Last Hurrah

They stayed at school until 5:00 PM every day, a lot of them until 6 or 7. They rode the T before sunrise and after dark an hour or more, one way. They had six day school weeks as sophomores. They passed with a 70. They took BU classes, AP classes. They came from beautiful homes and broken homes and no homes. And they're all going to college. All of them. They're not the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's really hoping makes it happen... they made it happen. They're so money and they don't even know it.

My freshmen are officially MATCH graduates. All five of my MATCH Corps year tutees made it, by hook or by crook (nah, they're straight shooters), all the way to college. Spelman, UMass, Northeastern, MCLA. Check out my dude Chance sporting the ill honors threads. My dude.

And, inevitably, the 2010 graduation video I spent the last few weeks throwing together. It's the last silly youtube fodder celebratory movie I'll make for MATCH. Sniff. I think it's my magnum opus. Jump to 2:30 to see the lively part.