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Try Harder!

The ability to just come upwith ideas, for stories and thenpresent them and actually get...

[indistinct chatter] The ability to just come up
with ideas, for stories and then
present them and actually get them
published is really cool to me

Full Transcript

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[indistinct chatter]
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The ability to just come up with ideas,
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for stories and then present them
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and actually get them published is really cool to me.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:19
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.
No, all right, this is too much. - Try Harder! 00:04
No, all right, this is too much.
[paper rustling] - Try Harder! 00:12
[paper rustling]
This lighter skinned hand is supposed to represent - Try Harder! 00:10
This lighter skinned hand is supposed to represent
My mom, she goes by the rule - Try Harder! 00:10
My mom, she goes by the rule
It goes totally against that story - Try Harder! 00:08
It goes totally against that story
So I do feel uncomfortable putting it down - Try Harder! 00:16
So I do feel uncomfortable putting it down
I'm a admissions officer at MIT, - Try Harder! 00:07
I'm a admissions officer at MIT,
So it's always a good idea to be nice to me - Try Harder! 00:05
So it's always a good idea to be nice to me
[laughing] - Try Harder! 00:07
[laughing]
- But we saw your mom there and dad. - Try Harder! 00:05
- But we saw your mom there and dad.
Did you know they're going to go? - Try Harder! 00:04
Did you know they're going to go?
Like they go, they only tell me after they go. - Try Harder! 00:04
Like they go, they only tell me after they go.
- We do have multiple choices, that's all right too. - Try Harder! 00:05
- We do have multiple choices, that's all right too.
And my mom's kind of like the steering wheel. - Try Harder! 00:04
And my mom's kind of like the steering wheel.
[audience applauding] - Try Harder! 00:06
[audience applauding]
[students clapping] - Try Harder! 00:05
[students clapping]
[indistinct chattering] - Try Harder! 00:06
[indistinct chattering]
As I grow older, the box will expand, right? - Try Harder! 00:06
As I grow older, the box will expand, right?
Until finally there's like no more box anymore, right? - Try Harder! 00:05
Until finally there's like no more box anymore, right?
And I'll be able to do my own things, - Try Harder! 00:05
And I'll be able to do my own things,