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Fate can be cruel.... the Yale student's letter is akin to the "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch that also went viral on the internet. The difference being he was facing his demise and offering his acquired wisdom while she was looking expectantly to a promising future and a long life..
This blog is dedicated to enjoying life by paying attention to the moments that make up our lives...
Virgil put it this way:
"Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore."
Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car Accident | NewsFeed | TIME.com
In her final essay to her classmates, 22-year-old Yale student Marina Keegan penned an ode to life at the university she was preparing to leave. At the time, no one knew it would be her final essay altogether.
Keegan was declared dead at the scene of a car accident.
The promising young English major had been the president of the Yale Young Democrats and an active part of her college’s branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A promising writer, she had already penned articles for NPR and The New York Times and blogged for The New Yorker, where she was set to start work as an assistant to the general counsel in June.
“She was so excited she was going to start work there — that’s all she talked about,” her mother Tracy Keegan told the New York Daily News.
But the most affecting part of Keegan’s legacy is the essay she wrote for a special edition of the Yale Daily News that was distributed at the college’s commencement ceremony.
Titled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” — which the Yale Daily News published online following Keegan’s death — it’s a buoyant, earnest and hopeful rumination on life during and beyond college.
Hope and Promise:
"Let’s make something happen to this world.”
Expectation:
“We’re so young. We’re so young,” she wrote. “ We have so much time.”
Megan Gibson is a Writer-Reporter at the London bureau of TIME.
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Carnegie Mellon University
Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car Accident | NewsFeed | TIME.com
Fate can be cruel.... the Yale student's letter is akin to the "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch that also went viral on the internet. The difference being he was facing his demise and offering his acquired wisdom while she was looking expectantly to a promising future and a long life..
To be mindful of wise words like these offered in a Sanskrit Proverb:
The Bible tells us: "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." in Matthew 24:36 and it is hard to disagree.Virgil put it this way:
"Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore."
But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.
--- Giorgics, by Virgil
--- Giorgics, by Virgil
Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car Accident | NewsFeed | TIME.com
In her final essay to her classmates, 22-year-old Yale student Marina Keegan penned an ode to life at the university she was preparing to leave. At the time, no one knew it would be her final essay altogether.
Keegan was declared dead at the scene of a car accident.
The promising young English major had been the president of the Yale Young Democrats and an active part of her college’s branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A promising writer, she had already penned articles for NPR and The New York Times and blogged for The New Yorker, where she was set to start work as an assistant to the general counsel in June.
“She was so excited she was going to start work there — that’s all she talked about,” her mother Tracy Keegan told the New York Daily News.
But the most affecting part of Keegan’s legacy is the essay she wrote for a special edition of the Yale Daily News that was distributed at the college’s commencement ceremony.
Titled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” — which the Yale Daily News published online following Keegan’s death — it’s a buoyant, earnest and hopeful rumination on life during and beyond college.
Hope and Promise:
"Let’s make something happen to this world.”
Expectation:
“We’re so young. We’re so young,” she wrote. “ We have so much time.”
Megan Gibson is a Writer-Reporter at the London bureau of TIME.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Carnegie Mellon University
Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car Accident | NewsFeed | TIME.com