You're like a PhD bitch. You're so intimidating. I feel like you can read into my soul. You're
scaring me.
Well hello!
Hi, I'm Curtis.
Today, you're going to be guessing everyone's level of education. What's your level of education?
I've done a two year program and then fizzled out of that. I don't know. School is not my
vibe.
What is your vibe?
Just doing me.
Alright, everybody head on out there.
Hey. I'm so confused.
So you get to pick people in whatever order you want.
I'm going to start with you. Hi.
Hi.
I'm Curtis.
Nice to meet you.
Why'd you start with Eddy?
Because he looks like he's 16 and I'm very confused. How old are you?
I'm 22.
You look 16. I think that you're artsy and creative. Not maybe going to school, but trying
to create your own hip hop group or something, or be a TikTokker. You look like a TikTokker.
I like TikTok.
Am I right?
No. I have a bachelor's and I'm getting my masters of communications in digital media.
Oh, cringe. That is so not right. I just thought were not down for school.
I'm down for school. I like school.
That's cool.
School is cool, I love it.
School is cool. Cool. That was a fail. I'm going to go with you. You're giggling this
whole time back here. I can hear you. Hi.
Hi, I'm Dante.
Dante?
Yes.
Nice to meet you. I feel like you are a magician. This jacket is full of secrets. I don't know
if you have to go to school for that, but I think maybe high school dropout vibe or
maybe even before you were like, "Fuck it. I'm like 13, 14. I want to be a magician.
I'm not even starting high school."
What the fuck? What makes you think I'm a magician?
Look at you!
Have you ever seen a black magician? I've never even seen one!
That's the magic of it! Am I right?
Fuck no! Jesus Christ.
About all of it?
All of it! I actually graduated a year early. I'm a nerd. I got an AA in web database design,
a bachelor's in IT, and a masters in athletic administrator.
Oh my God. You sound smart. You're saying so many things. I don't even know what's going
on. I was wrong. I didn't mean to offend you.
Oh, you're fine. I expected it.
Well, cool.
Thank you.
Hi, I'm Curtis. Sorry. What was your name?
Serene, nice to meet you.
Serene. Nice to meet you. You're very polite and put together. Was education important
to you growing up?
Yes.
Because of yourself, or your parents. Why?
My family.
What did your parents want you to do?
My mom wanted me to be a lawyer.
A lawyer. I think you did not do that. I think you stopped at four years. You went in with
a game plan. You knew what job you were looking for. Only needed a four year degree. Was that
right?
No. I have high school diploma. I did a little less than a year of college. I decided that
college was not my vibe.
Good for you.
Cool, thank you.
Cool. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Oh my God. I don't know. Can you tell me what you like to do for fun?
I like creating art.
Think you where maybe a high school dropout. Started doing some sketching and then that's
what you're doing now.
You are right. I dropped out of high school. I did.
Oh my God.
I'm a high school drop out.
Sorry, I don't know if I should high five, but.
I am a hairstylist. I went to cosmetology school and then after two years of doing that,
I went back to school and I got my educator's license in cosmetology. Now I'm a licensed
educator in cosmetology.
Cool. Well you did it. You go bitch.
I did.
I love that.
Thanks.
Nice to meet you.
You're like a PhD bitch
Why do you say that?
I don't know. You're scaring me. I'm scared of you.
Why?
I don't know. You're so intimidating. I feel like you can read into my soul.
Like I'm scanning you?
Yeah, for sure. You were taught in school how to do that for years.
Oh my God, what do you think I got my PhD in?
What is a PhD? Like a psychiatrist? Is that a thing? Maybe.
That's a thing.
I think that's your thing.
It's not, but I do have a PhD.
Yeah!
Wow.
Yay!
Oh my God!
I could see it. I could see it.
Good on you!
In what?
Anthropology.
I took that my freshman year. Fucking hated it. Sorry. It was not happening.
Really? That's terrible.
That's a lot of school. I want to know, are you in some mad debt?
I'm not.
She's gotten money from the daddies.
That's actually not true. I'm actually the daughter of two Mexican in immigrants.
I meant like a sugar daddy.
Nah, I wish.
It's never too late. Cool. Proud of you.
Thank you.
I don't know what to say. Do you have siblings?
I do.
Are you the oldest? Youngest?
Yes, I'm the oldest of seven.
She went to school. You had a big old family. You wanted to be a leader. You seem very calm
and focused. I think a four year.
In what?
Something that I might find boring, but you don't look boring, but I think that stop,
oh my God. I'm sweating.
I like that you just called me boring.
No, no, no.
That's great.
I think that we're different. Did I get it right?
Wait, with what?
Did you go to four years?
What's actually interesting about that is I did drop out of high school, but I wanted
to be a leader for my siblings. I got a bachelor's in law and justice and a minor in psychology.
Good for you. That's hard. Cool. Nice to meet you.
You too.
You are a free spirit, meditation kind of gal. I feel like you studied the human mind
and you love school. You're a school girl and not like a naughty school girl.
Of course not.
You went to school to study. I don't actually know, but she reads palms for a living. Then
you were like, "I'm going to open up shop in my basement and heal people."
That is wrong. I got a master's degree. To this day, I'm not really using my degrees,
except you're right, I did study the human mind. Psychology is really important to me.
I saw that.
One of my degrees is in psychology. You knew.
I knew.
You just knew.
So nice to meet you.
It's so nice to meet you. Thank you.
How are you?
Good. How are you?
hugs?
I can hug. Do you want to hug?
I'm Michael.
Michael? That's my middle name. That's so fun. What were you like growing up in elementary
school? What did you want to be?
A scientist
I feel like you definitely aren't a scientist. At what age were you not doing that?
I don't know. I never really got past that dream. I still wish I could be one.
I think you're an international frat star. The ones that used to pick me up and throw
me out of the parties.
I probably could do that.
I think you would! You went to a four year university, so you could party it up a little
bit and you were like, "Fuck it, I'll get a communications degree or something." and
you were butt chugging, Coors Light all day. Was I right?
No.
Shoot. Not at all?
Not at all.
You are a scientist, huh? Fuck!
I'm a PhD student.
Oh, you are?
I'm turning into an adult scientist.
What kind of science?
Molecular biology. How can we make ourselves live longer?
oh ok dope,
Are people surprised?
Sometimes, yeah, but-
Why?
Because I'm a black guy. I think I'm the second African American in the program's history.
Was there something about that though, that made you want to do it?
One of the reasons was I wanted to be that professor in the biology classes that was
of color, because when I was in college, they were all not of color, or most were not of
color.
How much are you in debt, sir?
These are so personal. 60k.
60k. You'll get it.
Yes, hopefully.
How was that, Curtis?
It was better than I expected. I didn't think I was going to get a single one right.
Raise of hands, how many did Curtis get correct?
Wait, did I? That's good.
Yeah, PHD bitch.
That really is better than I thought I was going to do.
Say something poignant.
Poignant?
Yeah.
Do you guys know what the fuck poignant means?
Yeah, yes.
Yes.
Yes, we do, we have degrees.
It's okay.
I don't know.
I don't know, I don't.
I think that just said it all right there. Maybe I'll go back to school. Again for now
and just doing me.
All right, thank you.
Nice to meet you.