Professor and Rector Pham Quang Minh: Be proud of today and have unwavering faith in the path you have chosen!

First of all, allow me to extend my most sincere and heartfelt congratulations to you – the new graduates of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi. I wish I were one of you today. Seeing you in your graduation gowns fills my heart with emotion. You are the center of today's ceremony. At this moment, you have every right to be proud of yourselves, because many people never even have the opportunity to set foot through the doors of a university, and many others have studied but never completed the program.

Time flies so fast. It seems like only yesterday we were all arriving at school, and now we have to say goodbye. We remember our first friends, coming from different lands with different accents. We remember the respected professors we only knew from books in high school. We remember the cold winter days and the sweltering summer days. We remember the laughter and the tears. We remember the arguments and the awkward but romantic declarations of love during our student years. Goodbye to everything. At this moment, we are even more grateful to our teachers because "Without a teacher, you can't achieve anything"; grateful to our friends because "Learning from a teacher is not as good as learning from a friend"; and especially grateful to our parents because "A father's love is like Mount Tai, a mother's love is like a flowing spring." Without our parents, we wouldn't be where we are today.

From today onwards, your lives will turn a new page. One door closes to open another. Graduating from university does not mean the end of learning. Lifelong learning –Lifelong learning- This is a new requirement of the 4.0 revolution era. Wherever we go, we will never forget this prestigious USSH - a school built upon the names of generations of brilliant scientists such as Literature professors Dang Thai Mai, Hoang Xuan Nhi, Ha Minh Duc…; Philosophy professor Tran Duc Thao; History professors Dinh Xuan Lam, Phan Huy Le, Ha Van Tan, Tran Quoc Vuong…; or heroes like Le Anh Xuan whose stature has been etched into history… Be proud, be worthy of this school, and be the ones to write new chapters in history. Later, throughout the country, you will surely meet former students who once spent their youth here, sharing memories and the values ​​of this school. These include critical thinking, the spirit of overcoming difficulties, and noble humanism.

Goodbye to this school, but ahead lies a new horizon, vast and yet full of challenges. The world and the country have changed. The era of Vietnam's division and war is over; the time when we often praised Vietnam as a land of "golden forests, silver seas, fertile soil, and abundant assistance from brotherly nations" is also over. The time when poet Tran Dan lamented, "Weeping for horizons without people to fly, and weeping for those who fly without horizons," is also gone. A wide-open world awaits you: not only your beloved S-shaped land but also the ASEAN community and new horizons. Your homeland, your family, and your teachers will always be watching over your every step.

So what baggage will you bring to those horizons? It's perseverance, dreams, passion, and love for humanity. With love, you have everything. If asked, I would still choose this school.

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Once again, I congratulate you all on your graduation day. Education in general, and university education in particular, is one of the keys to unlocking each person's potential. The renowned teacher Chu Van An once said, "I have never seen a country that disregards education and yet prospers." Today you have taken another step closer to your dreams and will soon reap the sweet fruits of the seeds you have sown. May you all remain steadfast on your path!