He made everyone laugh by simply adjusting his mic Speech level: 99

Looks like youtube recommendations has brought us all together again

To all those wondering, he is now about 30 years old. He is also a software engineer and he has done great things! His name is Carl Jerritt Aquino btw

Jobs will pay your bills, business will make you rich but investment makes and keep you wealthy the future is inevitable..I hope everyone here becomes extremely successful!!

He was so damn nervous. Mouth was dry, palms were sweaty. But he did it.

"If tomorrow isn't the due date then today isn't the do date"

This dude’s speech outperforms harvard.

can we apriciate the way he said Educators "E-Ju-Da_ca-Tors"

no one: guitar man: 🖖😎

Wish he had been my valedictorian. Mine just got up there and talked about how great she, herself, was for 30 minutes. We booed her off stage and she flipped everyone off. Still a life changing ending lmao

I've invested heavily during the pandemic and earned considerable passive income. I'm pursuing a dividend and growth hybrid strategy, which I believe is smart. Credit goes to my advisor Zach Micah Demers.

As a cuber, I really appreciate how each he really properly fit the steps of CFOP to the years: the way he described every year was so fitting to how the CFOP stage he was doing feels

This man flexed his brain, superiority, and his English literature all in one speech. This man is born as a great

Imagine being funny and composed while solving a rubix cube, that kind of anxiety hits different.

I can confirm, after 11 years this speech hasn't changed my life.

This is the first class I have had since highschool. Back to work

Awwww I loved his speech and how he solved the rubix cube!

You can tell that he is very nervous in the beginning

12 years have passed... this speech still hasn't changed my life

Notice how his speech gradually gets less stuttery as time goes on? That represents his confidence throughout the years as well. Nice touch!

Fun fact: all these these kids will be 30 in a year or two

Valedictorian: earned his spot. good speech, clever prop, shared the limelight. Guitar guy: showed aplomb moving through mistakes, stood by his classmate. high praise for both.

I cry so inspring me.. Thx

Congrats, Carl Aquino! Although this happened 13 years ago, still we're so happy and proud of you! Love your speech! 😍

Year 2021,watching and listening to him,Who's with me???

that guitar guy's fckin pro,, he made a hilarious mistake on purpose i wonder how much effort they both put in practising the presentations

This released 3 days after I was born and next year I will begin my freshman year.

November 2021? Amazing!!

the part of the cap behind his ear pissed me off more than it should have

I always come here whenever I feel unmotivated ❤️

Its sooo shocking that this was just 11 years ago. I really hope he achieved his dreams.

It was giving me anxiety because he had that string behind his ear the whole time

I cant imagine being a teacher and being with unending adolescents going through their lives. The students are all full of themselves and self importance. Watching them over and over and knowing that they are heading where everyone heads...into real life...must be hard to do.

Nice jobs,thanks share

So is no one gonna talk about the guitar guy? That guy was the star of the speech

Never stop dreaming. Be hungry and never stop believing in your dreams. If someone can do it, you can do it. Be strong

God bless🙏

No, an 8 minute KZfaq video won't change your life, close the tab and get back to work.

for those of you wondering: Carl Aquino is a project engineer for a local business in Macon, Georgia. He now has a wife

Now it's time to say goodbye to high school *puts down rubik's cube*, and say hello to college *picks up a bigger one*.

Nice speech and beautiful song ❤️

Look like KZfaq recommendations has brought class of 2022 all together

anyone else get the "you know what i like more than my private jet? my books"

*clicked on video, in hopes that'll change my life* *did not change my life*

thank you

Amaizing sir! OMW to that stage now .

POV: you’re trying to find the comment that says “wish I had a graduation”

That awkward moment when this is your teacher's son...

Aww lovely, KZfaq recommendation has brought us back again

Iam here to confirm after 12 years my life is still the same. If this speech changed your life 👇

Class of 2016 wya? Congrats, guys

We all know, the guy playing the guitar only passed because the Valedictorian made a deal with him to play the guitar during his speech, while he did all his homework.

