>> There are multiple lanes that you swim in.
One of the, perhaps, the most important lane is academics, and the skills and the efforts
that you put in there are going to be very consequential,
at least for the beginning parts of your career.
But, it's not just academics.
It's also the people that you get to meet at Pitt.
Pitt attracts a whole host of people from not only the mid-Atlantic region in the Northeast,
but around the country and around the world.
One of my best friends at Pitt is a Eritrean in his mid-30s, a PhD candidate that I met
at the library, and we, from that point, became very, very, very good friends.
And, getting to learn from someone like that and also just getting to speak
from my own experiences, too, is something that it was incredible and is incredible.
So, I would also encourage students not to just be so mindful of the academics
but also look towards their peers and to see what they can give
to their peers and what they can learn.