Good afternoon ladies and gentlenmen,thank you for your patience.

Today I would like to begin with my personal experience.Before getting enrolled in college,I had been bombarded with suggestions.＂Take courses of different subjects.Broaden your horizon.My high school teacher advised.＂Give into campus activities.Have fun!＂a friend said.She was well seasoned in Student Union affairs.＂Work hard.Get as many As as possible.Make your transcript look good!＂my cousin offered.By the way,she was a senior busy hunting for a job.As for my mom ,she simply said,＂Take care, Don’t be too hard on yourself.＂

Composed but hopeful,I eagerly set out for an exciting life at college.Yet very soon,as I pondered these golden rules,I was overwhelmed and bewildered.Such advice all made perfect sense.Yet I couldn’t figure out what should top my priority list.My first semester at college was stimulating in a somewhat anarchic way.I rushed from library to club,from classroom to tennis court,＂enjoying＂,as it were,the freshness of being a freshman at the expense of my sleep.Little by little,however,I became overtaxed and eventually fell victim to the＂Yu Men＂syndrome.＂Yu Men＂being stressful misery.

Literally,I was overwrought from the pressures of work and life at college.I wanted to experience and excel.I wanted everything.Emotionally,I was like an insatiable kid,whose hand had got stuck in the candy jar with way too many sweets.Luckily I didn’t suffer for too long from my ＂get-everything＂malaise.

Recently,Mr.Tom Freston,president of the media company MTV came to my school.His talk inspired me,He proudly told us that the average age of his employees is only 28.What’s the secret behind the success of his young team?＂Sagacity.＂he told us＂In other words,being conscious of what one is doing and what one is able to do.＂

Exactly!As a freshman about to be a sophomore.I realize now that our time and stamina don’t allow us to extend ourselves in all directions.So the moral responsibility of college education is to teach students the art of making important choices.No matter how hard the growing pains are,mastering this art is at the heart of every undergraduate’s success,whether in school now or in life later on.So I am learning to make such choices.

Joining this competition,for instance,has been one.I’ve wanted to fully experience this contest,to make friends,to discover what my age peers believe and to stretch myself in new and unexpected ways .I imagine this is ture for most contestants here todoy.But to

do so,we’ve chosen to set aside pleasures,such as watching TV series＂Friends＂and karaoke evenings,so we could invest more time in more reading,speaking,and study.Yet this competition,by forceing us to take charge of our decisions,has surely helped us define our values,find out what were capable of doing,and learn what best suits our individual development.

I believe this knowledge of one’s own caliber is the most valuavle,integral and longest lasting lesson for students in this increasingly competitive world.As for the challenges and opportunities for us,they will be determined by how adequately our education trains us to gain a clear perception of ourselves,and thereby to make sensible choices that follow.

College education,as British philosopher Alfred North whitehead said,＂should be energizing as the poet of our dreams and the architect of our purposes＂．Such purpose,self discipline and vision all hinge on the art of choice-making.

As I look back on the advice received those very first days on campus.I no longer feel perplexed because I now have my own guideline.Make chooses that lead to a clearer vision of who I am,what I can do,and how I may best tap my potential.The horizon is now wide but distinct.And the taste already feels sweet.

Thank you very much!

第二篇：英语演讲比赛演讲稿

Good evening,everyone.I feel it such a pleasure to stand here giving the speech.To begin with,please allow me to give a brief introduction to myself.

My name is lily,and I am from Henan province.There are four people in my family,my father,my mather,and I have a little brother who studies in senior high school now. I feel so happy to have such a happy family. As for my school life,I’m a freshman and my major is opto-electronic information,so I study a lot about math and physics,which makes me a little busy in the weekdays.However,I still enjoy many hobbies in my free time,for example,I often play badminton with my friends on weekends.Besides,learning English is also one of my favorites,I never consider it as a burden but an enjoyment in my study.

That’s me.A hardworking and sunshine girl in UESTC.

Today,the topic of my speech is”volunteer:the angel of the world. Nowadays,many people go for fame and fortune in their life and they consider it as the final purpose.However,if we only for the interest of our ourselves,then what’s the meaning of our life?what’s the purpose of our existence?So,today,I’d like to share with you something about my volunteer work.

I took part in our school’s Youth Volunteer Union after I went uni Until today,I still feel so lucky as a member of it,and I’d like to tell you about a program that I am responsible for.

There’s a primary school in Shunjiang district,which’s very near to our university.However,many students from this school are stay-at-home children,couse their parents are hundreds of thousands miles away,struggling to make money for the family.In this situation,the children are left at home.But their hands are so small that they can’t handle the problems in their daily life.Although their grandparents can look after them and offer them with good food and clothes,they can’t help with their study.In the long run,it’s possible for these children to fall behind or form some bad habits at school.What’s worse,they may develop some mental problem in their growth.

When I learned about this situation,Ifeel it a duty to offer some help as a university student,so we put up a post and wanted more students to join this program.Fortunately,many volunteers came to us and they are willing to offer helf to the primary school students.

Now,we volunteers go to Shunjiang primary school to help these studens regularly,and we also chat with them about many kinds of things.All we want is givng them a happy childhood and make them full of hope about their future.I’ll never forget one of the children’s grandma’s words.One day,after the activity,she grabbed my hand and said,”It’s you who helped my grandson made such progress in his study and I’m really grateful to you volunteers.In fact,we volunteers never respect any reward,couse the cildren’s bright innocent eyes and their charming smile

are the best for us.

At that time,I really feel that volunteer work is worth doing,you may think that it’s small and unnecessary,but it can really make a difference to other people’s life.In a word,everyone can use his own powper to do something good for the people around him.We can’t only live for ourselves,just as an old saying goes,”Selfishness is the origin of evil.”So come on and do some volunteer work in your daily life,it can make our societ better and better and the good deed can warm everyone’s heart.And someday,you can see an angel called volunteer flying in the sky.

That’s all.Thank you very much for listening.