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Hi, my name is uh Bill Creager. William Creager. I graduated in 19 3, 1983 from Rice and my residential college was Hanszen College. The Rice tradition. Uh That was most meaningful to me was the sense of exploration and almost possession of campus. Every, every square inch

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of the campus we felt was a home to us. Um And I remember exploring the campus. Uh in those days, there was no locks on the doors and there was also the steam tunnels and you could go, you could on a Friday night, you could lift

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off a great climb down in the steam tunnels and explore all over campus. Um I don't want to confess to any crimes, but I may have been associated with a group of people that rearranged all the furniture in the president's office in Fondren Hall one

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night. Uh So that was fun. I'm I'm sure that that activity would now be not only a felony but would get you in severe disciplinary trouble. Uh On the other hand, it was uh and I'm sure continues still to be, it's, it's important not to hang

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out just in your department. Uh but to make the whole campus, um, yours and to feel like you, uh, you really live here, it really is a home in terms of advice I would share with the next generation of owls. I would really recommend, uh, treasuring

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the people that you are here with, get to know them. A lot of people come to Rice and they're introverts and, uh, they're studier, they're smart and they, uh, feel like the reason they're at rice is to study and to really apply themselves. And that's really

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true. But uh the one thing I regret and which I done more of was just getting to know uh a broader number of people at Rice uh because they're wonderful resource and you will quite likely forget everything that you learn uh from textbooks and whatnot at

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rice unless it becomes uh something that's integral to your profession. Uh But what you won't forget is the people that you meet here. So that would be my uh my advice to the next generation of house. Thank you for this opportunity.