毕业英语演讲稿十二篇
Hello, everybody! Today I will talk about 'friendship'. The old saying "A friend in need is a friend indeed" has become
the standard for true friends. For this reason, I always hope there’s a friend coming to console me in my sadness, cheer me up in my low spirits, or heartedly share with me in my happiness, but we should know ourselves and others clearly, because everyone has his own personality, we should find similar hobbies, the quality of life of the people, which can help us have bosom friends, but someone does not know this clearly. At last, they will have accused false friendships, so we should try to learn this one. So long as a person has a heart of gold, being warm-hearted, selfless, honest and open-minded, I will give her all my support and help, but I know, everyone has his faults, and this is a lesson from life. Someone does not understand it, and they will start to complain about their friends. Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. This is a sentence about life, that is ture.In my opinion, everyone's life will have some setbacks, and the people who encourage you in your most difficult time are your real friends. Sometimes I see my six-year-old brother play with his friends of his own age in the garden,and they play happily .At that time, I will think 1 of something. They make friends without thinking of their friends. They judge by intuition. Everyone needs to have a best friend, because a friend is very important in our life. I hope everyone in our class will have your precious friendship!
Dear leaders,dear teachers and dear students，
Good afternoon,everyone！
I am from the four class of international trade and trade in the International Trade Department,and I am honored to be represented as the representative of the graduate of the International Trade Department of the Youth Political College. First of all,let me,on behalf of all the graduates,give my sincere thanks to the teachers who have long been concerned and helped us,and thank you for the inculcation of these three years. At the same time,I would like to extend my sincere congratulations and sincere wishes to all of you here.
Today,when we graduate,we will have to say goodbye to our alma mater in the twinkling of an eye. Some people say that time is a book that is too hasty. Yes,the more than 1000 page flies over like this,and the more than 1000 page carries too many memories.
In September of ,we came from all parts of the province,looking forward to the realization of this dream,hoping to burn everyone's extraordinary brilliance. Actually,learning a place and falling in love with this place is not a long process. When we were ignorant and confused at the beginning,we finally felt the deep love for the land,but we had to say goodbye. You and I must remember that when we first arrived in China World Trade Center,we helped our elder sister in school. Three years in the University,everyone has his own too many memories： recalling the classroom of the teaching building,that still has the trace of our fighting； recollection of the dormitory downstairs,that still floats the taste of green vanilla； recalling the warm dorm,as if still echoing the laughter and laughter of all of us. The scene of the scene is like a gorgeous clipping,a movie that is about to play the curtain,playing our happiness and sadness,recording our youth and past,and witnessing our profound feelings.
In the past three years,we have learned to grow,learn to think,learn to cooperate,and learn to trust each other. Together with teachers' ardent teachings and expectations,we have gained knowledge and hope at the same time. We support each other and help each other. Friends warm smile,class warm atmosphere,let us learn to love,to persist,to believe in the future！
Today is a happy day,an exciting day,and a thankful day.
Standing here today,let's say to our respectable teacher,"thank you,teacher！" Thank teachers for their hard work and selfless dedication,giving us valuable knowledge and teaching us how to behave.
Let's say to our dear parents,"thank you,mom and dad." We are the hope of our parents. Our growth embodies the selfless love and care of our parents. Every achievement we make is the pride of our parents.
Let's say to our classmates： "friends,cherish！" Once a classmate,a friend,fate brings us together. Three years,we wrote together a pure youth memories,a period of youth and frivolous.
In a few days,we will leave this familiar campus or take part in our work or continue our studies. But no matter where we are,we must not forget the friendship we once had. Don't forget the teacher's words and deeds,and don't forget our dreams. Let time testify that we will be more brave,strong and mature in facing the future with our dreams. We are sure to be a man of wisdom and excitement,a very ambitious and down—to—earth person,a man of both ability and courage,a person with a responsibility and a heavy burden.
