it sounds awful to not be able to say good-bye to kristina yang, but it felt like there was no questiongoing to be that night, because i am someone's mother. >> reporter: but beyond her gift for creating must-see tv, shonda possesses boundless inner wisdom, which she gracefully imparted during her commencement speech last spring at her alma mater, dartmouth. >> dreams are not real. just do. going to be a writer, start writing. you don't have a job, get one. any job. ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer. explamr >> reporter: explain what you mean by that. >> if it seems like the most amazing one, it's the way to go. >> reporter: and all that doing has taken shonda to this monumental moment. three shows, one night and plenty of scandals, of course. >> can we get any spoilers? >> she has the keys to the kingdom on thursday night. >> well, the queen-dom, yes. she has the keeps to the queen-dom. >> reporter: she does. wow. >> i know. it's amazing. to think that from 8:00 until 11:00, you are stepping into a land that is shonda's. but what's so powerful about the work that shonda crea