Marina Keegan Yale Student Essay

Yale grad’s final essay gets new life after her unexpected death

Marina Keegan, Yale Student, Yale Essay

Marina Keegan Yale Student/Writer

This undated photo released by the Keegan family shows Marina, a 22-year-old Yale graduate, who penned her life’s lessons in a final column for the Yale Daily News. She died just days after commencement.

But the words of her work, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” have lived on.

The Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on her way to a vacation house on Cape Cod when the driver, Michael Gocksch, lost control of the car. Gocksch survived, but Keegan was pronounced dead on the scene.

The young writer was already making a name for herself in the literary world. She had published stories in the New York Times and had a job with the New Yorker she was about to start.

Her legacy is priceless and timeless and I share it with you here because all students have bouts of self-doubt, loneliness and apprehension about what student life is all about.

Take solace is Marina’s words of wisdom, they are her legacy and gift to you.

1 Response to “Marina Keegan Yale Student Essay”


  • Mohammad Rejaul Karim

    I really feel very sorry for the premature demise of such a promising writer like Marina Keegan and pray for the departed soul.

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