Do Princeton grads know anything about the real world?
My viral stunt, and the resulting video
Today’s post is a bit different. (I guess by now you know not to know what to expect… one time it was a short story, today is a video!)
I pulled a bit of a stunt recently… I traveled to my alma mater, Princeton University, to crash their graduation. Watch here:
Some reflections after getting to talk to hundreds of newly-minted college graduates in the process:
No students learned any personal finance, including how to invest money or how to pay taxes
No students learned personal life skills, including how to become a better communicator, how to have better relationships, or how to find meaning
All students I spoke with recognized that they *should* know these things (and want to learn them)
The experience was exhausting (ask me about lugging 100 hardcover copies of How to Be a Grown Up in a dolly over one mile uphill!) — but validated what I learned from career coaching and teaching at Boston College: newly-minted grads are woefully underprepared for the real world.
We can help them! If you have social media of any kind, please share any of the following links to the short version of the video
(And if you have Tiktok or Instagram or X, which I do not, let me know — I can send you the video file to upload as your own.)
Thank you for helping me on this mission to prepare the next generation for a better life.
Back to normal posts next time! Future topics include:
How to defeat the love demon
Beware the feed of life
How to harness the secret, abundant resource