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  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • This scholarship afforded our scholars a loan-free education.

  • Ellen and Walmart definitely changed our lives.

  • All the things you taught me, I'm gonna do it in college.

  • You're gonna see how great I am at doing it, too.

  • I went from high school basketball

  • to college basketball.

  • It's a lot more competition and a lot more bigger guys,

  • a lot more faster guys, a lot more stronger guys.

  • I feel like I've been here for, like, three months.

  • In reality, I've only been here for, like, three weeks.

  • You know who would look great in this?

  • Me.

  • That's my friend.

  • In a community where only 4% of the kids

  • go to college, students come from homes where

  • the homes sometimes have no food,

  • these kids have overcome all kinds of things.

  • And all they want to do is go to college.

  • And we reached out to the people at Walmart.

  • They want to give each one of you a four-year scholarship.

  • [CHEERING]

  • I cannot wait to see in four years what these young people

  • are going to do.

  • I can't wait to see how we helped launch their lives.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • I need study sessions tonight.

  • I'm gonna start going to the library.

  • The library helps.

  • Yeah, 'cause me trying to study on my own never worked.

  • I've been in school for a month now.

  • Like, the environment, it's much different from Brooklyn.

  • Everyone's really accepting here,

  • and they do stuff differently.

  • So it's cool fitting in.

  • I was thinking about how the campus is actually not

  • as big as I thought.

  • Because we can walk from all the way out here--

  • It's 'cause we've been walking here for mad long.

  • So now you got used to it.

  • Yeah, we're used to it now.

  • We're usually out here playing basketball

  • till, like, 10:30, 11:00.

  • I don't have to hear my mom calling or texting me saying,

  • you've been playing basketball for too long.

  • You've got to come home now.

  • Let me see that, Kojo.

  • There you go.

  • There you go.

  • You just now.

  • Game motion, game motion.

  • Bucket.

  • So we found out recently that Albany

  • has done a lot of recruiting.

  • They do have a 15-man roster.

  • So now they're filled on the team-wise.

  • But I'm always in the gym, always putting up

  • shots on myself.

  • My goal was always to be on the team,

  • and that's still gonna be my goal at the end of the year.

  • If it doesn't work out, I'm still

  • gonna be playing basketball.

  • And from there on, I guess I'll see what happens.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • Hi!

  • Oh, my god!

  • Hey, guys!

  • Hi, my babies!

  • We miss you.

  • We miss you guys, too.

  • Yeah.

  • How's it going?

  • Pretty good.

  • Everything's been good so far.

  • Have you met any new Miss Campbells and Miss Swifts yet?

  • No.

  • Definitely not.

  • That's what we wanted to hear.

  • The one and only.

  • Yeah, I got a B-plus on my first paper.

  • Excellent.

  • Congratulations.

  • That's awesome.

  • Very nice.

  • So how are we gonna change that B-plus into an A?

  • Going to office hours.

  • Ah.

  • Excellent.

  • Lovely, lovely, lovely.

  • That's excellent.

  • So our scholars, class of 2017, they

  • are constantly texting us, calling us, FaceTiming us,

  • sending us lots of pictures.

  • They're having a really great time.

  • All right.

  • Guys, take care.

  • We love you.

  • Bye, guys.

  • Bye.

  • Take care.

  • Bye.

  • Bye, guys.

  • Take care.

  • Knowing that our scholars are not struggling in college,

  • it's a tremendous feeling.

  • They have become acclimated to an environment that's

  • completely different from where they grew up.

  • And their motivation is based on wanting

  • to succeed for themselves, wanting to succeed for Summit,

  • and then wanting to succeed for Ellen, for Walmart,

  • and everyone else who is invested in their future.

  • How do you feel?

  • Well, I be kind of crazy, a little bit like a proud mama.

  • They look like little adults.

  • They look more mature.

  • They do look a little bit more mature.

  • Even though they're far away from us, they're not alone.

  • You know what I mean?

  • I miss them.

  • Yeah.

  • I miss-- every group has their own energy.

  • Sure.

  • This group, their energy was powerful.

  • You felt them in the building.

  • I'm just excited that someone else saw what we see every day.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • Melick's on the 10th, and Nyasha's on the 12th.

  • So we're going to the 12th.

  • It's like a routine now.

