Most assignments can be half-*ssed and submitted 5 minutes before the deadline. You might not get the best grade, but most of the time, if you’ve left the assignment til the last minute you’ve accepted your loss and are expecting a mediocre or even bad grade. Sometimes you’ll even submit an assignment late and not lose any sleep over it - like this blog (sorry Mrs. Ho). The Graduation Speech assignment was different though. It didn’t feel like an assignment for Mrs. Ho or Mrs. Joseph or even my parents - it was an assignment for me.
As I stared at the blank paper, I felt scared and worried that whatever I wrote wouldn’t be good enough for my own standards. When the deadline came and went, I got stressed over it and started to really put ideas on the page, but every time I read my work it sounded dumb, cliche, repetitive, and annoying… It was a hard assignment and I’m still not done with it, but I did submit a draft.
I think it’s ok - it definitely needs work, but the fact that I stressed over it caught my attention. Since I’ve gotten into college (not to flex) I’ve been pretty chill about my homework and classes, and when I realized that I cared about this speech I felt refreshed. I’ll definitely be working on this speech over the break and leading up to our big day, but in this blog, I just wanted to write about how it was an assignment that I really cared about and how I needed to get to 250 words for an assignment that didn’t mean nearly as much to me.
Yessss the graduation speech was so hard to write because everyone procrastinated starting because it was so sad and crazy to think that we are writing speeches for the day we graduate high school. I still can't believe the end is so soon...I don't like thinking about it, which is why I too procrastinated my speech until late the night it was due.
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