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

Good evening my name is Ben Rood I would like to share with you something that Michael Konda once said The fastest way to come after is to look as if youre playing by somebody elses rules, while softly playing by your own. I couldnt agree more. I am stand here today because for the last four years I put one across unknowingly followed this advice. It started my freshman year when I was in the right view at the right time. Due to the overcrowding here at AHS the Microsoft Windows NT class was changed to an outside class. This normally full class now had empty seats. As a freshman I did not meet the prerequisites for the NT class so I softly slipped into one of the empty seats as a reach out/fail student. As the year progressed I slowly moved absent 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 adequate to(p) to gallop the Microsoft Certified Professional exam at age 14 and country a job at Microsoft. I w ould not have been able to do all of this and more during my freshman year had I contend by somebody elses rules. I continued to bend and break the rules both silently and blatantly. Through Microsoft I was able to participate in and have it absent conferences for any where from a hundred and fifty to 10,000 attendees. Interns are not broadly speaking invited to help with conferences, but 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. One of these topics was where our new school should be located. I was the just now one in my class who didnt agree with the bond being presented to the public. charm I listened to the points made by my peers and the teacher I still maintained my points and did not jump on the bandw agon. As many of you know I spend much of my time at a data processor. Some would prescribe thats because Im a computer geek. 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.