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毕业典礼演讲稿中英文

在毕业典礼上优秀的前辈或者名人的演讲总是能让我们深思

的，而对于一些英语爱好者来说，这些演讲更是成为他们学习英

语的素材。下面是小编搜集整理的毕业典礼演讲稿(中英文)，欢

迎阅读。更多资讯请继续关注毕业典礼栏目。

New York: 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

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毕业典礼演讲稿中英文在毕业典礼上优秀的前辈或者名人的演讲总是能让我们深思的，而对于一些英语爱好者来说，这些演讲更是成为他们学习英语的素材。下面是小编搜集整理的毕业典礼演讲稿(中英文)，欢迎阅读。更多资讯请继续关注毕业典礼栏目。NewYork:Iamhonoredtobewithyoutodayatyourcommencementfromoneofthefinestuniversitiesintheworld.Inevergraduatedfromcollege.Truthbetold,thisistheclosestI'veevergottentoacollegegraduation.Toda...

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