In the end,we sincerely wish our alma mater to remain young,peach and plum,and wish all the teachers to be healthy. Wish every student of the graduation will be able to make a dream come true！
Thank you all.
good morning, my dear teachers,what friendship? the answers may be different. but one thing clear that friendship the most important ingredient in the recipe of life. we cannot live without friendship just as we cannot survive without air and water. friendship gives us a feeling of security and warmth, and friendship encourages us to go ahead all the time.
everyone needs friends and eager to get friendship. when we feel happy, we can share our happiness with friends. when we feel gloomy, friends will fort us. if we are arrogant, our friends can persuade us, and they can make us confident and brave when we are dcouraged.
friendship valuable. it can touch your heart and give you hope. many people are proud of having a good friend. true friendship must be sincere and must not have conditions. if you help your friends for no reason but simply because they are your friends, th means that you regard your friends as yourself. th true friends.
true friendship should be based on mutual understanding, not on mutual benefit. moreover, both must also have similar ideals. if not, their friendship still cannot last long. sometimes, people have good friends when they are young and studying in school. however, after graduation, when they are working in the society, their friendship will soon e to an end.
mutual understanding doesn’t always mean that we should know every thing of our friends. it means that they have similar ideals and trust each other. on the other hand, doing similar things can build up the friendship.
in fact, friendship n’t always easily kept. when you want to keep a friend, you should treat him or her like you want to be treated. keep the secrets that your friend tells you. keep your prome with your friend. share things with your friend. stick up for your friend. we should try our best to protect the friendship from being hurt. as an old saying goes, “friendship cannot stand always on one side.” true friendship should be able to stand all kinds of tests.
because of friendship, our lives are full of happiness. therefore, the more friends we have, the more pleasure we can share with them. let’s say “thank you” to our friends for their love and care. no matter where we go or who we bee, never forget to keep the beautiful friendship!
Dear parents and classmates,
Good afternoon!
It is my great honor to stand here today to say goodbye to my Alma mater, to say goodbye to my Alma mater, and to say goodbye to this unforgettable high school year. First of all, I would like to thank my teachers, parents and classmates for their trust in me.
Three years ago, at this time, we were yearning for this school outside the campus. Three years later, we were full of it. Three years ago, we entered the school with excellent grades and parents' expectations. Three years later, we are leaving the beautiful campus with growing experience and parents' comfort.
Standing in the three years after the end, we found that high school is a too hasty book, unconsciously, China with more than one thousand pages so rushed over, but it's more than one thousand days and nights into numerous real life details emerge in front of us, all the Chinese redbud, kapok blooming; The noisy playground, the quiet botanical garden; The sound of the morning, the hasty and full of evening, the love-hate and love-hate dining hall, the library that makes people forget to return; With my classmates' heart and soul, and the teacher's laughter... It is in the silent steps of time that we have changed from three years ago, to the mature and acute, from the confusion of three years ago, to today's steadfast courage! Choose to let us have no regrets, we would like to sincerely say: in the attachment, thank you!
When we will leave school, we might as well from the emotion in the territory to set aside a reason, ten years, twenty years or thirty years later, when the familiar faces and scenery gradually fade, when the class learned the chapter out of my mind, when we are on the stage of fuzzy failure, we rely on what to maintain the Alma mater of deep feelings? What is the common blood that flows through each of the attached people?
First of all, it is the spirit of hardship that is attached to us. "If you eat bitter, you will be a companion." We will not forget those eight days in the hot sun, the sonorous military training pace, unforgettable that week in the qingyuan township of the rice training "the three identical" of the agricultural test; We shall never forget the time when we were running around the playground with our tired legs and tired legs. I can't forget the summer night's scorching heat, the bitter cold in winter. It is these hardships that have chastened our plain character; It is these hardships that have cultivated our strong and unyielding spirit; Even more, let us understand the mission and responsibilities that are shouldering on the shoulders of contemporary youth, and let us understand the "first taste of sweet, sweet, sweet and sweet", which Yang told us. First eat big bitter, then eat small bitter, small bitter is also sweet!"
