The romanticization of the high school experience is simultaneously one of my most favorite and least favorite tropes of every single coming-of-age film. On one hand, I’ll indulge in any opportunity to reminisce on my own high school experience now that the edges have been softened by a decade away, and on the other, I’m still just like, nope, it was an unmitigated hellscape and no indie-pop soundtrack is going to erase the years of mental and emotional damage inflicted on us all while trying to navigate it.\n
, and like, a hundred others, would have made up for not having the opportunity to feel uncomfortable standing up in front of all my peers one more time, but, I guess it wouldn’t have hurt either.#Graduation2020: Facebook and Instagram Celebrate the Class of 2020
, and on Saturday Lebron James partnered with the Laurene Powell Jobs’ XQ Institute and the Entertainment Industry Foundation to hostgave the commencement address for Facebook while former presidentdid the honors for James’ shindig. No offense to Oprah, who was wonderful as always, but Obama really took the cake with this one. His speech was engaging, poignant, and also took the requisite jabs at the current administration.
Do what you think is right. Doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy, that’s how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grownups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still think that way, which is why things are so screwed up. I hope that instead, you ground yourselves in values that last.Of course, no graduation ceremony is complete without some kind of intentionally sympathetic musical accompaniment.
Although the class of 2020 isn’t able to get together to celebrate their accomplishments this time around, with any luck we’ll be out of lockdown in time for their 10-year reunion. That’s where most of the fun stuff happens anyway. [
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