Brian Watson

I'm an analyst at Union Square Ventures. I like indie hip-hop.
I split my time between Brooklyn and the internet.
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“ GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Harry Potter books are passé among the prisoners. The adventures of the boy wizard have been supplanted by early episodes of Will Smith’s 1990s TV comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as a popular way to pass time among the 168 captives now in their second decade of U.S. detention. ”
“ What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over… The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious… We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have. ”

This is an absolutely beautiful piece on The Opposite of Loneliness in the Yale Daily News. 

It was written by Marina Keegan (Yale, Class of 2012) to be distributed at her class commencement. Sadly, she passed away in a car accident the week before. She was 22.