Second, it is the space that gives us freedom to think freely. If we are birds, we are the blue sky. If we are running water, it is high mountain. The attachment gives us the desire to fly high, and the attachment gives us the possibility to rush into the distance. In this area, we are free to form a community that can bring into play our individual character and talents. We make public our individuality in the election of the student union, and we display our wisdom in the innovation competition. On the other hand, very few homework assignments, a full week of self-study and body forging, and the seemingly strict but extremely loose management system. It is these freedoms that tell us that while we are focused on learning, we should develop more fully and highlight our strengths. It is these freedoms that tell us to learn to choose and to give up; It is also these freedoms that tell us to manage our own lives and plan our own lives.
Third, it is a pluralistic view of our cognitive world. Adhering to the principal wu "with complete modern education builds high quality of modern people" concept of education, the cultivation of the affiliated high school of respected multivariate quality, bring all kinds of talents to grow hair glory: there are an infinite number of elective courses, there are rich and colorful club activities, there are too many things to see the style of competition. In the school sports meet, we are splashing the sweat of youth; At the festival, we dance the young rhythm; In the science festival, we jump to innovative thinking. Cultivate the consciousness of our citizens, volunteers group wonderful "BBS of the affiliated high school of" broaden our horizons, there are rich and colorful summer camp every year and a wide variety of academic investigation activities, make we look around the world, with the world... Under the background of such respect and diversity, the soil in the attachment makes us a living individual, and we will embrace all advanced civilizations with the mind of the attached people.
Today, we stand on the new starting point of life, the road ahead is how to explore, but I know, the affiliated high school of people not afraid, because of the affiliated high school of three years of experience, let us gradually clear the way forward. Graduation from high school is both an end and a starting point. With the confidence and calmness characteristic of the attached, we will walk into the holy university hall and enter the society full of competition and challenge. We must be able to create a new splendor in the college entrance exam a week later. We must also be able to win one victory after another in the future.
The long wind and the waves will sometimes hang in the sea!
Tagore once said, "no matter how long it takes to pull the shadow of the tree, it is always connected with the root." At this moment, let us give the flowers and Thanksgiving to our many wonderful Alma mater, as well as the hard work of every teacher. Give us the Alma mater and the teacher, the place is here and now, and then there is the time, everywhere and everywhere!
Thank you.
Dear leaders,teachers and dear students，
Good evening，everyone！
I feel very honored to have the opportunity to speak here on behalf of the 04 graduates. Today is an unforgettable day for our graduates,because after today,our university life will be a full stop. We will say goodbye to the students who get along with each other,say goodbye to the teachers,train our alma mater and step on the new journey of life. Here,let me,on behalf of the 04 graduates,express our heartfelt thanks and respect to all our leaders and teachers.
4 days of college life will soon become a beautiful memory. Four years ago,we entered the campus with a beautiful vision. After four years,we left each other with our dreams. In four years,we have learned to grow,learn to think,learn to cooperate and compete,learn to trust each other,and learn how to constantly improve themselves and surpass ourselves. All the way through,the teacher's courtesy and profound expectation,the careful care and silent support of the students and friends,and our hard pursuit and high spirited struggle. Looking back on yesterday,a warm smile from our friends,a warm atmosphere in the class,let us learn to love,to persist and to believe in the future.
Come together do not know how to cherish,leave only to know heavy. The unconditional bell of separation has been ringing in your ears. Look back on the past,feeling full of emotion. The age of innocence,the light dance of sophomore,and the tension and bustle of junior high have become eternal memories.
Remember the scene that just stepped into the school gate？ Remember our introduction on the first day of enrollment？ Remember when we were shopping together,drinking together,chatting together and singing together？ Do you remember the morning rush to the playground to do morning exercises？ Do you remember being squeezed together for dinner？ Do you remember sitting up late reading for the exam？ The library of the North District Library,the fossil forest in the eastern area,the dinosaur egg in the Shaw Museum,and the fried rice in the two canteen. The curtain is like a beautiful picture of clipping. It is a movie that is about to play. It plays our happiness and sadness,records our youth and our past,and everything is like a poem that has not finished. The banquet banquet,hand off the hand,go all the way... Everything seems to have been envisaged that everything is too helpless.
