Keynote Speakers And Graduation Dinners At University
Attending a university graduation ceremony is a proud moment for the grandaunts and their parents who have supported their child for the past three, four or five years as they completed their chosen degree. Working towards a degree will bring you the chance to have a successful career, brighter job prospects and a life changing time away from home. It is no small thing to achieve a university degree in this day and age so the keynote speakers chosen to attend the event need to reflect this in their speech.
I do not think that a university life is for everyone, and I do not mean to sound like a snob, but picking a keynote speaker who has not been to university is the wrong decision for ceremony organisers to make. Without knowing what it is like to be at university, keynote speakers cannot relate to their audience because life at university is completely different to life when you choose to go into a job straight from leaving school.
You become a more independent person faster when you go to university. You often move far from home with no one that you know, have to budget your loan and get a part time job on top of your studies to help with living costs and deal with people that you might not get along with. If you choose to stay at home and get a job you do not have to deal with these kind of things.
When you decide to go into a proper job straight after leaving school, most people still live with their parents for a few months, even years and they have their washing done for them and meals cooked, you have a stable wage which university students do not have and if you do move out you choose the people you are living with. Because unlike the many preconceptions about university students, the majority do not have financial help from their parents, they do it by themselves.
And so when the academic department at university are looking for through keynote speakers for their ceremony, the first thing that should be checked off the list is that they hold a university degree. If they have not been they will not be able to give a speech that targets their audience.