Everybodys Free to Wear Sunscreen

WHAT IS SUNSCREEN Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. The most popular and wellknown form of the essay is the successful music single released in 1999, credited to Baz Luhrmann. Mary Schmich s Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young was published in the Chicago Tribune as a column on June 1, 1997. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one. The column soon became the subject of an urban legend, in which it was alleged to be an MIT commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut in that same year (in truth, MIT s commencement speaker that year was Kofi Annan). Despite a followup article by Mary Schmich on August 3, 1997, in which she referred to the lawless swamp of br, br,