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Finding Your HBCU Community While Staying True to Yourself
Kaylee Irving shares her journey as a first-year student at Prairie View A&M University, balancing motherhood, academics, and campus involvement while maintaining a strong GPA and clear future goals.
• Participated in Prairie View's Summer Bridge program to ease transition to college life
• Selected Prairie View to balance independence with proximity to her young son
• Maintains academic excellence with mostly A's despite additional responsibilities
• Serves in Student Government Association as Panther Aid Chair of the Judicial Branch
• Pursuing Criminal Justice major with plans to advocate for women, juveniles, and minorities
• Exploring internship opportunities including an FBI summer program
• Plans to eventually pursue law school and ultimately a PhD
• Advises high school seniors to stay true to themselves and take college transition one day at a time
• Emphasizes the importance of networking with alumni for opportunities and mentorship
If you're a Prairie View alum interested in connecting with Kaylee, please reach out to her at KIrving6@PVAMU.edu to offer mentorship, internship opportunities, or guidance in the criminal justice field.
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Speaker 2:Hello guys, how are you doing? It has been a wonderful holiday break. Now today, you know, I got on my Wilberforce hockey jersey. We don't have a hockey team, but I just thought it was kind of cool. Shout out to the people that sent me this, but so it's a hockey jersey and, of course, my name is on the back. So this week has been amazing Catching up with friends, catching up with some old scholars, even catching up with scholars that weren't mine. But today is a very special day here at a better chance television show because I know I almost fell out the chair because we have uh on our show today. Um, I know her as KK. Um, really honestly, just learned her real name, probably because I I've known her as is KK and she is one of the most amazing scholars that I have met on this journey of doing the send-offs every year and helping young people get into HBCUs. However, kk is actually she's in San Antonio, so let me just bring her on and she's gonna tell you her real name, because I will probably butcher it.
Speaker 4:Hey lady, how are you, hello, I'm doing good miss. Well, how about yourself?
Speaker 2:Good, I said, you know what? I never really learned her real name.
Speaker 4:Well, I'm Kaylee Irving everybody. I'm currently a first year freshman attending the illustrious Prairie View A&M. I'm in class of 2025 and I'm currently majoring in criminal justice as a writing major.
Speaker 2:So you class of 28 or 25? I said 25.
Speaker 4:I meant 2028. I'm sorry, but hopefully hoping for a future earlier graduation, taking some summer semesters and little things like that. So we shall see on that graduation.
Speaker 2:to be honest, OK, look, you always been about business. Like I met you. I remember meeting you when my good friend Dr Cross opened up her restaurant and I was like God, is she not here? Is she not here? I'm not going to order nothing, because you was like one of the sweetest waitresses back then and I was like God. So now to see you fully grown in school and doing good, it's like I'm so proud of you. Now you got to catch me up. How is school going?
Speaker 4:Um, overall for my first year. So I always like to tell people I took some summer classes to get myself just adjusted, cause I'm not good with change at all and I know that. So, just me knowing myself, I took some summer classes in my school at Prairie View. They call it summer bridge and basically you can go and just like get a head start, pretty much take two classes before you actually integrate onto the main campus and do everything like that. And it was a five-week course I'm pretty sure that we did from July 7th to August and we just pretty much got adapted, got acclimated to campus and just learned everything that, like Prairie View, had traditions, school rules, just all those different things to help me get adapted to what college life would actually be about. So when it was finally time for school to start, it was a lot easier for me to adjust and get, you know, acclimated to what my new schedule was like. Like the new, that five block, the switching alternative days. That really threw me for a loop, to be honest. Going to college and remembering what class I'm supposed to take on this day and remembering like if we didn't have class Monday. The world keeps spinning, the day keeps going and I have a different class to be at L Tuesday and things like that. So, overall for me, I like to tell people it was very exciting, it was very fun and I learned a lot.
Speaker 4:I connected with a lot of people. I feel like um, especially at Prairie View. I feel like it's a great place to network and connect and meet new people. All the time. I was meeting new people my mentors throughout the summer uh, shout out to them because they introduced us to a lot, a lot of new people and a lot of superiors on campus who, um, I shouldn't even say superiors, but like heads on campus who, if they see you, you know they're going to recognize you and they're going to help you get to where you want to go, things like that. So people just to help you put you in a good place, in a better position than you are now, and so that's what I'll say.
