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“Do you know how important these grades are to me right
now?” said Diego with a very angry look on his face. “Let me ask
you again, do you know how important these grades are to YOU
right now. Do you have any idea what will happen if you get below
a 3.80? What university will accept you? Which workplace will
even allow you to set foot in their building. What will you even
eat?”.

“Well, my grandad got a GPA of 3.63 and he did fine and
life is happy”.
“Of course, that was fine. It was back in the 2700s. Besides
which job did he get anyways”.

“A 7 eleven cashier”.

“That’s my point, your grandad didn’t even get that good of
a job and that was like 200 years ago. This is not the year 1919.
It is not even in 2019. We are in 3019 when robots have already
replaced most of our workforce and there isn’t even much demand,
if any, for us humans now. We can’t be competitive then we will be
replaced. And also, if I don’t do well in this particular exam,
my parent is going to do something it”.
“My parents don’t really care about my grades, and besides
college is like 3 years away so why the worry? You can only be a
teenager once dude” Joseph says with a smile. Besides what can
you do with the … hey! Are you even listening to me? Joseph was
forced to stop what he was saying when he realized that at this
point, there was no response from Diego. His mind had returned to
his maths test and it seemed that he may had forgotten that Joseph
is even with him.