1、一位美国华盛顿大学学生的毕业演讲稿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 fello graduates, good evening. I am honored to address you tonight. On behalf of the graduating masters
2、 and doctoral students of Washington Universitys School of Engineering and Applied Science, I ould like to thank all the parents, spouses, families, and friends ho encouraged and supported us as e orked toards our graduate degrees. I ould especially like to thank my on family, eight members of hich
3、are in the audience today. I ould also like to thank all of the department secretaries and other engineering school staff members ho alays seemed to be there hen confused graduate students needed help. And finally I ould like to thank the Washington University faculty members ho served as our instru
4、ctors, mentors, and friends.As I think back on the seven-and-a-half years I spent at Washington University, my mind is filled ith memories, happy, sad, frustrating, and even humorous. Tonight I ould like to share ith you some of the memories that I take ith me as I leave Washington University.I take
5、 ith me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of Lopata Hall - the room at the end of the hallay that as too hot in summer, too cold in inter, and alays too far aay from the omens restroom. The indo as my offices best feature. Were it not for the physics building across the ay, it ould have af
6、forded me a clear vie of the arch. But instead I got a vie of the roof of the physics building. I also had a vie of one corner of the roof of Urbauer Hall, hich seemed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds ho alternately on perching rights for several eeks at a time. And I had a nice v
7、ie of the physics courtyard, noteorthy as a good place for atching people run their dogs. Its amazing ho fascinating these vies became the longer I orked on my dissertation. But my favorite vie as of a nearby oak tree. From my fourth-floor vantage point I had a rather intimate vie of the tree and th
8、e various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. Occasionally a bird ould land on my indo sill, hich usually had the effect of startling both of us. I take ith me the memory of to young professors ho passed aay hile I as a graduate student. Anne Johnstone, the only female professor from hom I took a c
9、ourse in the engineering school, and Bob Durr, a political science professor and a member of my dissertation mittee, both lost brave battles ith cancer. I remember them fondly.I take ith me the memory of failing the first exam in one of the first engineering courses I took as an undergraduate. I rem
10、ember thinking the course as just too hard for me and that I ould never be able to pass it. So I ent to talk to the professor, ready to dro the ClAsS. And he told me not to give up, he told me I could succeed in his ClAsS. For reasons that seemed pletely ludicrous at the time, he said he had faith in me. And after that my grades in the ClAsS sloly improved, and I ended the semester ith an A on the final exam. I remember ho motivational it as to kno that someone believed in me. 1/3。
