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00:00

Thank you We sneak in achievement and excellence in school

00:06

work Allah shmoop james dean no relation is a student

00:10

at brainy high You may not smoke cigarettes or wear

00:13

leather jackets or lather a ton of product in his

00:15

hair but well like his namesake he is a rebel

00:18

without a cause From the moment james enters the doors

00:21

of his school to the time the final bell rings

00:24

james brain is a pretty much on strike If his

00:27

geometry teacher starts talking about the pythagorean theorem well it

00:31

zones out begins replaying an episode of sons of anarchy

00:34

instead If his english teacher starts detail ing the themes

00:38

in grapes of wrath well his brain switches gears and

00:41

fantasizes about what it might be like to date Katie

00:43

whiffle and his chemistry teacher starts going over the periodic

00:46

table while the brain shuts down completely because well james

00:49

really just doesn't see the point as far as he's

00:51

concerned school is prison the result of a sentence he

00:54

has unfairly received in one which he must suffer and

00:57

struggle through until graduation or until his appeal is granted

01:00

whichever comes first In the meantime he plans to do

01:03

as little as humanly possible you know escaped by with

01:05

d's and the occasional c minus in p e and

01:07

then get out of dodge He knows getting a diploma

01:10

is important so he wouldn't dream of dropping out physically

01:13

anyway But james misjudges things a tad thinking he's got

01:17

the grades that past the ninth grade He slacks on

01:19

finals and suddenly he's being told he gets to do

01:22

it all over again next year It's almost like he

01:25

got trying to escape via the perimeter fence And he

01:27

has another year added to his sentence is punishment don't

01:30

Well so james does slightly more work the next time

01:33

around he passes the ninth grade barely and moves on

01:35

to a sophomore year again He does the bare minimum

01:38

and again his junior year and again a senior year

01:40

And he does get that diploma You're later than all

01:42

his friends did And he's released Oh sweet freedom You

01:45

know like that scene from shawshank redemption Time for james

01:48

to get a job What will it be Music producer

01:50

astronauts and on wall street guys The limit right No

01:54

actually turns out grounds the limit with no college education

01:57

And high school transcripts that would make anyone cry James

02:00

is qualified for exactly well bacchus he gets a fast

02:04

food job This is not what he wanted in his

02:06

life He always saw himself Is someone bigger and better

02:08

and he definitely saw himself doing something that earned him

02:11

more than ten bucks an hour how's he supposed to

02:13

afford video games on that salary And like when can

02:15

he afford to move out of mom's basement The one

02:17

day james looks in the mirror and decides to turn

02:20

things around he attends a community college really applies himself

02:23

this time It ain't easy because he's well he's pretty

02:26

daft that tends to happen when you don't pay attention

02:28

in class for thirteen years but eventually he sticks with

02:32

it and he starts to get it actually posts amazing

02:34

bees for once in his life uses his halfway decent

02:37

grades is a stepping stone to get into a reasonably

02:39

respectable state university graduates with a ba in business administration

02:44

and just like that he's on his way to something

02:45

bigger and better if only he weren't getting their three

02:48

years later than all his peers That's three x years

02:50

of schooling Three fewer years for an income that could

02:52

be an invested Three few years of living comfortably and

02:56

well realizing that a little concentration hard work on the

02:59

front and could've paid huge dividends in the future Ah

03:02

well and he can't ever have his lost years back

03:04

But at least he got in there In the end

03:06

they will lay off him Now it seems we're tearing 00:03:09.018 --> [endTime] him apart

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