I didn't know who I was or what I was going to do with my life when I finished college. I wasn't any clearer about my direction than the day I graduated high school.
Maya Rudolph
Tulane University Commencement 2015, 2015
Video starts at 9:11 — the moment this quote was spoken
The Story Behind This Quote
Rudolph described her years at UC Santa Cruz — a hippie school where the mascot was a banana slug and there was no football team, just an ultimate frisbee team. She confessed to being genuinely lost, both literally (the campus was mostly woods) and figuratively. It wasn't until her senior year, when her father asked about her post-graduation plans, that she finally admitted her dream of being on Saturday Night Live. Her honesty about having no direction after college offered reassurance to graduates feeling the same uncertainty.
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