Graduation Speech : Mandatory Requirements

A higher education has been an important priority in my life. While I realized a high school education was important, my parents expected more. They said if I wanted to succeed in life, a college education was something that I could not live without. What they don’t tell you is how exhausting and confusing the process is to get even into.

Every fall, millions of students return to school to learn about math and science, English and history, every weekday until summer finally returns. Year after year, the same fundamental classes return and, time after time, seem to faintly impact the students. Schools have been designed so you learn the same information, slightly more in depth, from kindergarten to senior year. What about topics that would further the student in their future after graduation? Schools emphasize the same core subjects throughout the years, but not the real life obstacles millions of millions of people face. What if schools required classes on survival, job interviewing skills, studying, how to pass the SAT- all classes which would further students in their

My writing throughout this semester has not been outstanding, as my writing pieces in the beginning where ought to be poor. The semester consisted of my knowledge of writing expanding heavily. The English 1101 class has helped me thoroughly in my writing mistakes and skills. Overall my effort in this class has helped me become an exceptional writer.

The human being is created in this world to learn something every day. Also, he or she is to improve himself or herself. In the learning process people make mistakes all the time, and naturally, they learn a lot from their own and other’s mistakes. It is the same as my situation about my class. My goal that I was hoping to achieve was to pass my English class with a good grade. It has happened as I was hopping, and I learned from my own mistakes. I had English 49 last semester which I had a lot of problems with my first essay. My struggle was all in my first essay but after that I got good grades on my other assignments. For this reason, when I started my first essay, I did not know how to write and what to write. When I handed in my

I always expected to feel differently when applying for college, and especially when getting accepted. But it did not go quite how I had always pictured. I had been out of school and working, and started to lose the urgency or desire to leave for college right away. I was not ready to leave home and all my loved ones and so I slacked on keeping up with all the college stuff like I should have been doing. One day I finally applied to the only place I set my sights on, not really expecting much. And to my surprise, I was accepted. There, everything changed.

My Father once said to me, “Work hard for four years of college, or work hard for the rest of your life.” What he meant, was that if I pour all my effort and hard work into achieving a degree during the four years I am in college, I will most likely live comfortably the rest of my life, as opposed to not having a college degree; breaking my back every time I go to work. However, the college life has many elements that prevent it from being a piece of cake, elements consisting of society 's views of college. Attaining a higher education becomes strenuous when the outlook on college begins to be highly criticized as corrupt by society. My college experience has led me to think the exact opposite of what society believes , and I am

Congratulations everyone, congratulations. If you're participating in this graduation ceremony, you've taken the next step toward your future goals and dreams. For those of you that just finished your transfer degrees, congratulations. To those of you that came back to school after a few years off to get a better education, congratulations. To those of you that came to get a certificate or learn IT or computer programming so you can get a better job, congratulations.

Thank you, we are truly honoured to have been selected as class valedictorians to represent the voice of the 2017 graduating class. My name is Taha, and this is Sophia.L. I still can’t believe some of us have been here for 6 years and that we’re graduating. It’s all happening so fast.

I would like to commence this speech by saying that we have all been truly blessed in being given the opportunity to celebrate our graduation with each other in such a manner. Being able to spend our final moments as a class in such an important place is wonderful, and before I delve further into this speech, I want to thank the man who allowed us to graduate from the church, Father Jenik. He’s a great preacher, a charitable bishop, and most importantly, he is a great man.

2. Should I say goodbye then and there with a hug, see how that goes, and then maybe a kiss if I don’t get red-lighted

What is the secret to success? Many people think that you can rely on only on yourself to be accomplished in this life time. However, there are many strategies to utilize on the road to success and the concept of a self-made man has a common misconception. Arnold Schwarzenegger shattered this idea of the self-made man as he presented his speech to the graduating class of Houston University in the spring of 2017. The crowd was powerfully moved by the words that flowed from Arnold’s mouth. Arnold successfully establishes credibility, demonstrates emotion, and uses logic to motivate this graduating class. Throughout this speech Arnolds exceeds in these three categories tremendously.

In class, we have discussed: writing-to-learn, rubrics and research. In this paper, I will reflect and summarize on topics discussed in class. I sense that all of these topics can have a positive affect off of the other. Thus far I have really enjoyed the topics we have discussed because they stretch so far and are opinionated topics. From my own personal experience, I do not really enjoy writing. I had teachers who made me write things like spelling words over and over. When the topic about research came up I instantly sighed because my first thought was that I was going to be assigned what to research. What fun is researching something if you don’t get to do it on something interesting? As I reflect back on my own experiences from grade school I remember using rubrics starting around 8th grade. Seeing how then, I just thought there were no use for them now I absolutely love them because it gives expectations from the teacher for the student. I think rubrics are awesome to use but if they aren’t worded just right I see failure waiting to happen.

College students have two choices when it comes to spring break, either go home or to go on a wild vacation with their friends. I recently had to make a similar choice between going to Destin, Florida, which includes partying with my friends or going home to Chicago, Illinois to rest. In order to make a decision it was best to compare and contrast my two choices.

Becoming a college graduate is a milestone that most parents instill in their children. Statistics show that seventy-six percent of parents work passed retirement age and sixty-eight percent would take a second job just to give their children the opportunity to go to college. They view this as investment in their children’s future. This sacrifice will help their children in the long run. Most parents understand the stress of paying for student loans and would rather their children not be burdened with student loans after graduation. Unfortunately not every parent is capable of paying for their child’s college tuition. Most college students have to rely on government assistance to pay for college and with the rising cost of tuition, cost of living, and decline in financial assistance most students are relying on student loans to pay not only their tuition but living expenses. This is where the question comes into play. Although controversial one can’t help but wonder if the debt that you have accumulated to pay for tuition will be worth the degree he or she receives. Most students have tunnel vision during school. The goals are to complete by any means necessary. Receiving their degree is top priority but no one stops to think of the effect the loans will have on their lives. Shortly after walking across the stage at their commencement ceremony most young adults are faced a hard shock of reality when they receive their first bill in the mail from Sallie Mae or Navient.

Higher education is an ever-changing and evolving field that comes with its own set of responsibilities ranging from professors teaching about learning methods to the staff that look after student well-being. Since there is such a vast set of responsibilities though comes a fair number of issues and policies to adhere to. With that in mind, the series of documents that were assigned for reading helped to put some things in perspective for me when it comes to this field. The documents that we had looked at were the 2014 Strategic Plan for Southeast Missouri State University (Southeast or SEMO), “Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2012” by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), a list of the fifteen roles of higher education that the class had decided on, and a .pdf of flow charts created, one from each student, using the aforementioned roles. These documents were interesting to read and I believe that each of them helped me to find a new outlook on what it is that I want to do in this field.