'Assume The Worst': The Advice Carl Hiaasen Would Give To Graduates (If He Could)
The author and Miami Herald columnist thinks graduates could use a little realism in their commencement speeches.
It’s May: the start of graduation season. Speakers everywhere will try to live up to the wise words of what was rumored to be Kurt Vonnegut — then revealed to be a column from The Chicago Tribune’s Mary Schmich — which Baz Luhrmann made into a hit in the ’90s.
In her column, Schmich suggests graduates not only “wear sunscreen,” but sing, floss, don’t “be reckless with other people’s hearts” and “do one thing every day that scares you.”