Speaker 4:I learned a lot. It was very overwhelming at times, I will say the least, and very humbling for sure. Going to college and learning academic validation is a big thing for me, and so going from a straight A's 4.0 GPA student to high school, from high school to college, it was crazy and luckily I still have that 4.0 now from the summer and things like that and coming out, my first semester were all A's and a few B's, so I was able to, you know, wrap up that GPA and still hold my academic validation to where it's always been. But overall it was just a very enlightening experience and that first semester really opened my eyes and my mind to what little the world has to offer just from, you know, pursuing a college education education.
Speaker 2:Wow. So you were good and busy that first quarter For sure. Oh, wow, that's so amazing. Now, how did you get to Prairie View? Because I remember asking you about school at the restaurant and you was like, uh, hbcu, I was like girl, you don't know. So how did you get?
Speaker 4:to Prairie View. So for me I'm a third generation college student, so I'm not the first around the block to do this in the family and definitely I'm not the last. There's one more after me but for me, I knew when it was time to go to college, hbcus was always the first thing in my mind. It was the only thing in my mind, to be honest. My mother went to a HBCU, my, my older sister, went to a HBCU and currently still attends one now, and so for me it was just all of a matter about finding which HBCU fit me. And of course, there's the stipulations and the stereotypes that HBCU this and HBCU that. But what it really boiled down to me is I just wanted to be around the people who understand what it took to be where we are today, just to be in that community, and once you really immerse yourself in the HBCU community, you really understand. Well, I really understood why, more why I wanted to be there. For me, in a sense, it just it's really all about the community and the atmosphere you're putting yourself in, especially leaving from home, going to your first place all alone. Most of the time it was. That was big and important to me.
Speaker 4:So on my list I had a, I had top five. They were all HBCUs. Some were Prairie View was the only one in Texas. Um, clark, atlanta was my number one and I think Howard was my number five and I had Sam and Ewan a little a few others on the list. Prairie View was not my first choice though I always have to tell people that it was not my first choice but for my circumstances it was the closest place. It was the closest place to home where I could get without going too far, but it was just far enough.
Speaker 4:I had, um, recently just had a son ending my ending my junior senior year in high school.
Speaker 4:I had recently just had a son, so I wrapped up my senior year of high school with a little baby and really that was the main thing on my mind when it was time to go to college, when I first started thinking about college. Of course he wasn't something that had to be a thought of, but when life changed and things happened, obviously it was. I had more priorities and more responsibilities to think of and, blessedly, I love my son and he was, he's, my motivation for everything and he really guided me to do everything I'm doing today and the reason I could sit here and speak all these facts and important information to y'all today is because of him, and he's really just poured so much into me, so much lessons and so many God given like things. I could just never be more grateful for him. But really, that, ultimately, is what led me to Prairie View, so I could go get away from home without being too far away from him. To be honest, that's really what it all boils down to oh, wow.
Speaker 2:So that has to be a challenge and thank you for being really transparent, because there are some people that have kids that are your age and they do have that fear of wanting to go to school. What would you tell them? Like if you could just tell them anything on how to maintain chasing your dreams but still having a child?
Speaker 4:um, the first thing I will say is it's never going to be as easy as people make it look. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever. We can post pictures all day and we can share on the on the internet how cute and sweet our kids are, but it's never going to be as easy as we make it look. And the only thing I can say because I'm still figuring out myself, is just keep going, keep going and try your best, like keep going, doing what you're doing and being the best person you are and the best mother and the parent you can be, because, just like that kid didn't ask to be here, you didn't ask to be a parent either.
Speaker 4:So we're all figuring it out together and we're all trying to do it on our own and, at the end of the day, we're kids trying to raise the kids. So we're trying to do the best we can to better ourselves while also, you know, laying that good, that that good foundation for them to have a good future in their life. So one thing that always poured into me and I just want to pour out to any time I hear about young moms, is you're doing, you're doing a good job already, you being here today and still being able to even think about wanting to go to school or having that internal battle right there. That that's making you the better mom you are today and in the future. Future it's going to make you a better mom. Just keep doing what you're doing, put one foot in front of the other and remember that your son, your daughter, is going to love you regardless, as long as you're putting your best foot forward I love that, I mean that and that's that's that's really powerful to say um.
