{"id":5142,"date":"2014-06-03T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2018-07-17T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:07:27","slug":"mental-health-break-mindy-kaling-to-harvard-law-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2014\/06\/mental-health-break-mindy-kaling-to-harvard-law-graduates.html","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Break\u2014Mindy Kaling, to Harvard Law Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s mental health break comes from Mindy Kaling&#8217;s Class Day speech to graduates of Harvard Law School.\u00a0 In addition to its main point\u2014that these fresh-faced graduates of Harvard Law have the opportunity to use their power for good and not for &#8220;evil&#8221;\u2014Kaling&#8217;s spiel features some especially amusing remarks about her own <em>alma mater <\/em>Dartmouth, as well as a quick summary of Harvard&#8217;s other graduate schools (such as the div school, which Kaling concludes is for &#8220;weird virgins&#8221;).<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mindy Kaling&#039;s Speech at Harvard Law School Class Day 2014\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a7_49EXuLoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s mental health break comes from Mindy Kaling&#8217;s Class Day speech to graduates of Harvard Law School.\u00a0 In addition to its main point\u2014that these fresh-faced graduates of Harvard Law have the opportunity to use their power for good and not for &#8220;evil&#8221;\u2014Kaling&#8217;s spiel features some especially amusing remarks about her own alma mater Dartmouth,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15,5],"tags":[45,2156,2155,2157,1768],"class_list":["post-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-mission","category-women","tag-christianity-and-culture-2","tag-class-day","tag-harvard-law-school","tag-ivy-league","tag-mindy-kaling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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