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This summer, I decided that I would like this Sept. 11 to be meaningless. I came to this conclusion after a dinner I had with two complete strangers in a restaurant called "Meat Me" in Ashkelon, Israel. I was working in Israel as a volunteer firefighter and had met the couple at the beach on a day off.
Congratulations Class of 2009! You, as you probably know, are the smartest class to ever set foot on this campus. Why back in my day, if you could read at a fifth-grade level and count to 10, you were admitted and made a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. But now, they're looking for at least high-school algebra.