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You have a minute?
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Sure.
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Yeah, come -- come on in.
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I thought that no students
were allowed
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in the teachers' lounge.
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I won't squeal on you.
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Yeah. Take a seat?
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What can I do for you?
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I want to know why I got
a B-minus on my paper.
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You got what you earned.
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Nobody else in that class
can write, and you know it!
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Everyone knows it.
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Don't worry about
everyone else.
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You're not competing
with them.
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But I am.
I am competing with them.
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When I apply to colleges --
you might have heard of this --
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they look at these things
called "grades."
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And if your grades aren't
good enough, then --
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Your grade's gonna be fine.
:16:50
Vincent Piscella writes a story
about his grandmother dying,
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and you give him an A-plus.
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Meanwhile,
the night of the funeral,
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you know where Rhodes Scholar
Vince is?
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Getting smashed at a basketball
party and slapping girls' asses.
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I mean, what is that?
A charity A-plus?
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I mean,
everyone is always writing
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about their grandmothers dying,
and you know why?
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It's not because
it's so traumatic.
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It's because
it's a guaranteed A-plus!
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And you're
all sentimental like,
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"Oh, Vince, that was very
powerful, very moving."
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No, it wasn't.
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You didn't care.
I didn't care.
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Nobody cared.
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That's what grandmothers do.
They die!
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Sometimes...guys have a hard
time showing their emotions.
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So...
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Slapping my ass --
that's, uh --
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Vince's way of mourning
his dead grandmother?
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What did your mother say
when you -- when you got that?
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When I got what?
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Yeah.
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"Where did you get
the money for that?"
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Oh.
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- And?
- And what did I say or...
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Where did I get the money?