摘要：学院君说：近日，哥伦比亚大学2025年毕业典礼上，双学位的华人学生Andrew Yang作为工程学院的最高荣誉——valedictorian（毕业生代表演讲者）登上了演讲台，向全体毕业生发表了精彩的演讲。

学院君说：近日，哥伦比亚大学2025年毕业典礼上，双学位的华人学生Andrew Yang作为工程学院的最高荣誉——valedictorian（毕业生代表演讲者）登上了演讲台，向全体毕业生发表了精彩的演讲。

作为竞争最为激烈的工程学院中唯一获得这一殊荣的学生，Andrew不仅展现了他在学术上的卓越成就，更以幽默与智慧赢得了在场师生的热烈掌声，彰显了顶尖藤校工科天才的风采。

当他穿着游戏角色服装喊出“我们正如汪洋大海，注定要掀起巨浪”，突然也就读懂了其中的含义：不是冰冷的公式，而是用激光照亮原子，用幽默化解焦虑，用冒险连接彼此。

Thank you! Dean Morrison.

Every good ceremony places ,its best speeches at the beginning and the end which is why i'm speaking in the middle of our class day .

And to be honest that's fair.When I look at this crowd I see students pioneering clean energy.Ridding plastic from our oceans.We have a real-life Stark lab featured recently in a Veritasium video.

Students using machine learning to explore the quantum world.And working with NASA to launch a freaking satellite to space. Despite all of these amazing people who could be up here today.They choose the dork with the among us keychain,that you've never probably seen outside of class.

For those of you who've had me as a T.A. though watching me yap up here probably isn't strange.You know I love lecturing and could very well spend the next 45 minutes glazing Euclidean distance matrices.But the best part about teaching here at Columbia is seeing how we all interact so differently with the same material and i think this is representative of Columbia as a whole.

Now, don't fact check me but not only does our class represent all 50 states, we represent almost half the countries,we come from the biggest cities to the smallest towns and a fifth of us are the first in our families to even attend let alone graduate university.

Yet together as one class.We struggled through introductory physics bared through the insane heat waves in our dorms pulled all nighters to finish our art of engineering projects and spent hours in Butler how to add just one more page to our music com essays.

So i want to share a bit about my background and how it shaped my perspective here .Now I know we're all excited to graduate and finally be free of classes.But unfortunately,i'm going to put you through one last lecture,so my research it's all about how materials look on the nano scale so current microscopes aren't powerful enough to see the individual atom,so we have to be a little more creative and we shine lasers on them so it's kind of like when you shine a laser on a mirror and the direction the laser bounces tells you the angle the mirror is oriented.

But no real world mirror is perfectly smooth so if you turn off the lights and use a strong enough laser,you can see not only a bright dot where the reflected light lands,but also small fluctuations in light.

These minute ripples tell us what atoms compose our mirror and where the defects are the tiniest waves are the most important

waving high in orientation week to some of your now closest friends tearful waves goodbye to your family after convocation who have hopefully rejoined you on this day shout it to my mom, dad my grandfather,my grandmother, and my sister Annie who just starting high school,no pressure ,all right!

Sound waves of applause at our amazing performers and learners from waving flags to wavy tides at the free kayaking sessions downtown.We make these waves every day from the interactions.

And time we spend with each other in 1807,Joseph fourie showed

how waves can combine to form beautiful functions our interactions combine to form this beautiful community.

When you think back at the time you spent here,what's going to stick with you well. Sure, the horrors of a machine learning midterm are probably never going to leave you but i'm certain it's also filled with unplanned urban explorations watching sunsets on the Brooklyn bridge losing four buy-ins in five hands of hold and making an among us shaped candle for white elephant.All of these with friends by your side while we have some of the most rigorous courses access to lucrative internships and the best research laboratories what really makes us us is our commitment to each other.

After all our slogan is not just engineering,but engineering for humanity and Columbia engineers engineers are particularly well versed in the humanities.So I'm going to Caltech for my PhD Shout-out to Brent's lab who are hopefully on live right now.

And when i went to visit LA i got lost late at night looking for union station and i asked a stranger at the bus stop for directions

and ended up sitting next to him on the bus.

We chatted a bit before our conversation turned to the syllogisms and the nicomachean ethics and he was impressed that Columbia taught us so well about Aristotle that he offered to take me out for dinner and, well, sure!

