When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Do you think back on my essay I wrote,
about my goals and ambitions?
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Do you get excited about the football game,
before recalling that I will be the one to make the big plays?
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Do you ever think back to my arguments during class,
the ones that I backed up with statistics and proved you wrong?
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Do you ever wonder how I pull it off,
managing AP classes and Sports and a social life?
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Does it ever hit you that I will be accepted into college,
one that you may have once strived to get into?
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Do you realize that in your train of thought,
you haven't marked one problem wrong.
Fully aware that I will make it.

When you're at your desk grading my paper...
Does it bother you in any way,
that in a few years after college my salary will be doubled yours.
Fully aware that I will make it.