![]() ![]() ![]() I head back to Middle Path, racking my brains and asking myself, “How many more years until I graduate? …Wait, didn’t I graduate already? How old AM I?” Then I wake up.Įxperience is food for the brain. I get more flustered and annoyed by the minute. I’m certain that everyone I know has written me a letter, but I can’t get them. Suddenly it occurs to me that I don’t have my schedule memorized, and I’m not sure which classes I’m taking, or where exactly I’m supposed to be going.Īs I walk up the steps to the postoffice, I realize I don’t have my box key, and in fact, I can’t remember what my box number is. In it, I’m walking to the post office on the way to my first class at the start of the school year. ![]() Watterson begins the speech by articulating the same sentiment at the heart of the most unforgettable commencement addresses: the notion that not-knowing is not only a part of the journey, but an integral part: On May 20, 1990, Bill Watterson, creator of the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, took the podium at Kenyon College - the same stage David Foster Wallace would occupy 15 years later to deliver his memorable commencement address - and gave the graduating class a gift of equally remarkable insight and impact, which remains among the greatest commencement addresses of all time. ‘Tis the season for glorious life advice dispensed by cap-and-gown-clad elders to cap-and-gown-clad youngsters, emanating a halo effect of timeless wisdom the rest of us can absorb any day, at any stage of life. ![]()
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