2022 Baccalaureate Program

June 3, 2022

Baccalaureate Program Pre-Show Entertainment: Senior Slideshow Created by Emma Speiser Opening Remarks Nina Fearon, Noa Goldstein, Anusha Gupta, and Alister Sharp Senior Quotations Everywhere I Go Vivienne Wulka Senior Quotations Faculty Speaker Julian Cortella Comedy Duo Jenny Karsner and Nina Fearon Senior Quotations Hear from Your Faculty and Staff Math Performance P1 Mathgeeks Senior Quotations Faculty Speaker Laura Hansen ’08 Keep on Rising Kaylene Yee and Sutchie Ofori-Nyako Senior Quotations Senior Year Roundup Video Created by Laura Schusser and Caroline Day Night Changes Sabrina Ahmed and Ayanna Gandhi Closing Remarks Emily Clark Senior Baccalaureate Committee: Nina Fearon, Noa Goldstein, Anusha Gupta, and Alister Sharp

Quotations Casey Abbo “I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.”

—David Bowie Sabrina Ahmed “We keep this love in a photograph.”

—Ed Sheeran Jordan Amos-Grosser “One hug is worth a thousand emails, and you will remember the hug long after the texts are lost in cyberspace.”

—My grandpa Talia Bodner “The ones that love us never really leave us.”

—Sirius Black Katherine Brenner “What a beautiful place to be with friends.”

—Dobby Riley Carolan “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

—Maya Angelou

Emily Chan “If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you’ve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you’re going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important.”

—Marina Abramović Caitlyn Chau “We were born to be real, not perfect.”

—Min Yoon-gi Amanda Cheng “I love you. I’m glad I exist.”

—“The Orange”, Wendy Cope Zoya Chughtai “And if it’s crazy, live a little crazy.”

—The Greatest Showman Claire Crowder “Long live the walls we crashed through. I had the time of my life, with you.”

—Taylor Swift Caroline Day “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

—Ferris Bueller

Nina Fearon “Do what excites!”

—Kelly Wakasa

Ayanna Gandhi “What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.”

—Anne Frank Shoshana Gevelber “Who cares? I mean, it’s sort of exciting, isn’t it, breaking the rules.”

—Hermione Granger Noa Goldstein “I have become a whole new person because of you.”

—me before you Genia Goldwasser “Life is casual.”

—Genia Goldwasser

Brodie Guggenhime “I’m done. Goodbye.”

—Stanley Hudson, “The Office” Anusha Gupta “I may be young, but I’m ready.”

—Beyoncé

Faye Henn “Life is casual.”

—Genia Goldwasser

Areli Hernandez “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

—Winnie the Pooh Jenny Karsner “Dance it out.”

—Cristina Yang

Elina Khoshnevis “Your energy is your currency. Spend it well.

Invest it wisely.”

—Elina Khoshnevis Abigail Krenz “Don’t take no for an answer when the question is: can I?” —Susan Rice Paige Lai “How lucky am I that I have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

—Winnie the Pooh Gabby Lewis “Even miracles take a little time.”

—Fairy Godmother (Cinderella)

Madalyn Mazzara “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together.”

—Marilyn Monroe Isabella Monsalve “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

—Steve Jobs Gillian Nieh “We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.”

—Ken Liu Hadley Nunn “We’re almost there and nowhere near it. All that matters is that we’re going!”

—Lorelai Gilmore Sutchie Ofori-Nyako “The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”

—Kwame Nkrumah Eveliena Pasmooij “Some people are worth melting for.”

—Olaf

Carolina Pavlik “… if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day, no matter how flawed.”

—Mark T. Sullivan Anja Buan Peterson “Take pictures. Not of sights. Don’t take pictures of buildings. Take pictures of moments, because that’s what matters.”

—Shawn Spencer, “One, Maybe Two, Ways Out”

Elise Perry-Hayek “Contrary to popular belief, I know exactly what I’m doing.”

—Tony Stark Radha Ramanathan “I don’t know who we’ll become in the days ahead. I only know the quiet voice in my heart that says we’ll become it together.”

—Brian Andreas Grace Raymond “We are made of star stuff.”

Madison Ringham “Do or do not. There is no try.”

—Carl Sagan

—Yoda

Aizza Rocha “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”

—Nora Ephron Laura Schusser “Mia san Mia (We are who we are).”

—FC Bayern Munich Talula Seale “I fart in your general direction.”

—Monty Python and the Holy Grail Alister Sharp “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”

—Allen Ginsberg Ashni Sheth “Sweet creature, wherever I go, you bring me home.”

—Harry Styles Emma Speiser “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”

—Dumbledore Anushka Srinivasan “You have the heart of a chief…and the soul of a dragon.”

—Valka, How to Train Your Dragon 2

Reva Tagare “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education...Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?”

—Fred Weasley Siona Tagare “Never be ashamed. There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.”

—Rubeus Hagrid Vivienne Wluka “Bend...and snap!”

—Legally Blonde

Masako Yoshihara Yang “The World is Our Playground” —Parkour Motto Kaylene Yee “Heroes are made by the path they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”

—Brodi Ashton