Graduation Speech : Returning At School

It takes courage and I applaud you for returning to school after being out for a number of years. After reading your introduction, I must admit, it brought music to my ears to learn that I am not in this venture alone as I am also returning to school after numerous years. I wish you great success in your

Today is my last day at TKE as I am returning to the US next week. It has been a great pleasure working with you all and I wish you the best of luck. Hopefully our paths will cross again in the future.

Let me start by saying nice to meet you and thank you for your words of encouragement on my post ! Also , I would like to commend you on going back to school and really going after your dreams. Drexel is a great university and I'm sure with the education you're receiving from Rowan College of Gloucester County you will be just fine ! That degree will be yours in no time .

We had no major issues this evening. Tyler said, he had a position meeting at 7:30 and never came back down for Study Hall. Will supposed to take MUSC notes on chapters 14-18 and show them to me. When I came back from dinner, he was gone and never came back for study hall.

Starting school for me wasn’t easy because I didn’t have a plan. I did what every high school student was urged to do after high school and I enrolled in college to pursue a higher education. Enrolling in college gave me the idea and hope that the college would provide a greater advantage in life and career endeavors. Beginning school as a first generation student was an opportunity for me that wasn’t without its challenges and learning experiences. Lacking knowledge in navigating financial aid or how to enroll in basic courses, I just went for it and started school.

Going back to school when you are in your late thirty’s is a huge step. So much has

Throughout high school, I worked a part-time job, took care of my siblings, and tried to achieve the best grades possible. As I struggled through these troubled times, I seldom thought about college. I just wanted to be the first in my family to graduate from high school. However, Mr. Jones, my tenth grade biology teacher, encouraged me to consider going to college. As I began my senior year, he called me into his office to make me aware of the application process not only for colleges but also the various scholarship offers and grants available to me. Because of his efforts, I will be stepping onto the campus of Old Dominion University in August 2012 after winning a scholarship. Because my scholarship does not provide spending money and I must maintain a grade point average of 3.2, my path over the next few months will be a balancing act as I work to save money for spending, study to make certain I am ready for classes, and spend as much time as possible with my family before I leave home.

Over the last few years of high school I feel like I changed in a positive way because in the beginning of my freshmen year of high school, I didn’t really think of how much my grades would affect my chances of graduating and going to college. I didn’t think I would make it this far and it didn’t matter to me because dropping out and getting a GED seemed like an easy way out for me at the time. But I realized that life could be hard out there when all you’ll have is GED that gets you little job opportunities when you could just finish school, work on getting your diploma and maybe go to college to study for what you’d want to do for a career that can get you tons of job opportunities because of the experience you have.

In the spring of 2014, I graduated from a small high school as valedictorian. During my high school career, I maintained status on the high honor roll and received the title of Student of the Month the first month of every school year for four years. In 2011 and 2012, my sophomore and junior years of high school, I was selected both years to attend the Youth Leadership Institute as a delegate for the Chatham School District. There, I met many other high school students from all over Alaska where we exercised our leadership skills in fun icebreaker games and group activities. We also learned about our own unique leadership styles, and how we can apply them in various situations back home or anywhere.

Hello, we would like to welcome and thank all of you for being here with us tonight to celebrate our high school graduation . It truly is an honor to be surrounded by so many significant people who have impacted our lives immensely throughout our highschool years. We would like to thank the wonderful people here tonight that we have the privilege to call our parents. Whether you are a mother a father, grandma or grandpa, or an aunt or an uncle; we are here, graduating today because of all of you.

Sixteen years old and I had my whole life ahead of me. I would go to school around six-fourty a.m. and get out of school around two-thirty p.m. I had a job working from three until midnight every day after school. I would come home and do all of the housework that needed to be done such as laundry, dishes, and general tidying up. From the outside it seemed like I had a normal (using that term loosely) life. I had been struggling with my mind as far back as I can remember. Between school and home I was just so tired of it. I was tired of the weight that was being put on my shoulders, I felt like the only responsible one in my household. Most of that was due to my mind always racing and over analyzing everything. Which made it very difficult to sleep when I did have the time to do so.

First I want to thank you for taking your time out to read my appeal. As you can tell I have been struggling Fall and Spring of 2014-15 school year to keep my grades up. The grades that I received do not reflect my potential at all. I came into this school from high school with a 3.1 grade point average and it has dropped tremendously. Some of the issues I have encountered starting the end of my senior year are still occurring and has had a huge impact on my grades this school year.

High school and college are both important periods in a student’s life. It’s the two most important stages in which students prepare to be professional in their studies. In high school students prepare to be successful in college. In college students prepare to be professionals in their careers. Although high school and college each serve as a place for preparation for students they are very different in scheduling, grading, and paying their education.

High School graduation can be an exciting time in a student’s life. It is a time when they

Do not assume all we 'll do for this class is help get kids motivated with school and beyond. This line of thinking is the wrong idea to enter this class especially when working with younger students through compass to campus. My thinking was how I can make this class more effective for me and how I can make the experience better for the students I will be working with. I was worrying about this every day in the beginning of this adventure because the school system and living condition on the reservation makes life hard for students making education difficult to be absorbed due to the essential commodities not available to the students at Lummi. The students struggle in the classroom due to their ethnic location makes their lives harder