Farewell speech in Engineering college

To

Ranjitha Sanmugasundaram

Prepared by:

Subash Ramasamy

Teesside University

UK

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Table of ContentsHOW TO PREPARE THE SPEECH.............................................................................................................3

Speech 1............................................................................................................................................4

Speech 2:...........................................................................................................................................5

Speech 3............................................................................................................................................6

Speech 4............................................................................................................................................8

Quotes.................................................................................................................................................10

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HOW TO PREPARE THE SPEECHGraduation farewell speech is one of the most enthusiastic forms of farewell speeches.

These speeches are mainly written and addressed by the head of the educational institute, faculty member or guest speaker. In their speech they are mainly addressing all the graduates who have completed their education and are now ready to march ahead towards a fruitful career.

If you have to write a farewell speech for students graduating from your institute, then you have to write about their success in graduating and their associations. Write something that is motivational and wish all the graduates luck for their future endeavors.

If you are writing a farewell speech on graduation on behalf of all the graduate students, then you have to follow the guidelines mentioned below :

Thank all your teachers, professors and your parents for their constant support, help and encouragement.Praise accomplishments and the achievements that the class has made during the educational year.Emphasize your reflection on the past years and mention few changes and developments that have occurred.Mention some of the exciting, funny and hilarious events that have occurred during your studies.Give a message to all your juniors and inspire them to look ahead towards a fruitful future.Bid an emotional farewell and let your audience realize that you will never forget that years and moment spend in this institute.Also ensure the audience with your words that you will always owe your tribute to all the teachers, colleagues, juniors, professors and other working members of the institute for all what they become in their life.To conclude, the graduation farewell speech you can end with a good farewell song or personalized farewell poem.

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Speech 1Firstly, I am honored being given a chance to come here and talk in front of all you energetic and enthusiastic crowd! The chance my dear friend is all that I ever wanted and it’s sadly the last day where I am able to voice my opinion.

Well, my dear friends I still remember the first day of my college where everyone was so excited, so nervous, everyone's eyes filled with hope their minds and souls so focused to a single goal, the goal my friends of "being an engineer".

The word engineer seems so simple and yet so complex, it's only after years of dedication & struggle have I known the real definition of being an engineer. Let me put forth the definition so that all you people realize that it's just not an ordinary English word.

"Engineers are the people who use their creativity, technology, and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems." All of you for a second just think of yourself and remember any past problem that you have solved that has changed the way the things are.... My dear people being a B.E graduate or getting a masters degree is not an achievement anymore and neither is attending 75% of the theory classes and 100% of the practical classes. What is important and what you are forgetting is the reason "why all of you are here?" You are here to gain knowledge and not marks. Marks are a side effect my dear friends, when you have knowledge you get marks.

Is getting 70% marks with no knowledge is what you dream??Do you even know how it feels like to know 70% of the topic? People spend their entire lives just for a single algorithm and you enjoy so much having got 70% of the marks... ask yourself is it what you desire.Is the same reason you came here for?? Is it the same reason why you are attending classes?? There is no wrong time to do the right thing. Even the reason that I am talking in front of you is because I feel this is the right time...

The place where we stand my friends is the same place our seniors stood and you probably are at the same place where I was a year ago right on that chair. A

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lot of things have changed, the people have changed, the buildings have changed, and most importantly the thing that has changed is "THE TIME"... The destiny has called upon us and we all have had our time...now's it's time for all you young people to make a mark for yourself.

When we walk out of this college all that will remain are individuals, each one creeping for their own goals, the scenario can be easily compared to The sailing ships wondering in search of a destiny, a destiny so unexplored so unknown yet so real. Some ships having conquered their home waters and ready to get the taste of the foreign lands while some set out on a destination so unknown that only when they enter the waters they know how deep it really is! My friends, the ships are safer when anchored at the shores but they are not meant for that!

For young enlightened minds I just want to say,

Talk to people whom you have never talked to before and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you're a great individual and believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

It's a different world outside.......You will only realize how big the world is when you walk alone in search of a destination so unknown to you. A world where only 1 rule pertains "survival of the fittest". A world so fluctuating where you get lost in your own thoughts, the only thing that remains with you my dear friends in "HOPE". Well, I will leave you all with two words which can give a new meaning to your lives, a new direction to sail, a hint of the unexplored territories, the final words my friends "Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish”!"Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!"

