(softly, ascending) Oh my — Oh my God! Oh my g— Oh my g--
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Oh my God!!! Oh my (covers mouth)!
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ohmygodohmygodohmygod!
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Oh my — Oh my god!! *normal voice* Oh my god.
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Oh my god! Oh - my - God!! (increases in speed and loudness)
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I just need to like --
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I just need to run.
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What? (existential crisis)
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What? In the world!
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Oh my God! Oh my God... Oh my God...
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Oh my God. Oh my God.
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[cheerful yelling with laughing in the background]
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I—I still can't believe it,
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I can't process it,
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means so much more to me than you guys know.
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You can't really see my face so I'm gonna take this off, but *kiss*
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Getting into UCLA means so much more than getting into a great school.
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It is a fantastic school; it's extremely hard to get into.
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But it means so much more to me than, "Now I can get into a great school!"
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Sorry if this is like, a little bit jumbled around. I'm still very much in shock and I don't have any like, talking points or anything.
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I'm just gonna ramble.
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I just wanna talk to guys about this whole situation.
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I waited to tell you guys, 'cause I wanted to make sure that I was actually going before I told anybody.
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It would suck if I was like,
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"I got into UCLA, but I'm not going..."
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I am going. Now, now I know that I'm actually going.
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I was on the waitlist,
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It's very, very hard to get in off the waitlist, so
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at that point I was kind of just accepting, that,
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"Oh, I didn't get in. That's okay, you can go to another school."
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And when I found out that I got in, I was really confused because my
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grades, and my SAT scores, and my ACT scores were not high.
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They didn't show that I was some genius, but,
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I got in because of my essays and because of my extra-curriculars and
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how passionate I was about everything.
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I guess it just showed me that all the work I put in
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and how, almost maniacally, I worked
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for my whole life, on something that wasn't school
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wasn't crazy. That it was worth it.
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And that I wasn't wasting my time.
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I got in UCLA because of my essays that I wrote. Not because of my grades, because
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of my essays. And two out of the four of my essays were about the things that I learned through my journey of making videos
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and talking to you guys.
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I learned so much about making videos.
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But the thing that I learned the most about was people.
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I learned so much about how you treat people, and how people treat you,
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and how the world reacts to things,
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and what to do in certain situations.
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And I learned so, so, so much about people, because
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And that's what I wrote about in my essays.
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It's crazy that this thing that I did —
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making videos — has come full-circle, and
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now I got into the college that I've been wanting to go to since I was in elementary school.
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Because of you guys.
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So. there's nothing I can really say other than thank you.
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Thank you very, very much.
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Um, there's, I — There's no way I could thank you enough with words, just.
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Thank you. It really means a lot.
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When I was younger, I really didn't think that
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I'm going to get emotional, dang it.
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When I was younger I didn't really think that I was going to have a very bright future.
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Because I was in a bad situation,
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and making videos for me was, really, a way for me to escape.
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I worked so hard on these
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for so long since I was in elementary school
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because I always had this dream
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that, if I did well on this, that I could
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move away and I could
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pave my own future, that was unlike
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the one that I was destined to have,
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due to my circumstances.
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And that whole time I was working so hard, and staying up 'til 3 in the morning during middle school and high school,
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that whole time I really felt crazy. I felt so stupid for wasting so much of my time and so much of my youth on making videos.
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But I kept doing it because I still had that dream, I still had that dream. But I felt so crazy for having that dream, but
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getting into UCLA is proof that I wasn't crazy. And it's proof that all that hard work paid off in the end
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and that it's not stupid to dream so big.
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It's not stupid; it's never stupid to dream big.
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Despite what every single adult told me, and even my peers telling me,
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"You can't do that. You're not gonna be able to do that."
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I don't know. It still happened.
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It still worked out.
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Getting into this school means so much more than just getting into this school.
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Where I’m from, and all the things that happened to me —
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so many things I haven’t told you, and so many things that I haven’t told anybody —
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I really didn’t ever think I was going to be able to…
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Be right here, where I am right now:
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in a room with a roof over my head and, and in a safe home, and...
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going to a great school, and being able to follow my dreams.
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All those things, I didn’t think I was going to be able to do.
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Because of this, just, unfathomable support that I’ve had from, from you guys,
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I was able to do all those things! And it’s mind-boggling because,
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at this point of my life, all these big goals that I’ve been
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trying to achieve for so long have been achieved,
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and I almost don’t know what to do with myself now.
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I guess, just, set even bigger goals —
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which is gonna be hard to do because I already thought this was crazy.
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I’m already past the point of sappiness, but…
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This is really a sappy moment for me. It means the entire world to me.
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Being able to follow my dreams is something I didn’t think I would ever be able to do, so.
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Because of you guys, and because of all the friends I have who…
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Opened their arms to me so willingly,
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and brought me into their homes and took care of me;
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all of the families who loved me like I was their son;
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and my parents; and… Just everybody who helped me so much,
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without me ever being able to repay them. I have to say thank you.
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‘Cause this wasn’t me. I didn’t get into this school because of me.
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I don’t have this job because of me. It’s not me, it’s you guys.
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And it’s all those people who… Who loved me so much, without… question.
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And I guess I will be moving to Los Angeles in a… Pretty soon.
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Um, there’s still a lot to do before I go to school.
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There’s still a small chance that I won’t even be able to go to this school.
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But if everything goes as planned, I will be going to UCLA, which is crazy!
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I can’t believe I’m saying that! I can’t believe those words are coming out of my mouth!
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I’m guessing a bunch of you guys are gonna ask what my scores are.
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I got a 1290 on the SAT, and a 26 on the ACT.
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If you know anything about college, those scores are very low for a school like UCLA.
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My GPA was a 4.3. I took a lot of AP classes, I worked my butt off,
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and I think that the school saw that I worked my butt off.
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I really did work my butt off; everyone around me knows how much I worked my butt off.
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That’s why I ain’t got no butt. It’s gone!
I worked it right off.
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I guess this is happening!
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Thank you for everything, everybody. Thank you for everything.
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I’ll see you in a few days with a brand new video.
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God bless and goodbye!
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