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Right, So I'm just going to 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.880 jump I'll just jump right into it. Is college still 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.240 necessary to be successful? Or it wasn't really ever necessary, 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.360 but in today's society it's college still necessary, still needed. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.480 I mean I think that college, I mean it's not needed, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.639 it's I mean, it's something that you can do to 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:51.640 it's something that's possible. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.160 I think should be an option, right. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.200 I don't think it should be forced upon that people 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.200 have to go to college. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:57.120 I know. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.359 I will say there's other ways of being success full 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.000 and go into certain fields that college is not needed 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.360 as much as it was five years ago. But some 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.639 things you do need, like if you want to be 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.320 a lawyer or a doctor, or you're in a stem 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.079 fields like college can be very productive. But then there's 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.200 some other majors where honestly you can you can learn 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.880 on YouTube, or you can learn about reading books, or 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.079 you can learn about just doing so, I don't think 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.440 it has to be a necessary thing to go to college, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.800 but I do think it should still be an option. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.760 Yeah, I think also one of the biggest things about 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.920 college are the networks and the relationships that are made. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.960 So it's very far and. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.400 Few in between that you get to sit in a 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:40.080 room with a doctor, a future lawyer, a future dentist, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.480 a future teacher and have conversations that are not about 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.040 your fields of study. And because we all know that 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.360 once we get into our you know, our real lives 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.440 after college, it starts to become a little bit closer 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.360 in the bubble where you're just dealing with people who 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.800 are who have similar interests. So college, for that particular space, 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.760 there's not many any other places that create that type 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.520 of environment. And academically there are some fields that do 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.000 still need it. But you know, I think that these institutions, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.200 a lot of them are just not created for the 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.080 benefit of the students. I mean, there are a number 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.080 of colleges and universities that are doing that work, but 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.560 I think there are a lot that are scamming people, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.000 and I think there are a lot that are not 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:23.719 doing the work. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.760 It used to be looked at as a badge into 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.799 middle class life. But you had to have that piece 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.960 of paper if you wanted to get a good job, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.719 get a house like that. That's going away with like 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.520 what any was just saying. It's like some things we're 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.040 just going to learn on the fly, Like we say 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.839 this all the time. We have no training in broadcasting, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.320 but we're doing a podcast, right, Like we're learning these 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.080 things as we go. And I think, like, yes, there 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.400 are options that you can do outside of going to school, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.760 but if there are our careers like lawyers and dogs, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.280 like you said, it's mandatory. Man, I'm a college guy, right, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.640 Like we had to do it in education, but like 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.200 I said before, like I feel like we could. I 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.320 could have done it out of high school given the 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.920 proper training, rather than seven years of dedication to that career. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.400 You know what I mean. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.520 I think what college does is we live in a 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.760 society where image is very important, right, So what college 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.679 does is that it gives you a badge to say, Okay, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.719 I have a certain level of success already built in 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:25.080 because I've completed my degree. So now I can at 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.160 least speak to you on an intelligent level when I 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.120 can be taken seriously, which is not always the case, right, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.640 because there's plenty of people that graduated from what Kanye speaple. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.960 Kanye said, people graduate from college will be still stupid. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.839 That happens all the time. And then you got some 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.080 people who never went to college who are brilliant or 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.680 never finished college that are brilliant. So my personal opinion 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.000 on it is that I think that college is beneficial. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.240 It can be beneficial from the social standpoint, specifically from 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.640 a social standpoint and growing as an adult, right because 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.920 especially if you go away from college, that's probably your 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.880 opportunity living on your own and you mature, you develop 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.400 a certain relationships, you meet people. That part you really 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.279 can't get just going out of high school. In the 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.200 real world, you can, but it's a lot more difficult. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.400 You're not in an incubator where you're just around a 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.400 thousand people and you can just develop those type of relationships. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.440 It's not easy to do that and just real world life. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.880 But I feel that a lot of times people are 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.440 misguided right when they go to college. So this is 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.960 my next question. As far as you know, one of 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.039 the biggest things for college for me is majors. Right, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.840 So you guys are on the inside. And I see. