一位美国华盛顿大学学生的毕业演讲稿范文

精选优质办公范文一位美国华盛顿大学学生的毕业演讲稿第一篇：student speech delivered at the washington university engineering graduate student recognition ceremony15 may 1997lorrie faith cranorfaculty, 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 universitys 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 womens restroom. the window was my offices 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. its 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 wasnt 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 presidents 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 doesnt seem to apply anywhere else i go.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 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.第二篇：美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业解析华盛顿大学是一所美国的著名大学，创建于1861年，拥有150年历史，坐落在美国最适宜居住和工作的城市西雅图，也是美国西海岸历史最悠久的大学，同宾夕法尼亚大学和密歇根大学齐名。下面，嘉卓教育将为大家详细解析美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业，供有兴趣的同学们作参考。一、美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业描述：所在院校：美国华盛顿大学;学制：2学年专业领域：英语语言研究学;学费：25068美元/学年课程层次：硕士学位课程;申请费：75美元入学日期：1月课程主要是培养学生掌握世界文化的文学遗产，深化学生对这些遗产的了解和欣赏以及通过口语表达与写作来强化学生有效交流的能力。选择该专业的学生还有机会获得不同级别和不同金额的奖学金。二、美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业就业方向：该专业的毕业生可从事法律、记者、信息科学、教育、广告、市场营销、xx及出版等写作相关工作，也可以在学校从事英语教学工作。三、美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业入学要求：学术要求：1.本科毕业，获得本科毕业证和学位证;2.gpa:3.0;语言要求：1.托福笔试/机考/网考：580/237/92;2.雅思7.0;3.有双录取，要求托福笔试/机考/网考：500/173/60。其他要求：要提供gre/gmat成绩。四、美国华盛顿大学英语硕士专业申请材料：1.申请表;2.本科学位证书原件或复印件;3.语言成绩单;4.3封推荐信;5.个人陈述;6.教师鉴定表;7.资金证明。第三篇：华盛顿大学优秀毕业生代表英语演讲稿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 universitys 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 womens restroom. the window was my offices 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. its 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 wasnt much enthusiasm for having more lunches.i take with me the memory