{"id":880,"date":"2015-09-18T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=880"},"modified":"2015-09-21T19:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T23:06:57","slug":"senior-dinner-remarks-by-leeanna-albanese-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2015\/09\/18\/senior-dinner-remarks-by-leeanna-albanese-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Dinner Remarks by Leeanna Albanese \u201916"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello Class of 2016, faculty and staff, trustees, my mom in the back, and more faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

Over the summer, I was asked to speak to all of you guys\u2014that\u2019s why I\u2019m up here looking kinda nervous, if you were wondering. For those of you that don\u2019t know me, I usually look a little more tan and lot less sweaty. For those of you that do know me\u2014please don\u2019t tell the people that this is what I normally look like. Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I was super excited to write another essay over the summer, like majorly pumped, totally stoked. Uh, no\u2014really, I\u2019m extremely flattered to be up here with the opportunity to speak for five minutes straight without anyone making me stop.<\/p>\n

Okay, here we are! Senior year. I came to Williston in 8th grade, so that makes me a five year senior which is pretty unusual\u2014quick shout out to Sarah, Pinky, Davis, and Amelia for being the other four. I like to think that I\u2019ve grown a lot since then\u2026 but the truth is I\u2019m only a quarter of an inch taller than I was before. Let\u2019s be real, you\u2019ve probably all grown a lot more than I have over the past few years. I actually piled up all of the books I\u2019ve used in my time here, and the pile was significantly taller than I was. There\u2019s a picture on Twitter if you don\u2019t believe me. Why did I do that, you might ask? Solely to make that joke.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m genuinely excited to be a senior. I mean, it\u2019s been a pretty long road to get to this point\u2014if you came in ninth grade and took five classes every trimester, you\u2019ve taken 45 finals already. Yeah, that\u2019s right, I did math for this speech. You\u2019re welcome, Mr. Seamon. But honestly, we\u2019ve come so far, individually and as a class it\u2019s hard to even comprehend at this point.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sure that this year we\u2019ll have some awesome events planned by the Student Council, and there will be some great performances, and championship-winning games\u2014let\u2019s take advantage of that. Let\u2019s go to those games and shows and dances; or even better, be a part of making them happen. There are so many opportunities here at Williston, it\u2019d be a shame not to take them.<\/p>\n

Make this year the year that you find something you love\u2026 maybe it\u2019ll be something you never even expected to like. I don\u2019t want to miss out, do you?<\/p>\n

Speaking of missing out, this year is gonna fly by, like one of those super loud jets over Galbraith. Let\u2019s all make sure to enjoy ourselves this year. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, hard work is important. I\u2019m practically a workaholic and pretty much anyone can attest to that, especially my advisor. But high school is fleeting, so we should make this last stretch count, and enjoy it while we can. I want to remember two thousand sixteen, and I want the class of 2016 to be remembered.<\/p>\n

Another thing that\u2019s worth thinking about is the value of kindness. Really, there\u2019s almost no reason not to treat people kindly. I\u2019m so serious, I can\u2019t stress that enough. And I\u2019m not saying this because we aren\u2019t inherently nice people, I\u2019m saying this because it\u2019s important. Be remembered, and be remembered fondly.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re a special class, not only because we get the privilege of being the 175th group of students to graduate, but also because we\u2019re an incredibly diverse and talented group of people. You guys are pretty amazing, and I really mean that.<\/p>\n

I know that we\u2019re going to do great things, especially if we stick together and work with each other. As a fellow Wildcat, who I constantly look to for advice and admire to the point of near-idolization, once said, \u201cWe\u2019re all in this together.\u201d So, Wildcats, let\u2019s make 2016 the best year yet, and make sure that everyone remembers us as the best class ever. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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Hello Class of 2016, faculty and staff, trustees, my mom in the back, and more faculty and staff. Over the summer, I was asked to speak to all of you guys\u2014that\u2019s why I\u2019m up here looking kinda nervous, if you were wondering. For those of you that don\u2019t know me, I usually look a little … Continue reading Senior Dinner Remarks by Leeanna Albanese \u201916<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convocation-address","category-student-speaker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}