  • Every time I get out of class, let me just check up on Nyasha,

  • and then we're doing.

  • We're still close.

  • We still talk.

  • We have our occasional catching up.

  • It's definitely nice.

  • It's definitely helpful because it's like--

  • it's not only because we make each our own friends,

  • and then we go and we have this group.

  • Right now, it's just her whole suite

  • and I are just a whole family.

  • Are you guys doing bets.

  • Again?

  • Yeah.

  • She lost already.

  • What's the bet?

  • I don't want to talk about it.

  • Every time you win, it's like, oh,

  • you're just some holy child that so

  • happened to win Uno when you be cheating.

  • Shuffle the cards, please.

  • Why you being so hostile?

  • Yeah, I hang out with Melick a lot.

  • He's in my room a lot of the times.

  • I'm not really in his room as much.

  • But my suitemates, they say he basically lives there.

  • I'm the best roommate they got here.

  • Melick.

  • Melick is--

  • I pick up four.

  • He takes up a lot of space.

  • I kind of moved into her suite because no one

  • wants to be in a suite that has three rooms

  • and open space alone.

  • I mean, it's been clean and untouched for a while.

  • Nyasha's suitemates, they're really outgoing

  • and really charming people.

  • They don't care.

  • Like, they-- oh, hey.

  • Hi, Melick.

  • And when I'm not there, they really

  • question me as if I live there.

  • So I said, well, why not move in?

  • All his stuff is here.

  • See the name on the door?

  • Mine Mine.

  • We were gonna start charging him rent.

  • But--

  • Charging me rent?

  • Back when we all first moved in, I didn't really know him.

  • So it was kind of like, why is he always around?

  • Are they--

  • Who's this boy that always comes in?

  • Who is this boy that-- why is he not knocking?

  • He thinks he owns the place or something.

  • But he's always looking out for us, though.

  • He's cool.

  • Where the rest of y'all shirts at?

  • My shirt covers everything.

  • I don't know what--

  • This is it.

  • You missing the bottom layer.

  • Nyasha, you're missing half of your shirt.

  • You ain't talking.

  • You pulling up your pants not gonna make your shirt

  • get any lower.

  • Well, my stomach is not showing as much as--

  • I can see your belly button.

  • Listen--

  • Oh, exactly!

  • Where you sleeves at?

  • Yeah.

  • Hmm.

  • Oh, my sleeves.

  • And I wear the rest of my shirt.

  • My shirt is not all the way up here.

  • All right.

  • But it's all the way up there.

  • It's hot.

  • It's 90 degrees outside.

  • It's hot.

  • 90 degrees outside.

  • We're not dating.

  • There's no update.

  • No, we're not dating.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • Ooh, this is our nursing building.

  • I'll get to take a lot of classes here next year.

  • I want to be a nurse practitioner in the cancer

  • department, with cancer kids.

  • I like to help people.

  • And cancer patients go through a lot.

  • So I want to be the person there that make them happy.

  • Oh, look at this.

  • Oh, look at the baby.

  • This is so cute!

  • I've never even been here before.

  • This is my first time really being here.

  • This is really nice.

  • I can't wait.

  • Look.

  • This is a needle.

  • OK, so look.

  • I know how to do this to him.

  • I'm gonna show you.

  • You take this, right?

  • And you take the needle.

  • You put it in his arm.

  • So this is where the IV go.

  • So you know-- you saw the things I just showed you in your room?

  • You twist it onto this.

  • And then this stands on top of the thing.

  • And then you have it up, and then it drips in.

  • And he has oxygen. Stethoscopes.

  • Best things ever.

  • It makes me excited to get to work because now, I'm

  • gonna really be doing it.

  • Like To even be a nurse, it makes me excited.

  • Yeah, I have a lot to learn.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • What's up, Ruddy?

  • Hey, bro.

  • What you doing right now.

  • I'm walking back to my dorm.

  • I want a bacon cheeseburger.

  • Ruddy, are you gaining weight?

  • No.

  • You want to see my body?

  • I'm not gaining.

  • Yeah, it looks like you're losing weight.

  • No one can replace Melick.

  • Not one person can replace him.

  • Melick has a special part in my life.

  • What's up, bro.

  • What's up, bro.

  • How's Purchase?

  • How's college?

