Graduation Speech :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Tonight is a turning omen in our lives. Weve struggled through 12 amples years together to make it to this roll -- to wear these ridiculous looking caps and gowns as our families watch us proudly. tho tonight is more than just a ceremony, it is the closing of a chapter in our lives, the end of our public education.Our education has been a epoch of maturing, goal-setting and self-discovery. Mostly this has been positive. judgment of conviction sure flies, so my parents say, but I think its been a long 12 years -- 13 if you count kindergarten when our parents first put us on that big yellow school bus. As time passed, we discovered that school wasnt so bad. We learned reading, writing, arithmetic, and of course, our most scholarly class recess. junior-grade high was another story. We were very eager to discover ourselves and to mature -- mayhap too eager. Above all, we learned to think a lot close to ourselves and not much about anything else.High school has been a time of self-d iscovery for all of us. Suddenly, in high school we got responsibility -- more than we wanted. We match jobs, sports, family, friends, and of course, homework. We also found ourselves busy with school assignments -- chasing down butterflies for our biology louse collections, parallel parking the family car for drivers ed., going to the library to actually do research and pulling all-nighters to write our term papers. It is not surprising that by the middle of 12th grade we began to develop a little syndrome -- sometimes referred to as senioritous. However, we managed to trudge through the last part of this year to strike the dream and goal that weve worked so hard for. High school has rattling been about setting goals and accomplishing them.As this chapter closes in our lives, it gives way for the opening of some(prenominal) more chapters to come all of which will bring new challenges. Accomplishing our dreams is what gives importation to life. The poet Carl Sandburg said, Not hing happens unless first a dream.