With three days down and just one more to go, the feedback regarding the webcast has been overwhelmingly positive. We've gotten extremely good feedback from Metro Manila as well as General Santos, Geneva, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh (sp?), Vancouver, Australia, Hawaii, Paris, and Dubai.  During the grade school grad, our viewership peaked at 137 concurrent users.  The two Loyola Schools' grads peaked at 162 concurrent viewers each.  We expect the same numbers for the high school grad today.

We did have a couple of complaints from people who were using a dial up or else their cel phones to view the proceedings.  Er, sorry, but all bets are off with those technologies.

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We in the academe are in the business of hope.  We educate the best minds and hearts of the country and then let them loose to be Lux in Domino, God's light in the world.  After the handshakes and congratulatory hugs, many of our alums go out and live righteous, normal lives devoted to career or family. So we in the academia are left to manage our frustrations.  Now and then, though, someone emerges to do great things, to set an example for all of us, to not just be God's light, but to set fire to our hearts, to give us hope, and to mobilize us into action.

This year's graduation speakers, Manuel V. Pangilinan and Tony Meloto, are the sorts of men who do just that.  They represent what is being done. Our valedictorian, Boyet Dy, represents the hope and promise of the future.  Together, they represent a call to greatness.  At whatever age, whatever stage of our lives, we are all expected to do great things.  To do settle for just normal is to sell ourselves short.