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Graduation Speech At Hobart And William Smith College

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I wish to thank everyone for coming out here today: proud parents and grandparents, friends, faculty, maybe some highly confused great grandparents, and a whole lot of hung over college kids. I realize that being asked to speak at commencement is not only a great honor, but also a task that brings with it a certain amount of responsibility. I have racked my brain and heart prior to coming before you today, wanting to say something that was real, something that would actually hold true meaning to the Hobart and William Smith class of 2017; my classmates, my future colleagues and connections, my friends. I figured, why not start with the truth? I did not plan on attending Hobart and William Smith Colleges; in fact it was not really on my radar …show more content…

I wish I could say that HWS never caused me to become frustrated, stressed out, or constantly sleep deprived. Trust me, college excelled at all those things. But none of us sitting here today came to HWS to experience those things, and I would argue that we didn’t come here to just learn either. We could have gone anywhere for that. No, we came to HWS for a particular kind of education; for the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum, one that encourages students to discover and pursue new passions; for the close bonds we get to form with our faculty members; for the likes we get when we Instagram pictures of campus and the lake, because yeah, it’s gorgeous …show more content…

Thank you. We enter that part of our lives in about .. hour and … minutes, but who’s counting?). I am not daunted because I am too busy thinking back fondly on all of the good times. Throughout the past four years I might have stayed up late, stressed and frustrated with the colleges thinking that I should have gone somewhere else. The great irony is that now I am sleep deprived because I can’t stand to waste a single moment here with all of you, my Hobart and William Smith

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