Stuffs
VALEDICTORIAN SPEECH
1,359 days of wondering, wondering if we would make it to this day. Today marks the culmination of our 1,359 day journey – we are the graduating class of 2014. To our dear parents, deans, fellow graduates, friends, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Graduation is one of those awkward times in our lives when we are torn between the joy of our memories and the excitement of our future. Should we look back on what were the greatest four years of our lives – times filled with joy from the boisterous sounds of that first spring day out on the green, the aroma of chicken finger day in the cafeteria, the resounding ring of the University bells, or the calmness of the chapel? Or instead should we focus on the next stage in this journey called life? We’ve been impatiently waiting for this day for four years – and now, we just want to hit pause. We want to slow it down, and enjoy the last fleeting moments. Our lives will be forever altered after we toss our caps into the air.
We entered the loving confines of our beloved San Beda College four years ago as an unwritten book eager to fill the pages. It seems like just yesterday we were lugging our countless bags into our dorms. It seems like just yesterday we had orientation and had the pleasure of doing uncomfortable icebreakers together. We walked onto campus for the first time as students in the fall of 2010 with a gloomy world around us stricken by a global recession.
As the months passed we grew, and we learned to not allow external circumstances to define us. That’s right, my colleagues, our book would be written on our own terms. The friends we sit with today became additions to our family and are undoubtedly some of the main characters in our book of life. We grew up together in Mendiola. Our campus provided us not only with a place to learn, but a true home. We learned what a home for the mind, heart, and spirit meant in its full reality.
The diploma that we receive represents
1,359 days of wondering, wondering if we would make it to this day. Today marks the culmination of our 1,359 day journey – we are the graduating class of 2014. To our dear parents, deans, fellow graduates, friends, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. Graduation is one of those awkward times in our lives when we are torn between the joy of our memories and the excitement of our future. Should we look back on what were the greatest four years of our lives – times filled with joy from the boisterous sounds of that first spring day out on the green, the aroma of chicken finger day in the cafeteria, the resounding ring of the University bells, or the calmness of the chapel? Or instead should we focus on the next stage in this journey called life? We’ve been impatiently waiting for this day for four years – and now, we just want to hit pause. We want to slow it down, and enjoy the last fleeting moments. Our lives will be forever altered after we toss our caps into the air.
We entered the loving confines of our beloved San Beda College four years ago as an unwritten book eager to fill the pages. It seems like just yesterday we were lugging our countless bags into our dorms. It seems like just yesterday we had orientation and had the pleasure of doing uncomfortable icebreakers together. We walked onto campus for the first time as students in the fall of 2010 with a gloomy world around us stricken by a global recession.
As the months passed we grew, and we learned to not allow external circumstances to define us. That’s right, my colleagues, our book would be written on our own terms. The friends we sit with today became additions to our family and are undoubtedly some of the main characters in our book of life. We grew up together in Mendiola. Our campus provided us not only with a place to learn, but a true home. We learned what a home for the mind, heart, and spirit meant in its full reality.
The diploma that we receive represents