Speaker 2:So if you are um a teen, you can still go to school. There are options available. I mean, kk is probably still on honor roll For her, she's still on the dean's list and still make it happen. It's only one thing that she kind of like broke my heart that she don't do no more. But you know we're not going to talk about that today, but we got to take a quick, quick commercial break and after the commercial break I'll bring back my good friend KK. She's going to tell us some more about her first semester, because it's like unreal. You know, she went from high school to college so quick. I'm like like a blink of an eye Right after this.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back. Welcome back. I'm sitting here with Ms KK. She told you her real name. I told you I met her as KK. I don't know nothing else, but she is one of the best scholars that I have come across. She's holding it down, she's a mom, she's a student and she's something else you listed. Now, what organizations are you in on campus? Because I've seen some. I was like she didn't tell me this.
Speaker 4:Organizations are you in on campus because I've seen some. I was like she didn't tell me this. What am I in, right, I think currently, right now I'm just in um, the criminal justice club and then student government association. I think those are the main two organizations that I because I try not to overload myself, because I know I'm I'm good to do that, so I try to join organizations, at least in my freshman year, that I actually I'm passionate to do that. So I tried to join organizations, at least for my freshman year, that I actually am passionate about. So I joined the Criminal Justice Club for my major, of course, and then they tell us to join a club, an organization, for your major, your passion, and then your belief or something like that, or just for like your fun. So I joined the Criminal Justice Club for my major and then Student Government Association.
Speaker 4:That's just a little bit of my passion, little things like that, um, it's kind of where, um, student government associations, obviously the government of the school, politics and stuff like that. So we they deal with like code of conduct and parking appeals, all things of like like that, the politics of the school pretty much. And so I'm, I'm in like the mentee, the mentee uh organ organization part is called panther aids and pretty much we um, we shadow and we shadow like uh people who are already members and SGA, like uh, this, the there's like the judicial right. I'm a mentee of the, the chief justice pretty much, and that's under the judicial branch and so there's obviously the executive, judicial and the and the legislative branch and there's panther aids for all of those and positions for all of those. So just like the real government, it's the school government and stuff like that. And so I'm the um, the panther aid Chair of the Judicial Branch, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4:Because my um mentor is the Chief Justice, who was actually my mentor for the summertime. So that's why I just say the networking. But she was my mentor for the summertime, so she was already the Chief Justice, which is an appointed position. So me and my Panther Aide partner I call him my business partner because that's really what he is Me and him were both picked for Panther Aides for the Chief Justice and then she appointed us as the Panther Aide committee chair of the judicial branch, which just means we're like in judicial meetings, we'll like take attendance and things like that. When other Panther Aides have concerns with their mentors. They would come to us because we're the Panther 8 chairs and things like that. So just a little, a little responsibility role because of who we already are in the organization.
Speaker 2:Wow, Look at you. You already making waves. Now don't forget to document your work.
Speaker 4:Yes, for sure, for sure, that bill, you know to document your work.
Speaker 2:Yes, for sure, that bill. You know stuff on that resume. I'm just saying Now, what is it like if you could ask alum for support? Because I know I mean school is school. I mean school is school. It's always some type of finance. It's always some type of finance. It's always some type of need that's involved. If you could ask an alum for support, whether it's an internship, whether it's scholarships they may have or whether it's just a mentor.
Speaker 4:That's in the field that you plan to go on. What would you exactly ask them for? One thing I will say is Prairie View is good for connecting with alumni because most of the time somebody's grandpa, uncle, brother, sister, aunt, somebody in the family, went to Prairie View, or your friend down the hall who has an alumni in the family, things like that. So I will say that for sure. But one thing I would ask for sure is there are scholarships out there that alumni do give back for um, for students and things like that depending. And there's also scholarships like, depending on what, what class you're in, the alumni give back. But one thing I would say mostly is like um contacting how do we connect with y'all more on a, on a basis to where both of us can, can understand it and are compatible with it.
Speaker 4:I should say I feel like um, the disconnect that comes with alumni and students looking looking out for that, for that connection, that networking is the part of interaction like, not only like there. I know multiple students who have gone out, who go out their room all the time, and even during homecoming, who said they didn't, they didn't see one alumni or they didn't talk to one alumni, and I think that's where the disconnect comes from. It's just that interaction of where do we, where do we, who do we talk to her and where do we talk, or where do we send these information to, or who is giving us this information, or what exactly alumni is talking to us, or what alumni is actually, you know, looking to help and network. So I think that's, I think that's what I would ask is how do we, how can we, as students, do a better job of getting in contact and reaching out with y'all for the things that we need? That's what I would say.