Speech 2:

Respected dignitaries on the dais, seniors and my dear classmates, I rise to speak to you today with a heavy heart because today we would be bidding farewell to the college. Four years of engineering, seems to have passed very

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quickly. Now we are on the verge of completion of our course. For many of us, it is like a dream come true to have done our graduation in a very prestigious college like this. We have been taught the most advanced technology along with t radi t ional va lues . We have been impar ted sc ient i f ic temper a long wi th e th ics . The col lege has engineered us into very good Engineers along with compassionate human beings. Saying adieu to such a fantastic college is a very painful thing. I will miss this college, the faculty, and my beloved friends. I extend my heart full wishes to the college management for rendering their continuous support to the students. And I hope it will continue the same, with the coming batches a l s o . N o w f r i e n d s t h e t i m e h a s c o m e , t o p a r t . A l l t h e b e s t t o y o u a l l a n d w a r m w i s h e s t o the college management for their successful administration

Speech 3Hi everyone! Good morning and welcome to all who have gathered here today!

Its kind of funny that we have got to bid farewell to this college today only to come back in a few days to give our vivas and 8th sem exams. But then I guess we have to make do with what we have, and I’m happy that I got a chance to speak to all my friends from college on this occasion

I think that a farewell speech is probably the ONLY speech where students actually listen to the speaker (well I am hoping at least that is the case right now!)

Now that I have your undivided attention, let me share a few experiences I had during the past 4 years of my life in K.J Somaiya Engineering.

It was a scary feeling when all of us got in this college through the admission rounds at VJTI. When I came out of the inner hall with the confirmation slip in my hand I hardly knew anything about the college. It was chosen only for its proximity to my place. And what a decision it was – in return for an engineering seat in an unknown college I got back innumerable friends and loads of good times.

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First Year Engineering must be THE most memorable year for any of the students out here. I think all of us would agree that the Symphony during our First Year –when Parikrama had been here - was the best one we had. The best part about FE was that the college management had not divided the students according to branches. This gave us a chance to interact with people from all the branches for one whole year. This helped a lot by keeping us acquainted, even when we were separated from the second year onwards. I can remember it clearly - FE classes in the old workshop building with temperatures reaching boiling point, all students fresh HSC graduates- absolutely clueless about what engineering is going to be like and the best part was - no screams of BE COMPS BE MECH or any form of branch rivalry. We all were the same and we all became close buddies.

From Second year onwards we all got into the mould of our respective branches. Personally, I got a taste of what Computer Engineering is like. I don’t know about you guys, but I had NO clue what Computer Engineering was about when I took admission. My knowledge of hardware was restricted upto which cd-writer was the cheapest and that of software was whether the latest computer game has cheat codes or not. It was a bit tough initially. The only difference we could make out then was that instead of writing assignments about Trusses and Kirchoff’s Law, we were writing even lengthier ones about stacks and queues. On one occasion, I recall we had even written a 40 page assignment and the total submission file size had exceeded more than 200 pages! But, as we all started learning, I realized it wasn’t such a bad deal after all. The fundamentals that were taught to us then helped a lot for courses in the next year.

The Third year got us firmly entrenched in the grind. The most significant memory was the House Cup that was started by the earlier council. It was an amazing event and really helped in building the inter branch-rivalry. Most of our college placements took soon after third year and lot of people got into good companies.

The Final Year has been an altogether different engineering degree by itself. Working on the BE Project, maintaining 75% attendance, completing journals, appearing for vivas, giving other competitive exams and the actual semester exam required the skill of a professional. However, all said and done, at the end

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of it, all of us have come through stronger. It has been the most eventful year of out engineering. The people who were unlucky earlier have got placed. We have geniuses who got calls from the IIMs, those applying for Masters degrees abroad have got admits from superb universities.

I think all of us can be sure of becoming fabulous managers after going through the past 4 years. We might not have sharpened our technical skills yet, but we definitely come up champions in time management. I think we can safely claim that engineers are the absolute masters of handling stress and work overload. If not in our technical aptitude as compared to the IITs, we can easily beat them in task execution capabilities! Now whether these qualities are inculcated in us by educational institutes intentionally or not is a different issue altogether!

It is a funny system – submission files over which you have toiled hard every semester getting holes punched right through them as soon as you give them, revaluation results declaring you have passed sometimes coming after you have given the KT exam. I don’t know whether it is BECAUSE of the system or INSPITE of the system, but the reality is that each and every one of us today has a bright future lined up for us. And it is after all due to our own - K.J Somaiya College of Engineering. I am indeed grateful to every person here involved in the process of making us into engineers. However, lets face it. Life begins on the day we step out, graduating from this college. What we had till now was a protected environment. Our biggest nightmare till now was something like not getting our certification in time. Now, bigger challenges lie ahead in life. But because of the last 4 years, this time, we know one thing for sure - we can handle anything that comes our way. Thank you very much.

