WENDY WOLFORD And hello to everyone. I realized that it might not feel very festive to be celebrating your graduation sitting in front of your computer. But I hope you can imagine us all dressed up and, in an auditorium, together celebrating you. And I hope you feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. It's been a pretty unbelievable year, literally unbelievable, because no one would have believed it. If someone had said that this was how we were going to spend 2020-2021. It's been a year as Gustavo said of such hardship and so many challenges but now, we can say you've done it. You've made it to the end, not just of the year which was a challenge in and of itself but of many years of hard work and dedication. Congratulations to every single one of our graduates. You're a very special group. As international students, you usually face a few unique challenges things domestic students don't have to deal with, like figuring out in your head how to turn kilometers into miles, or miles into kilometers before you get pulled over for speeding or trying to explain moon boots to your friends back home or sitting in your room during major holidays that we only celebrate in the United States. Although I have to say that when I was an international student in Canada, I actually remember loving Canadian Thanksgiving which is celebrated a month before US Thanksgiving, because my roommates would all go home, and I’d have the house to myself. But there are also holidays that you miss and that you don't get to celebrate. Many challenges that are unique to international students. And this year as international students, you faced more challenges than usual. You were either far from home here on campus, worrying about family and friends in other countries. Or you were stuck off campus taking your Cornell classes on zoom in the middle of the night, even though we told you didn't have to, and we tried to make that easier. You had to navigate an increasingly chaotic immigration system, and anti-international rhetoric that I never thought I would see. The virus hit everyone hard but as international students, you have been impacted in particularly challenging ways and I want to acknowledge how hard it was but also to congratulate you all on making it through. If the saying is true, and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then you all will be very, very tough as international students. And as Gustavo, said you build bridges between Cornell and the world by the very nature of what you've done. And I hope you'll continue to do this. I'm confident that you'll make us proud that you'll go on to be global leaders in whatever you do, carrying the best of multiple worlds in your hearts and in your heads. So continue on this path that you've already set, being adventurous and clever and ambitious. And as Gustavo said, don't let the forces of nationalism and narrowness prevail. We are all better together. Congratulations again on a spectacular finish to your time at Cornell, and good luck in what comes next.