THE FRESHMAN
Keynote Speech to the Candidates for the Balanced Man Scholarship; presented by the
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity at Lawrence Tech 2013
DIG DEEP, REACH HIGH
Many of you are students of Architecture. When constructing a skyscraper, you must dig a deep foundation in order to reach the greatest heights. The deeper the foundation, the higher the structure. Let your educational roots be set deep in this base of knowledge, so your mind may soar to its optimum expression.
As freshmen, you have 3 primary areas of growth ahead of you:
- Scholarship
- Involvement
- Relationships
SCHOLARSHIP
You are now in the farm club. You made it to college. You are on a new team. Your talents and abilities brought you this far. They will sustain you. This opportunity is a test to see what you’re really made of. Let it prepare you for the big leagues of life. In order to be a superstar of scholarship, you must use:
- intelligence
- common sense
- available information
- intellectual property
Intelligence got you here. Your proven methods of study, application, understanding and research, got you here. The better you utilize the new assets available to you, the professors, subject matter experts, peers and knowledge base, the more you will exploit your own resources and the greater your intelligence will grow.