Now we're going to hear from the student elected to speak on behalf of the bachelor's class of 2019 dream fish dream has been thank cheeriness been incredibly active during her time in Michigan to say the least she's been a versity athlete for the Maysan blue competing in hurdles and long jumps and other things I don't understand on the track and field team she's completed internships for Wolverine pathways in the national family planning and reproductive health association dreamers the vice president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority the reach chair for students of color in public policy and a writer for the South Campus times she's been a valued member of our student services team this past year serving as a peer advisor for other undergraduate students next year we have the great good fortune that she were a man on campus pursuing a Master's of management degree at us Ross School of Business I'm so pleased to welcome dream fish to the podium Thank you everyone thank you Miss Norris and Professor Lance I could not have acts for better opening acts but in all seriousness I stand here before you distinguished guests faculty and staff family friends and most importantly graduates honored to be delivering to be able Mark's truth be told I only had about a half a 2nd to enjoy things like this to get the speech before I realized I had one more final. Empathy in you and I I had no idea what I was going to say let alone how I was going to say yet slowly but surely everything began to fall into place. I like this out of my speech with the story about an 8th grader who much like to be a cohort in front of you was very Taipei. For she believed everything had to go a certain way and this led her to outlining her entire life yet I'm not convinced this was an outline more so than it was a detailed essay as not only did this outline name the college she was going to but it also had her postgraduate plans and even the year she was going to get married. Rumor has it that outline even named the type of engagement ring she wanted Needless to say she thought she had her entire life planned out OK it was me. I was a little 8th grader and now fast forward 8 years I did not like the college I thought was my dream school I am not on the track to become the Bachelorette in capacity to think about marriage for at least another couple of decades I'm sure my dad ecstatic about that one. For that same girl who thought she had her world figured out is standing before a crowd basking in her uncertainty more confident than anyone could imagine I have only Michigan to thank for this confidence not only has the school shattered my hopes and dreams over and over again. Eating sleep for dinner shipping me on my beloved Michigan time for some to show up my 830 instead of 40 or even being waitlisted to the Ford School of Public Policy. But it has also granted me the opportunities of a lifetime from shaking the hands of both President Obama and justice to my own to finally being made it admitted to the number 2 public policy institution in the nation granted me access to probably the most impressive faculty and staff in the world. Thank you as I said hopes and dreams were shattered. Though it was a fun during and it was fun getting here today was not easy. Every year more uncertain than the next and this was stressful for a girl who literally thought she had her entire life figured out at 13 last year was probably the most frightening year of them all new school new people new degree requirements and in reality I do not think my cohort handled this change in scenery well at all not even by a long shot. While I did not suffer through 330 it was OK I was having my own fun with Econ for a one I was there for the op eds I was there for pub for 76 and I was there for the holidays. You can actually graduate about these later but let's just say this cohort embodies strange bedfellows each of us as passionate as the next. Yet missed our disagreements we also shared a lot of good times from the charity auction to to my not to my night I didn't buy a house to to bar crawls Yes we've been celebrating since last semester this cohort has learned to come together for just like this speech everything has worked out. So to the Ford Community Thank you all for your encompassing support to my family and friends and really my mom my she was the leader thank you for everything you've done for me to be here today for I would not be here without you to the parents thank you all for allowing me to share this space mission space with your children I can tell you from personal experience you all have done one heck of a job and to the cohort Thank you all for allowed me to laugh in a policy school during the most polarized time in history I have no idea what the future holds but as Professor cobble told me I know things will work out because you all are some of the most brilliant thinkers I have ever encountered and I know whatever you accomplish will be nothing short of exceptional just remember uncertainty Krantz confidence we did it and go blue THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Jerry.