Summary Of Commencement Speech Kenyon College

Throughout reading “Commencement Speech, Kenyon College”, I found this short story very inspiring to read as I found myself doing more research on this essay because I was so interested in it. Reading this once through I got the feeling of more of a pessimistic and lower toned feeling sine suicide is mentioned and reading the bio notes of David Foster Wallace and how he suffered with depression and committing suicide I realized this was more of a final speech of what he wished he could have still in himself. “It’s the matter of my choosing to do the work of show how altering or getting free of my natural, hardwired default-settling” (309) I believe in this statement with my whole heart, to me I believe that I used to get just go through the motions of life and wasn’t really living but recently one of my friends came to me and told me she wanted to kill herself because she didn’t see the point in life and though I don’t know if I ever could get to that point, I told her that every day we would hang out, every day we would make the most of everyday and every day I would remind her why life was so wonderful to live and how lucky we are for this opportunity. …show more content…
Being at liberal arts school he keeps with hinting at thinks within the school and how liberal arts schools instead of teaching you how to think it’s more of learning how to think, and now being here for almost a whole year I know understand how the true this statement is. Any school can teach you how to learn or teach you how to memorize things but a school that challenges you to learn and be involved with your learning, to take the bigger lessons out of