毕业英语演讲稿(九篇)
毕业英语演讲稿（通用9篇）
毕业英语演讲稿 篇1
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.
毕业英语演讲稿 篇2
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!
毕业英语演讲稿 篇3
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.
毕业英语演讲稿 篇4
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.
毕业英语演讲稿 篇5
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!
毕业英语演讲稿 篇6
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!
毕业英语演讲稿 篇7
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
毕业英语演讲稿 篇8
尊敬的老师，亲爱的同学们；
大家好！
—既是老师,又是朋友,更是亲人的尊敬和爱戴。学生即将远行,请允许我们深情地道一声:"老师,您辛苦了!谢谢你们的关怀和教育"。
我亲爱的.学弟学妹们,你们是我们理学院的未来,是你们让理学院代来了生机和活力,你们的努力和奋斗为理学院代来了荣誉,即使我们离校了也会感到无限的荣耀,在这里请允许我代表全体毕业生对你们表示诚挚的感谢和衷心的祝福,祝福你们明天走的更好。
毕业是一首久唱不衰的老歌,是散场之后的余音绕耳,所有甜美或者苦涩的故事,定格为热泪盈眶的欣悦,依然真诚直率的目光,依然奔流激荡的热血,正牵引着我们再一次传唱,传唱那飘逝的日月春秋。"乘风破浪会有时,直挂云帆济沧海。"让时间作证,承载着我们理学院领导,老师们的殷切期望和深情嘱托,我们一定会做拥有智慧并富有激情的人,做胸怀大志并脚踏实地的人,做德才兼备并勇于创新的人,做富有责任并敢挑重担的人!同学们,临别之际,让我们立下誓言:今天,我们以作为农大的毕业生为荣;明天,农大将会以我们为荣!
我们要走了,理学院的老师们为我们所做的一切,我们暂时无以回报,我们信息与计算科学专业全体毕业生送上我们深深的祝福"祝:理学院——欣欣向荣,蒸蒸日上"。
我的演讲完毕,谢谢大家!
毕业英语演讲稿 篇9
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.