CNN's Sanjay Gupta To Michigan Students: I Could Have Been Conceived In University Towers

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, a University of Michigan alumnus, was main speaker at University of Michigan spring commencement on April 28.

Gupta spoke of what it takes to become a champion, but the speech's high point comes 11 minutes in. He asks students to share in an exercise common in foxholes facing an advancing enemy.

When frantically writing your last letter, what should go into it? How should you live so that letter includes, "I am who I always wanted to be?"

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[grod805]

02:01 AM on 05/06/2012

I wonder if anyone actually got a free beer

[Kimberly McCabe]

08:55 PM on 05/05/2012

Sanjay Gupta, what a wonderful speech! I loved it. And I hope its another proof point for many about the value of social media because its valuable to a community far beyond that of Ann Arbour. Love you!

K

[mira chancleta]

06:58 PM on 05/03/2012

...the only thing he forgot to add was...

"And enroll in all my feel-good workshops with your vapid partner of the moment"

[ricchh]

12:45 PM on 05/03/2012

Go Blue!