摘要
对大多数人来说，毕业典礼日令人期待——若干年的努力付出结出了硕果。我的毕业典礼目却不是那样。我记得两年前的那个周末，我的家人和朋友从全国各地飞来看着我和同学们走上舞台。和毕业班里的其他人一样，大四那年我眼看着经济形势每况愈下，我们这些毕业生虽然能拿到学位，但是前景渺茫。无数的职位申请没有成功，我知道，第二天我的房租到期，我就再也没有一个可以称之为家的地方了。
For most people, graduation day is exciting the culmination of years of hard work. My graduation day was not. I remember that weekend two years ago. My family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But hike everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse during my senior year. We graduates had degrees, but very limited prospects. Numerous applications had not panned out and I knew that the next day, when my lease ended, I would no longer have a place to call home.
