Graduation speech

Good afternoon, faculty, families, friends, and the Computer Science Class of 2026.

If our time together were a program, none of us would have written the requirements this way.

We began with the unfinished code of the pandemic years. Routines were interrupted. Friendships were compressed into squares on a screen. Classrooms opened and closed. Plans changed without warning.

We learned early that systems can fail—not because people lack talent, but because the environment changes faster than anyone expects.

And yet, here we are.…