Family Guy goes to Harvard
Seth McFarlane, creator of The Family Guy, spoke at Harvard for the college’s annual class day. It’s broken into four YouTube segments, so I haven’t watched it all, but my favorite line so far, “I have been secretly living amongst you. Eating in your dining hall, attending your classes, sleeping with your women, and in [...]
Graduation ain’t got nothing on this
We set the television on the kitchen table and arranged our chairs in a half-circle around it. We all could feel that something was going to happen. This was going to be an event. Someone pushed the power button, and we heard it, that tinkly-pinkly that is Nintendo’s trademark, which was soon followed by the [...]
Graduation Week
For me, Graduation Week started last Tuesday, which is when a bunch of us decided to go camping on an absolutely amazing piece of property about 45 minutes from the college. It’s owned by a guy named Bob Bushnell, of Bushnell Performance Optics, which is the company that makes Bushnell telescopes and Bushnell binoculars. In [...]
On Graduating
I’m done. At the age of (going-on) 29, I finally stepped up and achieved a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Theories of Writing. Four years ago, when I was sitting on the couch in my apartment, discussing with my roommate the idea of going back to school full-time at the age of 25, of moving [...]
Sam’s Keynote Address
As you may know, Sam Waterston gave the commencement address to the 2006 graduating class of Green Mountain College. And personally, I thought the man did a hell of a job. I’m not going to do a big write-up on the graduation celebration just yet, because it’s been a long weekend, but I hope to [...]
