they ask for it i'll go into this more later i guess i have been officially solicited in this situation to impart whatever wisdom i might have to tell you things that have helped me so far in my life please bear in mind that i in no way feel qualified to tell you what to do you've worked and struggled and sacrificed and studied and dreamed your way here to dare and so you know what you're doing you'll do things differently than i did them and for different reasons so i won't tell you what to do because no one likes that i will however give you some life hacks i wish i knew when i was starting out my dreams of a career and navigating life love pressure choices shame hope and friendship the first of which is life can be heavy especially if you try to carry it all at once part of growing up and moving into new chapters of your life is about catch and release what i mean by that is knowing what things to keep and what things to release you can't carry all things all grudges all updates on your ex all enviable promotions your school bully got at the hedge fund his uncle started decide what is yours to hold and let the rest go oftentimes the good things in your life are lighter anyway so there's more room for them one toxic relationship can outweigh so many wonderful simple joys you get to pick what your life has time and room for be discerning secondly learn to live alongside cringe no matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime even the term cringe might someday be deemed cringe i promise you you're probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious you can't avoid it so don't try to for example i had a phase where for the entirety of 2012 i dressed like a 1950s housewife but you know what i was having fun trends and phases are fun looking back and laughing is fun and while we're talking about things that make us squirm but really shouldn't i'd like to say i'm a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things it seems to me that there is a false stigma around eagerness in our culture of unbothered ambivalence this outlook perpetuates the idea that it's not cool to want it the people who don't try are fundamentally more chic than people who do and i wouldn't know because i've been a lot of things but i've never been an expert on chic but i'm the one who's up here so you have to listen to me when i say this never be ashamed of trying effortlessness is a myth the people who wanted it the least were the ones i wanted to date and be friends with in high school the people who want it the most are the people i now hire to work for my company i write it's i started writing songs when i was 12. and since then it's been the compass guiding my life and in turn my life guided my writing everything i do is just an extension of my writing whether it's directing videos or a short film creating the visuals for a tour or standing on a stage performing everything is connected by my love of the craft the thrill of working through ideas and narrowing them down and polishing it all up in the end editing waking up in the middle of the night throwing out the old idea because you just thought of a new or better one or a plot device that ties the whole thing together there's a reason they call it a hook sometimes a string of words just ensnares me and i can't focus on anything until it's been recorded or written down as a songwriter i've never been able to sit still or stay in one creative place for too long i've made and released 11 albums and in the process i've switched genre from country to pop to alternative to folk and this might sound like a very songwriter-centric line of discussion but in a way i really do think we are all writers and most of us write in a different voice for different situations you write differently in your instagram stories than you do your senior thesis you send a different type of email to your boss than you do your best friend from home we are all literary chameleons and i think it's fascinating it's just a continuation of the idea that we are so many things all the time and i know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be and when who you are now and how to act in order to get where you want to go i have some good news it's totally up to you i have some terrifying news it's totally up to you i said to you earlier that i don't ever offer advice unless someone asked me for it and now i'll tell you why as a person who started my very public career at the age of 15 it came with a price and that price was years of unsolicited advice being the youngest person in every room for over a decade meant that i was constantly being issued warnings from older members of the music industry media interviewers executives and this advice often presented itself as thinly veiled warnings see i was a teenager at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea of having perfect young female role models it felt like every interview i did included slight barbs by the interviewer about me one day running off the rails and that meant a different thing to every person who said it to me so i became a young adult while being fed the message that if i didn't make any mistakes all the children of america would grow up to be perfect angels however if i did slip up the entire earth would fall off its axis and it would be entirely my fault and i would go to pop star jail forever and ever it was all centered around the idea that mistakes equal failure and ultimately the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life this has not been my experience my experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life and being embarrassed when you mess up it's part of the human experience getting back up dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it that's a gift the times i was told no or wasn't included wasn't chosen didn't win didn't make the cut looking back it really feels like those moments were as important if not more crucial than the moments i was told yes not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely but because i felt alone i would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else having label executives in nashville tell me that only 35 year old housewives listened to country music and there was no place for a 13 year old on their roster made me cry in the car on the way home but then i'd post my songs on my myspace and yes myspace and i would message with other teenagers like me who loved country music but just didn't have anyone singing from their perspective having journalists write in-depth oftentimes critical pieces about who they perceived me to be made me feel like i was living in some weird simulation but it also made me look inward to learn about who i actually am having the world treat my love life like a spectator sport in which i lose every single game was not a great way to date in my teens and twenties but it taught me to protect my private life fiercely being publicly humiliated over and over again at a young age was excruciatingly painful but it forced me to devalue the ridiculous notion of minute by minute ever fluctuating social relevance and likability [Applause] getting canceled on the internet and nearly losing my career gave me an excellent knowledge of all the types of wine [Applause] i know i sound like a consummate optimist but i'm really not i lose perspective all the time sometimes everything just feels completely pointless i know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism and i know that i'm talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from nyu [Applause] so this might be hard for you to hear in your life you will inevitably misspeak trust the wrong person under react overreact hurt the people who didn't deserve it overthink not think at all self-sabotage create a reality where only your experience exists ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others deny any wrongdoing not take the steps to make it right feel very guilty let the guilt eat at you hit rock bottom finally address the pain you caused try to do better next time rinse repeat [Applause] and i'm not gonna lie these mistakes will cause you to lose things i'm trying to tell you that losing things doesn't just mean losing a lot of the time when we lose things we gain things too now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path every choice you make leads to the next choice which leads to the next and i know it's hard to know which path to take there will be times in life where you need to stand up for yourself times when the right thing is actually to back down and apologize times when the right thing is to fight times when the right thing is to turn and run times to hold on with all you have and times to let go with grace sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform sometimes the right thing to do is to sit and listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us how will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments you won't how do i give advice to this many people about their life choices i won't the scary news is you're on your own now but the cool news is you're on your own now [Applause] i leave you with this we are led by our gut instincts our intuition our desires and fears our scars and our dreams and you will screw it up sometimes so will i and when i do you will most likely read about it on the internet anyway hard things will happen to us we will recover we will learn from it we will grow more resilient because of it and as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing we will breathe in breathe through breathe deep and breathe out and i am a doctor now so i know how breathing works i hope you know how proud i am to share this day with you we're doing this together so let's just keep dancing like we're the class of 22. please welcome the steinhardt singers with a tribute to new york city and the class of 2022 [Applause] [Music] start spreading the news i'm leaving today i wanna be a part of it new york new york [Music] new york new york i wanna wake up in the city that doesn't sleep to find the king top of the

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