<p>What are you going to write your speech about?</p>
<p>I'm nervous as hell about it and I figure it is gonna suck ass.</p>
<p>I dont think our valedictorians even give a speech
They might be announced and that's about it! haha. No pressure at alllll.</p>
<p>Good luck with yours!</p>
<p>Try to outdo this guy: [url=<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1HnP7ce7U%5DYouTube">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg1HnP7ce7U]YouTube</a> - The Best Graduation Speech EVER<img src="impossible!" alt="/url"></p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>I'm not gonna be writing mine till April probably. Don't sweat it bro.</p>
<p>wow that was the best graduation speech ever!</p>
<p>Pretty annoying speech. >.></p>
<p>Our school always has ten or more vals so we don't get to make speeches. Makes much less motivated to keep my 4.0 because I always have been so excited to get to make a speech at graduation.</p>
<p>People audition for the graduation speech at our school.</p>
<p>We technically rank, but ranks aren't actually released or publicized or anything, so only a few people know/care who the val is. I think it's really stupid -- I understand that they're trying not to encourage academic competition or make people feel inadequate, but uh, if competition is okay in sports, why not in academics, when education is the POINT of high school? Shouldn't people who excel academically be recognized at least a little? (No, I'm not the val, so don't say I'm bitter lol.)</p>
<p>I was far from valedictorian status in high school, something like a 2.6 GPA and I was asked to audition for speeches because I was involved in the performing arts. I didn't audition because I didn't want to give a regurgitated speech and I knew that's all that would have been approved. Maybe if I had more time I would have lobbied for something different but I was too busy with directing a play at the school.</p>
<p>However, If I had to make a graduation speech I would have done something similar to that youtube video. Think creatively, don't tell them about stepping stones and good times. Our valedictorian gave a terrible speech about how high school was the pinnacle of life. Needless to say, I lived in an ag town.</p>
<p>@Poseur: That's stupid. Discouraging academic competition is like saying school isn't important. Eventually people will realize that there's no point in trying hard.</p>
<p>At our school, four students make speeches: The valedictorian, the salutatorian, the student body president and the senior class president. (Though last year it was only two as both presidents were the top two in the class lol)</p>
<p>I was going to go for something talking about how great school was, with an obviously cynical overtone, or use statistics to get the class thinking about what will happen with their life.</p>
<p>I'm going to speak cynically about mortality and disappointment.</p>
<p>Tell them that the universe is expanding and pretty soon it'll get so far apart that everything will freeze over and die. Inform them of the inescapable truth that eventually you will die and the universe we understand today will cease. There will be no more people, no more music, no more reason or memory. Everything will become oblivion.</p>
<p>That'll get people in the mood to drink at the after party.</p>
<p>@Poseur---I think that's exactly the reason we don't have valedictorians. They don't really tell us why..and nobody really even says the word "valedictorian" in our school or know what it means because it's like never talked about. People don't care and I think the school likes it this way because it reduces the amount of animosity?? What the heck.</p>
<p>I THINK the president of the senior class makes a short statement/speech thingy..</p>
<p>I was going to name all of the class sluts. Then, take my pants off and run off stage.</p>
<p>or use statistics to get the class thinking about what will happen with their life.
Actually someone last year did that. Best speech, but that's not saying much. </p>
<p>I was going to name all of the class sluts. Then, take my pants off and run off stage.
I wish someone would do that...</p>
<p>Yeah I'm not valedictorian, but that would be the funniest speech ever.</p>
<p>our school usually assigns us topics. i won't find out until i go back to school.</p>
<p>well i really dont know how to speak the these kids, the majority of them realize their life is going to be hell for the rest of it..</p>