美国大学十佳毕业典礼演讲精选
一个美国大学生的毕业讲话
朴实无华，情真意切：一个美国大学生的毕业讲话韦尔逊院长，尊敬的教职员们，毕业生同伴们，毕业生家人朋友们，欢迎！我们不敢想象这一天会到来，我们一直在祈祷着这一天早日到来。
我们在日历上划掉一天一天，我们在数着每一小时、分钟、秒钟。
而现在，它到来了！我感到难过，因为它意味着告别我的朋友们，给我灵感和激励的朋友们；意味着告别我的老师们–他们不仅是我的导师而且还是我真正的圈子里的朋友。
我的这个历险始于五年前。
我决定以一个成人学生的身份回到大学，因为取得这个学位对于我的事业成长极为重要。
在这一重要的道路上我有幸有一位会计学教授能够看到我的潜能，并说服我成为会计专业的学生。
他把我放在他的呵护之翼下。
他就是加州州立大学的会计教授罗伊* 怀泽尔博士。
怀泽尔博士，谢谢您在那好几年前拨出您宝贵的时间和我坐下来谈我的专业，并且让我的丈夫戴夫知道（明白，了解到）一旦我加入会计专业他就会再也见不到我直到我毕业（笑声）。
在我的求学生涯中我有幸一直有着杰出的教员，不管是在课堂上还是在课外。
他们挑战我的潜能，训练我的技能，激励我成为我所能够成就的最好的人。
我真心地感谢你们每一位：你们的耐心，你们的引导，你们的投入，你们的敬业。
我以亲身经历建议那些现在在学的、以及考虑选会计作为专业的人们：抓住每一个机会去向这些卓越非凡的教授们好好学习！接下来，如果我不提到这些非凡的教授们中的一个，珍妮弗* 伯顿教授，那我就是太粗心大意了。
伯顿教授是现任的会计系系主任，也是第一个担当这个职位的女性。
我有幸作为一个学生助理为伯顿博士工作两年之久。
每当我心有怠惰需要人推动的时候，她推动我；每当事情很糟时，她给我一个可以靠在上面哭泣的肩膀。
她给我很多机会来推展我的眼界和见识，她总在那儿支持我，不管风风雨雨。
对于我和很多其他人，她都是一个鼓舞者、激励者。
伯顿博士，你是我对之有极大的尊敬和爱戴的人，我知道不是我一个人怀有这样的心情。
你是独一无二的。
谢谢你，作为我的老师，我的导师，我的老板（注：因为发言者为伯顿博士工作两年之久），和我的朋友。
世界著名十大励志演讲稿
一、《我有一个梦想》——马丁·路德·金尊敬的同胞们，尊敬的各位来宾，今天我站在这里，不为别的，只为呼吁一个平等、自由、公正的美国。
我有一个梦想，梦想有一天，这个国家能够真正实现其信条：人人生而平等。
我梦想有一天，我的四个孩子将在一个不以他们的肤色，而是以他们的品格来评价他们的国家。
二、《在哈佛大学的毕业典礼上的演讲》——比尔·盖茨亲爱的毕业生们，今天，你们即将踏上人生的新旅程。
我想告诉你们，人生没有捷径，只有努力。
在你们追求梦想的道路上，可能会遇到挫折，但请记住，每一次失败都是成功的垫脚石。
不要害怕冒险，不要害怕失败，因为只有勇敢尝试，才能收获人生最宝贵的财富。
三、《成功的秘诀》——史蒂夫·乔布斯亲爱的同学们，今天我想和大家分享成功的秘诀。
首先，要相信自己，相信自己有能力改变世界。
其次，要敢于追求梦想，不要让任何人或任何事阻挡你的脚步。
最后，要永远保持好奇心，不断学习，不断进步。
记住，成功不是终点，而是不断追求的过程。
四、《我的哈佛演讲》——陆克文亲爱的同学们，当你们走进哈佛，你们将站在世界之巅。
但请记住，人生不是一场竞赛，而是一场旅行。
在这个过程中，我们要学会感恩，学会关爱他人。
请珍惜这段时光，让你们的人生更加精彩。
五、《成为你自己的英雄》——安吉丽娜·朱莉亲爱的同学们，人生中，我们会遇到许多困难和挑战。
但请相信，每个人都有成为自己英雄的潜力。
勇敢面对困难，坚持自己的信念，你就能成为你自己的英雄。
六、《坚持梦想的力量》——奥斯卡·王尔德亲爱的同学们，人生中最重要的是坚持梦想。
梦想是人生的指南针，它引领我们不断前行。
请相信自己的梦想，勇敢追求，即使遇到挫折，也要坚持下去。
因为，梦想的力量足以战胜一切困难。
七、《勇敢面对恐惧》——梅琳达·盖茨亲爱的同学们，人生中，我们都会遇到恐惧。
但请记住，勇敢面对恐惧，才能战胜它。
不要害怕失败，不要害怕挑战，因为只有勇敢面对，我们才能不断成长，走向成功。
美国大学十佳毕业典礼演讲精选(中英文对照)
Top 10 Commencement Speeches Quotes in American Universities美国大学十佳毕业典礼演讲精选阅读难度☆☆☆每年的五六月，是美国大学举行毕业典礼的季节。
按照惯例，各界名流都会受邀到各大名校去作激动人心的演讲。
本文精选了近年来美国最有影响力的十佳毕业典礼演讲，与已经或即将毕业的读者朋友们共勉。
1. Steve Jobs史蒂芬·乔布斯CEO of Apple Computers 苹果电脑CEOStanford University 斯坦福大学June 12, 2005 2005年6月12日Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Y ou are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.Y our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.记着你总会死去，这是我知道的防止患得患失的最佳办法。
一位美国华盛顿大学学生的毕业演讲稿三篇
一位美国华盛顿大学学生的毕业演讲稿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 University's 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 fromthe women's restroom. The window was my office's 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. It's amazing how fascinating these views became the longer I worked on mmy 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 giveup, 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 wasn't 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 President's 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 doesn't 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 - Here's how it goes:My uncle ordered popoversmust spit out the air!"And . . .as you partake of the world's bill of fare,that's darned good advice to follow.Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.And be careful what you swallow.Thank you.学生毕业庆典演讲稿每年这时候，我们校园里都纠缠着留恋：睡在你上铺或下铺的兄弟同学，暗恋了数年的某个同学，“文泉”或“文澜”，“必逃的选修课和选逃的必修课”，对了，还有严老师，以及那已成为你青春之象征的钟塔。
美国最佳毕业典礼致辞——Ellen Lee DeGeneres.doc
