 graduates, and now alumni of the Cranard School of Management. I know this has been a tough journey and an unusual ending, and I offer you sincere congratulations on coming through it all. To the friends and family who are watching, look, we don't make it easy. We set high expectations, and we insist that our graduates live up to them, so you can be especially proud of what your student has accomplished. What exactly is Purdue University? It's a question that might be more relevant today than at any time before in our history. There's a tendency to think of the university as a place, a collection of physical facilities and landmarks, Kerry Quad or Mackie Arena, the Walk or the Bell Tower, the Royal Sky Bridge and, yes, the Cranard Drawing Room. We tend to mark time and progress by what buildings have gone up and what others have come down. But we've been forced to learn in this year that our university is not just a physical place we call home because that physical place has been taken away from all of us. Over 150 years, Purdue has stood on this patch of land, and for 80 years, we have celebrated commencement in this building, but this land and this building is not who we are. The architecture is not the university. The people are the university. The university is the intellectual giants whose insights cure disease and fed millions. The university is the staff who took the time to make your path through it a little bit easier. The university is the faculty who led and challenged you to greater understanding in your courses. But most of all, the university is our students, past, present, and future. It's the aero grad who calmly landed a passenger plane on the Hudson River and a lunar landing on the moon. It's the communications grad who founded C-SPAN. It's the entrepreneurship program grad who founded a medical device company, and it's the credit grad whose savvy leadership of a Fortune 100 company provided great products for its customers, great jobs for its employees, and great returns for its investors. You are the university because of what you did while you were with us and what you will do once you were done and what you will represent to the students who are yet to decide where they will go to college. Your diploma signifies that you have completed our curriculum, but that is not the only reason we celebrate today. We give out these diplomas and we recognize each of you individually because individuals make great institutions. Today, we recognize your vital place in a long tradition of Boilermakers who have shaped our university and will shape our world for the better. So I want to say congratulations to each of you for the degree you have earned, but mostly I want to thank you for what you have done to make Cranert and Purdue enduring and great institutions. Boiler up.