I had some difficulties with some classes and planning for graduation, and didn't get to walk with my class at commencement. I know that I missed out on a lot of fun stuff, and the closure that comes with attending your graduation.
Quotes about commencement (15 Quotes)
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake he said. They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
You think about all the places they could be. It's something I've been proud of through the years. Regardless of how you feel about President Nixon, it was a great honor to have him come speak at your commencement.
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
The actions of the players at the commencement of the game were most concerning and not consistent with the expectation the League has established.
Over the course of that morning, I started hearing from a lot of Tribune readers, both on the phone and via e-mail, telling me that they were getting this commencement speech in their e-mail but they remembered reading it in my column,
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
But yet do I believe
The origin and commencement of his grief
Sprung from neglected love.
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.