美国最佳毕业典礼致辞——Ellen Lee DeGeneres美国最佳毕业典礼致辞ellen lee degeneresthankyou, president cowan, mrs. president cowen; distinguished guests,undistinguished guests - you know who you are, honored faculty and creepyspanish teacher. and thank you to all the graduating class of XX, i realizemost of you are hungover and have splitting headaches and haven’t slept sincefat tuesday, but you can’t graduate ‘til i finish, so listen up. when i wasasked to make the commencement speech, i immediately said yes. then i went tolook up what commencement meant. which would have been easy if i had adictionary, but most of the books in our house are portia’s, and they’re allwritten in australian. so i had to break the word down myself, to find out themeaning. commencement: common, and cement. common cement. you commonly seecement on sidewalks. sidewalks have cracks, and if you step on a crack, youbreak your mother’s back. so there’s that. but i’m honored that you’ve asked mehere to speak at your common cement. i thought that you had to be a famousalumnus - alumini - aluminum - alumis - you had to graduate from this school.and i didn’t go to college here, and i don’t know if president cowan knows, ididn’t go to any college at all. any college. and i’m not saying you wastedyour ti me, or money, but look at me, im a huge celebrity. although i didgraduate from the school ofhard knocks, our mascot was the knockers. i spent alot of time here growing up. my mom worked at (?) and i would go there everytime i needed to steal something out of her purse. but why am i here today?clearly not to steal, you’re too far away and i’d never get away with it. i’mhere because of you. because i can’t think of a more tenacious, more courageousgraduating class. i mean, look at you all, wearing your robes. usually whenyou’re wearing a robe at 10 in the morning, it means you’ve given up. i’m herebecause i love new orleans. i was born and raised here, i spent my formativeyears here, and like you, while i was living here i only did laundry six times.when i finished school, i was completely lost. and by school, i mean middleschool, but i went ahead and finished high school anyway. and i - i really, ihad no ambition, i didn’t know what i wanted to do. i did everything from - ishucked oysters, i was a hostess, i was a bartender, i was a waitress, ipainted houses, i sold vaccuum cleaners, i had no idea. and i thought i’d justfinally settle in some job, and i would make enough money to pay my rent, maybehave basic cable, maybe not, i didn’t really have a plan, my point is that, bythe time i was your age, i really thought i knew who i was, but i had no idea.like for example, when i was your age, i was dating men. so what i’m saying is,when you’re older, most of you will be gay. anyone writing this stuff down?parents? anyway, i hadno idea what i wanted to do with my life, and the way iended up on this path was from a very tragic event. i was maybe 19, and mygirlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident. and i passed the accident,and i didn’t know it was her and i kept going, and i found out shortly afterthat, it was her. and i was living in a basement apartment, i had no money, ihad no heat, no air, i had a mattress on the floor and the apartment wasinfested with fleas. and i was soul-searching, i was like, why is she suddenlygone, and there are fleas here? i don’t understand, there must be a purpose,and wouldn’t it be so convenient if we could pick up the phone and call god,and ask these questions. and i started writing and what poured out of me was animaginary conversation with