英語畢業(yè)演講稿

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英語畢業(yè)演講稿

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英語畢業(yè)演講稿

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　　Dear schoolmates:

　　As I am graduating, I'd like to write this letter to express my feelings before leaving school. Learning in this school is a very enjoyable and meaningful experience for me. In the past three years, I have understood the pleasure of efforts and challenges, which will be beneficial to my life in the future.

　　While I attained a lot during this period, I also regretted wasting much time. With the much pressure on me, I sometimes read some novels in order to relax myself. The novels may relieve me from stress, but I should have focused on study.

　　No matter what I did in the past, it is essential to adapt myself to a new and hopeful life. Therefore, I will try my best to face more challenges in the university. I am full of confidence that I'll get used to it soon.

　　Last, I want to give you some advice. Don't put much pressure on yourselves. Keep in mind: it is not just the results that make it important, but what you have done during the preparations.

　　Good luck to all of you!

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　　Dear schoolmates：

　　As I am graduating, Id like to write this letter to express my feelings before leaving school.I have experienced a lot over the past three years. First, I want to show my thanks to all my teachers. They are very kind and give me a lot of help. I know how to express myself in public, how to feel the beauty of nature and how to smile when I was in trouble. I think these are valuable memories that I will never forget.

　　However, I also have some regrets. I failed in an English speech competition, which made me very sad. I wanted to improve myself.

　　I will study in a college. It will be a great challenge for me. So, I must study hard now and prepare for the coming College Entrance Examination. I want to be successful.

　　Finally, there are some suggestions that I want to offer to you. Study hard and you will have a bright future. Listen carefully to your teachers and parents, and you will succeed in different kinds of exams. Keep fit, or you will not have enough energy to face different types of difficulties. Only in these ways can you enjoy your school lives.

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　　Dear schoolmates,As I am graduating, I'd like to write this letter to express my feelings before leaving school. Learning in this school is a very enjoyable and meaningful experience for me. In the past three years, I have understood the pleasure of efforts and challenges, which will be beneficial to my life in the future.

　　Last, I want to give you some advice. Don't put much pressure on yourselves. Keep in mind: it is not just the results that make it important, but what you have done during the preparations.

　　Good luck to all of you!

英語畢業(yè)演講稿4

　　Good afternoon,everyone:

　　She may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors.

　　A 17-year-old student who spent much of high school living bouncing around homeless shelters — and sometimes sleeping in her car — today graduated as valedictorian of her class at Charles Drew High School in Clayton County, Ga., just outside of Atlanta.

　　她也許是個(gè)無家可歸的孩子，但是現(xiàn)在這個(gè)女孩擁有至高無上的榮譽(yù)。

　　這個(gè)17歲的學(xué)生高中大部分時(shí)間都住在收容所，有時(shí)還得睡在車?yán)�。她就讀于位于亞特蘭大佐治亞州克萊頓縣的查爾斯德魯高中，今天作為所在班級(jí)的畢業(yè)生代表光榮畢業(yè)，并在畢業(yè)典禮上致告別辭。

　　Chelsea Fearce, who held a 4.466 GPA and scored 1900 on her SATs despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night,“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on mats on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her graduation ceremony.

　　Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day.“I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore,” she told WSBTV.

　　這位叫切爾西-菲爾斯的女孩高中績(jī)點(diǎn)4.446，并在SAT考試中拿到1900分。高中期間，晚上收容所熄燈后她只能在用手機(jī)來學(xué)習(xí)，“我知道自己越來越強(qiáng)大。我無家可歸。我的家人都睡在地板的墊子上，如果幸運(yùn)的話，每天可以不止飽餐一頓。淋浴、食物和干凈的衣服，這些對(duì)于我來說都是可望而不可及的，”菲爾斯在畢業(yè)演講時(shí)說道。

　　菲爾斯靠著對(duì)未來更好生活的向往克服了每天的.困難�！拔腋嬖V自己不要放棄，因?yàn)槲磥頃?huì)更好”，她對(duì)WSBTV新聞網(wǎng)的記者表示。

　　One of five children, Fearce's family sometimes had an apartment to live in, but at other times had to live in homeless shelters or even out of their car, if they had one.

