Looking to the future

In the theme of competition, I would like to lead off by saying Molly indeed may have spoken first. But the old saying goes that “first is the worst and second is the best” And I think I’ll leave it at that.

Now, September 2, 2008 isn’t a day most of us remember. But for those of us in this class of 2022, this was our first day of school. That was 5,015 days ago. In the words of Mr. Robisch, “Looking to the future feels like an eternity, but looking on the past feels like a second.”

And it truly has, all 5,015 days seem just like a flash in time. From worrying about the next recess to worrying about college applications we all grew up fast.

In those 5,015 days we have all changed and grown into the class that is presented today. A class filled with severe senioritis and procrastination. Most of this speech was written just a few days ago and last night. Although it was a struggle, we all made it through to be in front of you today ready to take our next steps in our lives and careers.

We have people in the class going into a large range of fields from medical, agriculture, military, engineering, education, and some straight into the workforce.

I have no doubt that this class will do great outside of high school. Academically our class has always done well. For most people a 3.5 GPA is good for a high school student, in our class, that’s close to half of our class. Our class has been like this ever since we started getting report cards. We’ve been filling up honor roll sheets and competing for class rank all throughout high school. As we leave high school I don’t expect any of that to change. I expect our class to be hard working students in college and hard working employees in the workforce. Some of us will travel the world, and others stay in Wisconsin. No matter what this class does I’m sure it will do it well. I don’t know about all of you but I’m excited to see where our class goes in life. It took us 5,015 days to finally graduate. 270 of those days were spent this year as a senior in high school. And in 47 more years we’ll all be seniors again. Thank you. — Jacob Matyka