Yes,we graduated today,we say goodbye to the once ignorant,farewell to the once young and frivolous,farewell that pure youth years,ushered in another fresh sunshine,and the heart has a new dream. Farewell to this place that reminds us of ourselves,we will surely soar in another wider sky. No matter how we came in four years,we need not complain and regret at the moment. We will clear everything tomorrow. Graduation is not the end,not the completion,but the announcement of progress,but a new beginning.
In the light of the stars,recalling the best four years of this life,let us say goodbye and send a blessing,no matter how many years,no matter where we go,and we will not forget that we have been nurtured by this deep feeling of land,a palace that gave us knowledge and ability； and we will not forget,For our growth and diligent leadership and teachers,we will never forget the profound friendship we have formed in the past four years.
A seed will always find a soil suitable for its own growth,for it is only there to produce more bright flowers； a drop of water will always return to the sea,for only in the rough sea can it bloom the glory of life. I believe that today's separation is better for tomorrow.
Finally,let us wish the alma mater's tomorrow more brilliant； wish our teachers work well,health,family happiness； also bless our classmates,four years of companions of brothers and sisters,all the way,bright future. Remember,we have another appointment in ten years.
Thank you.
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Today the topic of my speech is "Discover yourself "
I think each people is unique . Everyone is different from others .So I don’t need to envy others，because I think I am the only one in the world! So do you know yourself ?
In the eyes of my parents,I am forever a good kid ! In the eyes of my teachers,I am a hard-working girl ! In the eyes of my friends,I am a happy angle.，because the smile is always on my face ! But what do I think of myself !
In fact , everyone has their own advantages and disadvantages , so we want to develop our strengths . At the same time , we also need to discover our weakness and correct it.Slowly I discovered that I had a lot of good characters , such as kind , cheerful , generous and so on.
For example , I used to be a shy girl . I was too timid to speak in front of many people , but now I changed a lot . I often take part in all kinds of activities ！
Last term, I took part in a Chinese speech contest. I needed to read and play with our partners . It’s the first time for me to act it. At the beginning , I was very nervous . But I didn't want to give it up . So we were ready for the speech carefully ! In the end , we won the first prize . My secret of success is confidence .we have nothing to lose ! so we can try our best .
But life always give us some frustrations and I wasn't always very confident . I always think that others are better than myself . I also have many disadvantages .Sometimes I get into trouble,especially in my study . I study very hard, but sometimes my grades are bad . It made me very upset .I think this is unfair . But I can't give up ,so I work harder and harder .Finally I made great progress by working hard !
Everyone should learn to discover yourself . Please believe in yourself !
I don't care whether I will succeed or not ,but I'm confident to stand here ! Because I'm the best one !
Thank you very much!
One Student Is Just Like a Flower
My dear Mr. and Misses, my fellows schoolmates,
Good morning! As you know and see, it is a sunny bump harvest season. In the city, in our school campus, everywhere is surrounded with roses which we together planted 4 years ago. Today may these roses and our friendship as well be together and comfort our excited hearts!
It was four years ago that everyone of us came from every part of China and formed a new collective. As we are young, it’s very easy for us to communicate. It was in the past four years that we were ambitious. It was in the past four years that we worried. It was in the past four years that we were content. It was in the past four years that we were vexed. It was in the past four years that we were friendly and lonely ... and it was in the past fours that we studied, lived and respected each other with genuine and with our ambitions. Nothing in the world is more significant than we miss all of these.
We miss you─teachers who are tireless in teaching; we will keep your gestures and your white hairs in our hearts deeply; we will miss the quietness with the lights at night in the classroom; we will miss the race and exercise on the playground; we will miss even the crowds in the dining hall and the quarrel on the beds; we will still miss every green piece and every piece of waste paper flying like flakes in the air ... However, today we will leave nothing but the first rose with our Alma Mater and our teachers which is entrusted with our love and respect.