god, which was one-sided, and i finished writing itand i looked at it and i said to myself, and i hadn’t even been doing stand-up,ever, there was no club in town. i said, i’m gonna do this on the tonightshow with johnny carson- at the time he was the king - and i’mgonna be the first woman in the history of the show to be called over to sitdown. and several years later, i was the first woman in the history ofthe show, and only woman in the history of the show to sit down, because ofthat phone conversation with god that i wrote. and i started this path ofstand-up and it was successful and it was great, but it was hard, because i wastrying to please everybody and i had this secret that i was keeping, that i wasgay. andi thought if people found out they wouldn’t like me, they wouldn’tlaugh at me. then my career turned into - i got my own sitcom, and that wasvery successful, another level of success. and i thought, what if they find outi’m gay, then they’ll never watch, and this was a long time ago, this was whenwe just had white presidents - this was back, many years ago - and i finallydecided that i was living with so much shame, and so much fear, that i justcouldn’t live that way anymore, and i decided to come out and make it creative.and my character would come out at the same time, and it wasn’t to make apolitical statement, it wasn’t to do anything other than to free.。
华盛顿大学优秀毕业生代表英语演讲稿
华盛顿大学优秀毕业生代表英语演讲稿this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody grows old merely by a number of years . we grow old by deserting ourideals.years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ‘s heart thelure of wonders, the unfailing chil dlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living . in the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wirelestation : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courag5、中国人 am chineseladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,i am chinese. i am proud of being a chinese with five thousand years of civilization behind. i"ve learned about the four great inventions made by our forefathers. i"ve learned about the great wall and the yangtze river. i"ve learned about zhang heng(张衡)and i"ve learned about zheng he(郑和).who says the yellow river civilization has vanished(消失)i know that my ancestors have made miracles(奇迹)on this fertile land and we"re still ma-ki-ng miracles. who can ignore the fact that we have established ourselves as a great state in the world, that we have devised our own nuclear weapons, that we have successfully sent our satellites into space, and that our gnp ranks no. 7 in the world we have experienced the plunders (掠夺) by other nations, and we have experienced the war. yet, based on such ruins, there still stands our nation----china, unyielding and unconquerable!i once came acroan american tourist. she said, “china has ahistory of five thousand years, but the us only has a history of 200 years. five thousand years ago, china took the lead in the world, and now it is the us that is leading.”my heart was deeply touched by these words. it is true that we"re still a developing nation, but it doesn"t mean that we can despise (鄙视) ourselves. we have such along-standing history, we have such abundant resources, we have such intelligent and diligent people, and we have enough to be proud of. we have reasons to say proudly： we are sure to take the lead in the world in the future again, for our problems are big, but our ambition (雄心) is even bigger, our challenges (挑战) are great, but our willis evengreater.i am chinese. i have inherited (继承) black hair and blackeyes. i have inherited the virtues of my ancestors. i have also taken over responsibility. i am sure, that wherever i go, whatever i do, i shall never forget that i am chinese!thank you.