Speaker 2:Wow. Now you know you always have to set the bar high. I asked that question, like numerous times this week, and no one has hit it from that angle. So I do know several of the Prairie View alum here. So if you're watching this on replay, if you're watching it on any of the HBCU platforms, even if it's in the newsletter on replay, if you're watching it on any of the HBCU platforms, even if it's in the newsletter, we have a scholar that is looking for assistance. You want to network. Now what?
Speaker 4:is your ultimate goal in your major?
Speaker 4:What do you plan to do with your degrees? Ultimately, I've said that I want to be a women and juvenile minorities, women and juvenile minorities, women and juvenile advocate lawyer, and I want to, like hone in my focus on protecting the people who don't get protected the most by the government, and so minorities and juveniles and females, of course, and so I'm kind of leaning on the verge of I know for sure I'm gonna end up having to go to law school. I think, no matter what I decide to do, I think that's gonna have to end up being my route. But I just know I just want to fight the better fight for sure, and protect those people who need a voice out there for sure. And, you know, just do something that they're not seeing people of our color doing for sure. So that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4:I know, eventually, I want to get my PhD. I might take a little time off of school before I do that, though, but that's going to be the ultimate goal when it comes to school and things like that for me, just because of who I am, when it comes like student-wise and things like that For me personally, the academic validation. I don't think it'll ever end until I get that PhD.
Speaker 2:So that's where I'm at right now. That's so true. Like, hey, I'm here for it. I say, go and go until um, you know, because when you feel like you know everything, you really don't know nothing. So, right, I like to learn stuff every day. I mean, even now I was contemplating on going to be an educational lawyer. I know that's weird, but like, hey, you already got your doctorate. I just, you know, you, you get so used to that rhythm of going to school. It's like, might as well, right, but have you thought about, like an internship, have you reached out to anybody for that?
Speaker 4:I actually have and that's why I love my school, because they have so many opportunities for internships and different things like that. My, my main focus is just finding internships that that more hone in on like what I want to do, future wise and like career wise and stuff like that. So I went on a recently went on a trip, um that the school hosted, um, um to the FBI, uh, the FBI and the Houston division and things like that, and they took us on a day pretty much like I almost want to say like a day in the life of the FBI and they let us know about their scholarship opportunities. They have actually in the FBI where a lot of kids who have, like, come into the summer scholarship, um, internship opportunity, they ended up, you know, getting a full time position at the FBI and things like that. And I learned a lot more about the FBI than I actually had already known and, of course, me being a criminal justice major, it kind of had already lined up on my field and stuff like that.
Speaker 4:So it had my mind, it turned on a light bulb in my mind. It had me definitely thinking about things like that. So I know that's an internship. I'm going to definitely apply for um this upcoming february and things like that. And, of course, just looking around for more stuff that's um, like maybe something in a law office or something that's more um of my criminal justice alley well, okay, miss kk, you just always been about business.
Speaker 2:Since I've known you like guys, this is like a young person that has always been on the ball like I don't know. I can't make this up about her. Like she's on the ball now you have a double major or is just one.
Speaker 4:It's just criminal justice right now, but I'm gonna eventually add a minor in juvenile justice. I'm pretty sure, or I think they're trying to get rid of the juvenile justice and change it to something else, but I know I'm going to eventually have to add a minor okay, that seemed like that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:so after this commercial break I um, I got a couple more questions to ask you. But, guys, again, if you are alum of PV, I know y'all usually say you know, but I didn't give it to y'all today Please reach out to Ms KK and she's going to give you that information right after this.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back those that are interested. I think there are like 20 slots left. If you're interested in going to Dubai or if you're interested in supporting me as a birthday gift, because my birthday is the first, I celebrate the whole month of May. Either way, that's what we're doing, because we're going to Dubai. The head of the month, the end of the month, we moved to the sneaker ball of the community awards, so also, nominations are open now. If you see a scholar that has been on our network or a scholar that you just know, we got one right here that you know, I wouldn't have a problem nominating because, like she's, she's doing it, she's on sga, she's involved and this is her first year. Now, did you, did you do homecoming this year?