　　“You’re worried about your home life and then worried at school. Worry about being a little hungry sometimes, go hungry sometimes. You just have to deal with it. You eat what you can, when you can.”

　　菲爾斯家里一共有5個(gè)孩子，有時(shí)一家人還有公寓可以住，但有時(shí)不得不住在流浪收容所甚至車?yán)?如果有車的話)。

　　“你要擔(dān)心家庭生活，甚至在學(xué)校的時(shí)候也會(huì)。還要擔(dān)心有時(shí)會(huì)挨點(diǎn)餓，有時(shí)會(huì)很餓。你只能這樣，有吃的時(shí)候就趕快吃�！�

　　Miraculously, Fearce overcame the odds and even tested high enough to enroll in college classes half way through her high school career. She starts college next year at Spelman College as a junior where she is planning to study biology, pre-med.

　　“Don’t give up. Do what you have to do right now so that you can have the future that you want,” Fearce said.

　　菲爾斯奇跡般地克服了這種困境，甚至在高中才上到一半的時(shí)候就取得了足以進(jìn)入大學(xué)的成績(jī)。明年她就將作為一名大學(xué)新生就讀于斯貝爾曼學(xué)院，開始大學(xué)生活，她計(jì)劃在醫(yī)學(xué)預(yù)科學(xué)習(xí)生物。

　　“不要放棄�，F(xiàn)在就做你應(yīng)該做的，這樣你就會(huì)擁有夢(mèng)想中的未來�！狈茽査拐f。

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　　Dear schoolmates:

　　As I am graduating, I'd like to write this letter to express my feelings before leaving school.Looking back at the last three years of my high school life, I'm very proud that I have gained a lot. Apart from learning much knowledge in different subjects, I also learnt how to be a qualified student or a real person. Due to the help of my teachers, I know the significance of being honest, confident and warm-hearted. I really appreciate the devotion that my teachers paid.

　　Despite the achievements I have made, I have pities during my high school life. I think I should have exercised more rather than study all the time. After all, healthy is vital to us all.

　　After graduating from high school, I will enter college, a place where I may meet many challenges. I will live in college instead of living at home, which requires me to be independent. How to communicate with students who come from different cities is also a challenge.

　　I suggest you studying hard and building a strong body during your high school lives. Only in this way can you achieve more and have a better future.

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　　the wedding gift

　　ray’s wedding had gone off without a hitch. everyone seemed to have had a good time. a few people had too good of a time; they went home with designated drivers. all evening, the gift table remained unguarded. who would steal anything, ray thought. he had never heard of such a thing happening at a wedding. but his best friend aaron said there was a first time for everything. he strolled out regularly from the inside festivities to check on the gift table, making sure no one suspicious was hanging around it.

　　ray and julia went on a 3-week honeymoon to italy right after the wedding. when they got back, they opened all the gifts and sent out thank you notes. but there was one problem. a married couple that used to be good friends had apparently given nothing. this surprised julia, because walt and mary said they were thrilled to be invited. and, they actually seemed to have had a great time at the wedding. frankly, ray didn’t even care if they hadn’t given a gift. he just needed to know whether to send a thank you note. ray called aaron. aaron said maybe walt had left an envelope on the gift table like aaron had. “yes, but we got your envelope with the cash inside,” ray said.

　　“maybe my envelope looked too thin, and some thief thought walt’s envelope looked nice and fat.”

　　aaron asked ray if he had looked everywhere for walt’s gift. had he called up the wedding site to see if anything had been left behind? ray said that he had looked everywhere and made a lot of calls that were fruitless.

　　ray didn’t know what to do. if he sent walt and mary a thank you note for a gift they hadn’t given, they would be insulted. if he didn’t send them a thank you note for a gift they had given, they would be insulted.

