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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]
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- 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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