#20 Soraya

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships, Comedy

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When Soraya was in college, her favorite professor hired her on to help research a book she was writing. But when she fell into a deep depression and dropped out of school, she abandoned both the book as well as the professor who’d shown her so much kindness. Now, with Jonathan’s help, Soraya wants to make things right—with a grand gesture.

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0:00.0	I've been getting the feeling that you've been avoiding my calls.
0:07.0	I've been getting the feeling that you've been avoiding my calls. No, whatever gives you that idea.
0:15.0	So you mean my paranoia is true?
0:18.0	Yes, I've been avoiding my...
0:20.0	is true?
0:21.0	Yes, I've been avoiding. You have been avoiding my calls. That means everyone's
0:27.4	really out to get me. Do any of your friends like you anymore? I have a don't ask don't tell policy about it.
0:34.0	From gimlet media I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this is heavyweight.
0:47.0	Today's episode, Serraia. In the fall of 2015, Sirea began
0:54.0	her
0:55.0	in her in in
0:58.0	in in the fall of 2015
1:02.0	Sireia began her freshman year at Harvard.
1:05.0	She was studying history, a subject that she's loved ever since she was a kid.
1:11.0	The person that gave me my love of history was my the dad.
1:14.0	We would always watch documentaries together, which is one of my favorite things.
1:18.0	Shortly after getting to Harvard,
1:21.0	Serra met Professor Alyssa Mount Pleasant.
1:24.1	Suria liked the Lissa right away. She was a Native American history
1:28.4	professor studying indigenous people.
1:30.8	Suria also wanted to tell the stories of people without a complete people. the type of history I wanted to do and the type of history that I love.
1:43.8	She is a woman of color.
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