大学开学典礼发言稿范文

　　尊敬的各位领导、各位老师，亲爱的同学们：大家好!

　　告别了炎夏的不安与躁动，凉爽怡人的秋天向我们展开了笑颜;告别了假期的安静与沉寂，期待的校园又充满了欢声笑语。很荣幸，我今天能够代表全体教师在这里发言，一起庆祝我校今秋的开学。在此，我谨代表全体教师，向勤奋学习、奋力拼搏的同学们致以新学期的祝福;对辛勤耕耘、默默奉献的老师们说一声，你们辛苦了。

　　我们常说，学高为师，身正为范，博学为本。作为教师，我们每一个人都深知自己肩负的历史使命，因此我们将不断加强自身修养，用自己的实际行动去影响学生，努力成为学生成长道路上的指路人;我们将一如既往地用耐心对待每一个学生，用爱心呵护每一个孩子，让孩子们在健康、快乐、充满活力的学校氛围中学习和生活;我们也将秉持“不让一个孩子掉队”的原则，关注每一个学生的成长。

　　亲爱的同学们,你们准备好了吗? 在打开新学期这本大书的扉页时,每个人都要问一下自己:我有梦想吗?我的梦想是什么?你们的未来把握在自己的手中,愿你们都能做一个珍惜时间,勇攀高峰的人,以优异的成绩实现自己的梦想.

　　新的学期，新的起点，你们带着亲人的嘱托和追逐梦想的渴望，和我们一起又开启了新的的征程，相信在汉丰二校的大家庭中，你们一定会学习到更多的知识和技能，结交更多的好朋友，但同时也将面临更多的挑战。因此，我代表全体教师向所有同学提出几点期望：

　　一.树立一个信心：我能我行

　　自信心对我们的学习很重要，我们读书学习，需要有决心，有行动。在这里送大家三句话：“相信自己，我能成功;鼓励自己，天天成功;超越自己，一定成功!”

　　二.创立一种学风：认真刻苦

　　凡事从“认真”开始，认认真真地读书，认认真真地上课，认认真真地做作业。学业成功的过程离不开勤奋和刻苦，“天才出于勤奋”,“书山有路勤为径、学海无崖苦作舟”,这些格言说的都是这个道理。

　　三.培养一个习惯：自觉自愿

　　国有国法，家有家规，我们学校同样有一些规矩和要求，同学们要自觉自愿遵守小学生守则和学校的规章制度，自觉养成良好的学习习惯和生活习惯。

　　四.创设一个环境：文明有序

　　每个班级都是学校的缩影，每个学生都代表学校的形象，同学们要做到语言文明、行为文明，在家尊重父母，在社会做一个遵纪守法、诚实守信、文明礼貌的优秀公民。

　　新的学期又开始了，在我们每个人的面前都摊开了一张新白纸，那么我们将如何在这张白纸上画出人生的又一幅精彩的画卷呢? 亲爱的同学们，新的学年开启新的希望，新的空白承载新的梦想。为了让我们的梦想能成为现实，在这样一个充满朝气的新学期里，让我们共同期待更多的希望与成功，期待秋天里的累累硕果。就让我们携起手来，去学习、去奋斗、去放飞你们的梦想 !

　　最后，祝愿大家在新的学期里有新的目标、有新的发展、有新的收获!谢谢。

大学开学典礼发言稿范文

　　敬爱的老师、亲爱的同学们：

　　九月的校园，秋风送爽。满怀着喜悦的心情，带着美好的憧憬，我们又迎来了新的学期，我们又回到了熟悉而又渴望的校园。

　　今天我很荣幸作为学生代表在此发言，借此机会，我谨代表xx学校的同学们向加入我们这个大家庭的新同学表示热烈的欢迎!对即将开始新学期耕耘生活的全体老师表示最良好的祝愿!

