UC Berkeley’s Department of Molecular & Cell Biology commencement.
The man near at the mic is evolutionary developmental biology, popular science public intellectual and NY Times columnist Sean B. Carroll from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sean thanked Cal for providing Wisconsin with Aaron Rodgers, the Cal family definitely misses Aaron.
The Genetics, Genomics & Development track (40 strong) and the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology were the smallest. Most of the graduates studied Immunology & Pathogenesis, Neurobiology, and Cell & Developmental Biology within the department of Molecular & Cell Biology.
60% or more of these graduate will move on to medical school or some health related track. In other words, you’re in good (though strongly caffeinated) hands.
Moms being moms, sons being sons.
Pictured: My graduation from UC Berkeley.
I adore Ron Hassner’s response to the question, What advice do you have for those who still don’t know what they’ll be doing after graduation?
Remember that kid from 2nd grade who kept saying that he wanted to be a dentist and today he’s… a dentist? Those people scare me. You probably haven’t made up your mind yet because you have the courage required for delaying the decision until you’ve explored all of your options. Good for you. Take your time. Try out different jobs, locations, lifestyles. Of course you have to work to pay for food and rent. Work hard. But you don’t have to commit yourself to a career quite yet.
Those people also scare me!
Last Lecture Notes 2013
What is one thing you know now that you wish you knew when you were graduating? [Daily Cal]
Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy: That the real test wasn’t whether I’d succeed or fail — I failed again and again — but my resilience in bouncing back from failure.
Terry Johnson, Department of Bioengineering: Choosing what to do next seems momentous, but it will not define you, your career, or your life.
Ron Hassner, Department of Political Science: The truth about time travel and bayonets. Those who’ve taken PS124 (“War!”) know this. If you ever get your hands on a time machine, and you use it to travel back in time, and you step out of the machine, and you’re in the middle of a war, and people are fighting with bayonets… you get right back into that time machine. You hear me? Just do it! Don’t argue with me. I teach PS124, I know that I’m talking about.
Ron Hassner with the best advice.
Campus Alert: I guess that means that I’ll have to abandon the campus in favor of a bar that is off-campus. Should be safe there, right?
UC Berkeley Style
Seeing Oski dance to Gangnam style made my day!
Who made this? It rules.
Tonight’s assigned reading for the first lecture of a class tomorrow. Awesome