  • Purchase is doing really well.

  • I'm having a good time.

  • Oh, you should come to culture shock.

  • Oh, you scared me.

  • Melick, drop that beat.

  • Hi.

  • Say hi to Sharinel.

  • Who's that?

  • Quincy.

  • Quincy!

  • Hi, Quincy!

  • In Summit, everybody knows everybody.

  • I feel like I still have a little connection of home here.

  • Guess who?

  • I'm recording for everybody.

  • Ruddy?

  • Yeah, sure.

  • Nyasha!

  • Hey, Quince!

  • I was like, wait.

  • Guess who.

  • Hey, what's up?

  • Hey!

  • Best friend.

  • What you doing?

  • Nyasha.

  • I do miss her a lot.

  • It's like she was my right-hand woman when

  • I was feeling low and stuff.

  • Quincy, I don't want you to go.

  • Please don't cry.

  • I don't want you to go.

  • I really do miss her.

  • My best friend.

  • Hey, girl!

  • Hey!

  • How you doing?

  • Hey, Kea.

  • Oh, Keanna!

  • I miss you, stink.

  • I miss you, Kea.

  • I miss you, Keanna.

  • I like how your head just took over the camera.

  • Who was that?

  • That's Nyasha.

  • Hey, it's me.

  • And that's Sharinel.

  • Hi.

  • Melick's like a brother to me.

  • He's gonna be great.

  • He's gonna be the best at everything he does.

  • He's gonna be the best 'cause I love him.

  • OK, Keanna, go take your nap.

  • Love you.

  • Love you.

  • Say I love you too.

  • Love you!

  • I love you more.

  • I've spoken to almost the entire senior class.

  • I feel like they're still here.

  • They still call.

  • They still text, still have the same jokes.

  • And I feel like it's an easy transition having them

  • there with me.

  • So I was on the phone with my niece the other day.

  • And they're missing me and stuff back home.

  • And I do miss them, too.

  • But I know they're going to be next.

  • They're gonna make it out of the Hook next, which is--

  • it should be everyone's goal, you know?

  • I'm so glad I left an impact on their life

  • to have the same mindset and mentality as I do,

  • which makes me truly happy, you know?

  • I think I have become more independent

  • now that I'm in college.

  • I don't depend on my mom for everything.

  • I get things by myself now because I have to.

  • I'm not really sure if I've changed.

  • But I've felt like I'm becoming more mature because I

  • have responsibilities.

  • And all these responsibilities are

  • getting done because of me and not because of anybody else.

  • Growing up with both my parents, they've

  • always been on top of me.

  • And they're always like, oh, did you

  • do the homework for that night?

  • Here, they're just hoping I have that nice outcome.

  • And they're just expecting a lot from me.

  • And the onus is on me.

  • My mom pushed me so hard to finish school.

  • School is the only thing that Mom wanted me to do,

  • just do good in school for me.

  • Ellen made it possible for me to make my mom proud.

  • That's all I want to do, is make my mom and my family proud.

  • Being that Ellen and Walmart gave us such a good gift,

  • I'm really here.

  • I'm in college.

  • And I was thinking without that, where would I really be?

  • Probably taking out a lot of loans.

  • But I've put myself to a higher standard,

  • that if I got lower than a 3.5 GPA,

  • that I would feel like I'm letting everybody down.

  • Having this scholarship, it's definitely a motivation.

  • I'm here for a reason.

  • I'm gonna get what I have to get done.

  • I can't let my family down.

  • I can't let Ellen down.

  • Can't let Walmart down because these are the people that

  • invested in my time.

  • And they believed in me.

  • I have to work hard.

  • And I have to show them that this wasn't a mistake.

  • [MUSIC - COLDPLAY, "FIX YOU"]

  • Tears streaming down your face when you lose something

  • you could not replace.

  • Tears streaming down your face.

  • And I--

  • Tears streaming down your face.

  • I promise you I will learn from my mistakes.

  • Tears streaming down your face.

  • And I--

  • Lights will guide you home.

  • Ellen gave us a blessing.

  • We get to start something new.

  • It still doesn't feel real.

  • It changed my life.

  • I don't have to worry about how I'm gonna pay for school.

  • It's crazy.

  • [MUSIC - COLDPLAY, "FIX YOU"]

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