True Life: I'm Surviving High School

what up doc it may be the most important period in anyone's life or excited those unforgettable four years that are otherwise known as high school I'm young people often rebelled against the status quo is they search for their place in the world capacitor come on people go faster on this special edition of true life you'll follow three students from two very different schools as they push boundaries I don't know my father subset and question authority how soon will these measures take place on their way to self-discovery Brittany is a good student but is tired of her dad strict ways if I had caught it be worth it we'll define her father get her heart broken and mean the end to her college dreams we need some punishment to help you step it up of our barbed wire seemingly happy-go-lucky John using turmoil from his mother's chronic illness will he learn to harness his anger and prosper despite the pain it's brought to his life skits old Dan frustrated so Anthony is not afraid to challenge his administration to make his school a better place but can you keep from failing and finally graduate so we can one day change the world they're young falling in love fighting with mom and dad you're my concern and mostly discovering themselves I think I'm kind of about to relax from the whole relationship thing what will they really learn find out next on true life I'm surviving hi Susan [Music] John boys have been so meager lately is it feasible to just meet a normal guy mom always said that you'll fall in love about a thousand times so this should be fun I'm just very ambivalent about whether or not I want to play that game my name's Brittany I'm a junior at science high school I live in Lourdes put my father mm-hmm before I move in my father I lived with my mom my parents they've been split up for a long time now I kind of like to go to school like in order to go to science you need to live in North so I moved in with my father to get the address basically it's Monday when I moved in but my father was a serious serious kick in the face your fine wife uh-huh I didn't really know him that well and it's kind of hard living under his rules all of a sudden and seeing him as an authority figure but really before he was just a child support check you can see it took a while for me to get used to him and I'm still not which is why we don't really talk getting into the right he really doesn't give him long very well with my mother and I see my mother is my best friend so if you don't get along with my mother and you don't get along with me science is located right downtown we have to stand in line for the metal detectors every morning the facilities are definitely not up to par the hallways are like really small the paint's chipping the top floors I condemn it's ridiculous despite our facilities it's a top school and norc its prepares you for college with the workload and everything we get a series were supposedly junior there's going to be most important years for what my guidance counselor's have told me this new year to buckle down your junior year is when I have some opportunity for programs for you a project see where you will do research at a college or university all you need is a 3.0 a 3.0 GPA which is good cos all you guys are 3.0 we're by my college time now you take it's 18 and you started like applying to college it's really stressful I'm not ready most of my pressure it comes from my father my father cousin me no slack when it comes to great alright everyone get out your journal entries put them on your desk I used to be more focus freshman and sophomore year but like now that is junior year I'm dating a lot I'm going out a lot when I call your name come up with your journal entries I'm going to check them and then after that we're gonna read them and you can ask questions I have the most recent I must admit I've been choosing the social life over homework and my grades are suffering I know that loose Tiger deserve them I care about my grades I do but it's not my main focus now I'm more focused on like boys and boys and more boys me I wouldn't say I've lost my career arteries I've just put it into my perspective now my father's perspective my perspective supposed to be about SATs and figure out what college do you want to go to but I beg to differ because for me duty remains hanging out more and kind of like testing the limits so that's really what I'm gonna do why shouldn't I this is uh my little Star Trek uniform here it's uh it's quite cool whenever us nerds talk about nerdy things it was usually a nerd voice yeah yeah the adiabatic sound a nerd voice with yet the driven challenger before we talk about really cool video cartage are hyper starting on their processor he's so cool I'm John and I go to Riverdale high school and I'm a sophomore this is not a spectrum of kids I fall light you know composition of a nerd I'm into everything like you know computer games and movies and reading and writing I do everything about physical activity movie later why pay for anything River dollars is definitely like a country club it's centered in the suburbs of New Jersey people are extremely well off the scene your parking lot is full of beautiful cars Hummer is BMW or save you so the standard Riverdale kid is the very in crowd type of person one of my friends described them as the kids would say it by the belt in the ranges of Moon River doll in well undef middle class I'm very comfortable with my economic status possessions intact like that don't really catch my fancy but other people in this town it's very important anybody who volunteers to play sports I'm very quick to say that I'm