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Author Gish Jen '77 delivered the keynote address to an audience of about...
...Jen reminisced humorously about her days rowing for Radcliffe lightweight crew, recalling how the team lifted Hawaiian Punch cans filled with concrete instead of the more conventional weights used by the men's teams...
...Jen also told of her serendipitous journey to a career in writing. She had, at different points in her career, flirted with pre-law, pre-medicine and architecture, as well as a stint in business school...
...Jen is the author of two novels, most recently Mona in the Promised Land. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the 1988 and 1995 editions of Best American Short Stories...
...close of her speech, Jen urged students to put real effort into their educations...