　　过去的一年，我们全体老师在博学善导高效严谨的教风引领下，迎难而上，与时俱进，开拓创新，各方面的工作稳步前进，取得了优异成绩。

　　过去的一年，同学们在培养良好习惯，为我们的幸福人生奠基这个办学理念的沐浴下快乐学习、健康成长。

　　同学们，过去的一年收获是巨大的，但那已是过去了，新的学期、新的目标、新的任务，向我们发出了新的挑战。

　　在新的.学期里，我们要进一步加强自身的思想道德建设和良好行为习惯的养成。从小事做起，从自身做起，从头做起，从早做起。培养我们热爱祖国，追求真理;诚于做人，文明守纪的品质和习惯。我们要继续坚持弯弯腰、靠右行、不乱画、不打闹等告别不文明行为的习惯。积极参与学校组织的各项活动，生活中不骄傲、不气馁、不斗气、不娇柔，听从教诲，乐观向上，不断培养我们健全的人格和健康的心理。

　　同学们，在xx学校xx年的读书生涯中，我们会收获知识，收获友谊，向成长与成熟一步步迈进。作为一个xx学校的学生，让我们在前进的道路上策马扬鞭，以饱满的热情迎接新的挑战、寻求新的发展，为流河小学的美好明天做出自己的贡献!

　　最后，请允许我代表全体同学祝我们的老师在新的学年中身体健康、工作愉快、家庭幸福!

　　我也祝同学们快乐成长，不断进步!谢谢大家!

大学开学典礼发言稿范文

　　同学们、老师们：

　　大家好!

　　今天，我们隆重举行20xx级新生开学典礼，共同欢迎5502名本科生、3940名研究生和260名留学生成为电子科技大学的新成员。在这里，我代表学校向以优异成绩考入成电的各位新同学表示热烈的欢迎!

　　得天下英才而育之，是成电的荣幸;育天下英才而成之，是成电的责任。同学们本来身处祖国的四面八方，都是学业优秀、风华正茂的青年才俊，恰恰是因为有了成电这样一个强大的磁场，才把大家吸引到了一起，来共同经历人生最重要的大学时光。的确，大学阶段非常重要，我们很多人一生做了很多事，有的还换过不少工作、走了不少地方，但最终回过头来一看，才发现自己最出彩的、最擅长的还是在大学时所学习的专业知识附近活动。我想告诉同学们的是，今天你们选择了成电、选择了与信息技术相关的专业，这都是非常正确的决定，因为成电是以电子信息科学技术为特色的“985工程”重点大学，而信息技术在今后相当长的一个时期内依然是世界经济社会发展，尤其是中国经济转型升级的主要驱动力。当然，进了再好的大学，都不能说就高枕无忧了，大学四年非常快，但这却是人生差距开始被拉开、人的差异性被放大的关键阶段。同学们在高中阶段都很优秀，差距其实并不大，从考分上来说一般也就是几分到几十分，使得你们进入了不同的大学或者不一样的专业，但到了四年之后大学毕业的时候，同学们之间的差异将会变得很大。所以说，大学是人生成长的倍增器，也是人生差异的放大器。正是因为这两点，使得我们在高校工作的人深感责任重大，一方面，我们要帮助同学们志存高远，有理想、有追求，另一方面，要营造一个能使同学们尽快安静下来的环境，安静下来学习、安静下来思考，齐家、治国、平天下，先从修身养性开始。在这里，请大家放心，作为学校，我们一定会竭尽所能提供出与同学们优秀程度相称的优质学习资源和好的生活条件，让同学们在这里成长得又好又快。

　　这两天我注意到学校的迎新报道中有一个栏目——“我的大学·我的梦”，上面每一位同学的留言我都看了，看得我很激动，同学们真的都非常优秀，都是有梦想、有追求、有目标，愿意奋斗的有为青年，同学们有的已经开始了自己的人生规划，有的甚至已经在安排大学四年的详细计划，几乎每一位同学都讲到四年后还要继续深造，甚至到国外去开阔视野，比如英才学院张靖义同学说每天都要去图书馆看书，每天都要坚持锻炼身体一小会，四年后出国去，终极目标是要成为电子信息领域的领军人才;经管学院孙胜尧同学说每周要争取读三本书;物电学院梁榆法同学说要在大学收获知识的同时，也要快乐地生活，要取得让自己和父母都满意的成绩，今后成为一名高科技人才;微固学院刘源源同学说每天都要写一段英文文章，要争取与外语学院同学对练口语等等;还有几位同学谈到要学点理财知识，因为离开了父母，开始独掌自己的财政大权，担心入不敷出，这些都非常好。但我也有一点点意外，没有一位同学留言说要收获爱情，其实大学中的爱情也是很美好的，看来同学们小小年纪也知道真心话不随便说出来。

　　同学们选择了成电，一定也知道成电一直就是一所好学校。1956年建校时，就聚集了当时中国电子信息领域精华的力量。高起点，使得我们能够高速发展，电子类院校的排头兵和民族电子工业摇篮，这是我们倍感自豪的两块牌子，学校的电子、通信两个代表性优势学科目前在全国分别排在第1和第2位，比较优势显著。今天，学校拥有一支包括8位两院院士、40位国家“千人计划”专家、二十多位长江学者、十多位国家杰出青年科学基金获得者以及一批国家级和省级教学名师在内的师资队伍为你们的梦想护航。

　　同学们，你们很幸运赶上了中国最好的发展时期。在这个伟大时代，来成电开启大学生活的你们肩负着成电人的崇高使命。在此，我想对大家提几点希望：

　　1.做一个关心国家、勇于担当的成电人。作为985大学的学子，国家和社会对你们给予了更高的期望。因此，承担更多更大的责任和义务，是成电人应有的胸怀。大家知道，今年又是一个甲午年。120xx年前，甲午战争丧权辱国;近60年前，肩负“强工业、强国防”使命的电子科大建校。两个甲子，沧海桑田。大学不再是与世隔绝的象牙塔，时代进步、社会发展的每一次脉动都在成电留下了深刻的回响……就在今年暑假，你们6000多名学姐学长到边远山区支教，参加社会关爱与服务、科技下乡，他们用知识服务社会、用行动承担责任，这应是成电人的品格。

　　2.做一个追求真知、求是创新的成电人。中国电子信息科技的未来寄托在同学们身上，这是时代赋予你们的使命。你们能亲眼看到我国“两个百年目标”的实现，是中华民族伟大复兴的建设者，时代将给同学们人生出彩的机会。因此，在中国社会的转型发展中，同学们要树立引领中国电子信息科技潮流的鸿鹄之志。除了课堂，学校的实验室、工程中心，还有非常不错的图书馆，你们都应多去逛逛。成电的创新精神，不仅体现在林为干、刘盛纲、李乐民、陈星弼等一大批成电学术大师身上，也体现在我们各种创新创业学生活动中。希望同学们珍惜机会，把专业做到一流水平、把创新做到国际标准，这应是成电人的使命。

　　3.做一个大气大为、智慧博雅的成电人。大气是敢为人先、追求卓越的气魄和胸怀全局、放眼长远、包容开放的气度。立大志、成大器、为国家做大贡献，是成电人矢志不渝的追求。要实现这个目标，同学们除了掌握专业知识外，还要努力全面发展，砥砺自己的品行、完善自己的人格、夯实自己的底蕴。把业余做成专业水平、把兴趣做成高端事业，中西融汇、古今贯通，这应是成电人的情怀。

　　同学们，再次祝贺你们成功经历了十多年的寒窗苦读和重重考验，感谢你们选择了电子科大!希望大家珍惜大学时光，用智慧和勤奋来实现自己的梦想，用不断地进步来回报你的亲人，用优异的成绩和健康的成长让电子科大更加精彩!

　　谢谢大家!

大学开学典礼发言稿范文

　　尊敬的领导、各位老师、亲爱的同学们：

　　我是xx级建筑设计技术的。今天，我非常荣幸能够代表xx级的全体学生，在开学典礼上发言。(鞠躬)

　　很荣幸能有机会代表新同学发言。三天前我们带着父母的叮咛，师长的关切，满怀好奇和憧憬，伴着依然稚嫩的笑脸走进了银川大学。作为xx级新生，我们在感受着新鲜的同时，也更快的融入了这个温暖而富有亲和力的大家庭中。从踏进大学的那一刻起，一路的疲倦和迷茫，都被抛之脑后，所有离家的顾虑全部一扫而光。迎接我们的是一个如此美丽的校园，她用她那全新的生命给我们以拥抱，崭新的科技大楼、现代化的配套教学设施似乎都在向我们挥舞着热情之手。领导老师们的亲切关怀，学长们的.热情帮助，都暖暖地包容着我们。请允许我借此机会，向银川大学的院领导、老师及学长们表示我们最崇高的敬意和感谢!建筑学习有其自身的特点和规律，这就要求我们踏踏实实地从“第一步”做起：首先要做好自我设计，确定新时代的目标，尽快调整心态，为自己的大学生活规划出完美的蓝图，瞄准目标锲而不舍地追求。其次是针对所学专业，选定好自己努力的方向。再次是从第一件小事做起。勿以事小而不为，小事决定成败。要听好第一堂课，做好第一次作业，学好第一门课程。在小事中积累成长，从而在大学度过无悔的青春岁月。为了早日实现我们的理想，我们决心从以下方面要求自己：

