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the greatest graduation speeches of all time. There have been some fantastic commencement

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And welcome to David Sedars' commencement speech to O'Rulean College back on May 28, 2018.

Thank you so much for having me and for presenting me with this honorary degree. It's not

necessarily better than the one I earned by going to classes and putting myself into

debts but I'm trying to collect a stack of them before I die so I really appreciate

it. Like most of you, I'm incredibly grateful for the education I received, a good public

school followed by college. I went to three and all looking for the right fits. The first

two were okay but midway through my sophomore year I got heavy into drugs and dropped out.

Everyone said that was it. I made an irreparable mistake at the age of 20 and I could never

correct it. But I did. The place that I eventually graduated from, the School of the Art Institute

of Chicago has its qualities but is nowhere near O'Rulean when it comes to academics.

It might be different now but in 1984 if you could draw Snoopy on a cocktail napkin

URN. I received my backler of our degree back in 1987 when I was 30 years old. Our commencement

speaker was a conceptual artist named Vito Aconci. He'd done a lot but was best known

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