Despite heightened tensions on many college campuses this year, it's still graduation

season and that means politicians, actors, and even members of the News Hour team have been sharing

advice and encouragement to graduates around the country.

Here are some of the life lessons this year's commencement speakers passed on to the class

of 2024.

I've never seen this many young people so thrilled to be on a jumbo tron.

I want to create a world where if aliens came to visit they wouldn't look around and run back home

and say you know there's no sign of intelligent life on earth. Make decisions in the

interest of our health, our wealth, our security, so that subsequent

generations can look back on you, on us, and be proud of the decisions we have made and not ashamed of them.

Give your friends grace, your parents' grace who are all out there, your future partners'

grace or current partners' grace, and most importantly give yourself grace in

these moments. You are all already resilient.

You don't need to wait for anyone else to show up.

When you see a need, when you see an injustice,

a way the world could be better. use the unique gifts and talents you have to serve the world.

We don't know what will happen, but we guarantee nothing will change if we don't try.

I would suggest that instead of defining yourself by your

career that you choose to define yourself by things that are entirely in your

control, your love for your family, your

friendships, your faith, your service to others.

In times of uncertainty and discomfort, choosing optimism and humour can change your whole mood in an instant.

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