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>> Hi, I'm Danielle Duran, and I worked
for Teach for America for seven years.

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Two of those years was as a corps member in,
starting in 2004 I'm actually often asked

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about what the most difficult
part about transitioning is,

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so I'll talk a little bit about that.

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As a student, you're very much in charge of your
schedule, and for most people during the corps,

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it's one of their first jobs straight out
college, and just the first job straight

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out of college is always challenging.

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But this is a particularly challenging job.

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Being a teacher is a really tough
job, no matter where you're teaching.

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All of our schools are typically fairly
low-income and very low-performing,

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mostly very underperforming, so you
are working with a group of students

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that are very far behind, and you're bringing
them up to speed or pushing them ahead.

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A lot of people that apply to Teach for
America are very high-achieving people.

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So typically, presidents of organizations on
campus, really high GPAs, people that probably,

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since their earliest memories, have succeeded
at pretty much everything they've ever done.

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And this is not something that pretty
much anyone ever succeeds at right away,

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so one of the biggest challenges is working
really hard at something and feeling

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like you're giving it your all, and
you're not succeeding right away.

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So that's one of the challenges that most
people find most difficult in the beginning.

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And all I can say to that is you'll be fine.

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It will --

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>> It happens to the best of us.

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>> Yeah, it happens to everybody.

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Anyone listening to this is probably
sitting at the computer thinking, "Not me;

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I will be the one that succeeds."

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No. But you will do amazing things.

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You just have to -- you'll get through.

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You'll get amazing support.