First-Year Programs

Your job for the next four years is to be interested and interesting.  Think about the big questions in the universe you inhabit.  Want to know.  The education you will receive here will allow you to ask the questions you have always wanted answered and to follow the answer wherever it goes. Be interested.  Be active in your pursuit of what captivates you because somewhere on this campus are very smart, well trained people who are also captivated by that very same question...and sometimes, quite often, in fact, the captivated people you will need to listen to weren't the ones you would have first thought to ask.

(excerpt from Professor Steven Gimbel's remarks during Convocation for the Class of 2010)