4 years seems very long but 4 years seems very short. From now on, we all will go into the society. The society is broad and wide for us. We will shoulder heavy responsibilities; we will work diligently; and we will expect to be informed of good news from one another. Now, I beg you all to cherish the occasion; to remember the names, the status, appearance and the character of the person around you. Now let’s be hand in hand together; let’s present the rose to each other. May the rose carry our appreciation and blessing! We are very closely linked no matter what the world may be. May the fresh rose in our hands keep its fragrants!
Thank you all again!
Hello, everyone. It is a great honor for me to be here to express my feelings. My friends, it is time for us to say goodbye. However, I will forget the golden days of junior high school. They are forever locked in my memories! In the past three years, I am grateful that I could study with you. First of all, I’d like to thank all my teachers. It’
s you that let me konw how to be a good person. From you, I know that as a good student, we should not only study hard, but also mean well and help each other. 2 you. First of all, I’d like to thank all my teachers. It’s you that let me konw how to be a good person. From you, I know that as a good student, we should not only study hard, but also mean well and help each other. Then, I’d like show my appreciation to all my friends. I am grateful that I could study with you. Being together with you, I can totally be myself. I do not need to hide anything from you. When I am sad, you are always on my side to cheer me up. We will soon become senior high school students. We must go forward, to a different world, we are no longer the children, who only want to play fun with each other. We grow up from now on! It is a long journey, but let us begin!
In this season, the school is awakening, and the school is coming to the next generation of six grade students. From me to the present, after two years, I have changed from a little girl to a good big sister.
The bamboo shoots from the young shoot sprouts to the tall bamboo, each of which is a beautiful picture book, recording the wonderful life and things in our school. An interesting picture came across my mind.
I remember when I was just in grade four, Yang led me into the 41 class classroom for the first time. What a warm family it is! In a burst of applause, I introduced myself and sang to everyone. Miss Yang is very kind to me, and especially arranges me on the side of the monitor, Sun Xiaotong. The smiling faces of students, Yang also encouraged, said: "you have to work hard to learn from Sun Xiaotong, will certainly progress!"
That was the happiest time of my life. I walked downstairs and looked at the bamboo forest. I thought it was only in my hometown that I could see such a green bamboo. Now, I see it at school, and this feeling is like returning to my home.
In the unwittingly opening of the sports meeting, Mr. Yang thought I had the strength to help me to report 800 meters, although that was not my strength, but I should do my best for the honor of the class. We sold our school gate and went to the Qian Tang foreign language school to take part in the sports meet. The sound of a sweet voice on the radio is my turn to play. My mind is like a little rabbit jumping. I heard my classmates try to clap their hands and cheer for me. I took a deep breath and made full preparations, and finally ran 800 meters. At this time, I found that Mr. Yang had already waited for me at the end of the line. She supported me and tried to let me walk slowly. Although I got the name, I realized the warmth of this big group.
I remember that when we were in grade six, we carried out the meaningful activities of greening campus. The classmates in the class took all kinds of plants, some brought a pot of plants, and some brought two pots. Huang Yizhe unexpectedly brought five or six pots. In this way, with the efforts of our whole class, the number of plants in the class is the largest. The bamboo outside the window was blown over by the wind and nodded. It should be praising me for doing well.
This one thing, like that one day bamboo stands erect.
Goodbye to my alma mater, you taught me, you let me find happiness and happiness. Goodbye, my teacher, is that you have given me knowledge, let my blank mind, add a lot of knowledge, I have grown a lot! Goodbye, my classmates, you have let me know for the first time the true meaning of friendship, the strength of unity and unity. Ill always remember you.
Dear leaders, teachers, dear students,
Good afternoon, everyone!
In June, with all the Chui Chui and the fruits of brewing, we welcomed the 20xx junior high school graduation ceremony. It is a great honor for me to speak at such a grand ceremony. On behalf of all the students of third grade, please allow me to pay the highest tribute to our alma mater and the teachers who have taught us carefully. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to our parents.
At this moment, I feel very excited, not only the joy of graduation, but also the endless attachment to my alma mater. Three years of junior high school life, full and beautiful, we shed tears, but accompanied by laughter; we tread thorns, but smell the fragrance of thousands of flowers.
