Author John Green admitted to Kenyon College graduates that he’s supposed to tell them adulthood isn’t so bad. He refused. “It is so bad,” Green said in a commencement speech on May 21, in Gambier, Ohio. “If anything, it is far worse than I could even have imagined. I mean, have you ever been to a homeowners’ association meeting? Each of you in the Class of 2016 is wondrous and precious and rare life in a vast and almost entirely dead universe — imagine devoting two hours of your bright but brief flicker of consciousness to a debate over whether the maximum allowable length of grass in your neighborhood’s front lawns should be 4 inches or 6.”  Read more: