Graduation Speech Second Draft

Now I don't know about you, but I am a little nervous, yeah, who could be nervous speaking in front of a crowd of people. That is not the only reason I am nervous; I am graduating, moving on with my life, I won't see many of you for a while and that, that makes me a little nervous. Sitting in these seats is very nerve-racking, it seems like yesterday we were all in Mrs. Valerie's class learning: 'when in doubt, right click', or in Mrs. Raker’s class learning about the zombie geese.

As a class, we have been through a lot; teachers have been leaving the school left and right, (I think they might not like us that much) and some of our fellow students that we spent the past years growing up with, have left for other schools. After today we are going to be symbolic adults going into what is called the “real world”. This can be difficult for some students, but if we can become the leaders of our school, I know that we can make it in the “real world” as well. We just need to remember that enough is enough and a pinch can sometimes turn into a jungle, we are not always right, sometimes we are wrong, and we have to know when to admit defeat. We need to look on the bright side, don’t go to the dark side, they lied about having cookies.

 Looking back on the years the only thing many students remember from freshman year is 'when in doubt, right click', but has anyone ever stopped to ask the question: what happens when you 'right click'? On a computer a drop down menu appears with options to choose from , all of these options being useful in some way or another, whether it be to get a picture, or to help you get the page to work properly, but how does one exactly ‘right click’ in a setting other than a technical one? That can be answered by many students here; we have all ‘right clicked’ even though we might not know it. We take pictures, we share events, we try to fix some situations; we have all ‘right clicked’ many times.  Seniors, as a class, we need to know how to right click, to save that moment in our mind, and how to right click to understand what we did wrong. We need to right click, to save that moment with our friends, to help us understand the problems that we are facing, and most importantly to get us to where we need to be.