A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Use this hiatus to do something you would never have done if this emergency hadn’t hit. When the lockdown lifts, move to another state or country. Take some job that never would have made sense if you were worrying about building a career—bartender, handyman, AmeriCorps volunteer.
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If you use the next two years as a random hiatus, you may not wind up richer, but you’ll wind up more interesting.
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The biggest way most colleges fail is this: They don’t plant the intellectual and moral seeds students are going to need later, when they get hit by the vicissitudes of life.
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