I could have ended up without my kidneys and an ice bath it turns out he was a former sociology professor and we engaged in one of my most exciting debates about what it means to belong somewhere all because i went screw it, I'm in which brings me to my final point the importance of taking risks splashing through the ripples of uncertainty while this mindset has led to unpleasant situations like being detained in Japan during midterms week and googling symptoms of beaver fever after drinking water from a creek hear me out.

I wanted to try the cold spring up at cold springs so I...don't do it,but taking these risks has also allowed me to explore amazing physics across the Pacific Ocean become the first undergraduate speaker for the Bruker / MIT Symposium,and wear a video game costume for graduation speech!thank you.

One more despite all of this sorry.Now, more than ever, it feels difficult to take risks,especially when it feels like the whole world is watching and there's always something we can lose despite this i'm confident our class is exclusively qualified to overcome any hardship.

During our end stop, our campus flooded from the rain but rather than hiding away we brought out a boat and sea if thieves our way outside of John J.We survived a pandemic stood with our families abroad and braved events other students may never face in their lives.We even spent a good portion of college without generative ai like. Is it crazy like we started our journey without Claude or perplexity,and now lolms have dominated our oh sorry... ehh...GPT says i'm out of free credits so i guess i have to close things off.

We came here maybe not knowing about what the future would hold and definitely not knowing what these four years would bring,but we made it with the invaluable support of our friends and family after weathering so many tides,we've made it to the crest of our college careers.

Look among us, class of 2025 ,we are seas and we're gonna make waves.Clap a little longer so i can put my robe back on.

Thank you class, best class ever in the university,thank you,thank you,Ok, that's enough, alright,thank you so much sorry for the cheesy send off,but if you wanted a professional speaker.You would have looked in the college.Now I'd like to invite Reid Ellison, class of 2008 and president of the Columbia Engineering Alumni Association to the podium.

谢谢你，莫里森院长!

每一场精彩的典礼都会把最好的演讲放在开头和结尾，所以我的演讲被安排在我们年级庆典的正中间，坦率地说，这很合理。

当我看着人群时，我看到的是探索清洁能源的学生们，还有那些致力于清除海洋塑料的同学，我们甚至有一个现实版的斯塔克实验室，最近还上了Veritasium的视频，还有学生们利用机器学习探索量子世界，甚至与NASA合作发射一颗卫星到太空。

尽管今天有这么多优秀的人选可以站在这里演讲，但他们却选择了个有着Amongus钥匙扣的书呆子,也就是你们课外可能从未见过的我,对那些曾经我是你的助教的人来说,看我在这里啰嗦并不会感到陌生,你们知道我喜欢讲课,如果可能的话，我甚至能在接下来的45分钟讲解欧氏距离矩阵.

但在哥伦比亚教书最棒的是,看到我们每个人与同样的内容有着如此不同的互动方式,我认为这体现了整个哥伦比亚大学的特色。不完全统计。我们2025届毕业生不仅代表着美国全部50个州，几乎还涵盖了半数的国家。

我们从大城市到小城镇，我们之中五分之一的人是家族中第一个上大学，甚至第一个毕业的人，作为一个集体，我们一同熬过了入门物理课，忍受了宿舍里疯狂的热浪，为了工程艺术项目通宵达旦，在巴特勒图书馆中苦思冥想如何在音乐人文论文中多写一页，所以我想分享一些关于我的背景以及它如何塑造了我在这里的视角。

我知道我们都渴望毕业，摆脱课程。但不幸的是我要给你们再上一节最后的课，我的研究涉及材料在纳米尺度上的样貌，现有的显微镜不足以观察到单个原子，因此我们必须更具创造性，也就是用激光来照射它们，这就像你用激光照射镜子。激光反射的方向告诉你镜子的角度，但现实中没有一面镜子是完全光滑的。

所以如果你关灯并使用足够强的激光，你不仅可以看到一个反射光的亮点，还能看到细小的光波动，这些细微的波动告诉我们镜子是由哪些原子组成的，以及缺陷在哪里，最细微的波动是最重要的，就像在新生迎新周向一些现在成为你最亲密的朋友挥手致意，或是在毕业典礼后含泪与家人挥手告别，他们曾经希望在今天与你重逢，特别感谢我的父母我的爷爷奶奶，还有我刚上高中的妹妹Annie。

