Wise words to inspire the newly graduated from university and college: Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but I think most young, ambitious people want to have a positive impact on the world. Whether it’s through art or activism or advances in science, almost every student I spoke to had some kind of larger, altruistic goal in life. But what I heard again and again was that working at JPMorgan or Bain or Morgan Stanley was the best way to prepare oneself for a future doing public good. -- Marina Keegan (Sadly, this young woman died in a car crash shortly after graduating from Yale. Nicholas Kristof wrote a lovely review about her posthumous book here: nytimes/2014/04/06/opinion/sunday/kristof-her-first-and-last-book.html?_r=0 )
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 18:26:53 +0000
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