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Try Harder!

Homework, test, grades, like they don't reallymatter anymore if like you don't have likea...

Homework, test, grades, like they don't really
matter anymore if like you don't have like
a firm emotional connection

Full Transcript

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Homework, test, grades,
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like they don't really matter anymore
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if like you don't have like a firm emotional connection.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
14
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:16
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
ITVS,Center for Asian American Media (CAAM),California Humanites,XTR,Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Movie Summary

Seniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.
[rain pattering] - Try Harder! 00:11
[rain pattering]
My dad did some shit, which the landlord did not appreciate. - Try Harder! 00:06
My dad did some shit, which the landlord did not appreciate.
[indistinct chatter] - Try Harder! 00:08
[indistinct chatter]
It was... My mom lives in Sausalito - Try Harder! 00:10
It was... My mom lives in Sausalito
So, I need to be here to attend here. - Try Harder! 00:05
So, I need to be here to attend here.
Like this school compared to like anything else - Try Harder! 00:08
Like this school compared to like anything else
[door creaking] - Try Harder! 00:09
[door creaking]
[dramatic upbeat music] - Try Harder! 00:04
[dramatic upbeat music]
- All right, does anybody not have - Try Harder! 00:07
- All right, does anybody not have
As always read questions carefully. - Try Harder! 00:04
As always read questions carefully.
Tell a story 'cause it's about storytelling. - Try Harder! 00:04
Tell a story 'cause it's about storytelling.
- Today is the deadline for UC apps and CSU apps. - Try Harder! 00:05
- Today is the deadline for UC apps and CSU apps.
So lots of apprehension, anxiety. - Try Harder! 00:04
So lots of apprehension, anxiety.
[keyboard clicking] - Try Harder! 00:09
[keyboard clicking]
It's like how well you're able to articulate yourself, - Try Harder! 00:06
It's like how well you're able to articulate yours...
- So I have roughly seven supplemental essays, - Try Harder! 00:06
- So I have roughly seven supplemental essays,
- I'm probably gonna have to in the end - Try Harder! 00:05
- I'm probably gonna have to in the end
- I don't know whether or not I should - Try Harder! 00:08
- I don't know whether or not I should
- If you ask a lot of Asians, - Try Harder! 00:07
- If you ask a lot of Asians,
Like they don't wanna show too much about themselves. - Try Harder! 00:05
Like they don't wanna show too much about themselves.