Advice for High School Graduation Speech

[thedude110]

gotcha.

Honestly, I don't think I want to focus on the past (i.e. thanking the teachers and everything).

Believe it or not, your teachers are still in the present.

And thanking people may be more avant-garde than you think ...

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

Here it is...

Again, I wanted to thank everyone out who helped me prepare my speech.

The speech was very well received - people laughed at the jokes (thank God). It was, in the end, a fantastic graduation ceremony.

Here's the link:

My Graduation Speech

Leave comments on the site, if you want - hopefully you'll like it!

 

[mactastic]

One of the best commencement speeches I've run across...
Yes, there is some politics, which someone warned you to stay away from. But ignore those and look at the points about life, like:

So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? And the honest answer is this. You won’t. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

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When I left William and Mary I was shell-shocked. Because when you’re in college it’s very clear what you have to do to succeed. And I imagine here everybody knows exactly the number of credits they needed to graduate, where they had to buckle down, which introductory psychology class would pad out the schedule. You knew what you had to do to get to this college and to graduate from it. But the unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. The paths are infinite and the results uncertain. And it can be maddening to those that go here, especially here, because your strength has always been achievement. So if there’s any real advice I can give you it’s this.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don’t worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency which I imagine, after going through the program here, is quite strong…although I’m sure downloading illegal files…but, nah, that’s a different story.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

True words of wisdom.