Graduation Speech: Brandan Mcbride

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Hello Sir, this is Brandan McBride (one of your students). I just wanted to be honest with you and wanted to see if my problem has a solution for it. I'm just going to be honest, lately I have been overwhelmed with school, work, family (I'm helping raise my little sister and it's been a challenge), and my community engagement work. I'm trying to manage all of these, but it's been difficult so I have to cut back on some things. I wanted to know if it's not too late, will you accept my late work. I do understand this my fault and my responsibility to manage this, so this weekend I'm carving out time for the whole weekend to do homework so I will be caught back up with school. I also cut back on my other involvements this week too so I can make

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