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welcome to the curry school students um... it is a great pleasure to uh...
open our doors to you this year and and uh... have you join the curry community
you're an accomplished group of uh... competitive students that have joined some
top-ranked programs and uh...
and while you're here i want to urge you to pay attention to a couple of
important values that we hold for ourselves here
honor is a very important part of our community here and i hope that you
pay attention to the honor code and and recognize the importance of
self-governance at a place like
like this
uh... very important part of what we're going to be focusing on this year is
uh... how we get to know one another and the differences across one another
uh... and and leverage those differences for the strength of the organization and
and ultimately for the strength of your education as students
leadership is a really important part of the curry school and i were different you
particularly as graduate students
in the professions and in research careers
um... to use this place as a way at yourselves as leaders of leaving the
Curry School
uh... in a couple years you know you're going to be looked at as uh... as a
representative of excellence from the university of virginia and and from
the Curry school and and leadership is going to be a
space that you'll be able occupied so try to spend some time the next couple
years thinking about how to develop those skills to
and i think you know um... up a big part of what uh... it is is uh... facing you
as yet as you head into the next couple of years is
is thinking about how you use
uh... the resources of this school and and this university i like to think of
uh... this all is a big sandbox and and you're going to get to play in it for a
while and
we're going out work very hard uh...
uh... create opportunities for you to learn and grow in the context of
that but allot of what you're going to take out of this place
uh... is is
depending on what you want to put into it and so
uh... follows some passions follow your curiosity
uh... crossed the different uh... lines that look like they exist here between
programs and boundaries and disciplines and and get to know uh... people who look at
the world differently and who can call from you
new ideas and and uh... and new areas of growth so
again well come uh... it's my commitment to you to work as hard as i
can uh... to make your time here as rewarding as it can possible be
uh... please engage with us while you're here com we want our students
involved you have a lot of opportunities for that over the course of time here
and uh...
and have some fun while you're at it so will look forward to meeting you all
during the course your time here thanks for coming