摘要：毕业生们，当我阅读你们的简历时，我所看见的只是无穷无尽的“给自己的广告”。你无需在简历中标榜自己，并对此有足够的信心。你懂什么是“少即是多”。
Allow me to be the first one not to congratulate you. Throughexertions that—let's be honest—were probably less than heroic, mostof you have spent the last few years getting inflated grades inuseless subjects in order to obtain a debased degree. Now you'reentering a lousy economy, courtesy of the very president whom you,as freshmen, voted for with such enthusiasm. Please spare us theself-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living withyour parents. They're the ones who spent a fortune on youreducation only to get you back— return-to-sender, forwardingaddress unknown。
请允许我成为第一个不对你说“恭喜”的人。在过去几年中，你们中的大多数努力地在各种并不实用的课程中为了一个看得过去的成绩而徘徊奋斗。老实说，这并不是什么值得夸耀的事情。现在在这糟糕的，拜你们大一时投票选出的总统所赐的经济环境下，你们要离开学校了。重回父母家住下，还要同时开始寻找并不好找的工作，这不是一件容易的事儿。毕竟你的父母是曾经在你身上给予厚望，而他们现在更像是拿着没能寄出去的邮包的发件人，且无从得知这个邮包接下来该往哪儿发去。
No doubt some of you have overcome real hardships or takenreal degrees. A couple of years ago I hired a summer intern fromWest Point. She came to the office directly from we