　　“what would you do?” ray asked. aaron said he would call walt up and tell him the problem.

　　“you can’t go wrong with simply being honest,” aaron said.

　　“oh, yes, you can,” ray countered. “sometimes it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie.” but he thought about it, and finally decided that honesty might be the best policy. he called walt and told him the problem. walt said that yes, he had given an envelope. in fact, the envelope contained $500 cash.

　　“$500?!” ray asked. “that’s a lot of cash, walt!” walt admitted that it was, but he had gotten a fat raise early that year and ray’s was the only wedding he’d been to in quite a while. ray thanked him very much, and apologized sincerely for someone stealing walt’s generous gift. walt told him that it was “only money.”

　　when ray told aaron about walt’s gift, aaron laughed. “the only thief at the wedding was walt! i quit playing cards with him last year because i caught him cheating. and it was only a $10 pot! i’m sure i told you about that.”

　　“yes, you did tell me,” ray said. but, of course, he had to send walt a thank you note anyway.

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　　Good afternoon,everyone:

　　Once we finish our final exams, many of us might never see each other again, and we might never sit in the classroom of St. Charles listening to our teachers. But “If not us, who? If not now, when?”This quote is said by John F. Kennedy, America’s 35th president. It means that the time is pushing us forward, and we have to keep going. We will leave many things behind the road. I feel excited for the new things that are waiting ahead of me, and also feel sad to leave St. Charles and all the great teachers and staff.

　　Good-by, my teachers. Many of you are the greatest teachers I’ve ever met in my life. Thank you for teaching me knowledge and skills. Thank you for helping me to be a better person. Most importantly, thank you for helping me overcome my language barrier. Good-by, my friends. Thank you for being my friends, you added color on to my life, and made my life interesting and fun. Good-by, my classmates. The last day of school might be the last time I will see you. I will miss you and all the good time we have spent together. When I look at my year book one day, I will say ,“Ha, I remember you ” And I will not forget the fun things we have done.

　　I have changed a lot in the three years I have been in St. Charles. Firstly, I learned many things from this school. My English improved from being able to understand nothing to being able to almost understand anything. These changes are huge. But the most important thing St. Charles gave to me is courage. The courage to talk to other people, and to actually be part of a group. I can say that St. Charles helped me pass hardest time in life. When I first came here from China. I could hardly understand anything I was very shy when I talked with people I didn’t know. With my language difficulties, I could barely talk to people and understand what they were saying. Also, the completely different culture made my life very hard. Sometimes I have to do six hours of homework and go to sleep at one o’clock. But the teachers, staff, and classmate are so nice. They give me lots of help when I need it .With that help and my effort, my English grows better and better, and the hardest time has finally passed. Thank you to all those who have helped me , I will never forget what you have done for me.

　　Look back at our school, it’s not fashionable, it’s not big, it doesn’t have new technology, and it even looks small at first. But we all love it. It’s like our second family, a family filled with joyfulness. Here, everyone helps everyone, everyone love everyone. I feel love and kindness here, that is something that I cannot feel from other schools. Those are the unique things about our school. That is why we loved it , and wanted to stay there.

　　We will miss this school so much because we’ve spent so much of our life here. But like John F. Kennedy said “If not us, who ? If not now, when ?” There are still many exciting things waiting for us in our future. We can’t just stop and miss the other beautiful sights coming up. To keep going and get a good gradd is the most important thing for me to do now, because that is what I think I’m supposed to do. It is the starting of all. You have to gain knowledge to develop your skill and to reach your goal. And I believe that I will go farther if I get more knowledge. I will remember all the great things St. Charles had taught me, and remain thankful after I leave St. Charles. And I will come back and visit our school again, and visit those teachers who taught me, and people who helped me.

