Now, that's more like it! University commence-ment at the Arthur Ashe Stadium of the National Tennis Center was festive in all the right ways, good turnout, inspiring speeches (though we in the faculty party couldn't hear them from the back of the stage, I had to come home and watch the video!) and waves of pride and excitement from the assembled graduates, families and supporters. And higher ed made literal by performers on stilts!
In the swanky place where faculty robed, they'd even come up with a floral display that perfectly articulates the wonder that is The New School. These lovely flowers, as many of us had to convince ourselves by touching, are real! And somehow they're fresh and gorgeous even though there's little water in the vase...! As speaker after speaker said, noting this was our first in-person graduation in three challenging years, "we made it!"