a nerd because I am a nerd my friends and I wouldn't take anything else he's decided the beard Way of life is the way but I do have this like this passport to interact with other clicks and that's called my humor the fat Joey kid who's always making jokes John just a very character everyone knows silly one person how you doing as yourself Johnny fat kid that title we came from elementary school I used to have to use it as my little defense mechanism towards fat jokes towards me before they'd have the chance to make a joke I'd make the joke towards myself let's break these boxes I've done the Jolly fat kid forever it's really hard to prevent from doing it sorry we've accomplished something humor helps you cope with a lot of stuff home life I've been dealt the crappiest hand ever my mom has been diagnosed with MS she's had a fruit sub where's I was around 11 when they found out that she had it multiple sclerosis is disease that affects the central nervous system it's one of the worst diseases because it doesn't necessarily kill you but over a period of time that kind of disables you she gets tired very quickly she doesn't have a lot of energy every night she gets a shot in her arm she she can't do much her ability or lack thereof to do things really forced me to grow up quickly and to take more responsibility I'm gonna run downstairs and put a load in to my laundry vacuum wash linens and towels and crap I hate doing laundry I have you told anybody my friends have no idea I really didn't want that pity that people get I've wanted just to with the normal way any kid would without a mom with my mask I don't know what it is I guess humors more natural let me and that comes out the most but I wouldn't like just to be known as the guy with the joke there's more to me than that I want to show people my more passion and more serious side okay this year me and my friends are making a movie I'm presenting the idea come here our goal is to get it done by May when the school Film Festival is I feel this Film Festival is gonna be a big thing so I'm pushing everybody to do it yeah we're only gonna give you half of it the last of it isn't done so won't necessarily change me but hopefully the phone will change other people's thoughts on me they see that when you say wow I came from drama well know that jolly fat kid I guess he really is since it's the guy full of jokes the whole dream for sophomore year is get my movie done to change people's view on me as a person and talk about my mother's multiple sclerosis I'm definitely putting a lot of pressure on myself but this is my goal and I really want to do it I must get this done [Music] [Music] my name is Anthony and I go to science high school and I'm a senior for the past couple of years I have to live like an adult I don't live with my parents anymore and I live with my grandmother but she's hardly ever around so I basically live alone one day when I was growing up in South Jersey my father was in the army and my mom worked two jobs and basically I was raising my three younger brothers michmash socks it was too stressful so I moved out of there and moved up with my grandmother in Newark my grandmother she gets up at all I don't know she gets up at like five o'clock and she's out of here by 6:00 I never see everything from 8:00 in the morning sometimes it gets lonely around here and I miss my brothers but I realized I need to be away from them in order to focus on my education just a bus I come in at 7:10 no no lose that no one forces me to go to school but I choose to go to school anyway but it's hard to motivate myself every day entire that's what parents are supposed to be there for to motivate you the reason why I go to school is because I know generally in the future that I have to have an education as a background to achieving the goals that I want to achieve let's go my goals are basically to go into politics and change the face of the world I just want to be the politician who is for the people again I used to be depressed because I was taking care of myself and supporting myself you know what the funny thing is there's nobody there evolved in a lot of activities outside of class and this is helping me you know combat that depression I'm vice president of the Student Union I'm a columnist for the word which is an underground newspaper and I'm always trying to improve the school and I'm always speaking out about things that's part of my personality it comes from growing up without having a lot and not being able to do as many things that I would like to do look at this line one of my personal projects is improving the school lunch let me get a hotdog the lunch is under school are are horrendous man this one's taste bison hotdog is green I've been heckling this fan basically taunting them saying that that lunches are saving us are horrible is that we need to raise the quality of the the food here I'm not afraid to challenge the authority and on many occasions I will challenge authority I think I need to decide about this are you we're commandeering your uh all the heckling and the complaining about the school lunches has caused a meeting with me and the Board of Education and at our school high school is more than learning out of books you supposed to have like real life situations real life problems are we better yes ma'am okay you learn through that that you can have a voice you can have an opinion then you could be an effective power in your community in your school the food quality here at science high is very low the food is is not well kept it's cold it's stale its soggy sometimes discolored but you know the hotdogs were green for you know portion of time there