<p>At my school you need to submit an application to be a speaker at graduation. Is that something you would do?</p>
<p>no…not unless I thoroughly enjoyed high school and made friends with almost everyone.</p>
<p>Nope. You need an application at school as well.</p>
<p>lol yeah. I did, and I think I have a good chance of getting it but now I don’t really want to speak anymore =/ Not sure what to do haha…</p>
<p>I did. My friend talked me into it. Now I have to.</p>
<p>Our school has tryouts. I really wanted to, but I had an eye & ear infection that day and missed out.</p>
<p>We have one speaker for the teachers, the principal and one student from the graduating class. I was “elected” to deliver the class’s speach and it went rather well. Though it was hard to actually come up with something original</p>
<p>Not really. I might just go up to thank everyone and talk about the moments of highschool that our class as a whole went through (I go to a VERY small school, like around 13 kids in my grade haha).</p>
<p>But the speaker for students is the valedictorian, the one with the best cumulative GPA and best citizenship.</p>
<p>lol I’m definitely not going to do that in 2 years. Unless they want me to pull off some form of Obama speech. Which I’m not capable of doing.</p>
<p>Presently, never. I once wrote a paper in English for my peers to read —> None of them understood it. Anyway, our vals do the speech.
But in 6th grade, I tried out.</p>
<p>I did in 8th grade. And got selected.</p>
<p>Worst experience of my life. Would never do it again even if they begged me to.</p>
<p>When I look back on my high school graduation, I want to remember more than having a near panic attack prior to my speech. So no.</p>
<p>No. I’d rather be sitting in the uncomfortable plastic chairs listening to the valedictorian talk about how he/she thinks the school years were exciting and throw out some names of the biggest jerks in my grade.</p>
<p>To me, high school graduation is not the big of a deal. It’s basically a glorified “you survived four years in this dump, and now that you’ve outgrown it and you’re off to new heights, leave.”</p>
<p>I’ve always been the quiet kid, so when I graduate, I’m definitely going to blow everyone away with a booming, scurrilous speech that basically tells everyone in the school that they made my life hell for 13 years. Just kidding. I think only the valedictorian/salutatorian/class officers can speak at graduation. So… I’ll keep quiet. :)</p>
<p>noo… such a waste of time and definitely not in front of a graduating class of ~1300 students… so if i get valedictorian or salutatorian, i would volunteer to NOT speak</p>
<p>Only to save everyone from boredom and make that speech less than a minute of just “these cannot be the best years of our life, I believe there must be better times than ugly uniforms and shady lunch-food”</p>
<p>Yeah. I’d talk about how a lightsaber can be created. Don’t know if they’ll let me finish that speech though.</p>
<p>I kind of want to… I’ve been contemplating it, anyone who wants to be an at-large speaker at my school has to audition for it.</p>
<p>The thing is I REALLY hate my high school, but I love writing and speaking in public (I actually like presenting in class lol) so I think it’d be a nice opportunity.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t just want to give another cliched, lame “The best is yet to come speech” though. That’s the hard part… thinking of something original.</p>
<p>I want to, because I really love my class. However, I’m literally the quietest person in the class, and I hate public speaking.</p>
<p>What a dilemma. Plus, I can’t fathom how I’d ever think of something original and unclich</p>