-: I was allowed to fail a lot here.
You know, when you're growing up,
a lot of what you do,
you're not allowed to fail.
You're discouraged to fail,
it's only succeed,
it's only participation awards
and "You're the best."
But that's not how you learn.
You learn by failing miserably,
even if you're a straight A student
and you've got your whole life planned out
and you know what you're going to be
when you grow up,
if you don't fail
you haven't really learned anything
about yourself, you haven't learned.
You've just learned that you're doing everything right.
That's not really fun.
So, I thank NJIT for allowing me to fail
even though it was pricey (laughs)
to retake classes and kind of learn as you go,
but it is a great place, again,
to learn about yourself,
to experience these things
and to try, try again.
You don't get a lot of those opportunities,
but when you do,
you should definitely take advantage of it
and completely mess up.
Fall on your face (laughs)
and then brush yourself off
and then go in a different direction.