Published May 28, 2010

In a commencement address Friday, Sen. Scott Brown told graduates of Boston College Law School that when he attended the school, his torts professor used to spend the better part of many classes drilling him. He lost a lot of sleep worrying about it.

“I was that student that always walked in with a stack of books because obviously, I was kind of a target back then,” Brown said — without explaining why he was a target back then — “as I am now.”

Brown said the professor would grill him the moment he walked in, and the exchanges went like this:

“Hi Scott! How are you? How’s your morning going? Oh, it’s great, professor! So tell me about…”

Brown said the exchanges went on for 30, 45, 60 minutes. “Just me, him and me the whole time. Everyone was, like, falling asleep.”

Hundreds of graduates and families listened to him upon the artificial turf of the lacrosse field in bright sunshine. It was a graduation speech, so Brown kept it focused on the graduates. It was at times funny and others moving.

Brown graduated from the law school in January 1985. He never got to graduate with his class in 1984, because he was working in New York as a model. That’s when he posed for the now-famous Cosmopolitan spread, naked.