畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文(精選3篇)
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇1
i am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. i never graduated from college. truth be told, this is the closest i've ever gotten to a college graduation.
today i want to tell you three stories from my life. that's it. no big deal. just three stories.
the first story is about connecting the dots.
i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit. so why did i drop out?
it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.
and 17 years later i did go to college. but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. so i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. i loved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.
none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
my second story is about love and loss.
i was lucky – i found what i loved to do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. we worked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?
well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.
i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇2
尊敬的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)、老師、親愛的同學(xué)們:
大家好!
我很榮幸在畢業(yè)典禮上發(fā)言。今天對(duì)我們來說是難忘的一天。三年的初中生涯今天就要結(jié)束了。此時(shí)此刻,我的心情和在座的各位一樣:即使有相聚的喜悅,也有無法掩飾的回憶和留戀。
在今天這個(gè)特殊的時(shí)刻,請(qǐng)?jiān)试S我代表所有的初中生,向關(guān)心教學(xué)、努力培養(yǎng)我們的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)和老師表示衷心的感謝和最崇高的敬意。謝謝你在過去三年里對(duì)我們的悉心教導(dǎo)。傳道、授業(yè)、解惑,你和你的學(xué)生都面臨困難;開心,難過,奮進(jìn),你和你的學(xué)生是分不開的。是你深情的凝視給了我們最堅(jiān)定的信心;是你關(guān)懷的目光,讓我們從容走進(jìn)考場(chǎng)。
謝謝你教我們?nèi)绾巫鋈。也許我們?cè)?jīng)任性過讓你難過,也許我們?cè)?jīng)調(diào)皮過讓你難過,但是請(qǐng)?jiān)徫覀,那是我們青春成長的真實(shí)故事,也正因?yàn)槿绱,我們永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)忘記老師們的悉心培養(yǎng)。此時(shí)此刻,我謹(jǐn)代表三年級(jí)全體同學(xué),對(duì)大家說:老師,你們辛苦了!現(xiàn)在是你精心培育花朵時(shí),每一片花瓣散發(fā)香味的時(shí)候了。我想所有努力的汗水和理想的希望都會(huì)變成好消息,如期而至,飛向你的案子。我知道這是對(duì)你長期無私奉獻(xiàn)的回報(bào)
有人說初中的生活是一本太倉促的書。沒錯(cuò),三年的時(shí)間里,一千多頁的悲歡離合匆匆翻過,卻給我們留下了那么多鮮活的細(xì)節(jié),那么多精彩的片段。我們用勤奮和智慧創(chuàng)造了一次又一次的輝煌,編織了一個(gè)溫暖而絢麗的初中生活。上課的時(shí)候,有我們專注的目光;在運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)上,有我們揮汗如雨的淡然豪邁姿態(tài);在節(jié)日的舞臺(tái)上,我們有清晰的歌聲和輕快的舞步。在逝去的日子里,我們默默傳遞著愛與友情,凝聚成一堂充滿愛與高昂斗志的課。回顧這三年,我們從不成熟到成熟,從無知到理智,從淺薄到充實(shí)。
同學(xué)們,后天,大家就要進(jìn)入中考考場(chǎng)迎接人生第一個(gè)重要挑戰(zhàn)了。在此,衷心希望每一位同學(xué)都能靜下心來,積極應(yīng)戰(zhàn),發(fā)揮到正常水平,取得理想的成績(jī)。同時(shí)也希望同學(xué)們以平常心對(duì)待中考。雖然中考很重要,它可以影響和改變我們的人生軌跡,但它不能決定我們的命運(yùn),因?yàn)樾娜粲,?mèng)若有,青春無衰!同學(xué)們,初中三年很短,人生的路還很長。但是,我衷心祈禱,初中三年點(diǎn)燃了未來人生道路上的璀璨之光,照亮了每一個(gè)人,堅(jiān)定地前行。同時(shí),也衷心希望師生戀和我們初中三年結(jié)下的友誼,能夠天長地久。祝我們臥龍初中明天更加輝煌
最后祝母校前程似錦,老師永遠(yuǎn)年輕,同學(xué)永遠(yuǎn)光明燦爛。
謝謝大家!
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇3
親愛的老師們:
大家好!
我來自x班。今天,我們激動(dòng)地迎來了一個(gè)莊嚴(yán)的畢業(yè)典禮!在這個(gè)美好而難忘的時(shí)刻,我們不禁感到激動(dòng),深思。
春夏秋冬花開,我們和親愛的母校xx小學(xué)并肩走了六年。我還清楚地記得,剛進(jìn)校門的時(shí)候,我只是一個(gè)幼稚好奇的頑童,F(xiàn)在,當(dāng)我即將踏出校門,向母校揮手告別的時(shí)候,我已經(jīng)是一個(gè)朝氣蓬勃的少年了!很難忘記,在課堂上,老師制作的精美課件讓我們快樂地學(xué)習(xí);很難忘記你在運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)上追著我,留下同學(xué)們的笑聲;很難忘記,學(xué)校里的樹和植物,美麗的合歡樹,給我們留下了深刻的記憶。
六年的辛苦和倉促;六年的路,平淡而艱辛;六年的學(xué)習(xí)忙碌而快樂。在這里,我們成長了身體和智慧。在課堂上,我們了解中國文化的深度,探索數(shù)學(xué)的樂趣,發(fā)現(xiàn)26個(gè)英文字母的奇妙組合。
同學(xué)們,我們這六年在x小學(xué)的成長依然歷歷在目:全校師生一起為了x小學(xué)的校慶而努力忙碌;校運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)上,同學(xué)們奮力拼搏,歡呼雀躍,為班級(jí)爭(zhēng)光;每周一豐富多彩的陽光活動(dòng),操場(chǎng)上擠滿了活躍的學(xué)生;最后一次春游,歡樂谷之旅,讓我們刻骨銘心。六年一晃就過去了,我們即將離開母校,但我的心里卻充滿了對(duì)母校的深情告別!
最后祝x小學(xué)未來越來越光明!祝x小學(xué)老師工作順利,事業(yè)有成!祝x小學(xué)的同學(xué)們學(xué)習(xí)順利,成長旅途愉快!相信在不久的將來,我們一定會(huì)以優(yōu)異的成績(jī)回報(bào)母校!
謝謝大家!