放轻松，好吧！

让掌声的声浪回荡，致敬我们杰出的表演者和学习者。从迎风飘扬的旗帜，到市中心免费皮划艇活动中荡起的波涛，每天我们与彼此的互动和相处都在制造这些波动，1807年，傅里叶展示了波的叠加可以形成美丽的函数，而我们之间所有的互动构成了这个美丽的社区，当你回想起你在这里度过的时光，什么事情会让你印象深刻？也许那个恐怖的机器学习期中考试可能永远不会离开你的脑海，但我相信更多的是那些意外的城市探索。

在布鲁克林大桥上看日落，5局里面输掉4局的德州PK，以及为了交换礼物制作一个《Among Us》游戏小人蜡烛，所有这些经历都有朋友相伴。

虽然我们有一些最严格的课程，获得了诱人的实习机会和最顶尖的研究实验室，但真正让我们成为我们自身是对彼此的承诺。毕竟，我们的口号不仅仅是工程而是为了人类。

哥伦比亚大学工程学院的工程师，尤其精通人文学科，我准备去加州理工读博士，感谢布伦特实验室，希望他们现在看直播。

我记得当我去洛杉矶的时候，我在深夜迷路了，想找联合车站，我在公车站向一个陌生人问路，最后在公共汽车上坐在他旁边，我们聊了一会儿随后话题转到了三段论和尼各马可伦理学上，他很佩服哥大居然把亚里士多德的东西教得这么好，于是他提出请我吃顿晚饭，当然了，我有可能会被骗去摘肾然后扔进冰浴里，结果原来他曾经是一位社会学教授，我们进行了我最激动人心的辩论之一，那就是归宿感的意义，就因为我心想：不管了，冲！这就引出了我想说的最后一点——冒险的重要性。

跳入不确定的涟漪，虽然这种心态导致了不愉快的情况，比如在期中考试周被拘留在日本，还有喝了溪水之后疯狂谷歌搜索“贾第虫病症状”，听我说

我只是想试试冷泉那边的冰冷的泉水，所以我就...（解开扣子展示游戏角色服装）

别这么做，但正是因为这些冒险，我才能横跨太平洋去探索神奇的物理成为布鲁克/麻省理工研讨会历史上首位本科演讲者，还有穿着游戏角色服装发表毕业演讲，谢谢。

再来一个？抱歉，现在比以往任何时候都更难冒险，尤其是在感觉整个世界都在注视着你，而你总是可能会失去些什么的时候。

尽管如此，我相信我们这一届拥有独特的能力足以战胜任何困难。还记得我们新生迎新项目的时候，我们的校园被雨水淹没了，我们没有躲起来，而是拿出一艘船，像玩《盗贼之海》一样划出宿舍楼，我们挺过了疫情，与远方家人并肩作战，经历了其他学生可能一辈子都遇不到的事件，我们甚至有相当一段大学时光是在没有生成式 AI 的情况下度过的。多不可思议啊！

我们开始时没有Claude也没有Perplexity，而现在大型语言模型已经统治了我们的...(生活)不好意思，GPT说我没有免费额度了，所以我想该收尾了。

我们来到这里时，也许对未来毫无所知，也绝对不知道这四年会带来什么，但我们挺过来了。在朋友和家人的宝贵支持下，经历了无数潮起潮落，我们已经攀登到了大学生涯的顶峰。

看看我们，2025届毕业生，我们如同汪洋大海，注定要掀起巨浪，再拍一会儿，这样我就可以穿回我的长袍了，谢谢同学们，你们是这所大学有史以来最好的一届，谢谢你们！非常感谢！

对不起结尾有点俗，但如果你想要一个专业演讲人，你该去学院里找找其他人了。现在请允许我邀请2008届的Reid Ellison哥伦比亚工程校友会主席，上台致辞。

备注：

斯塔克实验室:即漫威漫画中钢铁侠的实验室

Veritasium:知名科学教育 YouTube 频道

Bruker(布鲁克公司):德国著名的高精科学仪器制造商

盗贼之海：一款多名玩家共同扮演海盗船长或船员，航海探索世界的电子游戏

John Jay Hall:哥伦比亚大学的一栋宿舍楼

Claude、Perplexity均为著名的生成式AI工具

此处为双关，SEAS为School of Engineering and Applied Science缩写，即工程与应用科学学院。根据语境也可译为汪洋大海

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