毕业后的几年使我成为了与那天前往纽约市离开校园的阶级毕业生完全不同的人，准备为世界提供他的才华。我发现了世界。并不是那么感兴趣。
(The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.)