Speaker 4:I did a little bit, but not that much. I did a little bit. You're like, just this much yeah it was.
Speaker 4:It was a lot more than I expected, but I told myself next year I'm gonna really try to get out there and go see what it set my homecoming out or whatever it might be. But I did not set my homecoming out this year. It was just a lot more than I anticipated. I went out more towards the end of homecoming though, for sure, but everybody was getting sick after the fact and it was just so bad and so much dust. So I kind of don't regret it either. So I'm okay well, that's fair.
Speaker 2:I mean, you got experience at least, like one homecoming, and I don't know if Prairie View does stuff in the spring, but you know, at Wilberforce we had Central State, across the street, that would have their home coming. We would have our home coming, then they would do something like May weekend and then we would do Dine Dance. Do y'all do something in the spring too?
Speaker 4:We have a spring fest. Nobody really knows much about it, and neither do I. I just know it's called Spring Fest, but it's basically like homecoming in the spring. It's like for a week or something like that. So everybody says honestly that that's usually more like hype than homecoming. So I told myself I'm going to really try to get out there during Spring Fest and see what it's about, because I feel like I could have definitely got out of my room more.
Speaker 2:But also like, got out of my room more, but also like I don't know I, I was, just it was focused. There's nothing wrong with being focused, don't you? You got what? Three more years to go to a homecoming and then, once you graduate, exactly you, you, you know, you, you took in care of business. That's what I would say. Now, what advice would you give um, a current high school senior? Because right now, you know, I deal with seniors every year and this is their most like, the time where most of my seniors are like am I getting accepted? Am I getting scholarships? Uh, what advice would you give someone headed to college?
Speaker 4:um, my advice would be first off, when it comes to applying to colleges, apply where you want and apply to apply where you want to go and apply to where you actually want to get into, because not everybody is blessed with feet waiving application fees and those things can get expensive and it can get costly. And, yes, it does look so cool to have that picture with all those 50 schools you applied to and got accepted into, but at the end of the day, you're only gonna be able to choose one. You're only gonna go to one. So don't center your mind around, oh, applying to all so many schools that you lose your mind on where you really wanna go and where you really wanna be. And I would also say don't stress yourself out over a major. That needs to be like the last thing you stress yourself out on.
Speaker 4:Because me personally, as y'all know, like I said, we say multiple times, this is only my first freshman, uh, my first semester, and I've changed my major three times already. I kid y'all not like I've changed it more than once and more than twice. I've already changed it and I said this is the last time I'm changing, but, who knows, I can change it again because of where I am and I have that time, so don't don't stress out over a major. It'll come to you. What you want to do will come to you.
Speaker 4:The next thing I would say is Take it easy for real. It's going to be a big adjustment going from high school to college. You might think you got it and you know it and you're ready to be away. Big adjustment going from high school to college. You might think you got it and you know it and you're ready to be away from mommy and daddy and you can do whatever you want. But take it easy for real. College will chew you up and spit you out if you let it, especially depending on where you go.
Speaker 4:Um, I like to say, like the environment you're raised in the environment you're in, you become a product of that environment, no matter what. If you're in an environment for a certain amount of time, you're going to become, you're going to adapt to what's around you and you're going to start acting a certain way. So I would just say take it easy and don't lose yourself. A lot of people go to college and not even not even lose yourself physically, but just saying lose yourself academically. When you go, lose yourself emotionally and mentally. You go and you just and you start drowning because you're, you want to make it look like you got it all and you're making it happen, you're making it work and I promise you, 95% of people in college don't have it all together. So don't don't feel the need to make it look like you've got it all together and you're just doing it all right and you're just have the perfect life, because I promise you it's not like that.
Speaker 4:The real words is not like that. So just take it easy and and take it one step at a time and stay true to yourself. For sure, those are the biggest things I would say. College is a humbling experience and it it shows, it brings out the true colors of people. So when you decide to go to a college, you decide to go somewhere. Stay true to yourself and always remember that the person next door to you, you don't know them from a can of paint. They don't know you from a can of paint so just like you're figuring out who they are.
