【正文】 t you39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not you are right now doesn39。t have to determine where you39。ll end one39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。t speak English when she first started of her parents had gone to she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being 39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his he never fell 39。s headed to college this then there39。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the 39。s why today I39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand do everything you can to meet goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a you39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and you39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV are you39。re not going to be any of those truth is, being successful is won39。t love every subject that you won39。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you 39。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。ve had the most 39。swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that39。s why I succeed.” These people succeeded because they understood that you can39。t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn39。t mean you39。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。t mean you39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time one39。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。t hit every note the first time you sing a 39。ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。s good enough to hand 39。t be afraid to ask 39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn39。t a sign of weakness, it39。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。t know something, and that then allows you to learn something find an adult that you trusta parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselorand ask them to help you stay on track to meet your even when you39。re struggling, even when you39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your story of America isn39。t about people who quit when things got 39。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their 39。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。who fought for civil rights and put a man on the who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each today, I want to ask all of you, what39。s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these 39。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you39。ve got to do your part, I expect all of you to get serious this expect you to put your best effort into eve