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Excelsior College Grad Gets Advice from MTV Pioneer

Tyler Schilling graduated from Saint Michael's College in Vermont over the weekend.

Tyler Schilling, son of Susan and Tod Schilling of Excelsior, graduated from Saint Michael's College with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration at the college's 105th commencement exercises on May 14.

Commencement speaker, MTV media pioneer and humanitarian, Tom Freston, a member of the Saint Michael's graduate class of 1967, told the graduates hard work is key to your future.

"My advice," he said, "is really to look for a career in fields that are on the ascent-social innoviation—and bring an old-fashioned work ethic to them. There is great value and sustaining dignity in good old-fashioned hard work, whether that means crunching numbers or cleaning bathrooms."

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Some 478 students received bachelor's degrees and another 65 received master's degrees at the commencement exercises, and about 4,000 people—including graduates, their families and friends, faculty and staff of the college, located in Burlington, Vermont—attended.

Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 376 Colleges, and included in the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students.

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