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Photo by Brady Dillsworth, via Flickr Creative Commons
Photo by Brady Dillsworth, via Flickr Creative Commons

CHARLES WHEELAN, professor at Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago and is author of 10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said and Naked Economics, veered off the motivational script when addressing the 2011 class at Dartmouth, telling the graduates “your worst days lie ahead.”

Wheelan on Talk of the Nation

Top 10 Most Memorable Graduation Speakers

Katie Couric's 2010 Commencement Address

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELC_e2QBQMk&feature=player_detailpage

 

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