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00:00Hey what's up y'all, MKBHD here. A bit of a different type of video this time. So this year, I was invited to give a commencement speech for the graduating class of 2024, for the school that I graduated from 9 years ago, Stevens Institute of Technology, and so I said yes.
00:24And also, I've never given a commencement speech before, and so I'm not particularly well practiced at this type of stuff, but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway.
00:33So I was told I was given 7 minutes for this one, and actually, you'll see, but I think I kind of nailed the 7 minutes part.
00:40But the topic that I chose was basically pointing your energy towards something that you care about a lot, and that makes it easy to dive in and really make a difference in that thing.
00:54Obviously for me, it's these tech videos, but these are graduates of a tech school and a business school and all sorts of stuff, so they have a bright future ahead of them.
01:02And also, they were kind enough to give me an honorary doctorate degree while I was there. So the running joke is like, autocorrect and all those autocaptions from years ago would always say weird things instead of MKBHD, and one of them was MKPHD, and now that feels kind of like foreshadowing instead.
01:24Kind of prophetic. Impressive. Anyway, I figured I'd share this in case it was inspirational to anyone who is young, who is graduating, who is also in the right demographic to enjoy it, so I'll let it take it from here.
01:37So I'm told I have 7 minutes to really make an impression on you guys. Most of the videos are heavily edited and way longer than 7 minutes, so I'll try to keep it concise here so you can graduate.
01:52But first of all, I feel like I stand in front of you a little bit shocked at where we are, because I feel like I was just there, not that long ago, like a minute ago, I was sitting here graduating from Stevens, but then I checked and it was 9 years ago, so 2015, it's like ancient history to you guys.
02:13So they say time flies, but when President Favard invited me to come back here and give the commencement speech to you all, the class of 2024, the school that I graduated from, I'm obviously honored and excited and maybe a little bit nervous, there's a lot of people here, but I want to give you guys two things.
02:31I prepared two things for you. One is for now, and one is for later. So I'll start with the thing for now, and I'm going to start with a quote actually, so it goes like this.
02:45As a large language model, I cannot help with your request to write a commencement speech. Just kidding. I'm kidding, kidding. I wrote this whole thing myself. I thought you guys would like that.
02:59But I'm actually going to start with a quote from an Ultimate Frisbee teammate, so I know that's not the reason I'm here, but a lot of you guys may know I played Ultimate Frisbee when I went here to Stevens. I still play to this day.
03:16I remember really, really early in my Ultimate Frisbee career, sort of the beginning of freshman year, there's a tryout process, and then the team was formed. And I remember we went to our first tournament. We were all in the huddle before our first game as a team.
03:32And the captain said, hey, guys, everybody take a beat, just take a deep breath, and just look around this huddle for a second. Like really appreciate this moment of becoming a team for the first time, because you're going to blink, and the whole season is going to be over way faster than you think. And he was totally right.
03:56Obviously, we played the game. There was lots of long points and then lots of long weekends of practices and travel, and it's a grind. But we loved every second of it, and we all evolved a lot as teammates and as players, and it was great. But at the end of the season, we could all remember that first huddle. We remembered that moment of just taking a beat.
04:18So while I have the chance, I want to encourage you all, sitting here with the gowns and the hats and everything, to just take a beat and look around at your fellow classmates and your friends, people who you just spent a lot of time with, your families here. This is your day to day.