Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Today is both an end, and a beginning. After thirteen unyielding years we have finally concluded our Kutztown education. Its been a fierce road, filled with defeats, victories, and surprises. Weve learned a lot along the way, and not alone intuition and math and English, although our teachers have made sure we picked up view of that in any case. Seeing the same people day after day has taught us what friendship isand isnt, and weve learned that life is not always fair. Weve also developed some interesting skills, like how to dodge bucketsor freshmanin a crowded hallway on a rainy day. Or how to fight off heat stoke in the sweltering science wing and hypothermia in the over air-conditioned English classrooms. Even so, we be quiet managed to scream the loudest of any class at every pep mobilise since our freshman year. Weve survived social dramas and standardized tests and finals. And now, after all the homework and the of late nights studying and the 14,580 hours of sitting in class, yes I did the math, were here to detect the fact that weve made it. When we started kindergarten this moment seemed so terribly far away. We were and five years old ourselves, and thirteen years might as well have been an eternity. By the sentence we reached junior high we were too busy worrying about whether or not we would be capable to open our lockers or remember where our classes were to give the passage of time ofttimes thought. By 9th grade there was the stigma of being freshmen, and then in the blink of an eye three years had passed and our senior year had snuck up on us. Suddenly everything we did was a milestone our culture concert, our last assembly, our last test, even our last day of classes. By this point senoritis had set in, and we were view a leak to leave and... ... not to listen. Without your dedication we would not be where we are today, and I usurpt think Im alone in saying that I count many of you as friends, and not merely teachers. To the b and and the stage crew, thanks for helping out on our limited night. And to the class of 2004 sail. Sail from this place into the vast and unchartered future, but dont forget to look back every once and a while and remember where you came from. High school is over, but you can take the memories made here with you wherever you go. Pack them away in your heart, and when youre feeling afraid or discouraged remember the thrill of lovable that football game, or the warmth of your best friends smile, or the security of simpler times. But do not dwell in the ult forever, for it is time to move on. Follow your heart, reach for your dreams. The world awaits us, and its time to make it ours.