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it is a beautiful day here in Ontario at the American Career College winter
graduation ceremony
thousands of family members and friends celebrated with students who have
finished their programs at ACC in Los Angeles
Orange County, Ontario and Long Beach
you know that this is, it's just a really special day it's my favorite day of the year to be honest, this
you know as educators this is the day we all look forward to and as you can see around
here just so many thousands of people
happy to support their graduates as we are as well
what's the message to graduates today?
you know what, you have the skills, be confidence
as you go out into the workplace and do yourself, your family, and your family
here at American Career College proud
I've probably been here a lot longer than everybody else, it's been really hard
I was here and then I left, I had my son, and then I came back and
I finished, it took me forever to do my extern but I finished, I made it
I'm feeling good I think like I'm so happy I can't believe I got to this point
and honestly without ACC I wouldn't have been able to do it
it's been... it was a journey I'm not going to sit here and lie
but I'm glad I made it there's times I felt that I couldn't do it
but I had really good instructors and I just pushed through
and made it and I'm actually really excited that I did
tell me how you feeling today? great! I'm an honor student
I am felling great! I'm glad to be graduating
yaaaaay it is a good day
great day, I am happy to be graduating
I'm excited, I'm happy
it was a long road I was in on the nights and weekends, it was a twenty-month program
it's hard but you know, anything you put your mind into you can do
excited to be here! What made you decide to choose ACC?
recommended by a lot of my friends, a lot of my friends graduated from this school
and all really good teachers, really good instructors
what made you decide to go into nursing?
I was a medic in the military, it was an easy transfer for me
I like it, I enjoy helping people
what made you decide to go into nursing? cause like, my mom's a nurse too so I just want to like
follow in her footsteps
and I like taking care of people too
today some 1500 students became graduates
I'm feeling great, finally you know, I did it and
my mom is proud of me, everybody's proud of me
I'm super excited, it was really great there's a lot of energy here, I'm super excited to graduate
what do these cords mean that your wearing? this one is I believe
perfect attendance and this one is honor roll and then this is valedictorian
I was also student ambassador as well
how did you manage to do all of that? you have perfect attendance all through school?
it was a lot of work having to make sure I got up on time, get to school
I had a lot of help from like my peers and classmates
the guest speaker was doctor Barry Ryan
the president of West Coast University
let me start with
row row row your boat gently down the steam
merrily merrily merrily merrily
life is but a [audience] dream
very good
he spoke about pursuing dreams in life
and how he realized the dream of his grandfather by being the first from his
family to graduate from college
life is a dream
maybe not in that sense but life is about dreams its about having dreams and pursuing dreams
its about having dreams and pursuing dreams
and chasing them down and building them
and succeeding in them and that's what you have done
and that's why you're here today, congratulations
from all of us at American Career College congratulations to the class of 2014