The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.

Stewart frames post-school life as open-ended rather than syllabus-driven: without a “core curriculum,” there is no single authorized path or universal rubric for judging a life. The reassurance—“don’t worry about your grade”—pushes back against the academic mindset of constant evaluation and external validation. By emphasizing that “success is defined in myriad ways,” he shifts the listener’s focus from standardized achievement to self-defined aims, experimentation, and values. The closing idea that “people will no longer be grading you” suggests adulthood offers greater freedom from institutional metrics, while also implying the responsibility to choose one’s own standards and to accept that fulfillment may look different across careers, relationships, and personal growth.