Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Edgar Allan Poe once said, All that we see or await is but a dream within a dream.The 13 old age that I have spent attending school have quick passed through my life as if a dream, much as I imagine it did Edgar Allan Poe. I can still remember my first twenty-four hour period of school in Vietnam when I was five years old. Timid and scared, I held my becomes hand tightly, frightened that if I let go, I would lose her forever. My m different looked at me and said gently in VietnameseSu hoc nhu thuyen tren dong nuoc nguoc. Khong tien at se luiTranslated into English it meansEducation is manage a gravy holder heading upstream against the rivers current. If it is not going forward, it will be odd drifting behind.Now, years later, I stand among fellow students who have excessively bravely faced the ch altogetherenge of that upstream river of knowledge. We are gathitherd here tonight for a very special and important occasion. It will be a night for all of us to remember, a night o f rattling(prenominal) memories, a night that celebrates the end of one journey and the dismountning of another. I would like to welcome all of you here today -- faculty, family, friends, fellow Phi Theta Kappans, and of course, the one, the just now Harding Community College graduating tell apart of 2006.Thank you for giving me the honor of speaking to you on this very special occasion in our lives. Giving a root speech is a very challenging task. The faculty would like a speaker with a substantive message. The parents would appreciate a sentimental tone, and the graduates would like the speech to be briefTwo years ago, we came to this institution with great enthusiasm and determination to build a bridge to the future for ourselves and for the abutting generation. We brought with us impressive... ...e has given us, to work together to translate the abstract into reality. In closing, and rather than saying good-bye to all of you, I ask the Class of 2006 to please rise.Let us give a grateful acclaim to Harding Community College for all that it has done and continues to do to help students like us in our quest for success.Let us thank you, our distinguished faculty, for accept in us, compelling us, and teaching us to explore the fullness and intensity level that lie within ourselves.Let us thank our family and friends for loving us, encouraging us, and encouraging us to pass through the challenges of that upstream river of knowledge.And, let us celebrate this day with cheerful applause and congratulations to each other for being wonderful companions along this journey.Class of 2006, I wish you all a bright future and may another journey begin here.