一分钟英语演讲稿：Youth 一分钟英语演讲稿（4） ladies andgentlemen ,good afternoon! i m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is youth . i hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.first i want to ask you some questions: 1、 do you know what is youth 2、 how do you master your youthyouth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions :it is the freshness it is the freshness of the deep springs of life . youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. this oftenexists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody grows old merely by a number of years . we grow old by deserting our ideals.years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . worry , fear , self distrust bows the heart and turns thespirit back to dust .whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what s next and the joy of the game of living . in the center of your heart and my heart there s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .when the aerials are down , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.that s all ! thank you!。
美国最佳毕业典礼讲话稿
美国最佳毕业典礼讲话稿第1篇：美国最佳毕业典礼讲话稿thankyou,presidentcowan,mrs.presidentcowen;distinguishe dguests,undistinguishedguests-youknowwhoyouare,honoredfacultyandcreepyspanishteacher.an dthankyoutoallthegraduatingclassofxx,irealizemostofyouarehun goverandhavesplittingheadachesandhaven'tsleptsincefattuesda y,butyoucan'tgraduate'tilifinish,solistenup.wheniwasaskedtomak ethemencementspeech,iimmediatelysaidyes.theniwenttolookup whatmencementmeant.whichwouldhavebeeneasyifihadadiction ary,butmostofthebooksinourhouseareportia's,andthey'reallwritt eninaustralian.soihadtobreaktheworddownmyself,tofindo 未完，继续阅读 >第2篇：小学毕业典礼国旗下讲话稿尊敬的老师、亲爱的同学们：大家好在这美丽的校园，看着校园美丽的玉兰树，在这风和日丽、阳光明媚的日子里，我们最后欢聚在校园的*场，闻着淡淡的玉兰花味，欢聚在美丽的母校。
再见了母校，你已经陪伴了我六年，如今我要直奔初中，你的校龄也在增加，握着这美丽的校园里，也落下六年的足迹，我多么渴望还能在母校学习啊！在这六年的足迹中，我想起了课本上的书香，那味道真是然我难以忘怀啊；我想起了同学们的笑声，那笑声，以前听着没感觉，到了现在感觉那笑声有多么的美妙啊；我想起了每一位同学、每一位老师的背影，那背影是那么的熟悉，感觉就像自己的亲人一样；我还想起了那饶有趣味的课堂那一位位老师所讲的课，是多么的好听，可惜我再也不能听到了。
华盛顿大学优秀毕业生代表英语演讲稿_英语演讲稿_
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 university's 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 women's restroom. the window was my office's 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 physicscourtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs. it's 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 turnscooking 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 wasn't 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 president's day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the computerscience 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 doesn't 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 - here's how it goes:my uncle ordered popoversfrom the restaurant's bill of fare.and when they were served,he regarded themwith a penetrating stare . . .then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair:"to eat these things,"said my uncle,"you must excercise great care.you may swallow down what's solid . . . but . . .you must spit out the air!"and . . .as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow.do a lot of spitting out the hot air.and be careful what you swallow. thank you.。
