It is so good to see you.
It's so good to be together.
I've missed these moments of collective joy and excitement over the past year.
There's a lot of excitement during Orientation.
Of course, the college experience is not all, or even mostly, about celebrations or parades.
It's first and foremost about learning, growth, and, as Jennifer Morton says in her book, transformation.
I hope you will have many happy experiences along the way, but I know there will also be moments of challenge and difficulty as you travel the path that lies ahead.
As you begin that journey today, I'd like to share with you a challenge that I have confronted recently and describe four lessons that I draw from it and that might be relevant to your time at Princeton.
Five years ago, I had a magnetic resonance imaging scan, an MRI for short.
The problem that justified the test turned out to be very minor, but the MRI revealed an unrelated issue called an acoustic neuroma.
