With protocol been established.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honour to address you on this special occasion.
1,359 days of wondering, wondering if we could make it to this day. Today, marks the culmination of our 1,359 days school journey. We are the graduating class of 2017. Graduation is one of the most solemn and trying times in our lives when we are torn between the joy of our memories and the excitement of our future. I could go back and reminisce about the last four years. Instead, I think it’s more important to focus on where we will be in the next four years. Whether its baking bread, cooking up laws in the senate, being accountant, or creating new music, all of us must make sure the word ‘SUCCESS’ is associated with what we do.
We must concentrate on enhancing our futures and setting great examples for those who will follow us. We must be tomorrow’s positive images. Our actions must make a statement and send a clear message, one that says, wherever we come from, whatever we have, or don’t have, whatever our colour, sex or cultural background, we can be partners in success and we can achieve greatness together and mend this broken society.
In order to have high self-esteem, confidence, and motivation, we must be willing to work diligently and have a keen understanding on how far we can traverse. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Let us leave a trail others will be
What I just recited was a selection from "Oh, The Places You'll Go!", a graduation speech as prepared by Dr. Seuss. I chose to recite this because its optimism toward beginning a new phase of life seemed to fit our class. It reminded me of our entrance into high school, when as freshmen, we blew away the students and staff at Stoks high School with our incredible enthusiasm and spirit. We didn't allow ourselves to be intimidated by the upperclassmen, or by our new surroundings. By the time we had completed our first Homecoming activities, coming in second place only to the seniors, we had established a certain respect, and it became evident that the Class of 2006 was capable of achieving greatness.
Good evening. I would like to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to this joyous and stressful occasion.
Nine years ago, I never could have imagined I’d be writing this essay. I was a senior in high school, and, like the rest of my classmates, I was apprehensive about the future. Unlike my classmates, I felt like I had missed the proverbial “you need to get your life together” message. I watched my classmates apply to colleges, their majors already decided and their future careers mapped out. While I was an above average student, I felt I lacked the decisiveness my classmates seemed to have. I did not feel passionate about a career or even a field of study. I felt defective. This was compounded by the financial strain I knew attending college would have on my family. It seemed wasteful to try to “find my passion” at school while squandering
A. How many years have you been in school? How many of you ever thought that once I enter college that I will have a lot of freedom? Have you ever considered how much your life will change once you enter college?
Congratulations! You have been officially accepted to Motlow State Community College. We have received all of the required admission materials, and your file is now complete.
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
Welcome staff, family, friends, and of course, class of 2018. This is not just a graduation, it is a commencement. That word is important because we almost exclusively think of this as an end, but the word commencement evokes beginnings. My sincere hope is that you will mark this as the beginning of a lifetime of learning and not as the end. You may be thinking, yes this is it, I’ve done all my assignments, read all my textbooks, I’m done. But that’s not the case. We live in a society that values winning trophies and awards over earning them. 4.0’s over truly wrestling with the material you are learning or enjoying yourself while doing it. We want a quick fix, an instantaneous way of being recognized. A way to
FYI-JoAnn and I had a conversation this morning, as I am extremely concerned about the number of DAY (TUG) students that are wanting to enter the SPS program only to find out that their intentions are to proceed back to the DAY (TUG) program as they get closer to finishing their program. Case in point, I have a Caroline Womble who has applied to SPS and is cleared to do so, but from information told to me, she walked last spring but needs 5 more classes. So would she be considered a SPS grad or DAY (TUG) graduate when she finishes? There is also Haley (Hedgepeth) Canovai who while at the moment has an account balance, plans to enter the SPS program for BA Liberal Studies, but wants to transition back to DAY to finish as a Communication
To begin, I attended Borel Middle School in San Mateo, Ca. The first year was really hard because I was in sixth grade and didn’t really know anyone but my friends that I went to Elementary School with. All throughout my three years at Borel I strongly believe that I would be going to Aragon High School. My final year at Borel was the worst year of school in my life! Most of my teacher were expecting us to do a minimum of at least three hours of homework every night. I would never have time to do anything with my family, even on the weekends I would spend at least an hour of doing homework. Then I would have to study for at least three or more tests a week. I never had any time to enjoy my life. Thats when I started to hate school. I would wake up and never want to go. I would be paranoid that I did not do something or get something wrong and the teachers would yell at me. The only teacher that I loved being with my my spainish teacher, Mrs. Pietri. We had the best relationship ever! Everyday at lunch I would go to her class and help her out with anything and just hang out with her. I would tell her all of my struggles and she would try to help me through them all. So then by the end of the year, teachers started to attack us with work. On the last week of school I had to write a paper on this topic and it was worth half of my grade so I could not mess up on that project. Even during winter break and spring break I had things to do. I hated school. But then as the year
Hello, fellow students! Good afternoon, honorable professors and parents! Before I commence my cheerful speech, replete with touching personal stories and morale, let me thank you for an honor address you tonight. I highly appreciate it and still can barely believe it.
That’s good. I know about the P.T. because when I was in Postal school they made us do P.T. with the AIT students, talk about getting smoked with the young kids. That’s good to hear that you have the highest average in your class, when I reclassed to 42A I made the list for Honor Grad right before the Unit deployed back in 2014. I wish you the best of luck on making Distinguish Honor Grad. I’ll keep you post on anything that’s going
On May 24, 2014 the graduates of Maharishi University all gathered to hear a speech by the well know comedian and actor Jim Carrey. The purpose of the speech was to get the graduates thinking about their future beyond school. JIm started his speech in a very funny, yet clever way. He used jokes to ease the tension that he could sense in the room. With the use of jokes and making the crowd laugh he grabbed their attention and continued to hold that attention throughout the speech. Jim wants the students to realize that “What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it” (2).
This project was exciting to complete, as we rarely have prepared anything like this before. Beginning by looking at the roster of students, I was able to recognize how I would group the students. I knew, however, that I wanted to avoid groups larger than five students. I also understood, from the ideas of many education classes that the best pedagogical solution would be to include a mixture of performance levels. Because of these implications, my first set of groupings consisted of the grade of the student, followed by a break down of their level.
Individually we are drops in the vast, very powerful and very beautiful ocean that resonates with life and teems with opportunity. Like any ocean there has been rough weather, storms, turbulence yet by being galvanized together as one family, we have reached our destination, which is graduation day. We've arrived. And like any significant accomplishment, none of us could have done this alone. From the parents who made sure we arrived in time for classes to our great faculty who have a passion not just for teaching, but constantly learning too, thank you. Thanks
English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.