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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he wants pre-professional grinding & finance bros, go CMC. If he wants traditional LAC, go Amherst.[/quote]
Completely wrong and a stereotype this forum needs to shed. These students are interested in an intellectual environment. 
Links to follow for anyone interested in going beyond stereotypes: [list][url]https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum[/url][/list] [list][url]https://gouldcenter.org[/url][/list] [list][url]https://human-rights.cmc.edu[/url][/list] [list][url]https://www.cmc.edu/the-open-academy[/url][/list] [list][url]https://www.cmcforum.com/post/henry-long-2025-class-elected-commencement-speech[/url][/list][/quote]
Thank you for sharing. Very impactful words from this year's commencement speaker, and a clear demonstration of a strong, intellectual culture.
[quote]The word humility—and the word human, for that matter—both come from the Latin word humus, which means ground, earth, or soil. That’s kind of a lame namesake, right? But it’s a poignant reminder that we’re material creatures—for dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But we’re not merely material either. We’re also filled with what ancient traditions call “the breath of life,” which is prana in Sanskrit, ruach in Hebrew, and psyche in Greek. This breath, however shallow it may be, inspires a hunger for the heavenly, a thirst for the transcendent, and a recognition of our incompleteness and ignorance.

But that’s not the end of the story. We’re not just stuck wallowing in ignorance. Humility and wonder are the beginning of knowledge, not the end. Even more remarkable than reality itself is our uncanny ability to understand it. The universe follows patterns, which our minds can recognize. Just think for a second about how miraculous that is.

At CMC alone, we have math professors researching the rules of Banach spaces, philosophy professors exploring German theories of metaphysical grounding, and science professors researching tree reconciliation methods for host-symbiont cophylogenetic analyses. I’m not even sure what most of those words mean. But without the strange correspondence between our minds and reality, none of this research would be possible. Science would be defunct, education would be a farce, and this College as we know it wouldn’t exist.

Philosophers have a name for this improbable connection between our mental experience and the world around us: It’s called “psychophysical harmony.” How’s that for a five-dollar word? Some philosophers argue that this harmony is so striking and unlikely, it’s as though it were by design. Follow the patterns of reality, and you may be surprised where you end up.

Graduates, the world you enter is a wonderful place, but it has its dangers. Your life poses a series of questions to you. Despite what some say, there are wrong answers, and these wrong answers will ruin your life. Don’t let the drudgery of your office job, the mundanity of your daily routine, the intensity of your political loyalties, or the vapidity of your Instagram feed distract you from the enchantment of the world.[/quote][/quote]

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