It's an exciting time of the year for all graduates to move on to the next phase in their lives. I graduated from college 5 years ago, and it feels like it was yesterday. The best part of graduating is the commencement speaker, most schools have former graduates come back to the campus and give a motivational speech about the lessons they learned outside of the school. The possibilities for who this speaker could be are endless and sometimes they can be really freaking cool. My favorite videos this year come from Wesleyan University where 1987 graduate Joss Whedon spoke and Georgetown where writer/actress Brit Marling talks about meeting her filmmaking partners Mike Cahill (Another Earth) and Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The East). Whedon and Marling deliver tremendous speeches and I can't recommend enough to check these out.
While you're here, you might as well check out my favorite college commencement speech of all time, Conan O'Brien speaking in front of the 2011 Dartmouth College graduating class.
John Green did an awesome speech too (at Butler university)!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQ4Tswr1Ss
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