Graduation Day Essay

Christmas in Dixie It’s been a few years since I composed a Christmas letter because final grading always trumped my desire to celebrate the season and keep touch with friends and family. So, let’s catch up! As most of you know, I love mountains, creeks, moonlight (perhaps moonshine), walks in the woods, and bonfires. Additionally, I really dislike snow & ice, frigid temps, gray skies, and prairie winds. Due to this fact, Chris and I spent many years discussing possible locations to relocate…

Each day that I get older, the more I realize the sand in the glass slides by faster. Realizing that this time is not just going by quickly, it is spent worrying and waiting about things that I should not. From every age, I can remember something I waited to do or something for which I was excited about. When I was younger, I could not wait to grow up. I wanted to attend school, play sports, and graduate with all my friends, I looked forward to so many things in the future that I could not wait…

From marriage to graduation, speeches often help mark major milestones in life. Barbara Bush’s speech to the graduating class at Wellesley college is no different. She spoke to an exuberant crowd and carried across a powerful message about what choices life has to offer each of the students. To understand why this speech is so highly regarded one must examine the use of rhetoric in the speech and how it brings power to her words. Barbara Bush’s speech, “Choices and Change”, was an incredibly…

seniors, and we had a few more weeks until we were were at the graduation ceremony officially graduated. Leaving all of our friends with one last final summer of all hanging out before we go our separate ways for college in the fall. Sure, we knew we can hang out during breaks, but sometimes college separates you and your friends. So that’s why we really wanted to make this summer count. We decided a good way to spend the rest of our days with each other before the huge goodbye was to go on a…

beach life in Florida for hopefully my entire life until I can retire. Retirement is the last step in my professional life, and I plan to enjoy and cherish every single moment of it by traveling the world and eating new and exciting foods every single day for the rest of my…

his friends died in 911. He then went on to say his two daughters dropped him at Arbors years ago and never came to visit. He looked at me with tear filled eyes and hugged me saying you have no idea how much this means to me. How much you effected my day and how much you touched my heart. Without recognizing, it was actually the old man who touched mine. For me, That was a moment to be remembered and would not have happened without the help of this…

lives. He encourages them to pursue their dreams, and do what makes them happy, even if what makes you happy does not always go according to plan. “I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation,” Jobs starts off his commencement speech by telling the Stanford University class of 2005. The…

“About all a commencement speaker can really do is to suggest a couple of things that [he or] she believes really matters” (“Graduation Wisdom”). Sue Monk Kidd stated this while addressing the graduates of Scripps College. On May 21, 2005 Kenyon College graduation welcomed David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, for their commencement address. A prime example of Kidd’s statement, Wallace stated in the address that “suicide’s [victims] are actually long dead before they pull the trigger”…

Unlike the majority of my classmates, I never had the opportunity to put on a cap and gown for a graduation ceremony. Like most people, my high school career lasted about 4 years. I made As and Bs for the most part, but never did earn my high school diploma. This made me feel as though high school was a complete waste of time. After all, I had nothing to show for it. A few months after my classmates graduated from high school, I earned my GED. I learned more from the experience of earning my GED…

We have all heard the saying “nobody is perfect” right? People say it repeatedly and famous entertainers, like Hannah Montana in her prime, sing about it in every other song. We hear the quote daily to cope with the mistakes we make, but do we fully understand the context of the phrase? I ask this because it is important to recognize that literally nobody is perfect. That means that Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and Abraham Lincoln have all made millions of mistakes in their lifetime, yet we still…