This is my graduation / commencement speech for the Scratch Virtual Graduation. I titled it "Somebody Worth Knowing" after something my younger brother once said. I know that this is hard for the class of 2020, since you don't get an in-person convocation ceremony, so I did my best to give you guys a speech that would impart some of my college student life-experience to you. Dedicated to my brother, who's graduating from high school this year. I used the current hour block to tell if it was morning, afternoon, or evening. It's morning from midnight to noon, afternoon from noon to 5, and evening from 5 to midnight. The life-advice project I made about a year ago when I graduated from high school (sorry that these two projects share a few common themes): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/311395337/ It's less of a speech and more like a bunch of vaguely motivational sentence fragments. If you sat through that whole wordy speech you might also like my other wordy essay-like projects... Dangers of Elitism and Degrees of Fame Explained https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/323804778/ I Believe In Black Holes And Creator God https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/323173493/ Sorry if the speech stank. Whoo, can't believe I got all that out in just under 4 minutes. And I didn't cry either, yay me. :/ Holy cannoli I'm shaking like a leaf. Edit 6/10/2020: Oof um, I think I overdid it. The other two speakers did speeches that were half as long and talked about the spirit of scratch, and I did this 4 minute behemoth about striving for excellence...
For more of the virtual commencement, Scratch Virtual Graduation Studio 2020: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/26658839/ It is such an honor to speak alongside and . Thank you so much to for putting all of this together. The confetti at the end a heavily edited version 's mouse trail 10. The song at the end is Good Old Days by Macklemore. Deepest thanks to my brother for inadvertently inspiring the topic of this speech. I love you, bro. A couple of quotes in here are from other people, credit to them is given inside the speech.
