Proof you survived high school and are "ready" for what life is really like. Not true. High school does not prepare you for life. High school prepares you for a desk job, that's it. It shows you how to sit down and do what you are told Monday thru Friday. It teaches you that its ok to take your work home with you and spent countless hours working on something that you won't even ever have a use for. High school does not prepare you for the moral gray areas you run into every day in your life. It doesn't teach you the value of hard work. I graduated with a 3.0 and didn't get any rewards or accomplishments. I was just another senior of '05. I don't have a college education, nor any formal training outside of the Navy. Yet I have been outside, I have seen, heard, and felt what cannot be taught. I have learned more from life than I did in high school.
I learned you have to make sacrifices sometimes in order to survive.
I learned there are rarely any multiple choice tests when it comes to problems in life.
I learned intelligence is good, wisdom is better.
I learned I may have worked for Wendy's, Toys R Us, Harkins, and Little Ceaser's. but at least I EARNED my money.
Commencement: When you forget everything you were taught in high school and start living and learning in the real world.
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