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.960 I saw that even when I was in school. Anybody 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.560 that doesn't know I have a communications degree, I don't 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.960 have a business degree. So but when I went to school, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.400 they told me like, look, just get a degree. Doesn't matter. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.600 If you're not trying to be a doctor or a 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.280 rocket scientist, it doesn't matter. And it honestly didn't because 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.960 when I graduated, I'm a financial advisable. When I graduated, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.000 in order to do what I had to do, I 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.840 had to pass three different tests. So I had to 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.080 study for like nine months. So it doesn't matter if 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.359 I would have got a business degree or not, I 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.720 still would have had to study. So it's kind of 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.680 like I went to college. After I went to college anyway, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.400 and now I have my licenses so I can do 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:13.720 whatever I want to do. So but I could have 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.240 had an art degree. I could have had any kind 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.480 of degree, right, So how important is it to pick 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.600 the right major and how do you determine what is 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.200 the right major? 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.960 So this is for parents and people got in students 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.400 for college. So before I was a professor, I should 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.800 work in a mission. So the most important part when 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.640 talking to parents or talking to students is when you're 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.720 choosing a school, especially when it comes to majors, your 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.679 major should be a top five major within that school. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.920 What I mean by that is top five with enrollment 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.840 and also they have placement for the companies that deal 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.880 exactly what your major. And if you're not in those 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.360 top five areas for your major, what can happen, honestly 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.120 is you can be two years in at the school 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.920 and if there's not enough students enrolled in that program, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.880 your program, and now you're still at that college. So 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.800 it's very important as we guide our students telling to 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.960 go to college. Yeah that's great, but please make sure 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.480 whatever field you're trying to go into is one a 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.480 popular major within the school. Two has the partnerships outside 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.880 of the school with the different companies. And then, last, 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.920 but not least, is the mentality of knowing where the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.320 United States or where your country where you're living at 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.000 is going to be the next five years as far 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.440 as the job marketing careers and what's going to be 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.880 in demand. Not what I always say this mentality of 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.680 not five minutes from now, start taking five years from now. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:32.160 Right. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.360 So when you're making that decision, what does a communications 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:36.600 degree look like five years. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.280 From now, right, what does that feel looks like? Look like? 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.320 Is every going to be around photography? 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.880 Is that's something that you really have to go to 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.240 school for when you can potentially learn that, you know, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.280 So that's that's kind of the key when picking your 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.000 majors is making sure that the school provides the resources 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.080 but can also place you at the job. But it 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.120 also is a demand. But in the next few years, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:55.439 I couldn't agree more. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:55.800 Man Like. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.319 A lot of times, especially in our community, when our 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.240 kids think about college, the first thing they think out 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.400 the athletics, right, like I want to go to do 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.120 or I want to go in North Carolina, I want 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.880 to go to Yukon, right, And when you get there, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.120 if you're not there on athletics, it's like, well, I 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.560 want to study communications. Well that's not one of those majors. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.760 That is one of the best things at that school. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.280 So like you should be looking past just like, yo, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.160 I'm alumni and I go to that school for the sports, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.400 right if it means it doesn't mean as much when 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.240 you come out of Yukon with a communication gree. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.719 I have a communication degree, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:27.680 But I want to go back to what you said. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.920 I don't go back to what you said because you 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:30.760 said that. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:31.560 It doesn't matter. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.560 And in my head, I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.280 if you're on an athletic scholarship. If it matters to 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.439 a guy like me, who was like, I'm studying physical 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.679 therapy and I don't want to be a physical therapist, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.600 right and I've paid thirty thousand dollars for four years, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.960 It's like this matters a lot, right, Like, now what 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.319 do I do? Do I have to continue going when 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.040 I don't want to do this? Or do I have 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.800 to figure out what can I do? 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:53.200 Like that? 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:54.800 I kind of fell into that thing. It was like 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.720 the school I was at it was great for physical therapy. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.280 I couldn't pass the science classes. I'm like, yo, I'm 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.839 not going to be a physical therapist. I got to 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.320 figure out what I can get and gratefully I was 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.240 able to go to school with a health science degree, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:06.880 and I was. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.959 Like, all right, well what does that even mean? You 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:09.440 know what I'm saying. