Graduation

With graduation only a few months away, I've been focusing on whats coming next. Mainly jobs, working long hours and going to school. Our assignment to write a graduation speech has been a difficult one, I don't have many personal experiences with how great high school is, and I don't understand how its supposed to be the best time of my life. I wrote somewhat of a general speech, nothing personal and keeping it focused on the entire class. I decided for this entry I'm going to post my speech.

Well, its been an interesting four years here at AACT. We all got the high school experience, drama, stress, more drama. But we all seem to have pulled through alright. When you look back, its crazy how far we've come. From being nervous little freshmen, to arrogant little sophomores, bored juniors, and now we're seniors focusing on the future. We all came to this school for several reasons, the main one being securing our future and standing out among Washoe county's other high schoolers, or maybe it was avoiding those other high schoolers, or maybe it was just being different. 

It seems that soon after we started attending AACT, other schools took notice of what we were doing. Many of washoe’s schools have followed in suit, we led the surge of “signature programs” and have set the bar high for the others who want to be us. Sure the seniors from last year had somewhat of an impact, but this speech is about us, so I’m only talking about this class. We’ve made it through everything, even the world “ending” back in 2012. That just proves this class is unstoppable, not even the apocalypse can hold us back. If you can imagine what you were thinking four years ago, it probably wasn’t “these four years are going to go by quick,” it was more along the lines of “Four more years of school, this is going to be awful.” But looking back, it hasn’t been so bad. We came here as emotionally unstable pre-teens, and now we’re adults, kind of. Now we get to walk across that stage and be handed our “display diplomas” with smiles, or tears, whichever display of happiness you prefer, and “come of age” so to speak.