Graduation Speech: Make Your Own Rules :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Good evening my name is Ben Rood I would like to function with you something that Michael Konda once said The fastest way to succeed is to look as if youre playing by psyche elses rules, while quietly playing by your own. I couldnt agree more. I am standing here forthwith because for the last four years I have unknowingly followed this advice. It started my neophyte year when I was in the overcompensate place at the right time. Due to the overcrowding here at AHS the Microsoft Windows NT kin was changed to an after-school class. This norm eachy well(p) class now had empty seats. As a freshman I did not meet the prerequisites for the NT class so I quietly slipped into adept of the empty seats as a pass/fail student. As the year progressed I slowly moved away from the rules and took the class for a grade and as you can see it paid off with As. By the end of the year I was able to pass the Microsoft Certified lord exam at age 14 and land a meditate at Microsoft. I would not ha ve been able to do all of this and more during my freshman year had I played by somebody elses rules. I continued to bend and break the rules both silently and blatantly. by Microsoft I was able to participate in and manage conferences for any where from a hundred and fifty to 10,000 attendees. Interns are not generally invited to help with conferences, only when I was fortunate enough to start with a manager who (looked) as if (he were) playing by somebody elses rules, while quietly playing by (his) own. In school I broke away from the crowd a little more obviously. After individual debates in English class our teacher invited us to debate the different topics as a class. unitary of these topics was where our new school should be located. I was the only one in my class who didnt agree with the bond being presented to the public. While I listened to the points do by my peers and the teacher I still maintained my points and did not stand on the bandwagon. As many of you know I s pend practically of my time at a reckoner. Some would say thats because Im a computer type. Well I may be a computer geek because I spend lots of time at the computer, but I spend it there because it is much easier to bend the rules of the computer than it is to bend the laws of physics.