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Who was your college graduation speaker?
2008-06-21, 1:33 AM #1
Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago.
2008-06-21, 1:54 AM #2
I have no idea. I didn't go to mine.
Pissed Off?
2008-06-21, 5:54 AM #3
Some mechanical engineer who graduated from my college. *yawn*
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2008-06-21, 6:36 AM #4
Bill Bryson. He's Chancellor of our old uni.

BEAT THAT MOFOS.
2008-06-21, 8:19 AM #5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Rose

It was basically an hour long tirade against creationism.

It was awesome.
2008-06-21, 8:31 AM #6
I hate graduation speakers. They always rant about something that has nothing to do with graduation.

John Grisham spoke at mine. All he did was whine about President Bush.
2008-06-21, 8:47 AM #7
Bob Geldof
2008-06-21, 9:12 AM #8
Haven't graduated.. but I saw Bill Clinton give a graduation speech at RIT.
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--Garrison Keillor
2008-06-21, 9:26 AM #9
JK Rowling gave an awesome speech at Harvard... the first few moments are really funny. It would be awesome to have her at my graduation.

2008-06-21, 9:27 AM #10
Dean Kamen, Inventor of the Segway
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2008-06-21, 9:42 AM #11
Bill started with "A good speech should have a strong beginning, a strong end, and keep the two as close together as possible."

Especially funny as we'd just had to sit through the dean of science's 45 minute drone about someone nobody cared about getting an honorary degree (who incidentally had enough real degrees to sink an ocean liner, but that's beside the point).
2008-06-21, 3:58 PM #12
My brother just graduated from Stanford with an MBA.

His speaker was

*drumroll*




Oprah Winfrey.
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2008-06-21, 6:36 PM #13
I won't graduate till next year, but this year Tony Blair came. I slept through it.
2008-06-21, 6:48 PM #14
Mine was some dude from West Point. He used a lot of football metaphors, I think. The sound system was terrible, so I didn't really hear anything he said.
2008-06-22, 4:07 AM #15
Originally posted by ragna:
Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago.


This. And it sounded like a re-election speech.

P.S.: Weinberg College welcome and main addresses were both better than Daley.
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2008-06-22, 4:12 AM #16
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
This. And it sounded like a re-election speech.

P.S.: Weinberg College welcome and main addresses were both better than Daley.


Also... our last three graduation speakers were John McCain, Barack Obama and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. We couldn't get someone better than Daley for our 150th commencement? This complaint is old news to ragna, but I'd like to submit it to the rest of Massassi because... seriously?
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2008-06-22, 11:27 AM #17
At my graduation and every graduation I atended at my college, the only speakers were students and faculty.
Even though I'd rather not hear any of them, i'd rather hear from people who had a strong, current affiliation with the school rather than some random celebrity or poitician.
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2008-06-23, 1:59 PM #18
Haven't done the whole college thing yet, but our highschool grad speaker was Bob Woodruff.

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