Singer, actress, and entrepreneur Hilary Duff delivered the commencement speech for the Northeastern Class of 2026. “I’ll be honest, it’s a little surreal to be standing here and giving advice, since I am genuinely still figuring it out myself every single day,” Duff said during the ceremony at Fenway Park.

There was some star power on stage as graduates flipped their tassels at Fenway Park.

One of the more successful actresses and singers of her generation told graduating seniors from Northeastern Wednesday afternoon that it’s OK to feel confused about what the future may hold. “Graduating … isn’t about having everything figured out,” Hilary Duff, Wednesday’s commencement speaker, told the crowd at Fenway Park.

“At Northeastern University, you believe experience isn’t a substitute for education. It is the education,” Hilary Duff told the graduates.

Singer and actress Hilary Duff gives a commencement address to Northeastern University’s class of 2026.

In the crowded venue of Fenway Park, Hilary Duff spoke to Northeastern University students about how she navigated her decades of stardom. A key lesson she said she has learned along the way is how to listen to her own voice and passions.

Southern states that now have districts that are constructed to “ensure that the Black voters get to elect a candidate of their choosing … (won’t) have to do that anymore,” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, said.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that the result “reflects the limits of political endorsements,” adding that they “can matter, but they are typically not the only thing that matters. 

“This is not a sustainable price in the business models of these companies,” warned Koen Pauwels, professor of marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore McKim School of Business.

But Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University, tells The Verge that she’s “skeptical” that the audio clip submitted by Swift’s team “demonstrates use as a mark, rather than just a phrase that’s included as part of a longer message”

Northeastern University? Who‘s speaking? Hilary Duff, a multiplatinum global star. She is best known for starring in the Disney titular character “Lizzie McGuire” as well as movies like “The Cinderella Story.” She is also an award-winning singer-songwriter whose recent album made it to the top of the Billboard 200 charts.

David Lazer, a professor of both political science and computer sciences at Northeastern, contended in an email that A.I. will transform the industry as it will transform any industry that involves analysis and interpretation of data.