“It didn’t really mean much until today,” he said.
Kirkland House Senior Tutor Coral Fernandez-Illescas said Rigby’s graduation “obviously means a lot to the House.
“It’s a great honor for us, and we’re thrilled to be participants in the family history,” she said.
Rigby, a native of Quincy, Mass., said the degree ceremony brought him back to New England, and he plans “to have kind of a lazy time” on an upcoming trip around the area. But the degree won’t have a major impact on his life.
“Life’s going to go on,” he said. “This just kind of ties up a loose end.”
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—Staff writer David B. Rochelson can be reached at rochels@fas.harvard.edu.