Over 170 students set to graduate from North Carolina State University were about to get the surprise of a lifetime when they filed into the arena in their red caps and gowns.
As with all graduation speeches, possibilities seemed palpable; hopes and dreams were waiting on the horizon.
Unbeknownst to the scholars, their commencement speaker, Anil Kochhar, had a lifeline planned that would pay off the final year of student loans for every 2026 graduate in the school’s Wilson College of Textiles…