Alinor Smith: This past year at UVA has been such a great year. It’s been a whirlwind.

Ben Wu: The last year has been really busy.

Alisha Whirley: I mean, I’m a first-year, so it’s definitely a lot of adjusting, learning the ropes.

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Trent Weiss: If you can push these systems to their absolute limit and they still function, you can be pretty sure they’re going to work on the highway.

Jeffrey Saucerman: We’ve identified a number of drugs that have been already approved. We’re finding new uses for them in heart disease.

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[Whooshing]

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Cedric Rucker: I’m learning how to be.

Matt Vogel: Oh, but isn’t that true of all of us, Peter Peter?

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Jim Ryan: On your mark, get set, go.

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Patti Fralix: We had to be rebels. We had to be gritty.

Betty Shotton: It was the most wonderful experience of my whole life.

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Jim Ryan: John made UVA a place of large ambitions. He did nothing shy of helping to build the financial, physical and intellectual foundation on which the present version of UVA rests.

Mike Hollins: It’s not a Mike Hollins award. The inspiration goes to the players, my brothers, that I lost. I wake up every day and just want to keep that flame going.

Tony Bennett: It was the time of a lifetime, to get to coach all these guys. I think we touched greatness.

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Alexis Ohanian: UVA women’s basketball has such an amazing legacy. I felt this door opening for the women’s program here.

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Student 1: It’s there.

Mother of Student 1: Are you sure?

Student 1: View update. Wait, wait, wait, no.

Student 2: My heart is pounding out of my chest so.

[Student 1 Laughs]

Mother of Student 1: I need my glasses

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Ryan Odom: This is the place that I fell in love with basketball. This is the place I was shaped in so many ways.

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Alinor Smith: As a fourth-year getting ready to walk the Lawn, the University does feel different. I can’t believe that I’m not going to be here. I’m so glad that I got to experience all of the traditions, and I just love all of it. And I’m so sad to leave it.

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