My graduation speech below tell me how you like it
Good evening, _______ Staff, family, friends, and my fellow graduating class of 2026. My name is____ and I'm honored to stand before you today to give this speech. I'd like to give thanks to my teacher, Mrs. _____, for encouraging me to stand before all of you today. If you know me, you know that I'm not really good at this kind of thing, so throughout my speech, you might hear quotes from some of my favorite movies that I've found inspiring.
When the guidance counselors handed me the paper in my sophomore year, they asked me to make a decision about which class I wanted to join while attending the Career Center. Back then, I remember that I didn’t really know what I wanted to do when I grew up. So when I was picking my classes, my choices were number 1, Dental, number 2, welding, and number 3, electrical. As much as I think Mr ____would have been a good teacher for me. I don’t think he would have been able to help me with my boy troubles like Mrs ____ has. Mrs ___ has always been there for my classmates and I when we've needed advice about our future careers or just when we needed help with anything in our class. Mrs _____ is easily one of the best teachers out there. She always takes time to make sure we understand the instructions given and always help us out with anything she can.
Getting down to business, as Jessica said in Twilight. “ Change your mind, then change it again, because nothing is permanent, so make as many mistakes as you can.” I can relate to this quote so much, and I think all of us can. If you think about it, we have to make mistakes when we’re this age to really figure out what we want to do in life. Take as many college classes as you can so you can figure out what to do when you graduate. Explore new career opportunities, take job offers you'd never take in a million years because it's something different, or take a gap year. Right now, nothing has to be set in stone. We have our whole lives ahead of us.
Today marks the end of one important chapter in our lives and the beginning of something far less predictable. Some of us are heading to colleges, some are heading to trade schools, some are enlisting, some are going straight into the workforce, and some of us are still figuring things out. Whatever you choose to do, that's okay!! In reality, there is no real definition of “success” after high school. As we leave Southeastern Career Center behind were not just stepping into a career were stepping into a responsibility to grow, learn as much as we can, and then we can define success for ourselves.
No matter what you choose to do in the future, do it with pride. Be open-minded, be ready to learn as much as you can, grow as a person, and be willing to change direction when something no longer fits. Because in reality, life is about making changes. As for me, like Randall Pink Floyd once said, “Me and my loser friends we got to go get Aerosmith tickets, top priority of the summer.”