Speaker 4:They're figuring out who you are and it just every day comes with new things. And so it's all about you know, taking things one day at a time and going and being steady and sure about your, about what you're doing, because one small mistake can ruin it all for you, especially in in college. I feel like people don't realize things are real. It's not high school, you know. You can have a little mistake and mess up in high school they might brush it under the rug. But college is the adult world and adults handle consequences in that world and there's only adult consequences in that world. So I would just say know what you're getting into, take it one day at a time, stay true to yourself and, just overall, really you know, barrel down and really understand what you're about to and the next journey you're about to embark on your life.
Speaker 2:Wow, girl, you've been here before. You've got too much wisdom to be that, yeah, I'm just playing. That's a blessing. That's a blessing I'm sitting there like, wow, that's so true. I mean because I tell young people everything you said. I have told young people all the time and they're like Ms Mo, it ain't like that, no more. I even had one tell me. You know well, they don't do the things that I'm like look, ain't nothing too much new under the sun. I would not lie to anybody I ever have mentored, ever talked to or anything. I did not like school until I got to college I didn't. And then, when I got to college, I didn't miss anything that happened on either campus, but I knew why I was there and that's important, that that important thing that you know you're like I'm here to take care of business, that's all I'm here for and I like that and I'm proud of you. You know now, kk actually was at our send-off. I think you didn't. You win, you won a prize and you, you know this table was lit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Prairie View table lit. So are you going to come to the send-off this year?
Speaker 2:Because I'm quite sure we're going to have a new person coming to parade. I'm quite sure it's not until June 28th this year, but you know, we do the send-off every year and we, you know, we try to give y'all what we can, what's donated, and then also try to celebrate y'all what we can was donated, and then also try to celebrate y'all. You know, um, because we in the world that they don't really like to celebrate our youth in ways that I I feel they shouldn't. Okay, I can't speak for everybody else, so thank you for coming today. I truly appreciate you giving me time on your break, because you probably, like I don't want to talk about school.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna break when you go back I think the first day we're allowed back on campus is the 13th, but I think our official first day is the 21st oh, lord, that is, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think I like, but if I could reflect back, I like going back back in January because I got to be home. I'm ready to go back to school.
Speaker 4:I don't know. My birthday is on the 25th, so I'm kind of just like maybe I don't know, we'll see how I'm feeling.
Speaker 5:It's a busy month.
Speaker 4:Yes, ma'am, it's a busy month for me, so we'll fit it all in.
Speaker 2:Oh Lord, now if alum, we didn't talk about this earlier. If alum wanted to send you like an email or something, um to reach out to you because she needs help, she done said it and you know, I feel like she challenged all Prairie View alum in this field because she's saying she wants to build relationships with alums so her future is secure. So how can alum reach out to you?
Speaker 4:My school email is very simple. It's K Irving. It's going to be K Irving I-R-V-I-N-G on the screen and then six at PVAMUedu Okay.
Speaker 2:So now have you been to Mr Sinclairlair, because that's one of my good friends. Well, he's like a god brother. He works there. He probably recruited you to go there I need to go.
Speaker 4:I can't if he if he's a military man, I think so, but if he's not, then I need to go stop by his office, because I left campus early when it was time to get up out of there because I was ready to go home to my baby. So I do need to make my rounds in his office again, for sure. But I've been meeting a lot more people, like in the offices and the people who emailed, who email us a lot more just to put names to faces and stuff like that. So I would definitely get around to it, though, for sure wow, look at you.
Speaker 2:I'm so proud of you, girl, you handle the business. I can't wait to these years going to go by so fast, like last year. We had several of our scholars from our first send off graduate from college and I was like, wow, that time went fast. But also we had some of our first students that was in a better chance program graduated too, had some of our first students that was in the Better Chance program graduated too. So I'm just counting down for you.
Speaker 2:I can't say I'm going to come, because people might be jealous because I never make it to anybody's graduation visit. Also, I do watch the stream. So if I tell you I'm coming, you're going to have some people mad at you. So we just going to act like the stream yours, but you and I know. So it has been fun. But we totally got to run. We have enjoyed my good friend. She's my good friend KK. That is just, you know, beyond amazing. I'm extremely proud of you. She's one of our own, san Antonio, but she's a PV. So if you are in the San Antonio alumni chapter of PV or if you are someone that is in the field, please reach out to us. You reach out to us at a better chance, or, like, share the video to someone who can, and we'll catch you next week. We have some amazing young people that have been checking in with me, so till next time, talk with you all later.
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