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.920 So I have to start figuring out, like and what's 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:12.360 gonna happen. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.760 We talk about this all the time, and Jeff in 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.680 particular use this analogy of you know, and everything else 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.720 you buy something, you challenge to make sure that the 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.360 service that they're providing is correct, right. And I feel 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.959 like people are not challenging some of these schools when 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.840 they're paying all this money. You know, you're paying and 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.680 maybe because you're not physically using cash and handing over 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.680 fifty thousand dollars, you're not seeing the money, so you 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.520 maybe don't care as much as if you're going to 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.480 a restaurant, like you know, Jeff always says about, you know, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.280 if you order steak and they bring out chicken nuggets, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.439 are you gonna eat chicken nuggets? 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.040 Or you're going to say I ordered steak. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.400 And many times students are paying all this money for 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.080 a school and then not providing the services that they're promised, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.000 and they're not challenging the school right or asking questions before. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.280 And I don't know, maybe it's because again you're not 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.760 physically handing that money over and you think, I, oh, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.400 I'll just get a job and I paid all later. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.280 But I think it should really treat it like everything 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.000 else you purchase. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.320 That that's a problem, especially in our community, man, like 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.080 we don't know how to advocate for the things we want. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.200 Like I've seen it over and over with parents not 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.800 being able to advocate for the kids. But then the 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.360 kids grow up and they don't know how to advocate. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.320 So if they all being mistreated at school and the 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.319 things that not being about it, it's like who. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.960 Do I How do you challenge the system? Because I 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.160 mean that's like going up against system. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.439 So I don't want to even say, like challenge the system. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.160 It's simple things. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.880 So if there's like a college fair at your school, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.920 like every school, typically at high school, they bring in 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.920 college representatives, you know, instead of asking questions like students 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.400 get these questions from guidance counselors and some people. I 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.800 don't know where they get these questions from, like what's 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.760 the percentage of student success at your school? Like that's 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.160 not the question should be asking. You'd be asking, you know, look, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:47.959 I want to be an engineer. How can you how 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.520 can this school help me become an engineer? How can 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.160 this school help me become a bio mechanical engineer? 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:53.600 Like whatever? 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.199 How does how? What are the tools at your school 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.320 to get me there? But also is this major a 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.040 popular major at your school? Can I talk to somebody 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.960 at the institution, the career center and find out how 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.480 many people you placed at a job in the last 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.400 three to four years at point. You know, like those 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.560 type of questions need to be asked, and unfortunately we don't. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.600 We don't provide those resources, them tools enough, and that's 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.040 why we create the platform that we create. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:18.760 That's part of the things that we deal with to let. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.439 Students know, like you do have a voice number one 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.679 and number two to ask those type of questions before 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.160 spending all of this money. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.040 Jef, I wanted to ask you a question. We spoke 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.840 of CAM about the hitting curriculum. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.920 Yeah, so the idea, so it kind of goes into 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.400 the aspect that the students don't know who to ask, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.360 so that there is that problem I don't know where 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.000 to go, and the institutions are not doing the job properly. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.240 A lot of institutions are not doing the job properly 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.320 and creating a space for students to understand things like 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.400 acronyms that students don't know. So I don't know what 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.400 FASSA might stand for, and that's talking about financial aid. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.480 If you don't know what that means, then you're out 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.240 of luck. You don't know what the bursar office means. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.400 And these are the things that are just directly dealing 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:05.120 with your money. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.240 Sounds like it's already. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:08.640 So you don't know what these things are. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.000 So I think it's just essential for And this is 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.199 where I think the big problem is is that there 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.600 are institutions that are about creating careers for people who 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.120 want to be educators. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.840 So they want to go up. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.640 The ladder and become vice presidents and become deans and 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.160 become provosts and presidents of institutions without caring about the students. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.280 So then they create these platforms and they create these 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.640 spaces where the students cannot succeed. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.800 So I'm not going to sugarcoat it. