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Language Log: Mr Sun offers some
practical advice to this year's crop of new graduates. It includes a few things they most likely won't have heard at Commencement, such as:
Make a list of the things you want to do before you die. Be as open to your heart as you possibly can. Now, throw that ridiculous piece of trash away and get your ass to work. The ball is over, Cinderella.
And,
If you start lowering your expectations and compromising your principles now, you won't have to play catch-up when mounting debt and endless tedium crush what was once your soul.
Recent graduates should read it all.