Three years ago, we moved to the third high school with the emotion of excitement and admiration.
In the past three years, we felt the warmth and richness of our alma mater. In junior high school, we are like a small tree, though not luxuriant, it has already revealed new buds. Our beloved leaders and teachers, like the diligent gardeners, care for us day and night: to prune and wither the redundant branches and leaves for us to irrigate our knowledge of science, to remove the vermin of the moth tree, and to cover us with warm clothes. Without the training of alma mater leaders and teachers, there will be no healthy growth. Tirelessly nurture talent, follow the true knowledge. Here, on behalf of all the students in the junior grade, I would like to say to the dearest leader and teacher of the Alma school and to all the employees we have paid for: "hard work, thank you!"
Three years, the friendship of the same window, let us learn to trust each other, let us understand that "we are all only one wing of an angel, only to embrace each other to fly." When we are in a low ebb, we cheer on each other; when we succeed, we cheer together. With warm smiles and warm atmosphere, we can learn to love, to persist and to believe that sunshine is always in the wind and rain. Intimate friendship and mutual affection will all precipitate into a valuable spiritual wealth. In the future, we will warm our hearts with each other no matter what the weather is like, no matter what the ends of the earth are. My dear classmates, take this opportunity to say "thank you!" to all the classmates who helped and warmed each other.
Three years, more than 1000 pages of books, recording how many wonderful fragments we have, and how many eternal moments freeze. Let us look back on the growth of this way with a feeling of life transformation: in the classroom, we are concentrated and written. In the sports field, we have a great leap and the first for the first time; in the room of the experimental composition, we capture the inspiration and the truth. For the mid-term exam, how many cold and windy mornings we had, how many sweaty afternoons, and how many lonely lights the long night... We suffered from wind and rain and tasted bitterness and bitterness. We trudged through the thorns and searched in the torrent. The satisfaction is that the achievement is always in direct proportion to the effort. In the deep footprints left by the alma mater, we have the belief that we are constantly pursuing and never fail to achieve the ideal. We are down to earth, one step and one footprints, together with the teacher to create the glory of the alma mater.
Three years of walking is solid and hurried, and three years of sweat are hard and happy. In three years, we grew up with the alma mater. From "third middle school" to "suitable middle school", from the borrowing of school buildings to moving into their beautiful campus, the change is only the name and address, the same is the strict school discipline of the alma mater, the strong style of study and the gentle and gentle between teachers and students. In this happy family, we use diligence and wisdom to write the magnificent chapter of struggle. We weave gorgeous junior high school life with dreams and youth. We are about to enter the field of the high school entrance examination and accept an important challenge in life. Dear students, "the sea is crossed, the hero is showing the true colors". Life is always surpassing in the competition, and life is always shining in the struggle. Now that we have chosen the challenge, we have no reason to shrink. Students, in the exam, we must succeed! Let us treasure this precious time, carefully prepared, with a positive and optimistic attitude into the examination room, with excellent results to return to the alma mater, teachers and parents!
Three years of junior high school life is fleeting, dear school younger brother and sister, you are in the great period of study, the alma mater is full of knowledge and strength of the fertile soil, I believe that you will cherish this good time of study, with perseverance, self-confidence and sweat to write a regrets for the three years. There are roads and diligence in learning mountains. Take this opportunity, on behalf of all my older brothers and sisters in my third grade, I wish you all the best: live happily, strive for progress, never give up, and make progress every day!
Waving goodbye to yesterday, teachers and students, classmates and friends, it is hard to forget. Graduation from junior high school is just a post office on the road of life. Let us take the grace of the alma mater, with the spirit of the alma mater, with the heart of good memories and gratitude, on the new journey, and to deduce the wonderful life with the mind and the wisdom.
Finally, on behalf of all the graduates in grade three, I wish to wish our best wishes to our alma mater, wish our teachers happy and healthy, and wish all our classmates a good future!
Thank you
I take with me the memory of Friday afternoon ACM happy hours, known not for kegs of beer, but rather bowls of rainbow sherbet punch. Over the several years that I attended these happy hours they enjoyed varying degrees of popularity, often proportional to the quality and quantity of the accompanying refreshments - but there was always the rainbow sherbert punch.
