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Cooperation in Class…..a la Shmoop.

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Your chemistry teacher loves labs.

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Er…not that kind of lab. Although…who wouldn't love that face? [A dog in a lab coat]

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We're talking about lab experiments.

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You know, the kind where you and your classmates pair up, put on oversized lab coats… [Lab partners put on lab coats]

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…and pretend to be Dr. Frankenstein and Igor while mixing chemicals that fifteen-year-olds

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maybe shouldn't be trusted with?

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What? Hair grows back. …Not that we know from…personal experience…ahem. [Girl in a lab with a bald head]

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Anyway, chances are good that you’re not gonna get through high school science without

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spending some time with a lab partner.

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Okay, so sure…you and your partner may not be knitting afghans for one another and finishing [Two women knitting afghans]

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each other’s sentences…

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…but you’re going to have to get along and work side by side.

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Unless you're our good pal, Barry. [Two students in a lab and Barry appears]

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Barry decided he didn't need to collaborate with his lab partner, Kyle.

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Kyle was just slowing him down anyway. And man, can that kid talk…

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So even though there's no possible way for Barry to pour the solution he needs to, measure [Barry struggles to pour the correct measure of solution]

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out different chemicals, and take detailed lab notes all by himself…

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…he doesn't bother trying to make it work with Kyle. [Barry angry at Kyle's scribbled lab notes]

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…Not even when Kyle starts warning him that he's mixing the wrong chemicals.

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We don't know about you, but we think Barry can actually pull off the "no eyebrow" look. [Barry by the school bus with no eye brows]

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Maybe you're thinking you can struggle through four years of tedious collaboration in high school…

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…then move on to bigger and better things in college and beyond…and do it all by your lonesome.

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No dice.

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The whole “collaborating with a partner” thing doesn’t end in high school. [Barry sitting on a two person bike alone]

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In fact, it’s just the beginning of the wonderful world of collaboration.

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Or…the terrible world of collaboration, depending on who you get paired up with. [Barry stood outside a theatre]

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But either way…you’re gonna have to suck it up.

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In college, in the dreaded "real world," heck, even when you settle down and start a family… [Barry sat with his wife and child]

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…you’ll be collaborating every step of the way.

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And if you don't, well…

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We hope you like failing college courses, getting fired from jobs, and sleeping on the couch. [Barry being fired from his job and sleeping on a couch]

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And the “no eyebrows” look…

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