For those of you who are leery about this speech, I would like to see you there. You are probably envious. As a teacher for almost 50 years who has work earnestly to inspire students, I found that they need to be inspirable in the first place.

bro understood cooked attention spans even back then

"Hey I kinda enjoyed it" *gets beat to the ground and kicked by a group of people in a circle*

Denzel Washington once said *"TO get what you never had before you have to do what you never did before"*

Only the chosen ones will get this KZfaq recommendation

This is incredible speech, just saw it in 2024

Changed my life alright... Now I feel 9 minutes older, and won't get those minutes back

is it just me or did anyone else only click on this because they saw a rubiks cube?

One of the best speech presentations I have seen : Simple , fun, and straight to the main point 👍

I show this speech to my students each year ad they write a journal reflection on it. I would love to hear more about his story and where he is 10 years later. My students ask me all the time.

It changed my recommendation section. It's gone!

Omg!!!!! Totally changed my life. I am not nine minutes older

Now once in college u start to question why youre even solving the rubrics cube

He can probably do that rubix cube in a second

Didn't change my life. I'm the same as I was 8 minutes and 51 seconds ago

Good speech.

My life. Remains in a state of change. Good tor him to prepare and deliver the speech he wanted to and felt good about.

10 years ago I didn't even knew you tube existed🥺

10 years later and everyone is graduating in walmarts now

This guy has the personality and humor I've always wanted.

Looks like youtube brought us together after 10 years

Alright KZfaq, it’s been 10 years of this in my recommended list. I’ll watch the video.

"And then there's college" *takes out 5x5*

For those saying there was no lesson.. the lesson was so good he didn’t even have to say it. He showed it in actions not words. He described it to you instead of showing the picture. He showed that we are all in this together, and that doesn’t mean that everyone will help you, be good to you, or help you, but we are all experiencing the same thing. We just never stopped to realize

I watch this when I was Highschool now I'm in college

2022 watcher gang, where ya at?

Why do I get the same tai lopez ad before every fucking video?

I clicked on the video because of the title but ended up watching the 5 minute Tai Lopez scam ad instead. Goalz

Speeches rarely change lives.

I love this kid. He and the guitarist are extraordinarily creative.

2010? oh wait it's 2015 he's is now graduated in college. god bless to him!

yea. this shit really changed my fucking life

"Humans die for wealth, while birds die for food." Don't die for wealth. Die for power. Many people chase after wealth thinking that wealth is the endgame. Wealth is just a leaf that grows on the tree of power along with all of its other benefits. Don't settle for the small things in life and always have ambition.

Awesome 👏

Does anyone know where this guy serves Mc Donald burgers?

"You proposed to a bunch of backup chicks just in case she rejected you" this guy is hilarious

KZfaq recommendation brought me here.. but seems it was worth it.. I enjoyed it

where is this guy now i love it!

I'm just gonna guess this was randomly in your recommendations.

Well... Congratulations to this hard-working young man! :) He worked hard for those grades. And I really don't understand why some people are attacking him personally and not his dry speech. So what?... The speech sounds boring? The guy *earned* the valedictorian spotlight. Feel threatened? Insecure? No? Here's a quote by Theodore Roosevelt that should "enlighten" some of you fools. “*It is not the critic who counts*; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. *The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds*; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” *So go ahead assholes... point out all the flaws and shortcomings of hard-working people... Yeah... go ahead fix your hurt pride... step on others just to make yourself feel better.... that's what cowards do... justifying the mistakes of those who worked for it through (gasp!) "logic"*.... Maybe you deserve to be where you are today... with that kind of vitriolic thinking... if that's what you call it. And race has nothing to do with it... Why even point that out? Because of some stupid stereotypes? Grow the hell up.

Job well done

KZfaq back at it again with the "Bringing strangers online together over recommendations at strange periods of time".

I Iove the way he honoured his parents and those that have been there, helping him along the way.

I got a tai lopez ad before this video

If i had to do this, I WOULD LITERALLY PASS OUT… my anxiety could never… i hate doing speeches and presentations

The music is so perfect

I have to stop viewing these my life keeps changing 😭

This guy did not write this speech. He ripped off a speech given in 2008. See "the Best Graduation Speech Ever" for the original.