Your Presence is Powerful, Elijah Transcript
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You just have to like, put in the work yourself. You know like, if you really want to achieve success, you will fight for success if that's really what you want. And I feel like that's really what I want. So that's what I'm gonna fight for. Me, growing up, um, I'm the oldest - so you know I have two younger siblings and um, my dad - my dad wasn't really there. But I would see him here and there. I would live with my step dad. And he was very toxic. So you know like growing up around that, you're gonna act like what you're seeing. You know so when you act like that, it's gonna come back to you. And then you start to see people that are doing better, and you're gonna be like "oh, what I'm doing is wrong.". Miss Brianna, she really helped me a lot. She really helped me turn my grades around and turn my attendance around a lot. So that was a good thing. Now that I go to school a lot, I feel like I have more responsibility. Because before I was so like lazy and stuff. I was getting up late and stuff like that. And I feel like, the night before school, it matters on your sleep. So me, I go to bed around like nine/ten. I get enough hours of sleep so when I wake up I'm energetic, so I'm ready to go. Something I'm excited about is in my future, is going into trade school. Cause I wanna study HVAC and stuff cause I have a cousin that does that so he gives me a lot of tips. And I just wanna um, I wanna know where that's going for me. But I know it's gonna go fantastic. Your Presence is Powerful. doe.mass.edu/sfs/attendance/