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.800 There are academic institutions that are out there primarily just 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.560 to build careers and primarily just to make money. The 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.800 proper institutions that are doing the work are the ones 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.440 that say we are going to make sure that you 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.400 know who to speak to. And with the hidden curriculums, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.400 that just means that there are things that are being 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.079 hidden in regular nomenclature. So it's saying we know what 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.520 it is, but a seventeen year old does not know 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.560 what that is, and we expect them to know what 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.760 it is, then succeed in that space, and then excel 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.880 beyond that. And then by the time they hit to 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.160 year two or three, we see the retention level drops 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.600 because the student doesn't know what the term retention even means. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.599 So we're saying, we want to keep you here, but 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.200 are we even doing the work that needs to be done. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.800 So ultimately, at the end of the day, that's where 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.960 we have to start to do more work, is saying 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.760 what are the students getting and who do they need 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.920 to speak to so to really touch on the comments 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.680 that we were just saying. One of the things that 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.480 I can tell all people who are sending any of 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.520 their students to college or are going back to school themselves, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.680 is that you have to really find particular individuals on 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.080 your campus. I can't stress the I can't stress it 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.000 enough that you have to get involved, and I means 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.520 you have to find somebody who's already doing the work 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.040 and make sure you align yourself with that. Find the 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.920 Jeff or the Lenny on your campus and sit in 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.000 their office introduce yourselves, because what ends up happening is 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.560 I'm the one that's going to put you in touch 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.680 with this person, that person, this individual to help you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.760 succeed because doing it by yourself is literally impossible. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.760 Now we was talking off cameras too, when it's difficult 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.840 because I think my experience is a little jaded because 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.800 I was I played basketball, so when I went to school, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.240 I got I was on athletic scholarship. So if anybody's 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.680 not familiar athletes, it's different, especially at a Division I school. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.840 So when I got to campus, you know, we had 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.720 our own study hall just for the athletes. We had 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:24.000 our own advisor just for the athletes. Our books was free, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.080 and you know, they would stay on us like make sure, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.360 like what are you're doing? Like you just going to class? 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.840 You know what I mean. It's like so it's easier 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.640 because it's more structured. But for somebody that's just going 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.400 to college on their own, and especially if your if 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:39.960 you know, your parents didn't go to college, but you 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.000 don't your first generation, it's a lot that goes into 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.000 college that's different from high school. Like I remember the 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.960 valid valedictorian of my school a couple of years ago, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.240 that my high school that I went to. He's a 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.080 lot younger than me. Obviously, and I spoke to him. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.920 He's in Harvard, and I was asking him, like, how 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.440 you're doing at Harvard, and he's like, you know, I 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.920 wasn't prepared. This is the valedictorian of the school kid, obviously, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.000 but he's like high school which is just so easy 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.000 for me, and I'm in Harvard and it's just way different. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.680 And he was like, you know, I never realized how 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.200 much I wasn't prepared until I was in that position. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.240 And I think that that happens all the time, and 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.560 like you said, a lot of times unfortunately, especially you know, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.240 you might have family issues, whatever, kids just drop out 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.920 because you know, you fall behind a couple semesters and 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.240 let alone, not even talking about financial issues, just social 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.840 issues and just dealing with school and structuring your time. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.480 It's like, how can somebody fully equip themselves for making 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.200 that jump from high school to college? 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.320 First you sign up with Trill or not Trill, but 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.200 you know, to fully equip yourself, it takes a lot. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.000 And this is where we have to really invest. We 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.200 were just talking about that off camera too, about how 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.880 much money you place on a college degree, whether you're 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.520 going there for free or you're paying full tuition, there's 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.000 no I mean outside of a house, there's no larger 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.600 investment that you're really making problem throughout your life. And 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.520 in the same way that you invest in the house, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.240 you're searching for multiple houses. But then even before that, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.840 you want to know how is the house, how you know, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.760 how is it built? What was What do I have 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.600 to do to fix this space? What do I have 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.520 to do to make sure that my family, if I 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.639 want to start a family, goes in here. It can't 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.280 just be let me just show up, pull up and 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.480 figure out the rest investment, right, And so what people 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.199 have to do is is really start to invest in 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.120 the child and the student's education before they even get 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.119 in there and find the programs because colleges and universities 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:32.919 some of them will do it, but a lot of 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:34.719 them will not. And say, listen, we're going to give 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.360 you a two day orientation session to figure out how 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.440 to succeed in college. And you know you and they're 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.640 trying to holler at other people you and they're trying 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.360