스티브잡스 스탠포드 졸업 연설 (영어 공부하기 좋은 문장들)

우연히 유튜브를 보다가 좋은 영상을 보고 결정했다.

스티브잡스의 연설이다.

 

Thank you

 

I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.

 

Truth be told I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

 

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.

 

That' is. No big deal. Just three stories.

 

The first story is about connecting the dots.

 

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.

 

So why did I drop out?

 

It started before I was born.

 

My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.

 

She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.

 

Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

 

So my parents, who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the night asking:

 

"We've got an unexpected baby boy, do you want him?"

 

They said: "Of course"

 

My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.

 

She refused to sign the final adoption papers.

 

She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

 

This was the start in my life.

 

And 17 years later, I did go to college.

 

But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.

 

Afte six months, I couldn't see the value in it.

 

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

 

And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. 

 

So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.

 

It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

 

The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

 

It wasn't all romantic.

 

I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cents deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.

 

I loved it.

 

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intutition turned out to be priceless later on.

 

Let me give you one example.

 

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.

 

Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.

 

Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.

 

아...오늘은 여기까지만 해야겠다.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1utzfa-a5AY