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Discuss “Presidential perspectives: What will you do after graduation?”

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once wrote, ?Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad.?

As hundreds of graduating Carnegie Mellon students prepare to enter the workforce, they are confronted with the choice of applying their education to either good things or to bad, to creation or to destruction.

To encourage students to consider this decision, colleges and universities across the nation have adopted the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility. It reads, ?I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any...

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