Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

The Class of 2012. How long have we heard these words apply to us? Long geezerhood starting with broken crayons in kindergarten to turned sweatshirts in middle school to fresh English essays 13 years of learning from the simplest counting to complicated algebra and calculus, from reciting our ABCs to reading Shakespe atomic number 18. Imagine, us access out of our respective middle schools into this monster of a campus. With three time as m any people people who drive. People who have cars and are legal adults. Weve been here for four years. Count the accommodate there are 16 of them. Remember freshmen year that infatuation with older students, and how being friends with a senior gave you immeasurable social status? There were some sophomores who didnt tease us for being freshmen, and we clung to them. Remember walking in late to every class on the first day of school, and perchance the second... maybe the third... Every morning we rode the yellow school bus. Our first pep assembly was amazingly loud and we walked out half-deaf. The cheerleaders were trying to get us to phone something, alter we figured out it was double-oh. Remember when our commitment to graduation standard was stolen out of the library? And that first last, day of school promising to ascertain everyone again come September. Four d own, 12 to go. Sophomore year. Well, maybe by the time we were sophomores we may not have been completely settled into our own high-school persona but at least we knew where we were. And maybe, that first day of school, we dummy up were late to every single class. We learned the meaning of the word sophomoric that year, and crucify the freshmen, getting some symbolic retribution for what the sophomores did to use the year before. Eventu on the wholey... ...ers ago, so were we. Yesterday has passed. Now we stand on the brink of adulthood. We have counted the cost, weve counted the quarters and paid the price, weve paid four years. Sixteen quarters. Right now we all have a legacy that weve left on Ayer High School, a legacy developed from four years of walking down the halls, 8 semesters of sitting in the classrooms and sixteen quarters of developing our personalities. We were the anxious freshmen, the offensive sophomores, the lazy juniors and the graduating seniors. But, in 10 years, who are we going to be? forget we still drink Sobes, Jones or Yogochinos? Have the same wallpaper on our computer monitors? Will we still fly out at any hour of the night to go to Dicks or taco Bell? Whatever the answers, what weve each learned here will tolerate at the core of the people we become. We are the Class of 2006.