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I have learned to find comfort in these commencement speeches. Whether it is the professor from the head of your program or a big time alumni/celebrity, the advice they are giving is invaluable. Because, whether you like them or not, they have made it — and to a place that you have yet to conquer and rise to.

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Here’s David Foster Wallace’s still-relevant 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech, now with added oomph. Listen up, recent grads!