Graduation Speech : My Educational Journey

One thing is for certain, high school wasn’t that easy. One must find what works for them throughout their four years of high school if they are wanting to graduate and go onto college. There are many positive aspects about being a high school student such as, meeting new people, learning material you will use in your later life, and having fun. However, there are some negative aspects about high school made me learn, and not necessarily the easy way. I’ve learned many things throughout high school but the most important are, time management, motivation, and work ethic.

During high school, I feel that I’ve grown a lot as a person. Even though I still have a significant amount of growth left to do in college, my family, religion, community, and the various experiences I’ve had in high school have allowed me to mature and become a more enlightened person.

High school was definitely a struggle. I attended Brookside High in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. My life consisted of studying to keep a good GPA and being an athlete. All through high school I was a varsity athlete. My freshman year I studied so much that sometimes I felt like I had no life. I kept in mind what my goals were and to not give up. Sophomore year was a little rough, I had a teacher that did not like me very much and I always had it in my mind that he wanted to fail me on purpose.The class was History and was by far my weakest subject. I had a little downfall my Sophomore year with school and sports. I did not do so well in my sports and definitely lacked confidence in my grades. My motivation was gone, but I knew what needed to be done

High School for me was more about sports and keeping my grades up enough just so that I can keep playing and have a 2.0 throughout the school year. I wasn’t that student that did everything over and above, even though I wanted to go to a four year college like the University of Oregon right out of high school but I didn’t do anything to prepare myself for that journey. So like a lot of athletes I was just basic and did what I had to do to get through high school. My sophomore year of high school though that’s when I just really didn’t care I wanted to play sports and the teachers gave me chances to get everything turned in and made up and do what I had to do to be able to play but I just wasn’t motivated enough to do the work and get everything finished before grades came out. That year really changed how I did a lot of things especially

During our lives, most of us have hated getting up early. Whether we as humans enjoy mornings or not, we’re always looking forward to that unforgettable day. That special is high school graduation for me. Graduation is a ceremony that recognizes students that have excelled through school. Graduation was one of the best days of my life, perhaps even better than the day that I started college. There is no other day like graduation where there comes this feeling of success, achievement, and excitement.

High school gets a lot of bad rap. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have my share of negative experiences while in high school, but it also helped shape me into the person I am today and helped prepare me for further in life. High school was one of the main obstacles in my life to teach me multiple life lessons. I learned how to prioritize, work together and depend on others, and find lifelong friends. Taking multiple AP and honors courses each year helped me realize what my priorities are.

High school was on my agenda to become a more focused learner (Malcom X 3). Once I started to get more of an understanding on where my learning abilities stood. I started to feel a sense of

Achiever. My fifth SBL attribute, the only from outside the strategic category, is achiever. An achiever can be defined as, “[A person who has] a great deal of stamina and work hard” (Rath & Conchie, 2008, p. 103). Rath and Conchie (2008) also state that achievers somehow love to work hard; aside from those who are considered ‘workaholics,’ I do not believe that the majority of hard workers want to neglect whole aspects of their lives to succeed at whatever enterprise they are undertaking. My story in education is one of an ‘underdog;’ however, I did not enjoy being this underdog for one moment. How much better would it have been if I could simply work as others did? At one point in my life, I was put into a position in which I knew

Literacy has always been a huge part of my educational journey. Starting in Pre K, I was required to write and illustrate a book each year up until the 6th grade. We could write and draw any and everything we wanted. These books were not graded nor did they have any affect as to if you were to be promoted to the next grade or held back, but rather for teachers to review and see our improvements over that year. The books were always returned to us during the last week of school for us to take home as a keepsake. These books gave me something to be proud of and I looked forward to the day we would start another one.

When I attended middle school, I started to take school slightly more seriously, my motivation, unfortunately, because I had figured out what education meant to me, but simply because my parents said I needed to have good grades in order to play basketball for the school. The GPA requirement for the school was 2.0, which I explained to my

In the commencement speech entitled “This is Water,” the speaker came to highlight to the graduates at the commencement ceremony, what the “real world “was like because he thought they are not alert enough to know. He made reference to this through the anecdote at the beginning where the two young fish didn’t know what water was and of course water is life to fishes. Therefore, the speaker found it necessary to tell what life was really about through a commencement speech because of his opinion that they may have limited knowledge concerning it. In paragraph 6 of his speech, he states “The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what ‘day in, day out’ really means. There happen to be whole large part of adult

In the midst of my sophomore year, I had been given some beneficial advice on my schooling habits, from my mom. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it into account until I found out how utterly ruinous my education and career path was, due to unsatisfactory grades and my subpar attendance record. I had fallen behind an entire year’s worth of schooling. After dropping out of high school for the second time, I decided to seriously think about my mother’s suggestion.

As a group we decided to include a “College Success” course for freshman within out First Year Experience. Instead of making the course required, we would prefer to make the class optional and offered for 2 credits. The class would be for 50 minutes per day and either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday and available both spring and fall semesters for first-year students at High Point University. The course would be recommended to all freshman for the fall semester in order to assist in the transition to college life, but would be offered spring semester as well for students who struggled first semester with becoming acclimated to the university.

Going to college can be a very rewarding experience for a traditional, or non-traditional student who wants to go back to school. More money on a paycheck can be a reason why someone would want to presume their education. Another reason why someone would want to go on to college would be to increase their intellect so they can be more sophisticated in life. Someone might also want to further their education because college teaches your life skills. A college education can be very rewarding for a traditional or nontraditional student by making more money, more intellect, and learning life skills for the world.

Ninth grade was obviously my first year of high school but, but it was also a learning experience. And now that it is almost over I understand what high school is all about, after two years of middle school and seven years of elementary school prior to that. These years leading up to high school are very different from high school, those years was like being a mime being stuck in an imaginary box, not being allowed to do anything, leaving your backpack in your locker, not chewing gum, not being able to wear hats or open toed shoes. Everything about high schools is better than the years that led up to it besides the work load. For me personally I found out fast that teachers will give you work just to give you work and although this work has no point whatsoever it is still important, because almost everything in high school is graded, and all grades matter. This was new to me in years past I would not push myself to the best of m abilities because I knew that my grades at that time didn’t mean anything. Little did I know that in high school your grades can affect what college you go to and even what your career is after college. This thought is very overwhelming because if you let it get the best of you it may lead to you failing everything you do.