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  • Essay / Graduation Speech - 694

    It's probably a mistake that I'm here giving a graduation speech. In fact, it was probably a mistake that I graduated from this school - believe me, just like most people in this class, I tested the limits of attendance, insomnia and procrastination . Early in high school, I even tested for dropout...and if that wasn't a mistake, I don't know what was. After four years of Starr changing our minds, it seemed more appropriate to spend my four minutes talking about mistakes. Besides, thank God, it's only when we make a really big mistake that we are stopped in our tracks - stopped, briefly, from learning valuable lessons. Sometimes the value of errors is seen on a smaller scale; having a repressed semester final with more red marks than a freshman without Clearasil. Isn’t that the case when we step back for a moment and look at ourselves? In our biology test, we could not distinguish a cell from an atom, nor an atom from an Eve; on the math test, we pray to a higher power for a sign, and he gives us...