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　　Ladies and gentlemen:

　　I take with me the memory of Friday afternoon ACM happy hours, known not for kegs of beer, but rather bowls of rainbow sherbet punch. Over the several years that I attended these happy hours they enjoyed varying degrees of popularity, often proportional to the quality and quantity of the accompanying refreshments - but there was always the rainbow sherbert punch.

　　I take with me memories of purple parking permits, the West Campus shuttle, checking my pendaflex, over-due library books, trying to print from cec, lunches on Delmar, friends who slept in their offices, miniature golf in Lopata Hall, The Greenway Talk, division III basketball, and trying to convince Dean Russel that yet another engineering school rule should be changed.

　　Finally, I would like to conclude, not with a memory, but with some advice. What would a graduation speech be without a little advice, right? Anyway, this advice comes in the form of a verse delivered to the 1977 graduating class of Lake Forest College by Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss - Heres how it goes:

　　My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurants bill of fare. And when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare . . . Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "you must excercise great care. You may swallow down whats solid . . . BUT . . . you must spit out the air!"

　　And . . . as you partake of the worlds bill of fare, thats darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

　　Thank you.

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　　Dear schoolmates,As I am graduating, I'd like to write this letter to express my feelings before leaving school.Looking back at the last three years of my high school life, I'm very proud that I have gained a lot. Apart from learning much knowledge in different subjects, I also learnt how to be a qualified student or a real person. Due to the help of my teachers, I know the significance of being honest, confident and warm-hearted. I really appreciate the devotion that my teachers paid.

　　Despite the achievements I have made, I have pities during my high school life. I think I should have exercised more rather than study all the time. After all, healthy is vital to us all.

　　I suggest you studying hard and building a strong body during your high school lives. Only in this way can you achieve more and have a better future.

　　親愛的同學(xué)們，我即將畢業(yè)了，在我離開學(xué)校之前，我寫下這封信來表達(dá)我的感情。回顧過去三年的高中生活,我感到很自豪,我收獲了很多,除了學(xué)習(xí)到不同的科目的豐富知識(shí)外,我還學(xué)會(huì)了如何成為一個(gè)合格的學(xué)生或一個(gè)真實(shí)的'人。通過老師的幫助,我學(xué)習(xí)到誠信的重要性,變得自信和熱情，我非常感謝老師無私的奉獻(xiàn)。

　　盡管我已經(jīng)取得的成果,但我還是對(duì)我的高中生活充滿遺憾。我想我應(yīng)該鍛煉更多,而不僅僅知識(shí)學(xué)習(xí)。畢竟,健康對(duì)我們所有人來說都是至關(guān)重要的。

　　高中畢業(yè)后,我將進(jìn)入大學(xué),一個(gè)我可以遇見許多挑戰(zhàn)的地方。我將住在學(xué)校而不是住在家里,我需要學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立。如何與來自不同城市的學(xué)生也是一個(gè)挑戰(zhàn)。

　　我建議大家在高中生活里努力學(xué)習(xí)和鍛煉一個(gè)強(qiáng)壯的身體。只有用這種方式你才能取得更大的成就和收獲一個(gè)更好的未來。

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　　Good afternoon!

　　Recently, ther is a heated debate in our society. The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country?

　　The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. But the cynics are wrong. The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.

　　The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. But again,the cynics are wrong. We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.

　　As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. I believe in all my fellow classmates. Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. I believe in our future.

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　　Rich Parent, Poor Parent:

　　David Brooks writes today that there are large class differences in parenting styles. These different parent styles may explain the continued success of the upper class. Hey, this fits in very well into the parenting theme week at 11D. Thanks, Davey. (And thanks, Jeremy, for the early morning e-mail.)

　　David picks up on the work of Annette Lareau who finds that although working class children are more innocent and enjoy more freedom, they havent been prepared for economic success as well as upper class kids. (I have copied the whole article below the flap. Take that, Times Select)

　　The funny thing about academics is that although they are highly educated, they are poorly paid. They are socio-economic anomalies. They either reside as the poor shlubs in wealthy neighborhoods or as the weirdoes in working class towns. We’ve been the class outsiders for my whole life, and I’ve had the chance to observe both life styles closely.

