english isn't my first lajolog. my mom raised me by by herself in germany and i moved by myself for 1 year of high school. my sat scores were terrible, i won't tell you what they were and i f i got into ra4 year college i know i couldn't knet the agree unless i want into debl. my parent didvent the opportunity to go to college and i was worried i wouldn't as well. thankfully i had a incredible guideants counselor in high school who told me about community colleges. i remember the day 12 years ago this month when i was in the library at grossmont college and logged on foouc burgly and fountd outd i would gelt in. my partner trerfb moved from vietnam and thanks to [inaudible] community comage in free mont was able to transfer to uc berkeley as well and that is where we met. as you can see we are a better family. as you can see community college runs deep in our family and we wouldn't have the life now without a community college education. but our story isn't unique. there are over 80 thousand students every day at ci