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Thank you We sneak in involvement and extracurriculars Allah shmoop

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sally sidelines was never one for doing well Much of

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anything really she's the teenage equivalent of someone working at

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nine to five dead end job punch in Get the

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work done punch out go home eat some fritos All

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of her friends were involved in at least some extracurricular

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activity or another Her best friend tall tammy is on

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the varsity volleyball team and is president of the drama

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club Her best enemy morgan is in the chess club

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german club national honor society yearbook and color guard And

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her slightly younger brother mitch is only slightly more involved

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than she is as he's taken it upon himself to

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audit the speech team But at least he's making some

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effort not sally Though she's got tv shows to watch

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and a lot of sitting to dio she doesn't want

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to get roped into anything that will cut into her

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you know lazing around time Besides what if she's not

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good enough at whatever she chooses to dio and gets

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ridiculed or brings down a team What if keeps her

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from meeting boys What if What if What if Well

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What if it's so much easier to stay the course

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and leave all the above and beyond type stuff to

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her overachieving piers So she just sits around and everyone

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around her racks up some impressive accomplishments It doesn't even

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matter if they're awesome at whatever it is they're doing

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like morgan couldn't win a game of chess if her

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life depended on it but just fact that they've gotten

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involved is doing wonders for their lives Well tammy's learned

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gobs about leadership thanks for her presidential role in the

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drama club and she's now much better prepared to lead

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stuff in the real world like a sales team or

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a scientific study or a really intense game of follow

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the leader Morgan wasn't very good at any of the

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stuff she signed up for but she's gotten significantly better

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at all of it making her a much more well

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rounded person and giving her an uber impressive resume when

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it comes time to apply to colleges Plus remember how

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sally was worried and extracurricular activity would take up too

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much boy hunting time Well morgan nab herself a boyfriend

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a guy named jeff who works with her on yearbook

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And was attracted to her drive and wide range of

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interests Meanwhile sally was binge watching the latest season of

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orange is the new black need any interesting guys in

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your living room there Sally oh and her brother mitch

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Well he liked the speech team so much that he

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joined up started winning meats and wound up finishing second

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state in dramatic interpretation he got a trophy and everything

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put it right in the living room mantle there ma

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just rub it in sally's face sally may think that

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a trophy is the biggest reminder of her failure to

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get involved but just wait till she starts collecting all

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those rejection letters from colleges because no matter what her

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grades are and no matter how much she kicks area

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on the s a t they're going to want to

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see that you're willing to put in the ot and

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better yourself in more diverse ways than just well knowing

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your a b c's and one two threes But maybe

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sally will be able to get a nice job filing

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paperwork at the county registrar's office if she does get

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rejected by the awesome talented people of the essay they've

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got really nice Couch is there in that break room 00:02:59.858 --> [endTime] Sally's love that couch

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