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.

英文毕业演讲稿篇2

good morning,my dear teachers and schoolmates,

it’s a great honor for me to make a speech on behalf of the graduating classes.

how time flies! our junior high school lives will come to an end.

in the past three years, we’ve had a beautiful school and it provides us with a good study place. teachers are our friends. they’ve given us interesting lessons and we all love them.

we’ve learned a lot from them, not only knowledge but also the way to solve problems in life. thanks for our teachers’ training, parents’ support and the help from classmates. without them, we couldn’t have so much wonderful time.

at last, we hope our school will become better, our teachers will be healthy for ever and all our dreams will come true.

thank you for listening.

英文毕业演讲稿篇3

distinguished leaders, parents and dear students,

good morning! i am so excited to stand here, as a representative of the whole g12 students’ parents to make a brief speech to show our greatest honor and respect to the school leaders and teachers who work for our sons and daughters in the past three years. thank you for your hard work.

frankly, we were hesitant about our choice at first, but today we beam with happiness. now all of our children have received the admission letters and scholarship from canada, the usa, the switzerland and many other countries. thank you for your great education!

at the same time, as their parents, we hope every future university student will work even harder and become the backbone of our nation after graduation from university. last, i wish sccsc a brighter future and with students all over the world! thank you all!

英文毕业演讲稿篇4

as you slowly open your eyes, look around , notice where the light comes into your room; listen carefully, see if there are new sounds you can recognize; feel with your body and spirit, and see if you can sense the freshness in the air. yes, yes, yes, it’s a new day, it’s a different day, and it’s a bright day! and most importantly, it is a new beginning for your life, a beginning where you are going to make new desicisions, take new actions, make new friends, and take your life to a totally unprecedented level! you know all this is real as long as you are confident,passionate and committed! and you are confident, you are passionate, you are committed!

you will no longer fear making new sounds, showing new facial expressions, using your body in new ways,approaching new people, and asking new questions. you will live every single day of your life with absolute passion, and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take. you will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life. you will never succumb to challenges of hardships. you will never waver in your pursuit of excellence. after all,you are the best, and you deserve the best!

as your coach and friend, i can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you, but the key to that door is in your hand. you must do your part, you must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan, you must never quit, you must never fear. i know you must do it, you can do it, you will do it, and you will succeed!

now stand firm and tall, make a fist, get excited, and yell it out: i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed!

英文毕业演讲稿篇5

in this glorious summer, we will say goodbye! who have experienced life in high school people would say, three years of high school time is very impressive, very profound. this is not only due to the tension of living under high pressure; chengshan the pile, the examination paper to fly sky; and when the results fall the tears flow and the development plan. life in the future, we will be thinking slowly, slowly tastes will appreciate the deep spiritual growth of high school three years away, will always cherish the memory of his life the first time all the hard work!

as your teacher, over the past three years, we have day and night together, together we have the honor to accompany you through life's most beautiful season of youth. we are willing to remember each bright smiling faces and those flowery sun everywhere, in the early morning shusheng lang. in this three-year period, we can not give you more things, only doing all, tomorrow you sail for the voyage helped. in the meantime, the harsh criticism and the harsh requirements of hard training, you may be hard to accept once, but we believe that everyone can understand, because as a teacher he has done everything for their own students to do something , in order of their outstanding students.

today, we are here the successful completion of the studies, however, the long road of life, and did not know the road to poverty. secondary education is only the starting point in life, it only teaches you the basis of general knowledge and basic skills. tomorrow, you will enter the new schools, more beautiful on the knowledge of waiting for you to capture, but also the vast ocean of knowledge awaiting you to travel, but also broad knowledge of the fertile soil in the waiting for you to work, more rugged knowledge of the risk in waiting for passers-by you to conquer!

therefore, today's graduation is not only a summary of yesterday, it is the call for tomorrow is all your teachers and friends for your campaign and bolstering departure tomorrow! the journey of the future, accompanied by flowers and thorns, with setbacks and success; i speak on behalf of the graduating class of all teachers, most would like to say is:

each person's lifetime can not be winners, general, it is impossible not to encounter setbacks and difficulties that, a critical moment should be to muster the courage to face the grim reality of courage. said a war hero saying: on the battlefield, even if i fall, i have looked at the front of the eyes. so today, i do not wish you every success in the future; i wish you even after the fall of 9999 times, 9999 times still stand up!

英文毕业演讲稿篇6

esteemed ladies and gentlemen：

good morning. i am excited to address you on this stage today. on behalf of all the graduates of shandong university’s school of information and technology, i would like to thank all the people who cared about and encouraged us as we worked towards our goals. especially, i would like to thank my parents. it is they who give me great strength for my every steps taken in my life.

four years ago, at an age when some youngster farming and harvesting, at an age some coevals handing a rifle to defend our country, at the age of 19 or 20, we determined to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the inexhaustibly running charges. that was my dream; that was, is, and will be one of the most important choices of my life.

four years is too long for a ten-year old boy, for it means four birthday cakes and 20 centimeters taller. but for us, it runs too fast to catch up with. however, so many signals strongly prove that the four years definitely exists: piles of books, scholarships in our account, the unforgettable breathtaking view of our campus, songs and laughter in our dormitory, friends sharing the same ambitions, and our first sweet love… ladies and gentlemen, as we leave this campus, a new page has been unraveled. it is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing. let us take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and families but for our society and country. ladies and gentlemen, there isno doubt that we are facing one of the most serious economical crises in our history. in order to achieve our goal and to renew our country, we must meet challenges abroad as well as at home. in this new century, let us begin to make contribution to the world and to all human beings with energy and hope with faith and discipline. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up the enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. however long and hard the road may be, let us go forward together with our enthusiasm and our united strength.

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