Stanford begins its Commencement ceremony every year with a fun, very nontraditional procession into the stadium known as the Wacky Walk. Videographer Kurt Hickman captured some of the highlights from the 2018 event.
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The Class of 2018 was feted by the university community, family and friends during Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies that featured both fun times and serious messages.
Stanford University’s 127th Commencement weekend, June 15-17, 2018, featured an inspiring speech by Sterling K. Brown, Stanford alumnus and award-winning actor. He told the graduates to think of perfection like an asymptote. “The journey toward it is infinite, but the destination can never be reached.”
“Aim high and keep learning, be skeptical of accepted certainty and stay fast in the belief that facts matter,” Nobel laureate Paul Berg told Stanford School of Medicine graduates.
Baccalaureate speaker Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of the Mellon Foundation, encourages graduating students to lead lives that are fair, just and kind.
