School’s out (forever?)
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
When you’re 17 or 18, you’re often making choices that can dictate the course of your whole life. Making those decisions during a pandemic is even harder. Today we follow three high school friends trying to figure out what comes after graduation when a global pandemic is clouding everything.
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| 0:00.0 | I first met Mayan Alvarado Goldberg in early March before the quarantine. |
| 0:06.3 | It was a warm spring day and the magnolia trees were just starting to bloom at John Marshall |
| 0:11.6 | High School in Los Angeles. |
| 0:13.9 | We're outside. |
| 0:14.9 | The senior courts are right there and the mound is here because the basketball courts where |
| 0:19.2 | I have practice. |
| 0:20.6 | Mayan is a senior here and she was giving us a little tour of the campus. |
| 0:24.4 | Out on the quad, there's just a lot going on. |
| 0:27.4 | Kids are skateboarding. |
| 0:28.6 | There's music blasting and cheerleaders practicing their routines. |
| 0:32.8 | I think they're in like some big competition. |
| 0:35.3 | They just want like Northern Division or something and there's the basketball team. |
| 0:40.2 | The school itself is this big brick building that looks straight out of a movie because it |
| 0:49.2 | is. |
| 0:50.2 | They've shot so many classics here like Greece, School of Rock, Boy meets World, the |
| 0:55.1 | DiCaprio even went to the school. |
| 0:57.5 | Anyway, I digress. |
| 0:59.2 | This is where I have my math class, I have my English class. |
| 1:05.6 | Lining the holes of the main building are all these colorful college banners. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, it's a big thing at our school. |
| 1:11.9 | We have one college counselor for like 2400 kids. |
| 1:15.3 | Oh, whoa. |
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