Genuinely Giancarlo

Although some of you may argue with this, I'm not very good at making friends. I'm really awkward and often give off bad first impressions and so it's sometimes hard for me to get people to like me enough to call me a friend. Or at least I feel like it is. So when I walked into the first day of my physics class at the beginning of my junior year of high school, I was definitely not expecting to meet someone who would become my closest friend, and who would force me to say such a hard goodbye less than 24 months later. Allow me to introduce the one and only Jacob Angeletti. I met Jake on the second day of junior year but didn't really talk to him for a few weeks as I was trying to figure things out and get accustomed to a new school. For a while, the extent of our conversations would be me asking how to do a problem and Jake easily explaining it to me (physics was not an incredibly hard class for me, but any time I struggled I could count on Jake to help ...

As of yesterday, I can now call myself a high school graduate. It's been a wild bunch of years to get here, and I'm so grateful for all the things I was able to do along the way. If you didn't know, I had the opportunity to serve as the president of my senior class, and so that meant I had the privilege to give an address at my school's commencement ceremony. This was a really cool experience and it definitely made my graduation a lot more memorable for me. Since the graduation, I have been told by several people that they really enjoyed the speech I gave, and I'm grateful for their kind words. It really means the world to me not only that people listened, but gave me enough attention to enjoy what I had to say. I wish to share the speech here just in case anyone who didn't get to attend the ceremony would like to see it (or, I suppose, if there is anyone who would like to see it again). Thank you to everyone who has given me the kind compliments on the s...