Name: 【TED-Ed】我的人生故事 - 瑪莉莎 Meet Melissa Perez
Uploaded: 2013-10-09T17:34:07.000Z
Duration: 2 min 34 s

I was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City,

我在紐約市的布朗克斯（Bronx）出生長大

Going to a school that has metal detectors is stressful.

學校用金屬探測器檢查手機 讓人壓力很大。

You have to stand in line 25 minutes to an hour.

你可能要排 25 分鐘到一小時的隊。

because I knew they didn't take attendance first and second.

是因為我知道前兩堂課不會點名。

So, basically, if you were going third period,

所以基本上，如果你有去第三堂，

they would mark you present for the whole day.

Getting pregnant changed my approach tremendously.

I thought, "I'm pregnant, I don't have a diploma.

我想： 「我懷孕了，我沒有文憑。

So what I am I going to be working the rest of my life?

我剩下的人生要做什麼樣的工作？

每小時 7.25 元？ （譯註：約 210 新臺幣。）

No! I have to graduate and go to college."

不對！我必須要畢業然後上大學。」

Being a mom, still going to high school is, ummm,

overwhelming, I would say, at the beginning,

but I had this math teacher who encouraged me

She always said that she saw something in me.

She was like, "I know there's something inside you there

她會說： 「我知道你身體裡有股

because she knows that my favorite subject is math.

因為她知道我最愛的科目是數學。

She's always like, "Melissa, figure this out.

她總是說： 「Melissa，想想這題！

After I had my baby, I got my head into the game

It made me have a total different visual for my future.

它讓我對未來有完全不一樣的視野。