Academy of the Canyons’ graduation ceremony Friday was, fittingly, different than those of the Santa Clarita Valley’s other schools.

And grads’ commencement speeches were suitably strange.

“I’m not going to tell you to work hard and be successful,” Rachel Randall told her 110 classmates in a sendup of stereotypical speeches in the College of the Canyons Honor Grove.

AOC grads don’t need any more encouragement to perform excellently, because they’re drawn to that “like a heat-seeking missile to the surface of the sun,” Randall said.

Most, if not all of the grads seemed college-bound, with lofty goals and at least a couple dozen college credits already completed. The class graduated with more than 3,000 college credits, Principal Jill Shenberger said.

Academy of the Canyons is a middle-college high school that allows high school students to learn on the COC campus and take college classes.

Graduate Melissa Sermeno, 18, hopes to continue on to college and major in psychology, relatives said.

“She rounds her life very well,” said father Cesar Sermeno of Canyon Country. “Boyfriend, school, everything. She even works.”

Asked whether he saw success in her future, Sermeno simply answered, “I’m waiting for my Ferrari.”

Graduate Angel Oliver, 17, is determined to become a pediatrician.

“The world is hers,” said her mother, Crystal Oliver.

“I’m so excited,” Angel said. “I just graduated, and I’m finally on my way.”

She added how excited she was about the prospect of life as a pediatrician.

“I want to be there so (sick kids) smile and say, ‘Mom, she made me feel better.’”

After all the pieces of advice Randall did not give during her speech, she left her highly motivated classmates with only one small request: “Don’t ever forget to have fun.”