I take with me memories of purple parking permits, the West Campus shuttle, checking my pendaflex, over-due library books, trying to print from cec, lunches on Delmar, friends who slept in their offices, miniature golf in Lopata Hall, The Greenway Talk, division III basketball, and trying to convince Dean Russel that yet another engineering school rule should be changed.
Finally, I would like to conclude, not with a memory, but with some advice. What would a graduation speech be without a little advice, right? Anyway, this advice comes in the form of a verse delivered to the 1977 graduating class of Lake Forest College by Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss - Here's how it goes:
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare . . . Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "you must excercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid . . . BUT . . . you must spit out the air!"
And . . . as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.
大学生毕业英语演讲稿篇3
Faculty, family, friends, and fellow graduates, good evening.
I am honored to address you tonight. On behalf of the graduating masters and doctoral students of Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, I would like to thank all the parents, spouses, families, and friends who encouraged and supported us as we worked towards our graduate degrees. I would especially like to thank my own family, eight members of which are in the audience today. I would also like to thank all of the department secretaries and other engineering school staff members who always seemed to be there when confused graduate students needed help. And finally I would like to thank the Washington University faculty members who served as our instructors, mentors, and friends.
As I think back on the seven-and-a-half years I spent at Washington University, my mind is filled with memories, happy, sad, frustrating, and even humorous.
Tonight I would like to share with you some of the memories that I take with me as I leave Washington University.
I take with me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of Lopata Hall - the room at the end of the hallway that was too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and always too far away from the women's restroom. The window was my office's best feature. Were it not for the physics building across the way, it would have afforded me a clear view of the arch. But instead I got a view of the roof of the physics building. I also had a view of one corner of the roof of Urbauer Hall, which seemed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds who alternately won perching rights for several weeks at a time. And I had a nice view of the physics courtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs. It's amazing how fascinating these views became the longer I worked on my dissertation. But my favorite view was of a nearby oak tree. From my fourth-floor vantage point I had a rather intimate view of the tree and the various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. Occasionally a bird would land on my window sill, which usually had the effect of startling both of us.
I take with me the memory of two young professors who passed away while I was a graduate student. Anne Johnstone, the only female professor from whom I took a course in the engineering school, and Bob Durr, a political science professor and a member of my dissertation committee, both lost brave battles with cancer. I remember them fondly.
I take with me the memory of failing the first exam in one of the first engineering courses I took as an undergraduate. I remember thinking the course was just too hard for me and that I would never be able to pass it. So I went to talk to the professor, ready to drop the class. And he told me not to give up, he told me I could succeed in his class. For reasons that seemed completely ludicrous at the time, he said he had faith in me. And after that my grades in the class slowly improved, and I ended the semester with an A on the final exam. I remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me.
I take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprised me when I arrived in St. Louis 8 years ago. Since moving to New Jersey, I am sad to say, nobody has asked me where I went to high school.
I take with me the memory of the short-lived computer science graduate student social committee lunches. The idea was that groups of CS grad students were supposed to take turns cooking a monthly lunch. But after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire CS grad student population and one unlucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasn't much enthusiasm for having more lunches.
I take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the Association of Graduate Engineering Students, known as AGES. Started by a handful of engineering graduate students because we needed a way to elect representatives to a campus-wide graduate student government, AGES soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumental in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns.
I take with me the memory of an Engineering and Policy department that once had flourishing programs for full-time undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.
I take with me memories of the 1992 U.S. Presidential debate. Eager to get involved in all the excitement I volunteered to help wherever needed. I remember spending several days in the makeshift debate HQ giving out-of-town reporters directions to the athletic complex. I remember being thrilled to get assigned
the job of collecting film from the photographers in the debate hall during the debate. And I remember the disappointment of drawing the shortest straw among the student volunteers and being the one who had to take the film out of the debate hall and down to the dark room five minutes into the debate - with no chance to re-enter the debate hall after I left.