　　There are huge differences between the parenting styles between the upper and working class families. Poor families respond less quickly to learning problems and are less aggressive with the school bureaucracy. They are less likely to verbally interact with their kids. They are less involved in homework activities. Middle and upper class parents are more likely to reward independent thinking. All those factors will definitely impact on their kids’ futures.

　　But I hope that Brooks and his pet academic aren’t insinuating that parenting styles alone impact on a child’s economic success. Way too many other factors there. Poor families are also likely to live in towns with poorer schools. Peers will be more troubled. The poor families will be coping with a variety of problems that make it hard to be good parents – financial stress, drug and alcohol problems, lack of health care, depression. And really smart kids can in many instances over come all that and succeed, though even the smart ones still face obstacles. I would love to know if the researchers controlled for all that.

　　These parenting differences also don’t negate our obligation to helping these groups reach their potential.

　　That said, I’m sure that parenting styles are one factor among many that determine a child’s socio-economic future. My kid is already on such a different path from some of his buddies from school. At six years old, their futures are already written on their faces.

　　What I would like to do is to take the best parts of both parenting practices. Somehow combine the respect for adults, the freedom, and the innocence of working class homes with the value for education, the aggressive independence, and confidence of the upper class. It’s a tricky line to navigate, but that’s what I’m going for.

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　　Good afternoon,everyone:

　　I am for the robust and free exchange of ideas, as essential to the mission of a great university as it is to the health of our democracy.

　　I am for a world where we welcome the immigrant, the poor, and the forgotten; we did [do] not shut them out or silence them; a world where showing empathy and understanding is considered the true hallmark of success, of a life well-lived.

　　That is what I am for.

　　Yale’s mission says, in part, that we are “committed to improving the world today and for future generations.” That commitment does not end at graduation.

　　Soon you will leave Yale and, as Robert Penn Warren, who studied and taught at Yale, wrote, “You will go into the convulsion of the world, out of history and into history.”

　　Indeed, you’ll go into history and make history.

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　　Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my dear teachers and fellow graduates:

　　It is a great honour for me to make a speech on behalf of the graduating class.

　　For the past three years, we lived and studied in the beautiful school. We had classes in the spacious and bright classrooms, read all kinds of books in the big libary and had lots of fun on the playground. Three years has passed. But we have learnt lots of useful konwledge. We are stronger and taller. Our teachers and parents did a lot for us. The classmates helped each other. Thank you, dear teachers and parents! Thank you, my dear classmates!

　　Now I hope our school will become better and better!

　　女士們先生們，親愛的老師和要畢業(yè)的同學(xué)們，下午好!

　　我很榮幸地代表畢業(yè)生來做這次演講。

　　在過去的三年中，我們?cè)谶@個(gè)美麗的校園中學(xué)習(xí)和生活。我們?cè)趯挸髁恋?教室里上課，在大圖書館里閱讀各種書籍，在操場(chǎng)上得到個(gè)中樂趣。三年過去了，我們學(xué)到了很多有用的知識(shí)。我們也強(qiáng)壯了，長(zhǎng)高了。老師和家長(zhǎng)為我們做了很多。同學(xué)們互相幫助。謝謝，親愛的老師和家長(zhǎng)們!謝謝，我親愛的同學(xué)們!

　　現(xiàn)在，我祝我們的學(xué)校越來越好!

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　　Faculty, family, friends, and fellow graduates, good evening.

　　I am honored to address you tonight. On behalf of the graduating masters and doctoral students of Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, I would like to thank all the parents, spouses, families, and friends who encouraged and supported us as we worked towards our graduate degrees. I would especially like to thank my own family, eight members of which are in the audience today. I would also like to thank all of the department secretaries and other engineering school staff members who always seemed to be there when confused graduate students needed help. And finally I would like to thank the Washington University faculty members who served as our instructors, mentors, and friends.

