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Taylor Swift, the prolific US pop singer received an honorary doctorate of fine arts on Wednesday from New York University, and also delivered this year's commencement speech at Yankee Stadium.

In her speech, the 11-time Grammy winner shared that she "never got to have a normal college experience," citing the fact that she only went to public high school until 10th grade so she could pursue her music career.

Despite not receiving a four-year college experience, Swift used her almost 20-minute speech to give the recent graduates "life hacks" on navigating post-graduate and early career life, including "life can be heavy," to "learn to live alongside cringe."

"No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. You can't avoid it so don't try to,"she said, noting a phase in 2012 when she "dressed like a 1950s housewife."

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She preached the importance of making mistakes, because she remembers feeling like she couldn't make them as a teen.

"It was all centered around the idea that mistakes equal failure and, ultimately, the loss of any chance at a happy or rewarding life. This has not been my experience. My mistakes lead to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up, it's part of the human experience,"she said.

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. As long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out," she said. "And I'm a doctor now, so I know how breathing works."

Swift was first announced as the commencement speaker for NYU back in March to mass excitement from fans of the 11-time Grammy winner. Some even tried to buy tickets to the ceremony from graduating students.

Prior to the graduation, NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music also featured an entire course on Taylor Swift this year, taught by Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos. The course covered Swift's rise to pop stardom, as well as her public persona.

來源：CNN NYPost