大学生英文毕业总结

大学生英文毕业总结

大学生英文毕业总结-工作总结

faculty, family, friends, and fellow graduates, good evening.

i am honored to address you tonight. on behalf of the graduating masters and doctoral students of washington university"s school of engineering and applied science, i would like to thank all the parents, spous, families, and friends who encouraged and supported us as we worked towards our graduate degrees. i would especially like to thank my own family, eight members of which are in the audience today. i would also like to thank all of the department cretaries and other engineering school staff members who always emed to be there when confud graduate students needed help. and finally i would like to thank the washington university faculty members who rved as our instructors, mentors, and friends.

as i think back on the ven-and-a-half years i spent at washington university, my mind is filled with memories, happy, sad, frustrating, and even humorous.

tonight i would like to share with you some of the memories that i take with me as i leave washington university.

i take with me the memory of my office on the fourth floor of lopata hall - the room at the end of the hallway that was too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and always too far away from the women"s restroom. the window was my office"s best feature. were it not for the physics building across the way, it would have afforded me a clear view of the arch. but instead i got a view of the roof of the physics building. i also had a view of one corner of the roof of urbauer hall, which emed to be a favorite perch for various species of birds who alternately won perching rights for veral weeks at a time. and i had a nice view of the physics courtyard, noteworthy as a good place for watching people run their dogs. it"s amazing how fascinating the views became the longer i worked on my disrtation. but my favorite view was of a nearby oak tree. from my fourth-floor vantage point i had a rather intimate view of the tree and the various birds and squirrels that inhabit it. occasionally a bird would land on my window sill, which usually had the effect of startling both of us.

i take with me the memory of two young professors who pasd away while i was a graduate student. anne johnstone, the only female professor from whom i took a cour in the engineering school, and bob durr, a political science professor and a member of my disrtation committee, both lost brave battles with cancer. i remember them fondly.

i take with me the memory of failing the first exam in one of the first engineering cours i took as an undergraduate. i remember thinking the cour was just too hard for me and that i would never be able to pass it. so i went to talk to the professor, ready to drop the class. and he told me not to give up, he told me i could succeed in his class. for reasons that emed completely ludicrous at the time, he said he had faith in me. and after that my grades in the class slowly improved, and i ended the mester with an a on the final exam. i remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me.

i take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprid me when i arrived in st. louis8years ago. since moving to new jery, i am sad to say, nobody has asked me where i went to high school.

i take with me the memory of the short-lived computer science graduate student social committee lunches. the idea was that groups of cs grad students were suppod to take turns cooking a monthly lunch. but after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire cs grad student population and one unlucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasn"t much enthusiasm for having more lunches.

i take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the association of graduate engineering students, known as ages. started by a handful of engineering graduate students becau we needed a way to elect reprentatives to a campus-wide graduate student government, ages soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumental in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns.

i take with me the memory of an engineering and policy department that once had flourishing programs for full-time undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students.

i take with me memories of the1992. presidential debate. eager to get involved in all the excitement i volunteered to help wherever needed. i remember spending veral days in the makeshift debate hq giving out-of-town reporters directions to the athletic complex. i remember being thrilled to get assigned the job of collecting film from the photographers in the debate hall during the debate. and i remember the disappointment of drawing the shortest straw among the student volunteers and being the one who

had to take the film out of the debate hall and down to the dark room five minutes into the debate - with no chance to re-enter the debate hall after i left.

i take with me memories of university holidays which never emed to apply to graduate students. i remember spending many a fall break and president"s day holiday with my fellow grad students in all day meetings brought to us by the computer science department.

i take with me memories of exams that emed designed more to test endurance and perverance than mastery of the subject matter. i managed to escape taking any class that featured infamous24-hour-take-home exams, but remember the suffering of my less fortunate colleagues. and what doctoral student could forget the pain and suffering one must endure to survive the qualifying exams?