Class Day is Yale's chance to show off our prestige by inviting the biggest and the best speaker, but unfortunately, we often come up short. Last year, Joe Biden was the Class Day Speaker, and the year before was John Kerry. While both of those men are extremely qualified to speak at Class Day, and I say that even with my own politics in mind, Yale's decision for Class Day speaker often makes us look stuffy and boring, especially in comparison to our neighboring institutions.

This year, Harvard will be having Steven Spielberg give their commencement address. The University of Pennsylvania is having Lin-Manuel Miranda. Past commencement and class day speakers at other institutions have included Natalie Portman (Harvard), Neil deGrasse Tyson (UMass Amherst) and Stephen Colbert (Wake Forest).

Everyone knows that Yale is an intellectual school, no one disputes that, but let's have some fun for once. In 2011, we had Tom Hanks. Why can't we bring that kind of speaker back?

Here are five alumni that Yale could have speak at Class Day to spice it up, and make everyone else jealous.

Meryl Streep

We would be the envy of the world if we had Meryl Streep, School of Drama class of 1975, as our Class Day Speaker. She's got three Oscars, over two dozen nominations for Oscars and has been repeatedly called the best actress of her generation. If we want a speaker who is not only a proud graduate but also an extremely accomplished one, we need to look no further. There will not be a dry eye on campus when Meryl tells her story to the graduates, and Harvard would wish they had a world-renown School of Drama to breed such amazing women.

Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita is another Drama alumni who has absolutely crushed her life post-graduation. It is amazing to think that she was at the Drama School only five years ago. She was cast in "12 Years a Slave," and won an Oscar for it, immediately after graduation. Lupita would absolutely give an amazing Class Day speech and inspire so many others to follow their dreams, even if they aren't in finance, as the Gods of Yale deign.

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow is an author and historian, which may seem stuffy and far from the excitement I said I am looking for, but how could a man who wrote the book that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical be boring? He's a 1970 Yale graduate with a Pulitzer Prize, so he's more than qualified to speak at Class Day. He's also spent his career telling stories that might otherwise be forgotten, and we need to hear more from the people telling these stories and less from the people typically written about in history.

Paul Giamatti

Who better to speak at Class Day than a successful actor who is the son of a former president of the university, as well as master of the best college, Saybrook. Giamatti is a double Yale graduate, from both the college and the School of Drama, and everyone of us that few up watching "Big Fat Liar" and finally, when we matured, the John Adams miniseries, would love to have him entertain us on Class Day.

Anderson Cooper

As someone who spent her entire freshman year living in Vanderbilt Hall, I am fully supportive of bringing a Vanderbilt back to campus. Anderson Cooper is so much more than "just a Vanderbilt" though, and his stellar career and success as a journalist and all-around entertaining person makes him perfect for Class Day. Like Giamatti, he is a 1989 graduate, and he was a member of Trumbull College, so it's about time we started honoring him instead of punishing him.

*This article was written before the release of Yale's 2016 Class Day Speaker, and if any of these five people do end of speaking at Class Day, I would like it to be known that I am not a witch and no, I cannot see the future*