大學生英文畢業(yè)總結

1、大學生英文畢業(yè)總結faculty, family, friends, and fellow graduates, good evening.i am honored to address you tonight, on behalf of the graduating masters and doctoral students of Washington university1s school of engineering and applied science, i would like to thank all the parents, spouses, families, and fri

2、ends who encouraged and supported us as we worked towards our graduate degrees, i would especially like to thank my own family, eight members of which are in the audience today, i would also like to thank all of the department secretaries and other engineering school staff members who always seemed

3、to be there when confused graduate students needed help, and finally i would like to thank the washington university faculty members who served as our instructors, mentors, and friends.as i think back on the seven-and-a-half years i spent at washington university, my mind is filled with memories, ha

4、ppy, sad, frustreiting, and even humorous.tonight i would like to share with you some of the memories that i take with me as i leave washington universityi take with me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of lopata hall - the room at the end of the hallway that was too hot in summer, too col

5、d in winter, and always too far away from the womenf s restroom. the window was my officer s best feature. were it not for the physics building across the way, it would have afforded me a clear view of the arch but instead i got a view of the roof of the physics building i also had a view of one cor

6、net of the roof of urbauer hall, which seemed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds who alternately won perching rights for several weeks at a time. and i had a nice view of the physics courtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs, it's amazing how fasci

7、nating these views became the longer i worked on my dissertation. but my favorite view was of a nearby oak tree. from my fourthfloor vantage point i had a rother intimate view of the tree and the various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. occasionallya bird would land on my window sill, which usua

8、lly had the effect of startling both of us.i take with me the memory of two young professors who passed away while i was a graduate student. anne johnstone, the only female professor from whom i took a course in the engineering school, and bob durr, a political science professor and a member of my d

9、issertation mittee, both lost brave batties with cancer. i remember them fondly.i take with me the memory of failing the first e_am in one of the first engineering courses i took as an undergraduate. i remember thinking the course was just too hard for me and that i would never be able to pass it. s

10、o i went to talk to the professor, ready to drop theup, he told me i couldthat seemed pietelyhad faith in me. andslowly improved, and iclass, and he told me not to give succeed in his class, for reasons ludicrous at the time, he said he after that my grades in the class ended the semester with an a

11、on the final e am. i remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me.i take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprised me when i arrived in st. louis 8 years ago. since moving to new jersey, i am sad to say, nobody has asked me where i went to high school.

12、i take with me the memory of the short-lived puter science graduate student social mittee lunches. the idea was that groups of cs grad students were supposed to take turns cooking a monthly lunch, but after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire cs grad student po

13、pulation and one uniucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasn't much enthusiasm for having more lunches.i take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the association of graduate engineering students, known as ages, started by a hamdful of en

14、gineering graduate students because we needed a way to elect representatives to a cus-wide graduate student government, ages soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumentai in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns.i take

15、with me the memory of an engineering and policy department that once had flourishing programs for full-time undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.i take with me memories of the 1992 u. s. presidential debate, eager to get involved in all the e_citement i volunteered to help wherever needed i

16、 remember spending several days in the makeshift debate hq giving out-of- town reporters directions to the athletic ple_. i remember being thrilled to get assigned the job of collecting film from the photographers in the debate hall during the debate. and i remember the disappointment of drawing the

17、 shortest straw among the student volunteers and being the one whohad to take the film out of the debate hall and down to the dark room five minutes into the debate 一 with no chanee to re-enter the debate hall after i left.i take with me memories of university holidays which never seemed to apply to

18、 graduate students. i remember spending many a fall break and president1s day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the puter scienee department.i take with me memories of e_ams that seemed designed more to test endurance and perseverance than mastery of the subje

19、ct matter, i managed to escape taking any classes that featured infamous 24-hour-take-home e_ams, but remember the suffering of my less fortunate colleagues, and what doctoral student could forget the pain and suffering one must endure to survive the qualifying e_ams?i take with me the memory of the

20、 seven-minute rule, which always seemed to be an acceptable e_cuse for being ten minutes late for anything on cus, but which doesnr t seem to apply anywhere else i go.i take with me the memory of friday afternoon acm happy hours, known not for kegs of beer, but rather bowls of rainbow sherbet punch,

21、 over the several years that i attended these happy hours they enjoyed varying degrees of popularity, often proportional to the quality and quantity of the acpanying refreshments - but there was always the rainbow sherbert punchi take with me memories of purple parking permits, the west cus shuttie,

22、 checking my pendafle_, over-due library books, trying to print from cec, lunches on delmar, friends who slept in their offices, miniature golf in lopata hall, the greenway talk, division iii basketball, and trying to convinee dean russel that yet another engineering school rule should be changed.finally, i would like to conclude, not with a memory, but with some advice what would a graduation spe