　　As I think back on the seven-and-a-half years I spent at Washington University, my mind is filled with memories, happy, sad, frustrating, and even humorous.

　　Tonight I would like to share with you some of the memories that I take with me as I leave Washington University.

　　I take with me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of Lopata Hall - the room at the end of the hallway that was too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and always too far away from the women's restroom. The window was my office's best feature. Were it not for the physics building across the way, it would have afforded me a clear view of the arch. But instead I got a view of the roof of the physics building. I also had a view of one corner of the roof of Urbauer Hall, which seemed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds who alternately won perching rights for several weeks at a time. And I had a nice view of the physics courtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs. It's amazing how fascinating these views became the longer I worked on my dissertation. But my favorite view was of a nearby oak tree. From my fourth-floor vantage point I had a rather intimate view of the tree and the various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. Occasionally a bird would land on my window sill, which usually had the effect of startling both of us.

　　I take with me the memory of two young professors who passed away while I was a graduate student. Anne Johnstone, the only female professor from whom I took a course in the engineering school, and Bob Durr, a political science professor and a member of my dissertation committee, both lost brave battles with cancer. I remember them fondly.

　　I take with me the memory of failing the first exam in one of the first engineering courses I took as an undergraduate. I remember thinking the course was just too hard for me and that I would never be able to pass it. So I went to talk to the professor, ready to drop the class. And he told me not to give up, he told me I could succeed in his class. For reasons that seemed completely ludicrous at the time, he said he had faith in me. And after that my grades in the class slowly improved, and I ended the semester with an A on the final exam. I remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me.

　　I take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprised me when I arrived in St. Louis 8 years ago. Since moving to New Jersey, I am sad to say, nobody has asked me where I went to high school.

　　I take with me the memory of the short-lived computer science graduate student social committee lunches. The idea was that groups of CS grad students were supposed to take turns cooking a monthly lunch. But after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire CS grad student population and one unlucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasn't much enthusiasm for having more lunches.

　　I take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the Association of Graduate Engineering Students, known as AGES. Started by a handful of engineering graduate students because we needed a way to elect representatives to a campus-wide graduate student government, AGES soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumental in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns.

　　I take with me the memory of an Engineering and Policy department that once had flourishing programs for full-time undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.

　　I take with me memories of the 1992 U.S. Presidential debate. Eager to get involved in all the excitement I volunteered to help wherever needed. I remember spending several days in the makeshift debate HQ giving out-of-town reporters directions to the athletic complex. I remember being thrilled to get assigned the job of collecting film from the photographers in the debate hall during the debate. And I remember the disappointment of drawing the shortest straw among the student volunteers and being the one who had to take the film out of the debate hall and down to the dark room five minutes into the debate - with no chance to re-enter the debate hall after I left.

　　I take with me memories of university holidays which never seemed to apply to graduate students. I remember spending many a fall break and President's Day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the computer science department.

　　I take with me memories of exams that seemed designed more to test endurance and perseverance than mastery of the subject matter. I managed to escape taking any classes that featured infamous 24-hour-take-home exams, but remember the suffering of my less fortunate colleagues. And what doctoral student could forget the pain and suffering one must endure to survive the qualifying exams?

　　I take with me the memory of the seven-minute rule, which always seemed to be an acceptable excuse for being ten minutes late for anything on campus, but which doesn't seem to apply anywhere else I go.

　　My uncle ordered popovers

　　from the restaurant's bill of fare.

　　And when they were served,he regarded them

　　with a penetrating stare . . .

　　Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom

　　as he sat there on that chair:

　　"To eat these things,"

　　said my uncle,"you must excercise great care.

　　You may swallow down what's solid . . .

　　BUT . . .

　　you must spit out the air!"

　　And . . .