Go English majors! Below is the speech I gave, during the weekend of my college graduation, at my English convocation:
At the start of the movie Adventureland, there’s a scene in which James, the main character, has just graduated from college. Although he got into Columbia for graduate school, his parents tell him that if he wants to go to Columbia, he has to get a summer job. He starts calling various places to see if they’re interested in hiring him. The first employer he calls asks about his previous job experience and he responds, “I wrote for The Gordian Knot, it was a literary journal in college.” The employer tells him that he’ll have to get back to him.
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” – A.A. Milne.
Eventually, James tells his parents he knows the only place he can…
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