Persuasive Speech On Becoming A Mankato East Cougar

JK Rowling's once said “It's impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.” As seniors we have spent our last 4 years having our ups and downs while trying to achieve many goals. Today we're graduating high school to me that hasn't sunk in just yet. Within the walls of our schools we've overcome struggles from trying to write essays to passing a test or trying to hear your teacher when there's construction going on around you. Some of those struggles might have been failures, but you can't learn without failing it's a natural occurrence in life. A wise man once said you miss 100% of the shots you don't take and that's true. This senior class has proved that we can get somewhere with our
Even with the ups and downs we've had to face we've learned to overcome them and are leaving with problem solving strategies that we can take with us. One’s that we can use every day of our lives and it's not just like when you sit in the math class and they say ;oh you're going to use this every day’ and it's like when have I ever use that. Being a Mankato East cougar has given us opportunities to participate in the community around us. It's also giving us opportunities to get out of our comfort zone to join clubs and groups that we normally wouldn't from student council to Band to taking an AP and enriched class. There have been so many opportunities we all just have to know when to take them. Believe it or not I never actually dream this day would come I never dreamed of the day where I became a senior or I was standing up here saying this speech to you at my graduation. I was always the shy quiet kid but I had teachers and I had classes that helped me to overcome that. I've had people in my life that have become like family during my time here at the East and this isn't a