　　一、养成良好的习惯，从现在起步。我们从小要有一定的规则意识，明白什么该做，什么不该做。

　　二、掌握方法，为终生学习做准备。我们要在老师的帮助下，学活书本知识，掌握正确有效的学习方法，学会自主学习、合作学习、探究学习。要把学习与我们的日常生活结合起来。在生活中学习，为更好地生活而学习。

　　三、培养能力，为终身理想积蓄力量!学习，归根结底还是培养多种能力。如：阅读能力、思考能力、交际能力、运动能力等。只要我们敢于尝试，善于实践，我们就能在无限广阔的空间，看到一个全新的自己。让我们为自己的终生理想积蓄力量，努力奋斗吧!

　　新的学期开启新的希望，新的空白承载新的梦想。在这里，有一句话与大家共勉：知识改变命运，态度决定未来。

　　同学们，让我们牢记师友的热切期盼，扬起理想之帆，趁着美好时光，播种新希望，放飞新梦想，踏上新征程，创造新成绩，在银川大学的这片热土上，同心，同德，同行，共同铸造新的辉煌!

　　最后，祝校领导、老师身体健康、工作顺利!祝各位同学学业有成。

　　谢谢大家!

大学开学典礼发言稿范文

　　“Who Will Tell Your Story?”

　　May 24, 20xx

　　Greetings, Class of 20xx.

　　And so it is here—the week of your Commencement. The days of miracle and wonder when your theses are written, classes have ended, and you still have free HBO. And so it may seem strange to be gathered here today, as we pause for this ancient and curious custom called the Baccalaureate—but here we are, me in a pulpit and you in pews, dressed for a sermon in which I am to impart the sober wisdom of age to the semi-sober impatience of youth. Now, it is a daunting task. Especially since over the course of four years I have succeeded in disconcerting people on all sides of the many issues that you will soon be discussing with parents and grandparents over dinner—so in addition to a speech, for handy reference I’ve created a Placemat for Commencement, filled with useful phrases. Such as, “It’s ‘final club,’ without an ‘s.’”

　　Now, I am truly privileged today, for you are an extraordinary group. Your 80 countries of origin do not begin to describe you.

　　You may remember the day when we escaped the rain at your Freshman Convocation, and you heard from me and a phalanx of elders in dark robes: Connect, we said, make Harvard part of your narrative. Take risks, we told you. Don’t always listen to us.

　　And for four years you have distinguished yourselves with dazzling variety: In what may be Harvard’s most divergent dozen, you produced six Rhodes Scholars, including one who broke the world record for standing on a “Swiss” exercise ball, plus six athletes invited to the National Football League to play ball, players whose interests range from the ministry to curing infectious diseases.

　　You were good at long distances: You probed the atmosphere of an exoplanet; researched antibiotic use on a pig farm in Denmark; and you created a pilot program that cut shuttle times from the Quad by half.

　　You experienced old traditions: The mumps. A class color, orange. And the time-honored Lampoon theft of the Crimson president’s chair—this time transporting it across state lines to Manhattan’s Trump Tower, for a staged photo op with a then dark-horse presidential candidate.

　　You found your way: on campus, through a maze of renovations and swing housing; onstage, doing stand-up comedy on NBC, dancing in Bogota, and mounting Black Magic at the Loeb; through the halls of business and finance, running an intercollegiate investment fund; and exposing a privacy issue with ’s Messenger app.

　　You won, with style and grace: as you captured the first national trophy for Harvard Mock Trial—by being funnier than Yale; and then you shellacked the Bulldogs in The Game for—yes—the 9th straight year; you produced the first Ivy “three-peats” in football and women’s track; and brought home the first Ivy crown in women’s rugby—how “Fierce and Beautiful” was that!

　　And, of course, all this was powered by HUDS, since 20xx, powered with ceaseless servings of swai.

　　And you were just plain good: You wrote prize-winning theses on sea level change, a water crisis in Detroit; you engineered a better barbecue smoker—and tested it in a blizzard; you joined the fight to end malaria; and earned the award for best hockey player in the NCAA for strength of character as well as skill; you became well connected—to Alzheimer’s patients, to kids in Kenya, to homeless youth; and, as the inaugural class of Ed School Teacher Fellows, 20 of you are preparing to help high-need students rise.

