致Muser | 陈永勤院长在2020思廷书院毕业庆典上的致辞

 思你挺你

青春无敌

Hello

2020年6月1日

毕业那天

你像往常一样跟我道别

多年以后

我才明白

那天与我道别的，是青春

总以为毕业遥遥无期

转眼却各奔东西

    盼望着、踌躇着、害怕着、期待着，毕业的这天终于来了。临别之际，除了学术的结业、朋友的惜别、故地的重温，还有能默默温暖伴你前行的师长箴言。

     由于疫情的原因，思廷书院院长陈永勤教授仍身处香港，无法身临六月一日的毕业庆典现场与思廷学子们共享大家学成的喜悦和欢笑。但陈教授却也透过视频为同学们送上了自己深情的毕业祝福与真挚的临别赠言。

     此刻，让我们一同回顾陈教授给思廷书院首届毕业生的温馨致辞。

To You

LETTER

陈永勤院长在思廷毕业庆典上的致辞

Commencement speech to Class of 2020, Muse College, CUHKSZ

Yongqin David Chen

Dear graduates, colleagues, parents, ladies and gentlemen,

This is a very special summer for Muse College! In this extraordinary time of fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic for several months, the arrival of summer means we have now come to the first harvest season in which our very first batch of Muse students will graduate. It must be with a great pleasure and excitement for you to graduate after four years of hard work and university life. The pleasure is of course no less for us as teachers and mentors who have escorted you through the process. With the Most Unforgettable and Special Excitement (M-U-S-E, MUSE), I am so delighted to address this extraordinary Class of 2020.

First of all, I wish to warmly congratulate you on your successfully reaching this important milestone in your life. Four years ago you entered this 2-year old university and looked somewhat childish. University education is an important formative and transformative period for one to grow up from a high school boy or girl to a young man or woman. After all the colorful and memorable, exciting and enriching, busy and even frantic university life, you have become much more mature and sophisticated physically, mentally and intellectually. I am sure you are ready to face all the new opportunities and challenges in your life. You are the inaugural class of Muse College, and this is my very first commencement speech to our graduates. I am enormously proud of you! Today you all look great, pretty, handsome, and very smart. Congratulations!

Over the past four years you have grown up together with Muse College from its very beginning. I am sure you have experienced and accumulated countless memories of joys and satisfaction, as well as frustration and even growing pains. On the one hand, you have enjoyed living on this beautiful campus and receiving the benefits of our resourceful college system. On the other hand, I must thank you for your participation in and contribution to the rapid and fabulous growth of our young college. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank your parents for their understanding and support, especially during your freshman and sophomore years when Muse College was just established and had a very humble start. Well, we are all Musers, for one day and then forever!

      临别之际，我当然有很多的话想跟大家说。由于疫情，很遗憾我还不能回到书院与大家倾谈和道别。在这里只能简单地跟大家分享我对这几个月以来世界发生如此巨大迅速变化的一点思考和感悟，也算是对大家未来人生的一点忠告。

      我是学地理和环境科学的，所以在宏观和哲理层面我更加坚信“天人合一，天大过人，命大过天，天下无界”的道理及其重要性，更加强调人类文明及其发展从根本上就是要处理好人与人、人与社会的关系，这就是人文地理，以及人与自然、人与地球的关系，这就是自然地理。经过这次疫情，我更加体会到人与人之间、人与自然之间的互相尊重和和谐相处是人类社会可持续发展的根本和前提所在，而这些关系是不断地渐变和突变的。总括而言可以用三句话来概括：Nothing is perfect. Nothing is forever. Therefore, the only thing which does not change is CHANGE! 我想说的就是，面对这个变化多端莫测的世界，大家一定要不断学习，勤于思考，善于思辨，这对自己的学业、事业发展以及个人、家庭生活都至关重要。我们要用自己不变的优良特质（如勤奋、毅力、勇气和自信）和高尚品德（如诚信、爱心、谦卑和包容）去应对不断变化的万事万物。以不变应万变！这样才能知己知彼，发挥所长，有备无患，趋吉避凶，活出更精彩丰盛的人生，同时也为社会为国家作出更多更大的贡献。

To offer my best wishes to you before your departure, I wish to quote “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” in Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. Never be satisfied, never feel fulfilled, always feel thirsty, hungry for knowledge, success and another achievement.

Take a deep breath and jump into the arena of the real world! You have been proud of being a CUHKSZ student over the past four years. From now on, I am sure we will be proud of you and your achievement and contribution to the society in the years to come. Dear graduates, it is the time for us to say “Bye, but only for now”. Please keep in touch and do come back from time to time with your classmates, and sooner or later with your husbands and wives, and kids because we are all members of the Muse big family.

最后，衷心祝愿同学们鹏程万里，前程似锦！谢谢！ 

前程之路，始于思廷

愿各位毕业生坚实地踏向通往未来的思廷阶梯

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