Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
♪ music ♪
(Sampson Davis) Gettin' A's is the coolest thing. Don't let anybody tell you that.
Getting A's and B's is the coolest thing up, and if they call you "nerd" because you got an A that's fine.
They be callin' you boss tomorrow.
[audience laughs and applauds]
(male student) I never really like taken as much from a book that I didn't...I...it spoke to me
'cause we're new college students. We're...we're going to experience a lot of the things they experienced,
and I feel like it made...it made an impact on my life.
(male student) They all had their own social problems,
but they're all able to...be able to pull through all...from all their troubles.
(male student) That really inspired me a lot 'cause, you know,
at least I know I can do something more with my life.
(female student) They were able to rise above it, and do good in school,
and essentially become doctors, which was very inspiring.
(female student) No matter what other people tell you, you know,
to always believe in yourself and you'll do it.
(female student) My struggles aren't as half as hard as their's, so if they can do, I can do it.
(George Jenkis) Believe, you know. Believe that whatever you set your mind to you can actually accomplish.
Believe that you're smart. All of you guys are smart.
Everyone of you guys can conquer any class that...or any assignment that's put before you.
(male student) The poster, we're doing, is actually the support groups that new incoming students should have
when they come to college as like Pathways we have here.
They're...they're here when we need help for any academic or personal reasons.
(male student) Those students who join a first-year program tend to have a 75% rate of graduating
versus those that don't that only have a 32% at the end of the year.
(male student) Students with...support groups actually perform better than students without.
(male student) The achievement gap.
(male student) Rising above racial profiling.
(male student) Our poster is about peer relationships and college success.
(male student) Peer pressure because...we feel that it's one of the biggest problems that teens face today.
(Rameck Hunt) You know, they say, "Everything you needed to know, you learned in kindergarten."
That's probably pretty true. My...grandmother told me everything I needed to know when I was really little.
One of the things she said is, "No matter what you do in life, it's gonna be hard. No matter what it is.
Life...there...there's challenges, so you might as well do something positive,
so you can reap the benefits in the end."
(male student) There's three of us, me and my two friends,
and we have a little pact going on so far, kind of support each other.
(male student) I made a pact with myself. Like, I will keep learning. I will stay in education, stay in college.
(female student) To transfer out of community college and go to university.
(male student) To continue my major, which is biology. Hoping to become a marine biologist.
(male student) Not just to finish college, but to find a career.
(female student) At least get A's and B's.
(female student) To transfer to UCLA, and I know it's really hard;
it's really competitive, but I am willing to do whatever it takes to transfer.
(female student) Get certified in everythin' and then transfer to a four-year to get my bachelor's,
so if the economy goes down again, at least I have my bachelor's.
(female student) I wanna finish community college as soon as possible
and get myself to a Cal State LA University and go to law school.
(male student) I just wanna finish up community college in...shortest amount of time I can...
go to Long Beach or Cal Poly Pomona, and major in civ...civil engineering.
(female student) Keep improving myself and never stop, and just never settle.
Just have to keep looking until I find what I really want to do in life
'cause right now I've no idea what I want to do yet.
(male student) Really drive myself to succeed, to not just to resolve to be...to be okay at, you know,
what I wanna to do. To be as good as I can be.
(female student) To think positive and that maybe one day in the future,
I'll be somebody like...'cause my dream has always been being a doctor,
and I'm pretty sure I can achieve that goal because I...like really want to help my family out,
and that would be like a dream come true for me.
(Mark Rocha) In honor of these great doctors, let us, today, make the pact. Okay.
And let's thank them for being here.
♪ music ♪
(male student) I think that if you look at anything with a positive attitude...it...
you can...you can accomplish it because no matter what challenges are placed in front of you,
you're...you're going to be able to do it if you tell yourself, "You can."