　　And I understand you even rested with ambition, as you tried to “Netflix and chill.”

　　You made it all look easy—all while facing blows to the spirit that have tempered and tested you. You arrived just after a breach of academic trust that, by your senior year, produced the first honor code in Harvard’s history, events that raised hard questions for all of us: What is success? What is integrity? To whom, or what, are we accountable?

　　When a hurricane prompted the first Harvard closing in 34 years, you rallied with generosity and goodwill—and did so again when we closed for snowstorm Nemo—the fifth largest in Boston history. And that was just a warm up, so to speak, for the Winter of Our Misery—the worst in Boston history—when you sledded the slopes of Widener in a kayak.

　　And when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, in just your second semester, we considered still larger questions: Who are we? What matters most? What do we owe to one another? You told me that you became Bostonians that day, bonded to a city beyond Harvard Square, and to each other during the manhunt and lockdown, when the University closed for an unprecedented third time in 6 months.

　　Who can forget the images—of the mayhem, of the people who ran, not for safety, buttoward the danger, into the chaos? The Army veteran, who smelled cordite, and expecting more bombs, saved a college student’s life; the man in the cowboy hat, who ripped away fencing in order to reach the most injured. And who can forget the moment when Red Sox first baseman David Ortiz stood in the center of Fenway Park and said in eleven words of fellowship and defiance that the FCC chose not to censor, though I will today—“this is our [bleeping] city and nobody[’s] gonna dictate our freedom.”

　　A few months ago as I was lucky enough to be sitting in a Broadway theater, absorbing the final number of the musical Hamilton, I thought of you, and that fierce spirit of inclusion and self-determination. I watched as Eliza, center stage, sang, “I put myself back in the narrative,” and asked the question in the title of her song, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?,” the spirited summation of a production that, like you, has broken records. Like you, has created a new drama inside a very old one.

　　Harvard, one might say, is a bastion of opportunity and unimaginable good fortune—for all of us, who find a place, with varying degrees of comfort, at the center of its long and successful narrative. And yet the burden is on us—to locate the discomfort, to act on the restless spirit of that legacy. As I thought about speaking to you here today, it occurred to me how much the question in that final song has framed your time here, and how much it will continue to affect your lives, as college graduates, as Harvard alumni, as citizens and as leaders. Who will tell your story?

　　You. You will tell your story. That is the point that I want to leave you with today. Telling your own story, a fresh story, full of possibility and a new order of things, is the task of every generation, and the task before you. And that task is exactly what your liberal arts education has prepared you to do, in three vital ways:

　　First, telling your own story means discovering who you are, and not what others think you should be. It means being mindful of others, but deciding for yourself. It’s easy to tell a tale that others define, the one they expect to hear. A moment ago I sketched your Harvard history. But what did I leave out? One of Harvard’s legendary figures and Reverend Walton’s predecessor, the Reverend Peter Gomes, used to put it this way: “Don’t let anyone finish your sentences for you.” He loved being a paradox, an unpredictable surprise, but always true to himself: a Republican in Cambridge; a gay Baptist preacher; black president of the Pilgrim Society—Afro-Saxon, as he sometimes put it. Playful. Unapologetic. Unbounded by others’ expectations. “My anomalies,” he once said, “make it possible to advance the conversation.”

　　Advance the conversation. This is my next point. Telling our own stories is not just about us. It is a conversation with others, exploring larger purposes and other worlds and different ways of thinking. Your education is not a bubble. Think of it as an escape hatch, from what Nigerian novelist and former Radcliffe Fellow Chimamanda Adichie calls “The Danger of a Single Story.” She has observed, “[h]ow impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story.” Not because it may be untrue, but because, in her words, “[stories] are incomplete. They make one story become the only story,” even though “[m]any stories matter.” For four years you have learned the rewards of other stories, and the risk of critical misunderstandings when they go unheard—whether those stories emerge from the Office for LGBTQ Life, or the Black Lives Matter movement, or the international conversation on sexual assault—and perhaps most powerfully, from one another. This is precious knowledge. Only by knowing that other stories are possible can we imagine a different future. What will medicine look like in the 21st century? Energy? Migration? How will cities be designed? The question, as one of you wrote in the Crimson, is not “What am [I] going to be,” but “What problem do [I] solve?”

