[Can] a stranger from one generation say much that is helpful to members of another generation standing on a different doorstep in time? Just as a life is a particular life, so a generation lives in its own unque time.

-Bill Moyers
[commencement address]

If you were graduating from high or college, what kinds of advice would you want from someone who graduated thirty years earlier? Which things have changed the most? Are some topics nearly timeless?