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Rhett & Link High School Graduation Speech

Jun 122012

There are plenty of commencement speeches given by politicians, comedians, and celebrities, but what about the Internet? You know YouTube has reached the big leagues when famous YouTubers are asked to give a commencement speech.

And no YouTubers are more worthy of being the first to speak at graduation than comedy musicians Rhett and Link. The dynamic duo were invited to speak at the 2012 graduation of their former high school, Harnett Central, located in Angier, North Carolina.

Naturally, they snuck in one of their songs.

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Eastwood High School Graduates Flash Mob Dance During Graduation Ceremony

Jun 102012

Most graduation ceremonies are long, boring, and dull, as if the school is trying to give students one last taste of high school.

But that wasn’t the case at Eastwood High School in El Paso, Texas. They gave their graduates the opportunity to perform a synchronized celebration dance, titled I Had The Time Of My Life, to a mix of Black Eyed Peas hits.

The video published by Trumpet1701 is featured on TheFW, HuffingtonPost, and KissElPaso.

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Funnel Cloud Near Absegami High School Graduation

Jun 092012

High school graduates are always anxious to finish with the ceremonies and get on with the evenings partying, but students and their families at Absegami High School were rushing to finish the formalities for much more serious reasons.

An enormous funnel cloud was forming just behind the graduation, and as the grads threw up their hats, students and family quickly started to run for shelter. The video, published by MatthewRBlanchard, already has over 45,000 hits.

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You Are Not Special Commencement Speech At Wellesley High School

Jun 082012

Ahh, June. The last few schools left are all conducting their closing ceremonies. A time of positive speeches and figurative pats on the back, right??

Breaking away from the norm of the ‘everyone is a winner’ mentality, Mr. McCullough took a different approach. As commencement speaker, he gave the graduating class of Wellesley High School a big spoonful of reality, with no sugar on the side.

“You’re not special, you’re not exceptional.”

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Good Chemistry Hallelujah Parody

May 272012

For extra credit in his high school chemistry class, Eli made this creative parody music video of the popular Leonard Cohen hit Hallelujah.

Using construction paper for animating, the bright 10th grader told the ‘love story’ of chemical bonds in Good Chemistry. The video went viral after Eli’s dad posted it on Reddit.