　　Which brings me to my final point: keep revising. Every story is only a draft. We re-tell even our oldest sagas—whether of Hamilton and the American Revolution or of Harvard itself. The best education prepares you because it is unsettling, an obstacle course that forces us to question and push and reinvent ourselves, and the world, in a new way. Steven Spielberg, who will speak to us on Thursday, has explained the foundation of his powerful storytelling. He says: “Fear is my fuel. I get to the brink of not knowing what to do and that’s when I get my best ideas.”

　　What is a university but a place where everyone should feel equally sure to be unsure? Our best discoveries can start out as mistakes. As Herbie Hancock told us, his mentor jazz legend Miles Davis, said there is no playing a “wrong” note, only a surprising one, whose meaning depends on whatever you play next.

　　In the evolving universe of profiles and hashtags and selfies, it seems no accident that you are the class of Snapchat—a platform that took hold when you were freshmen and developed with you, from showing “snaps” to telling and sharing “stories”—stories that vanish every day, to be replaced by new stories, free of “likes” or “followers.” An app that, in the words of a founder, “isn’t about capturing … what[’s] pretty or perfect … but … creates a space to … communicat[e] with the full range of human emotion.”

　　And so for four years you have been learning to re-tell things: finding your voices, putting yourself in a narrative, whether that was demanding action against climate change, discovering that you love statistics, or creating the powerful message of “I, Too, Am Harvard.” You have seen things re-told. Even Harvard’s story. Last month one of my heroes, Congressman John Lewis, came to Harvard Yard to unveil a plaque on Wadsworth House, documenting the presence of four enslaved individuals who lived in the households of two Harvard presidents. John Lewis said, “We try to forget but the voices of generations have been calling us to remember.” Titus, Venus, Bilhah and Juba—their lives change our story. After three centuries, they have a voice. They, too, are Harvard.

　　Telling a new story isn’t easy. It can take courage, and resolve. It often means leaving the safe path for the unknown, compelled, as John Lewis put it, to “disturb the order of things.” And during your years here you have learned to make, as he urged, “good trouble, necessary trouble.”

　　For years I have been telling students: Find what you love. Do what matters to you. It might be physics or neuroscience, or filmmaking or finance. But don’t settle for Plot B, the safe story, the expected story, until you have tried Plot A, even if it might require a miracle. I call this the Parking Space Theory of Life. Don’t park 10 blocks away from your destination because you are afraid you won’t find a closer space. Don’t miss your spot—Don’t throw away your shot. Go to where you think you want to be. You can always circle back to where you have to be. This can require patience and determination. Steven Spielberg was, in fact, late to class his first day as a student at California State University, because, as he put it, “I had to park so far away.” He went on to sneak onto movie sets, no matter how many times he got thrown off.

　　“You shouldn't dream your film,” he has said, “you should make it!”

　　Perhaps this is the new Jurassic Parking Space Theory of Life—don’t just tell your story, live it. Your future is not a . It’s an attitude, a way of being that can create a new narrative no one may have thought possible, let alone probable:

　　Jeremy Lin—Harvard graduate, Asian-American—changed the narrative of professional basketball, still sizzling with “Linsanity” when you arrived as freshmen.

　　Think about Stephen Hawking, who spoke to us last month through a speech synthesizer. He changed the narrative of the universe, a story about what ultimately will become of all our stories—one he has been revising since he was your age, when he was given three years to live.

　　And you are already changing the story:

　　Think of the astrophysics and mythology concentrator who started a mentorship program for women of color to change the narrative of who enters STEM fields, and she wrote a science fiction novel to tell a new research-based story about the galaxy.

　　Or think of the Second Lieutenant—one of 12 new Harvard officers—who will serve her country in the U.S. Marines, battling not only the enemy, but persistent gender divides. “How will that change,” she says, “unless we start now?”

　　And think about the pre-med student who found himself literally running away from campus, fleeing in misery, until he suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned back, because he remembered he needed to be at a theater rehearsal where he had stage managing responsibilities. Some 20 productions later, he has a theater directing fellowship for next year, and even his parents, as he puts it, now believe “that I am an artist.”

　　Value the ballast of custom, the foundations of knowledge, the weight of expectation. They, too, are important. But don’t be afraid to defy them.

　　And don’t worry, as you feel the tug of these final days together. I am here to tell you that your Harvard story is never done. In 1978, two freshmen watched a screening of the movieLove Story in the Science Center. Three decades later, they met for the first time. And their wedding story appeared last month in The New York Times.

　　So, congratulations, Class of 20xx. Don’t forget from whence you came. Change the narrative. Rewrite the story. There is no one I would rather trust with that task.

