I know I haven’t posted on the Portal A site in a long, long time but I’ve been a bit busy finishing up my thesis and trying to graduate from college. Luckily I completed everything and have now joined Nate and Kai in the ranks of college grads.
One interesting thing occurred in my chase to the diploma: the Senior Class Committee made a horrible mistake this year and selected me to deliver the “Ivy Oration” (read: pretentious term for ‘funny speech’) at Class day.
Here is the video below:
To continue my 10 seconds of fame, my mug was featured (in the background) on the NBC Today show because Matt Lauer gave a speech after me:
Finally, probably the most funny part of the day is my behavior in the background as the Ames award was presented (it was presented right before my own speech, given my blatant practicing):
The third video is comic gold. The perfect balance of high anxiety and sheer boredom. Congraduation, Will.
Oh my goodness, amazing, Will. I love how you string together nervous habits without pause, like yawn-gulp water-practice/talk to yourself. Regardless, great job again.
Brilliant. Loving the humility, bro. Posting this was mad humble.