I can’t tell you how many people told me I that I wouldn’t make it to graduation, that I would amount to nothing. In a little over a month I will be graduating. I will have proved my family wrong, and hopefully I’ll get the recognition that I’ve been hoping for since I started middle school. I may not be the smartest student, graduating at 28th in my class (out of 46) but I will have done it on my own, and it will possibly be one of my greater achievements.