How To Be a Person: A Guide to Life for the Recent Graduate

Lindy West's 2011 Cracked column addressed to that year's graduating class, opening: "Greetings, graduating classes of 2011! Congratulations on accomplishing all you have accomplished... and pre-condolences on all the shit you will fail at." Beneath the showmanship is genuine practical advice — on handling money, jobs, friends, breakups, and the alarming gap between self-image and competence — delivered with the bracing, profane humour that became West's signature. A graduation speech disguised as a Cracked listicle.