3 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Saidis the antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who’s ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan’s 101 head-turning aphorisms―backed up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science research―set the record straight.

1. Don’t make the world worse

I know that I am supposed to tell you to aspire to greatness. But I am going to lower the bar here for a minute. I am going to ask first and foremost that you do...