I found Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address particularly interesting. Other than declaring that he never graduated college and was successful because of it, the address made excellent points about how life should be lived for the individual and not by the standards of society. He enforces the idea with his stories of being a drop-in student, and how everything he did as a non-official student was the best decision of his life. I found it particularly interesting that this piece was chosen for our required reading because a first-year could take the speech as instruction instead of an anecdote for living life to your own needs.