By Susan Gonzalez May 24, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Yale College graduates gathered on Old Campus on Saturday. (Photos by Dan Renzetti) Jubilant exclamations of “We did it!” echoed across Old Campus, along pathways, and through courtyards around Yale as members of the Class of 2021 fist-bumped and high-fived after being pronounced Yale graduates. It’s a familiar triumphant refrain, and for these students — who adapted to new ways of learning and living necessitated by the pandemic — the chance to exult seemed especially hard-won. “Graduating is a great accomplishment, one of the most important of your life,” Dean Marvin Chun told members of the Yale College Class of 2021, who sat masked and physically distanced in one of three separate Old Campus ceremonies in their honor on Saturday. “If you think back to when you first arrived on campus, no one could have imagined that you’d live through a global pandemic. But you did, and thanks to your strength and perseverance, this moment has finally come.”