Graduation Speech: Always Follow Your Dreams :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Id like to start egress by precept that I am truly honored to speak here at once and thank you to my class for choosing me. From the day I first stepped into the learning ground of Mrs. Jacobsons kindergarten class spotting tons of building blocks and crayons until the day I walked out of Mr. Fultons class with memories of burning gummy bears and rubber corks stuck in his ceiling, the majority of my keep has been consumed by school. I thought it would never end. Do you know how wide weve been in school? Thirteen years and 181 long time for each year. Thats 2,353 days or 14,118 hours or 847,080 minutes or 50,824,800 seconds. Good lord Thats a long time. Why would anyone do this? And half our class probably has scoliosis from teachers onus our backpacks with 75 pounds of books. Thats hard to do. I think modern school is exhausting to rise a generation of Quazi Motos. But these 12 years of discipline curb provided all of us with memories. Growing up in the residential distric t of Murry we are left with a variety of good times and poisonous times. In intermediate school, you thought it was the end of the world if you were beat by a girl in tetherball or youd start crying when you deep in thought(p) all your pogs in an intense pog tournament at one of our three recesses. The times that have left positive feelings towards my many years of schooling would have to include watching Mr. Patterson singing the Fig Newton jingle, or watching our Falcon football team destroy Lakewood this year in our Homecoming football game. Or what about the time when Coach Davis, our doubtfulness basketball coach, went a whole game with his zipper being change by reversal? But my fondest memory of Murry is remembering Mr. Johnson on my first day of newbie year. He had such a lovely full head of hair, however since the class of 2003 has came through, it has gotten a little thinner and a little grayer. These types of memories have shaped us and made us grow into the powerf ul issue adults we are today. Now were sitting here ready to tackle the challenges of the square world. Graduation is not an end, but more of a rendezvous period of time from where we go our separate ways. The only thing that lies ahead is the future. Dreams and goals are what tug us to be better and what have gotten us here.