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美国大学十佳毕业典礼演讲精选史蒂芬•乔布斯- 苹果电脑CEO,斯坦福大学,2005年6月12日1. Steve Jobs -CEO of Apple Computers, Stanford University, June 12, 2005记着你总会死去，这是我知道的防止患得患失的最佳办法。
赤条条来去无牵挂，还有什么理由不随你的心？！你的时间是有限的，因此不要把时间浪费在过别人的生活上。
不要被教条所困——使自己的生活受限于他人的思想成果。
不要让他人的意见淹没了你自己内心的声音。
最重要的是，要有勇气跟随你的内心与直觉，它们好歹已经知道你真正想让自己成为什么。
其他的，都是次要的。
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary。
大卫•福斯特•华莱士, 小说家, 肯尼恩学院, 2005年5月21日2. David Foster Wallace- Novelist, Kenyon College, May 21, 2005有两条小鱼一起在水里游，碰到一条老鱼迎面游过来。
老鱼向他们点点头，并说：“早上好，孩子们。
水怎么样？”这两条小鱼继续往前游了一会儿后，其中一条小鱼实在忍不住了，看了一下另一条小鱼，问道：“水到底是什么东西？”……简单的意识；对我们生活中如此真实、如此必不可少、无处不在、无时不在的事物的意识，需要我们一遍一遍地提醒自己：“这是水。
”“这是水。
”天天都保持意识清醒而鲜活，在成人世界中做到这点，是不可想象地难。
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”... simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:“This is water。
”“This is water。
”It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out。
迈克尔•奥斯兰,电影制片人, 印第安纳大学, 2006年5月6日3. Michael Uslan-Movie Producer,Indiana University,May 06, 2006你必须相信你自己，对自己的工作充满信心。
当我们的第一部电影《蝙蝠侠》创下史无前例的票房纪录时，我接到了艺术家联合会会长的电话，他在数年之前曾说我疯了。
如今他说：“迈克尔，我给你打电话祝贺《蝙蝠侠》的成功。
我总说你是一位有远见的人。
”你看，关键在这里，当他们说你有多差，你的想法有多糟的时候，不要信他们的话，同时，当他们告诉你你有多么了不起，你的想法多美妙时，也不要相信他们。
你就只相信你自己，这样你就能做好。
还有，那就是，不要忘记推销你自己和你的想法。
左右大脑你都得用。
要能经受得住挫败。
这是被好莱坞每一家制片厂拒绝过的人的经验。
你必须去敲一扇扇的门，直到指关节流血。
大门会在你面前砰然关上，你必须重振旗鼓，弹去身上的灰尘，再敲下一扇门。
这是实现你人生目标的唯一办法。
You must believe in yourself and in your work. When our first Batman movie broke all those box-office records, I received a phone call from that United Artists exec who, years before, had told me I was out of my min d. Now he said, “Michael, I'm just callin g to congratulate you on the success of Batman. I always said you were a visionary。
”You see the point here —don't believethem when they tell you how bad you are or how terrible your ideas are, but also, don't believe them when they tell you how wonderful you are and how great your ideas are. Just believe in yourself and you'll do just fine. And, oh yes, don't then forget to market yourself and your ideas. Use both sides of your brain.You must have a high threshold for frustration. Take it from the guy who was turned down by every studio in Hollywood. You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again. It's the only way to achieve your goals in life。
伍迪•海耶斯,大学橄榄球教练,俄亥俄州立大学, 1986年5月14日4. Woody Hayes-College Fooball Coach,Ohio State University, May 14, 1986在橄榄球场上，我们总是说其他队战胜不了我们。
我们必须做到不把自己打垮。
所有人也都必须这么做，确保自己不要被自己打垮。
……你会发现，来得容易的东西总是一文不值。
事实上，我从来没有看到哪位橄榄球运动员是带着微笑完成阻截的。
从来没有。
In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that’s what people have to do, too — make sure they don't beat themselves.... you'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never。
布兰德利•惠特福德-演员,威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校, 2006年5月17日5. Bradley Whitford-Actor, University Wisconsin - Madison,May 17, 2006第一，爱上过程，结果自然会来。
第二，做你的事。
第三，一旦准备好，就付诸行动。
第四，你能做的，超出了你的想象。
第五，聆听。
第六，采取行动。
你有一个选择。
要么你成为环境的被动受害者，要么你主动成为自己生活的英雄。
行动可以消除冷漠、玩世不恭与绝望。
Number One: Fall in love with the process and the results will follow.Number Two: Do your work.Number Three: Once you're prepared, throw your preparation in the trash.Number Four: You are capable of more than you think.Number Five: Listen.Number Six: Take action.You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair。