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Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

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Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Celebrating the grads 🎉 🎓 👏

#Harvard26

Photos by James Rasaiah, @graceduval, @veaseyconway, @niles_singer/Harvard University

Commencement festivities have begun! 🎉 🎓

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Class Day for the undergraduate Class of 2026 included awards, speeches from classmates, and an address by Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @graceduval/Harvard University

Class Day for the undergraduate Class of 2026 included awards, speeches from classmates, and an address by Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @graceduval/Harvard University

Class Day for the undergraduate Class of 2026 included awards, speeches from classmates, and an address by Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @graceduval/Harvard University

Class Day for the undergraduate Class of 2026 included awards, speeches from classmates, and an address by Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @graceduval/Harvard University

We celebrated graduating seniors at yesterday's Baccalaureate ceremony. Dating back to 1642, the ceremony features sacred readings, an address from Harvard's president, and student recitations.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @veaseyconway/Harvard University

We celebrated graduating seniors at yesterday's Baccalaureate ceremony. Dating back to 1642, the ceremony features sacred readings, an address from Harvard's president, and student recitations.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @veaseyconway/Harvard University

We celebrated graduating seniors at yesterday's Baccalaureate ceremony. Dating back to 1642, the ceremony features sacred readings, an address from Harvard's president, and student recitations.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @veaseyconway/Harvard University

We celebrated graduating seniors at yesterday's Baccalaureate ceremony. Dating back to 1642, the ceremony features sacred readings, an address from Harvard's president, and student recitations.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @veaseyconway/Harvard University

We celebrated graduating seniors at yesterday's Baccalaureate ceremony. Dating back to 1642, the ceremony features sacred readings, an address from Harvard's president, and student recitations.

#Harvard26

Photos: @niles_singer and @veaseyconway/Harvard University

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Harvard diplomas are prepared each year! 🎓

Well-wishes and words of advice for the Class of 2026 😊

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Sasha's ready for Commencement (and students are too) 🎓

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Richard’s journey to Harvard College was an unconventional one. A self-described “knucklehead,” Richard struggled throughout high school. He eventually enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a combat medic for five years. A year after leaving the military, everything clicked.

“Everybody says your frontal lobe develops when you turn 25,” he said. “On my 25th birthday, it was almost a spiritual experience. I became super disciplined, super motivated, and said, ‘I am not messing around anymore.’”

Now, a few months shy of turning 30, Richard will graduate from Harvard with a degree in government and a reputation for cultivating community and fostering debate. Eventually, Richard wants to join the State Department and serve as a diplomat.

“Life has a really funny way of playing out,” he said. “Never in my life would I have imagined that my second chance at school would be at Harvard.”

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Grier is an engineer at the @nasa Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where she does flight control and astronaut training, specializing in preparing astronauts for spacewalks. She’s also about to graduate from Harvard Kennedy School with a Master’s in Public Policy and is walking away from her experience at Harvard grateful for the community she has built.

“You become classmates with decision-makers in government and the policy world,” she said. “We have directors of the police force in India, we have people fighting real humanitarian crises in Sudan and Ethiopia—and honestly, the coolest part is how we show up for each other.”

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We are celebrating the extraordinary members of the Class of #Harvard26 🎓

The Commencement banners are up 😊

Photo: @veaseyconway/Harvard University

Lael has spent her time at Harvard College balancing a very busy schedule. A mechanical engineering concentrator, she is also an outfielder on the varsity softball team and a member of the Army ROTC.

Growing up outside of Atlanta, Lael was fascinated with how things work and was also a natural athlete. When she was 12 she attended a Harvard softball camp, and then knew she wanted to pursue collegiate softball at the Division I level. She ultimately chose to attend Harvard because she felt she would have an opportunity to engage with all her interests at once and be part of a team that would support her throughout her time at Harvard.

For her senior thesis project, she combined her love of softball and robotics to build a softball-collecting autonomous robot named "Softbot."

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Springtime downtime 😎

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