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Luckily,Jennifer Coolidgehas figured it out in her alumna video for Emerson Colleges Class of 2020.

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You will bask in the sunlight in one moment, and be shattered on the rocks in the next.

What defines you is what you do when that storm comes.

Then the fates will know you as we know you, as Emerson Class of 2020!

If her speech sounds familiar from your own college days, youre right.

Its a lightly-tweaked passage from Alexandre DumassThe Count of Monte Cristo.

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