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Episode 09: It's Up to You ACT III |
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I had an interview today, too. |
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I had a great interview |
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with Admissions at Columbia University. |
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Really? |
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What did they say? |
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Will you get into the school? |
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Well, they didn't say anything for sure. |
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But I figure that with my grades and with my personality, |
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I'll have no problem. |
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Columbia's a terrific school. |
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What are you going to do? |
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Do? I don't know. |
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I also applied to NYU. |
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You sound excited about Columbia. |
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What's your problem, Mike? |
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Indecision. Indecision. |
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It's not easy, |
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and this is an important decision we have to make. |
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What about you? |
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How was your interview with Michigan? |
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The interview was fine. |
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It's a great college. |
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It is. |
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My father would like me to go there. |
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He and my Grandpa both went there. |
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Great medical school, too. |
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I know. |
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You can follow in your father's footsteps. |
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Ah! I'd like to follow in my own footsteps, Mike. |
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What do you want to study? |
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I've been thinking. |
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I think I want to study journalism |
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to be a reporter--a newspaperman. |
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You do a pretty good job on the Riverdale High School paper. |
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And I've been thinking about it a lot lately. |
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Have you discussed it with your parents? |
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No. But I have to. |
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OK. Let's talk. |
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Hi, Son. Is everything all right? |
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Hi, Dad. Everything's fine. |
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I was just waiting for you to get home |
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so we could talk. |
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Anything special you want to talk about? |
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There is, Dad. |
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I'm listening. |
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Well, I know you and Mom have given up a lot |
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to save money for my college tuition. |
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We want you to go to college, Robbie. |
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I know. I do. |
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But? |
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Well, I've thought a lot about which college, |
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and one of them is Columbia. |
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Columbia? Why Columbia? |
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First, they have an excellent School of Journalism. |
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They do. |
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And your friends are planning to go to Columbia? |
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That's only part of it. |
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It's complicated. |
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I'll try to explain. |
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Mike and I had a hamburger this afternoon, and we talked. |
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Yes? |
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Well, we talked about a lot of things. |
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He applied to Columbia, |
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and his interview was very successful. |
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He thinks he'll be accepted, |
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and he really wants to go there. |
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Dean Rafer called me today. |
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He told me he was very impressed with you. |
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He's a nice man. |
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He was very kind. |
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He told me |
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you had some doubts about wanting to go to Michigan. |
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Yes. I do. |
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I'm just not sure about what I want to do. |
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That's OK. |
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You understand? |
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Let me tell you something, Robbie. |
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Something that might be surprising to you. |
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What? Tell me. |
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Well, Grandpa wanted me to study engineering, like him. |
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Well, I wasn't clear about my future, |
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but I knew engineering was not for me. |
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What did you tell Grandpa? |
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The truth. |
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Then you're not upset |
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about my not wanting to go into medicine? |
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I'm not upset at all. |
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I'm just happy that we're able to talk about it. |
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I am too, Dad. |
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I suppose you want to apply to Columbia. |
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Yes, but I also want to apply to several other colleges. |
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I thought you wanted to go to Columbia. |
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Well, I might want to go to Columbia. |
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But I might not. |
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I just want to be able to make my own decision. |
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You're a real Stewart! |
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And if I think about it long enough, you never know ... |
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Never know what? |
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If I make my own decision, |
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I might choose Michigan. |
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Robbie, you're something! |
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You know, when I was your age, |
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I said exactly the same thing to Grandpa. |