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00:03

Cooperation in Class…..a la Shmoop.

00:06

Your chemistry teacher loves labs.

00:09

Er…not that kind of lab. Although…who wouldn't love that face? [A dog in a lab coat]

00:12

We're talking about lab experiments.

00:14

You know, the kind where you and your classmates pair up, put on oversized lab coats… [Lab partners put on lab coats]

00:19

…and pretend to be Dr. Frankenstein and Igor while mixing chemicals that fifteen-year-olds

00:23

maybe shouldn't be trusted with?

00:25

What? Hair grows back. …Not that we know from…personal experience…ahem. [Girl in a lab with a bald head]

00:30

Anyway, chances are good that you’re not gonna get through high school science without

00:34

spending some time with a lab partner.

00:37

Okay, so sure…you and your partner may not be knitting afghans for one another and finishing [Two women knitting afghans]

00:41

each other’s sentences…

00:43

…but you’re going to have to get along and work side by side.

00:45

Unless you're our good pal, Barry. [Two students in a lab and Barry appears]

00:47

Barry decided he didn't need to collaborate with his lab partner, Kyle.

00:51

Kyle was just slowing him down anyway. And man, can that kid talk…

00:55

So even though there's no possible way for Barry to pour the solution he needs to, measure [Barry struggles to pour the correct measure of solution]

00:59

out different chemicals, and take detailed lab notes all by himself…

01:02

…he doesn't bother trying to make it work with Kyle. [Barry angry at Kyle's scribbled lab notes]

01:05

…Not even when Kyle starts warning him that he's mixing the wrong chemicals.

01:09

We don't know about you, but we think Barry can actually pull off the "no eyebrow" look. [Barry by the school bus with no eye brows]

01:14

Maybe you're thinking you can struggle through four years of tedious collaboration in high school…

01:18

…then move on to bigger and better things in college and beyond…and do it all by your lonesome.

01:22

No dice.

01:24

The whole “collaborating with a partner” thing doesn’t end in high school. [Barry sitting on a two person bike alone]

01:27

In fact, it’s just the beginning of the wonderful world of collaboration.

01:30

Or…the terrible world of collaboration, depending on who you get paired up with. [Barry stood outside a theatre]

01:35

But either way…you’re gonna have to suck it up.

01:37

In college, in the dreaded "real world," heck, even when you settle down and start a family… [Barry sat with his wife and child]

01:41

…you’ll be collaborating every step of the way.

01:44

And if you don't, well…

01:45

We hope you like failing college courses, getting fired from jobs, and sleeping on the couch. [Barry being fired from his job and sleeping on a couch]

01:49

And the “no eyebrows” look…

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