are those issues will be interests okay how soon will these measures take place next week next month next year at least you will see an improvement in quality to she was in the level of service provided by the staff and we can hold you to this my word mr. Diaz yes it's my boss they were very receptive the only thing is is you know we know it also yeah yeah if we're gonna do this we're gonna do this so after the meeting I suggested that all the fishes go down to the lunch room to see it for themselves we should all eat lunch right and they have in Serie see who could finish their meal it was clear nobody wanted to eat the food but I really wanted them to see the lunch I was really serious about it I can't wait to be a part of that taste testing uh here's where I think my depression pills before I eat lunch [Music] I had the administration right where I wanted them here's where I take my depression pills before I eat lunch they were finally gonna see how bad the school lunch was I was surprised that the food was fixed immediately I guess the school did it in order not to look bad in front of all the representatives [Music] what do you think improved about the lunch it's only February hopefully the improvements can last until the end of the year didn't they say we don't do anything you see this you see the food we appreciate all of this hopefully it's a continuing effort as soon as you guys leave we don't want it to go down again we have voices and people be you know they need to start realizing to voice your opinion is like the greatest gift in the world I forgot my paper I forgot my paper of mystery the meeting took all morning which is a problem because I missed a lot of classes and I'm not doing too high in school right now working to support myself and nobody at home to push me has had a negative effect on my grades I don't pass all my classes that I won't get to walk in graduation and I want my brother's to see me up there I really need to get it together because I'm my brother's role model and I know they look up to me I want them to see that I can make it even when I'm on the wall inside check it out of Clinton it's February and this weekend we start foaming getting the t-150 through chip camera the Zen has your mic and the boomstick I have a partner script called fantasy shot which is basically just science and people landscapes and that's what I'm feeling this weekend kind of nervous want to you know golf right beautiful oh yeah the movie means so much to me because I want to relay this message of carpe diem seize the day and the movie is all about this one guy who lives his life each day the same thing and not no change so when he wakes up one morning living his life normal way he's killed and he finds out that the afterlife is this terrible disappointment and he finds out that he should have lived life to the fullest and in a way that's what I'm really afraid of that I'm not going to live life to the faults and I'm gonna miss out on something so in relation to that and my mom I think my mom wishes that she did more before she got sick think it went very well I think I got a lot of good stuff mom Aguirre you've done it again Ricans are so important for me I'm supposed to be [ __ ] sonic school but I'm just gonna put my energy elsewhere every Monday I come back with a story Friday I go home and sleep the week off you know homework and Saturday I'm either with my best friend or with some guy and Sunday's is pretty much just church and mom and then it's back to school but I always have a story to tell about Saturday oh well he's the night I'm going over Erica's house for like a little sleepover parties things she's having I'm excited about that because sleepover mainly because it's gonna be guys there and it's just way more fun because instead of talking about guys we can mess with them I look pretty dumb carrying a dog recently and boy from his mind broke my heart so I guess you could say I'm looking for a boyfriend it's just kind of like I'm single and if a guy comes along that seems like he has potential I'll take him up on that offer you think my dad doesn't know that guys would be a slumber party because of T news and I wouldn't be going I have a lot expected of tonight oh oh the most stereotypical doll ever made in the United States we should sue the manufacturer Patricia listen to them don't it today when I first got back that was boyfriend was there James James BOSU ISA hi it's like 20 minutes away from science he's a single man right here so he hoping to get with action my first song he was like really funny party because we kept making me laugh over and over again I felt like I didn't have to do any like work in order to be around him with my friends okay very good left foot red I was really comfortable around him and talked to him we kind of clicked in you know one thing led to another I kind of like got close with James last night but I guess James like got upset with me because I was talking about other guys in front of him I think I think I'm disgusted to me for what I really really really want I didn't even know this that I was like saying things right in front of him that offended him a little did I make me desperate you ain't going nowhere so come on why you stopped talking to me huh why stop talking to me they can talk about other rules and all that I know all right my bad I was that doesn't going through some know I okay in a nutshell recently right got my heart broken by this guy right so here comes you and it's like would I just be adding to those if I was to talk to you what would you really be something for real so you not gonna reject me I just don't eat no boss you know