ERM Graduation Speech by Jillian Student at the Graduation ...

Now we sit, once again in the same room with another group project, reflection on our
accomplishments during the past year. This program doesn't give us silver bullet solutions to
environmental issues, but it does teach us how to ask questions and gives us the skills to work with
people whose backgrounds both challenge and complement our own.
In the coming months as we transition to the next phase, we face again uncertainty of how to adapt
our knowledge to the constantly emerging and dynamic field of environmental sciences. And though
again there are no silver bullet answers to what our role should be, I do feel confident that we all
have the ability to ask the necessary questions and when necessary access our networks so that in
the end we get there.
We did it.