Speech 4A thought has been occupying my mind for quite some time lately..

Its related to the fact that me alongwith hundreds of my friends in Mumbai University across several colleges are gonna graduate in about a monthPeople keep saying that we are really going to miss all the things we went through and experienced in engineering..I hear Somaiya-ites from my college K.J Somaiya College of Engineering

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echoing this sentiment all the time these days..The thought is captured fabulously in this blog by an ex-student..

And i wonder..

Are these the feelings that we really have? Are we really missing the submissions, the boring lectures, the tyrannical attendance regulations, and the constant pressure to perform in the exams?

Right.

Didnt think so!

So the memories we carry from the past 4 years are more likely going to be in the category of- canteen lukkhagiri, bunking, proxies.. you get the idea..But even so i doubt these are the reasons we are bound to get teary eyed for..later on..

These are simply symbolic. For our lives till we graduate..An existence completely sheltered from the big bad world where competition is lurking at every step of the way.. in your career and in your life ..

Never do we get to come back to this protected environment, and hence we will always remember this phase of our life with fondness.

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QuotesDon't be dismayed at goodbyes.  A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.  ~Richard Bach

We only part to meet again.  ~John Gay

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.  ~Jean Paul Richter

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.  ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?  ~Author Unknown

Gone - flitted away,Taken the stars from the night and the sunFrom the day!Gone, and a cloud in my heart.~Alfred Tennyson

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn't work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.  ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.  ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

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Goodbyes are not forever.Goodbyes are not the end.They simply mean I'll miss youUntil we meet again!~Author Unknown

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.  ~Ivy Baker Priest

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.  ~William Cowper

Excuse me, then! you know my heart;But dearest friends, alas! must part.~John Gay

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.  ~George Lansdowne

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.  May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.  ~Irish Blessing

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.Some trails are happy ones,Others are blue.It's the way you ride the trail that counts,Here's a happy one for you.~Dale Evans

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.  ~Robert Southey

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Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?  ~Richard Bach

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.  ~Garrison Keillor

What shall I do with all the days and hoursThat must be counted ere I see thy face?How shall I charm the interval that lowersBetween this time and that sweet time of grace?~Frances Anne Kemble

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.  ~William Cowper

She went her unremembering way,She went and left in meThe pang of all the partings gone,And partings yet to be.~Francis Thompson

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.  ~George Eliot

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.  ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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You and I will meet againWhen we're least expecting itOne day in some far off placeI will recognize your faceI won't say goodbye my friendFor you and I will meet again~Tom Petty

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.  ~William Shakespeare

In the hope to meetShortly again, and make our absence sweet.~Ben Jonson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com

So sweetly she bade me adieu,I thought that she bade me return.~William Shenstone

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.  ~Edward Young

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  ~John Dryden

Where is the good in goodbye?  ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man  (Thanks, Thomas)

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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.  ~Henry FieldingAs the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.  ~Anna Brownell Jameson

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.  ~A.A. Milne

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.  ~Alcibiades

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.  ~Elizabeth Bowen

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.  ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.  ~Tryon Edwards

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well.The elements be kind to thee, and makeThy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.~William Shakespeare

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when

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to say it.  ~Helen Rowland

The return makes one love the farewell.  ~Alfred De Musset

You're searching...For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.There are only middles.~Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, "In the Home Stretch"

Fare thee well! and if for ever,Still for ever, fare thee well.~Lord Byron

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.  ~Irish Toast

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

The best things said come last.  People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.  ~Alan Alda

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!  ~Robert Pollok

One kind kiss before we part,Drop a tear, and bid adieu;Though we sever, my fond heartTill we meet shall pant for you.~Robert Dodsley

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The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.  ~William Shakespeare

A sunbeam to warm you,A moonbeam to charm you,A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.~Irish Blessing

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?  ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.  ~Lazurus Long

I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  ~Gilda Radner

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!  Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.  ~Washington Irving

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!~Lord Byron

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Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word.  Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.  ~R.M. Grenon

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.  ~Author Unknown

Farewell!For in that word - that fatal word - howe'erWe promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.~Lord Byron

Let's not unman each other - part at once;All farewells should be sudden, when forever,Else they make an eternity of moments,And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.~Lord Byron

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.  ~Author Unknown

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.  It may be that you will not meet again in this life.  ~Jean Paul Richter

Don't cry because it's over.  Smile because it happened.  ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed

Note:Speech no: 1 is preferable with little alterations. You can also include your special experience in KSR College and issues occurred on it. You can also include your friend’s name if you wish. Just use one or two quotes that u like. Then any doubts ask me.

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Regards

Subash Ramasamy

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