I take with me memories of university holidays which never seemed to apply to graduate students. I remember spending many a fall break and President's Day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the computer science department.
I take with me memories of exams that seemed designed more to test endurance and perseverance than mastery of the subject matter. I managed to escape taking any classes that featured infamous 24-hour-take-home exams, but remember the suffering of my less fortunate colleagues. And what doctoral student could forget the pain and suffering one must endure to survive the qualifying exams? I take with me the memory of the seven-minute rule, which always seemed to be an acceptable excuse for being ten minutes latefor anything on campus, but which doesn't seem to apply anywhere else I go.
I take with me the memory of Friday afternoon ACM happy hours, known not for kegs of beer, but rather bowls of rainbow sherbet punch. Over the several years that I attended these happy hours they enjoyed varying degrees of popularity, often proportional to the quality and quantity of the accompanying refreshments - but there was always the rainbow sherbert punch.
I take with me memories of purple parking permits, the West Campus shuttle, checking my pendaflex, over-due library books, trying to print from cec, lunches on Delmar, friends who slept in their offices, miniature golf in Lopata Hall, The Greenway Talk, division III basketball, and trying to convince Dean Russel that yet another engineering school rule should be changed.
Finally, I would like to conclude, not with a memory, but with some advice. What would a graduation speech be without a little advice, right? Anyway, this advice comes in the form of a verse delivered to the 1977 graduating class of Lake Forest College by Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss - Here's how it goes:
My uncle ordered popoversfrom the restaurant's bill of fare. And when they were served,he regarded them with a penetrating stare . . .
Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom as he sat there on that chair:
"To eat these things,"
said my uncle,
"you must excercise great care.
You may swallow down what's solid . . . BUT . . .
you must spit out the air!"
And . . .
as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.
Thank you.
Dear teachers, dear classmates:
Hello everyone！
Today, I stand here to say goodbye to our alma mater on behalf of all the first three graduates, to say goodbye to the teachers in nineteen, to say goodbye to the students who get along with each other, and to say goodbye to the unforgettable years.
At this moment, I feel very excited, both joy of graduation, but also can not hide unlimited memories and nostalgia. Three years of life, we live full and beautiful, we shed tears, but accompanied by laughter, we follow the thorns, but smell the fragrance of thousands of flowers.
I remember that three years ago that shallow autumn, just entered the nineteen middle school gate, ignorant of our curiosity and joy. In the Shaw building, we worked hard together and worked hard together, bringing together the fresh and fresh together to fight for the future. In the first second, in the yellow tower, in the gap of sweat and sweat, we do not forget to stand in the blue sky before looking at the blue sky and thinking of the future. For the sake of a problem, we have become the most beautiful scenery in this campus. In the first three years, the main building, which was drowned in the title sea, suddenly found out that our impression of junior high school is no longer a stack of test papers and exercises, but the gratitude and love of the middle school, which makes us heart and nurture our growing knowledge palace. It is both eyes that touch the "Nineteen middle". The strong sense of the name and the pride that followed it. Looking back at every shot in the past three years, teachers in the classroom or endless, or follow the lead, or cited.
Here we see the past, present and future of the world. Teacher, with your diligent sweat and selfless dedication, you have taught us to analyze and think, enrich and practice, cooperate and compete, to inherit and innovate, and to further learn how to continue to surpass and break through the limits of our own. Our life. The magnificent rhetoric can not express our respect and love for you, both teachers, friends and relatives. Now that we are graduating, all these warm memories will be engraved on our hearts and carefully collected. The future is a magic cube that changes constantly. People need more efforts and efforts. There are more twists and tests on the road that is about to enter, and you have to smile to face, to meet quietly, to fight bravely. We are going to go on a journey in the first three days of the long voyage. At this moment, what we are going to do is to adjust our mind, to witness a miracle in a day after a day, to bring a smile to life and to make life surging. Bring out the best results to repay our alma mater's kindness to us. Let's work in the beautiful campus for three years and go to the eight party to write a new colorful chapter in high school and future learning life.
My speech is finished, thank you.