Honorable judges， ladies and gentlemen,

Good evening，

I’m very honored to stand here and give you a short speech! I hope you will like it .

First I want to ask you some questions:

1、Do you know what is youth?

2、How do you master your youth?

Everyone has his own understanding of young. In Wikipedia,youth is the time of life when one is young, but often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). It is also defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young". Its definitions of a specific age range varies, as youth is not defined chronologically as a stage that can be tied to specific age ranges; nor can its end point be linked to specific activities, such as taking unpaid work or having sexual relations without consent.

In my opinion, Youth is not only a certain time of your life; also it is the shape of your mind. It is not only bright eyes, sweet smiles, nice voices, supple bodies, but also it is the way that you think and act.

Youth is a lively topic, youth is a mature turning.

Youth is like a gust of wind blowing, leaving only the dusty back.

We have been or are embrace the youth, we will lose our youth.

Some people say that youth is a scrap of paper, of no use. Every attempt nothing and accomplish nothing, only know to eat, drink, play, music, do not know how to study hard, do not know how parents bitterness, do not understand the meaning of life.Also some people, although they are unknown to the public, but they cherish their youth, cherish their own every second.

As a new era of college students, should cherish the youth, to seize every minute to learn. We must hold to our youth, do not waste one’s life. On the road of growing up, do every thing, each reading a good book, learn every bit of knowledge. We should not idle about all day, abandoned their studies. We want to make sure that the goal of life for themselves, to pursue the ideal of life. This is the youth: full power, full of expectations, voluntary, full of knowledge and the struggle of ambition.

Youth is a song, sing the life the most memorable fragment; youth is a painting, draw the outline of the most wonderful scene; youth is a poem, to praise the most beautiful moment in life; youth is the only way which must be passed to each of us in our life, it plays a significant role.

I hope my short speech will make you see the things clearly.