{"id":16896,"date":"2021-06-02T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:36:50","slug":"transylvania-wrc-major-reflects-on-tightrope-between-order-and-chaos-at-2021-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2021\/06\/transylvania-wrc-major-reflects-on-tightrope-between-order-and-chaos-at-2021-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania WRC major reflects on &#8216;tightrope between order and chaos&#8217; in 2021 commencement address"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transylvania University Commencement 2021 Student Speaker Eileen Bunch\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RyfAyjipDwA?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eileen Bunch \u201921 delivered remarks during Transylvania University&#8217;s May 29 commencement ceremony <em>for the Class of 2021 students in the Fine Arts, Humanities and Natural Sciences and Mathematics<\/em><\/em> <em>divisions. 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It\u2019s the first assignment, but it also marks an ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we all are, likewise, at an ending. So what about the last assignment? What do we do with the prompt \u201cWhat I Did in College\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels too simple a question for so complex an experience, but, nevertheless, it\u2019s worth asking: \u201cWhat did I do in college?\u201d Or, rather, since we are all here together anyhow, \u201cWhat did we do in college?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because although the initial question is one meant for individual expression and reflection, I think beyond that it can function to illustrate the character of a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s something significant about the fact that we have all been here together and that we are all here together today for the last time, on this picture perfect postage stamp of a campus. There\u2019s power in that proximity \u2014 the proximity of hearts and minds and ambitions. It\u2019s not an idle thing \u2014 it\u2019s fruitful, dynamic, productive. It progresses. It creates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what we\u2019ve created, and the ways in which we\u2019ve progressed, I think, can be found readily, even prophetically, on the coins given to us in our first days at Transylvania. The back of the coin, reverse of our university seal, proclaims a quote from Henry Adams: \u201cChaos was the law of nature; order was the dream of man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the core of education and the act of learning is the push and pull between order and chaos. One cannot survive without the other \u2014 one cannot teach without the other. We have, in our time here, with our efforts here, brought order to chaos; in equal measure, we have made chaotic that which was ordered. That is to say, we have made sense of that which we had never dreamed of understanding, and we have boldly challenged that which we thought we understood. No matter your interests, your disciplines, your passions \u2014 here, we are all in the business of sorting things out and shaking things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To misquote &#8220;Walden&#8221; and play on our institution\u2019s name in one fell swoop, \u201cWe went across the woods because we wished to live deliberately.\u201d We come to the liberal arts, we come to Transylvania, to ask questions. We ask why things are the way they are \u2014 both to comprehend the nature of the world, and to dare to imagine that it might be different. Accepting things at face value has never been our strong suit \u2014 but that\u2019s our greatest strength. We come to Transylvania because we know that anything is fascinating if you ask the right questions about it. We come to Transylvania because we know that the right questions will disrupt order, tame chaos and make us better citizens of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what of that final assignment? What do we say? I will hazard an attempt on all of our behalf:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What We Did in College<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By the Class of 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked questions; sometimes we got answers. We had successes; we made mistakes. We forged on triumphantly when we could; we muddled through when we had to. We got to know one another; we got to know ourselves. We walked the tightrope between order and chaos \u2014 and only fell occasionally. We had the light passed to us \u2014 and now we pass it on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t know about you, but that\u2019s more valuable, more formative, more thrilling than any summer vacation I ever had. I\u2019m so grateful that I had the chance to share it with you. 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