　　Go well, 20xx.

　　哈佛校长福斯特演讲中文

　　人们也许会说哈佛是天堂，充满了各种难以想象的机遇和好运——确实，我们每个人都有幸在她漫长而成功的历史中占有一席之地。但这也对我们提出了要求：我们有责任走出自己的舒适区，寻找属于我们的挑战，践行哈佛奋斗不息的精神。

　　在我准备今天演讲的时候， 我想到了音乐剧《汉密尔顿》中最后那首歌里的问题：

　　“谁来讲述你的故事?”

　　我想这个问题奠定了你们过去四年大学生活的调，也将对你们未来作为哈佛毕业生和校友的生活产生深远的影响，无论是作为公民或是领袖——

　　谁，来讲述你的故事?

　　是你，你要来讲述你的故事!

　　这就是今天我要对你们说的话：讲你自己的故事，一个充满了无限可能性和新秩序的崭新故事，这是每一代人的任务，也是现在摆在你面前的任务。你在哈佛所接受的文理博雅教育，将会用以下三种重要方式，帮助你去完成这项任务。

　　“听别人的建议，做你自己的决定”

　　讲述你的故事意味着发现你自己是谁——而不是成为别人认为你的谁。你要参考别人的意见，但要做出自己的决定。讲述一个别人定义好的或别人希望听到的故事，那太容易了。

　　哈佛的传奇人物之一、可敬的彼得·戈麦斯教授曾说：“不要让任何人替你把话说完。”

　　戈麦斯教授自己经常“自相矛盾”，令人难以捉摸，但永远忠于他自己：他是一位剑桥市的共和党人(注：在哈佛所在的剑桥市，共和党是少数派);他是一位浸礼会的牧师，但同时是个同性恋(注：天主大多不支持同性恋);他是朝圣者协会的会长，同时又是一位黑人(注：朝圣者协会白人居多)。

　　他对自己的信仰坚定不移，他不为外人的期望牵挂束缚。他说：“我的不同寻常，让开启新的'对话变为可能。”

　　“开启与他人的对话，倾听他人的故事”

　　开启新的对话，这是我的下一个重点。讲述我们自己的故事并不意味着只关注我们自己。讲故事是与他人对话，借此探寻更远大的目标、探索其他的世界、探究不同的思维方式——你所受的教育不是一个真空的大泡沫。

　　如果我们只讲述单一的故事，那将是危险的，就像诺大的场地只有一个逃生口，令所有人变得异常脆弱。单一的故事不一定是假的，但它是不完整的。所有的故事都很重要，不能把单一角度的故事变成唯一的故事。

　　过去四年，你们感受到了倾听他人故事的益处，也体验到了忽略他人故事所带来的危险。只有意识到，世界上充满了各种各样的故事，我们才能想象一个不一样的未来。21世纪的医疗是什么样?能源是什么样?移民是什么样?城市将如何设计?面对这些问题，你要问的不是“我会成为什么样的人”，而是

　　“我能解决什么问题”?

　　“在不安和不确定中，不断修正你的故事”

　　这也引出了最后一个重点：不断修正。每个故事其实都只是一个草稿，我们连最古老的传说都会不断拿来重提——不管是汉密尔顿将军的故事、美国战争的史诗、亦或是哈佛自己的历史。

　　好的教育之所以好，是因为它让你坐立不安，它强迫你不断重新认识我们自己和我们周遭的世界，并不断去改变。

　　斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格将在毕业典礼上为我们演讲，他就曾经这样解释他创作的石：“恐惧是我的动力。当我濒临走投无路的时候，那也是我遇见最好的想法的时候。”

　　大学，不正是这样一个让每一个人都接受挑战、让每一个人都产生不确定性的地方吗?

　　就这样，大学四年间，你都一直在学习重新讲述你的故事：寻找你自己的声音，将自己放入一个故事中——无论是对气候变化采取反抗行动，发现你对统计学的热衷，还是发起了一项有意义的运动，你亲眼目睹故事不断被重新讲述。

　　“不要妥协，直奔你的目标”

　　这些年，我一直在告诉大家：

　　追随你所爱!

　　去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。

　　所以在这里，我想祝贺你们，20xx届的哈佛毕业生们。别忘了你们来自何处，不断改变你的故事，不断重写你的故事。我相信这项任务除了你们自己，谁也无法替你们完成!