Graduation

Standing outside the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room after Game 5 of the Stanley Finals against the Nashville Predators I had never been more excited of the career path I chose. The adrenaline and anticipation as we wait for the locker room to open up for interviews only makes me more excited as I know I will be the only woman with a camera pushing and shoving for that perfect shot. Getting to see my favorite team get to the Stanley Cup Finals and being able to film every step along the way is a…

“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”…

counter dropout rates. Although the company and groups of friends that he acquired before were nowhere to be found. He divulged himself into his studies to meet the deadline for graduation. The program offered a practice SAT, better known as the PSAT; in which he passed in the range of 1000-1100. He also stated that upon graduation he had just finished all of his remaining assignments and tests just hours before the time for the ceremony to start. He overcame the prejudice and social…

“I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the furthest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation”. This was said by one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the entire world, Steve Jobs himself on the morning of June 12th, 2005 right before his commencement speech at Stanford university. Steve Jobs gave the speech titled “Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish” to 25,000 students that day, and it turned out to be one of the most truly motivating speeches that is given in the most…

that their majority of students are ready for college. Most high schools would say yes when in all actuality the answer should be no. This is especially true for high schools located in poor socioeconomic areas, and although they may have great graduation rates, but only half of that graduating class would be considered college ready. Socioeconomics have a tremendous impact on how well high schools prepare students for college because they lack the financial means to stay fully staffed with…

In our society, a college education, to some, is either an option or a privilege. Many individuals do not value the importance of a college education as many students try their hardest to get in a college or to pay it off. While in high school, the majority of students have the mindset to go to college while others not so much. These students who thrive to go to college want to go and achieve what they have always wanted to be in life, however, when the time comes for a college education, many…

Gavriel M. Cruz Dfm6 Have you ever been in a one mythical promenade? There will never be as haunting as that night. It’s every high school teens’ dream to be on a prom and we surely made that day wonderful. Whatever we did, we made sure that it’ll make us happy. For one evening; we were teenagers that lived like were going to die tomorrow, and most of all; we enjoyed everything that we can never do again after we graduated. Everything about our prom is magical. That’s why my prom night was an…

families who are lower. Many students in financial need must spend a portion of their time taking on part time jobs while studying, while other students must worry about the loans that they have collected and how they are going to pay it off after graduation. The government meets minimal needs to help students in financial need to help pay off their college tuition and that college costs are becoming a factor that pushes students away from a higher education. While the government currently does…

During Steve Jobs speech to the graduating students at Stanford Jobs uses a lot of examples throughout his lifetime and tries to relate as much as possible to the students through stories about his lifetime and how his companies came about. Jobs uses different forms of Ethos, Pathos, and also Logos in his speech to Stanford. The issue is does Jobs fit the criteria to actually be speaking to graduating students about life challenges and his college experience. Here I’m going to go over the rather…

pastor’s sermons, however without a religious aspect. Vonnegut advises this graduating class on how to be good people and lead good lives. The tone of this essay is patronizing, as it is expected for graduation speakers to be wise and impart wisdom into the new generation. This is why most graduation speeches are timeless, such as “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace. He begins the speech with a silly and seemingly dull piece of advice that he uses to start deeper discussion: “I suppose you…