Kevin+H’s+Final+AmEx+2015+Speech

Ugh ====Haha haha ha ha haaaa. OH man. I’m extremely stressed right now. These lights are bright, and it is not a good idea to stare into them. I am really nervous too. Hopefully my sweat won’t be noticeable on video. I wish I could see your faces to see how badly I’m embarrassing myself, but I’m still blinded from these lights. Haaaaaa oh man.====
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====I do not know why I’m nervous constantly. I’m always nervously laughing or twiddling my thumbs in a never ending circle until I forget which thumb is left or right. I also do this thing where I cup my left hand when I become extremely nervous. Who knows what it means? I always worry about whatever I have to do next and there is never a moment where the stress takes a break from pressing down my shoulders. During the APUSH course, whenever I thought I was beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, it was just Fitz and his shiny head bringing me some more chapter packets.====

====In my future America, I will not be as stressed as I am all the time and hopefully no one else will be either. This year, I should have found time to look up from my presidential timeline and actually touch a tree or something. I need better stress management skills and hopefully in the America I will end up in, I will be able to control myself and put down whatever I’m doing and do something fun that I enjoy. Perhaps instead of vegetating on the floor, which is my current mind-numbing go-to activity, I’ll take up Thoreau and do the live alone in the mountains in solitude thing before I pick up The Power of One.====

====Usually in the end, all the stress slowly gets released and all is fine until a new project comes along. So I know that if I push through the workload and try hard enough, the pieces will fall where they were meant to fall. In the America I want to live in, future me will be more aware that if I just give the College Board everything I got, everything will turn out fine and I probably will have deserved the outcome.====

====One of the reasons I loved the American Experience so much is because of how close- knit we were. I could tell how stressed we all were just by walking into these classrooms, some were noticeably more stressed than others, but we went through the history together and essay writing together all the way into the AP testing room and back. I cannot promise that I will have better stress management as an individual in the America I’m going to grow old in, but I can promise that we will come out of all this stress-inducing high school stuff together and the pieces will fall where they need to be and all will be alright, Heck, after today, we’re already three-fourths of the way there :)==== myself
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