“There were many things I loved about college, and among the best was the realization I could have Lucky Charms whenever I felt like it: breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snack. That’s and, not or. (You can substitute your own forbidden vice here.) It was like being thrust suddenly into the universe of a Charlie Brown television special, where adults make only the rarest of appearances, and when they do, they blat like foghorns for about ten seconds and then promptly leave.”
Jonathan Zittrain’s Shady Side Academy Commencement Speech
Do yourself a favor and read the whole article, it’s hilarious. This is one of my favorite quotes from the speech.
(via thegongshow)
Also:
The fact is that we can become prisoner both to our regular life scripts, the somnambulant routines we fall into in the day-by-day, and to the melodrama we inherit from Hollywood writers to cover the notable pieces.
kortina’s bit: (a note to self) If and when delivering a commencement speech, reread this first.
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kortina’s bit: (a note to self) If and when delivering a commencement speech, reread this first.
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