May 27, 2009
A whole bunch of college students – 17,000, if we had to ballpark it – from all kinds of universities and colleges in the Richmond area graduated last weekend, the weekend before, or the weekend before that, and were more than likely told a lot of promising stuff about their futures, probably.
“Something something hard work something-or-other about your destiny whatever, positive outlook, future personal growth, entering the real world is exciting great job, super job, you guys are amazing,” said one of the speech makers, who was either some well-known public figure or perhaps a minority student with a great life story of some sort.
Or maybe he or she was handicapped.
“Live long and prosper,” the graduation speaker said, though we’re paraphrasing what was actually said with a line from Star Trek.
Many graduates – regardless of whether they attended Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Union University, the University of Richmond, or elsewhere – said that they were hopeful for the future, and blah, blah, blah, were really looking forward to the real world, so on and so forth missing all the close friends they made, staying in touch over Facebook and oh God please don’t let the Vitamin C graduation song start playing over the speakers.
Ugh, just did.
Everyone then threw their graduation hat things in the air and yelled, most all completely unaware that they will fall far short of their personal dreams after college.
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I seem to remember the speech you made at your college graduation being quite inspirational. People still talk…