well you do know that it's kind of like I went from nothing to something really fast you know you should come back up that wonder why because could you just should I don't know if I was an actual being but can't go around making him feel good how to do what works for me slow it off [Music] [Music] right everyone else didn't is required to take physical and today is a day which I am going to the doctor it's not something I love to go do I honestly don't think it affects my help whatsoever so you know what we were on the way the doctor might and I didn't want to really talk about the weight issue before getting it because I knew the doctor was gonna mention it I didn't want to get into that whole festival of argument I've had all my life physical first thing is kite weight paper weights best part is you always affect yourself be slim and really tall and you get shot down both feel really okay it's the same thing every doctor appointment they say you know perfect help now but wait until at this point in his life I think you need to just kind of understand that it's a it's a issue for the future and he hears it from me every time he comes up for a check-up but at some point I think he needs a little bit of focus on that the last time you had any type of screening lab work was four years ago and this is the type of this is the age where I'd like to run another battery of tests when people do this and if anything comes back abnormal from my point of view a little bit more ammunition to kind of work on Institute to make them say okay now now I'm not invincible anymore and when I get the results I call you all right thank you see you next year with all the factors that lay before me with the jokes and the potential health problems being an overweight person I just spent my whole life worrying about this stuff I'm gonna take you to the blood work on Saturday I'm gonna fast because wait I'm fasting now you can't live in the now worrying about stuff that might happen later that's not a part of me and my personality I have an eating competition on Friday I have an eating competition of bananas on Friday after I've mentioned to my mom that I was gonna be in an eating contest she just freaked out before he don't we were in a big argument I won't do it I swear you have you know what's more important I enjoy doing the dessert it's something I'm good at I'm the unofficial eating contest champion of my high school I had to go defend my title I'm okay I don't want you to do a scholarship show I could be the blunt of you of you and father making making jokes that's how we deal with your situation okay that's how we do a situation people deal with these things we in other ways we deal with the two of us you know your situation let's spell it out for you all right cuz there's no need to say it it's already on the ground I left my mom with all my heart but um there's definitely some anger I've harbored from that illness it takes up a lot of my free time to deal with it that's just you know the physical stuff that I have to do this you know emotionally sometimes I get very upset with it it kind of puts a lot of pressure on you what you think in your mind oh no it's something it's not fun I don't need things to get my mind off that through movies it's hard dealing with it it's tough making sense of it all and when I do argue with her pay like passionately argue with her I do mention I'm asked a lot and that always upsets her and I you know it's matter it sounds like a bastard thing to deal with yes ah you'll want to go at it and say you know what because it's her disease is the or above the situation we're all evolving around that I wouldn't make jokes if I didn't love you she know that by now I can say I was just doing it because I was so damn sad about it [Music] it's Friday and James and I are going to the mall I've been dating vain for about two weeks now because James goes to East Side and I go to science the time we do see each other is after school or on weekends interview today at Macy's I hope I get a job cuz I really need one and this look kinda awkward at first but like soon as you start making jokes I was like okay I'm still looking towards you great dreams how great when we're together we're friends but more than friends I can joking around with him and things like that but at the same time I can make also like kiss him or whatever so he's like a friend and a boyfriend while when I was all cool and laid back he's a smooth brother since I haven't seen bring in two weeks it's good to be in the mall with her walking around with her I think we'll be staying together she'd out for anything and that's what I like about her first it always has to be cute in the face no James I guess what I did I guess what I did they was like on clearance I have to show you look I told my mom about things but I probably don't know anything at all like I just think the more I saw him the more he like Wonder like Scooby strains on me and stuff like that and I don't want to be bothered boys it's kind of like he's my father and then there's my personal life if he happens to notice something they need us if he doesn't then he doesn't his opinion doesn't matter much to me I'm just doing what I want to do today I'm meeting up with two Kelly's and Elizabeth and I'm going to get my nose pierced I don't want to get my nose pierced for like a year now and I was actually gonna do it with my mom but she's taking too long so I'm just gonna do it for myself

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Keywords: MTV, True Life, Classic, Vintage

Id: LY5yZogaFdI

Length: 30min 20sec (1820 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 18 2018