GRADUAT ION Excerpt from commencement speech,


“Passport to Everywhere,” by Jake Sullivan ’10


outfits— outrageous and unpredictable. The world these days is like Facebook— you can spend ten hours a day trying to keep up, but you just can’t. The world is a thunderstorm of expectations and disappointments, confusions and excitements, first


T 4 OES MAGAZINE SUMMER 2010 4 loves and first losses. The world is a jungle, and I’m just a boy


with a dream and no map. The forest is big and foreboding, but I don’t have to face it alone. The class of 2010 is here to help me, to pick me up like a marionette and untwist my strings, to guide me when I’m blind, to save me when I’m


drowning. I may be lost in the jungle, but Nobu isn’t. His


brain is ten steps ahead, twisting and turning ideas like red and yellow Rubik’s Cube squares.


I may not be able to reach the fat mangoes of success that dangle out of reach just above my head, but Kerry Streiff can vault 10 feet high and Jeff Teufel can jump 42 feet forward, so there’s no ravine we can’t cross, no tree we can’t climb. We might be lost in the middle of a jungle, but Daniel Saunders brought his guitar and we’re going to have a damn good time singing. We are the class of 2010, and we are out of this


world. We are a galaxy of high-powered stars, moving fast and harmonizing in each other’s orbits. All we need is a goal, and we’ll climb until


he world these days is like Lady Gaga’s outfits—


he world these days is like Lady Gaga’s


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