Graduation Speech: Tonight We Cross the Finish Line

Congratulations on the 2012 Country Grand Prix, our 13 year marathon is over. Some of you may know that I am a long distance runner and part of a very successful off-road and long distance running plan. We are ranked 4th in the state cross country championship and is the best male senior team in the state. Participation in my sports really connected me to the school and gave me a friend I remember all of my life. One of the most important aspects of my high school days was participation.

Tonight is the end of the era. Many years of books, theater, dance, and sports have brought this delightful moment. Like our 2006 graduate class, I am sitting here and seeing the career as our last high school student gradually disappearing, I am nervously waiting for a new adventure tomorrow. We have achieved our spirit. Tonight's graduation memorial is not only a passage from the Bill's High School Hall of Fame but also a declaration of our dedication and effort.

This is the doctoral program. It is believed that the doctorate who graduated is like reaching the end of the marathon. I have sweat and pain, but the surrounding smiles are done with pictures that are worth taking. Instead, graduation is like climbing a mile with one arm and craving for a moving finish line. When the finish line finally intersected, it felt like a sweeter release than victory. The year of contempt, dissatisfaction, pain, disappointment was partially alleviated, but it has not yet been fully released. By the end of the graduate school you are exhausted. It took seven years before I knocked myself and beaten by another person. Among us, this is 25% of the life after birth I actually spent in graduate school. It was a long time. Perhaps 47% of depressed depression seems to be out of reach.

We are a vocational training program. The goal is not to graduate, but to find a job. Approximately 10% of students choose to work before graduation and choose to start work before completing the course. We prefer what they have accomplished, but as their savings accounts decline, we push them forward so they make the right choice for their lives - our statistics are cursed. Even if they completely got what they mean, these 10% of successful students "dropped". The general cutoff length of the upper version is within 150% of the expected program length. Our course is expected to last 27 weeks, but many students repeat a quarter or take a break on the way. Some people stayed with us for over 40 weeks and then barely arrived with their teeth and nails for graduation. Then they are counted as dropout because they maintain 150% or more.