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Do you keep in touch with any of your college friends?
Yeah, a bunch of them. I still live in San Luis Obispo, so there’s a bunch of us still here. Up until a couple years ago, my best friend in college lived a block away from me.
Were you a bookworm or a slacker?
I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.
Did you have a role model when you were in college?
Not really. I just kind of learned stuff on my own.
What was the biggest obstacle you overcame in college?
The biggest thing was balancing working out, competing, and academics to graduate. And also working in the summers to try and save money.
What did you like most and least about your school?
I love the town. It’s a small town; it’s beautiful here. I like visiting big cities, but I don’t do well there for long periods of time.
Tell us one way in which college changed you.
I grew up while I was in college. I learned how to take care of myself. I learned how to prioritize things. I learned how to get things done.
If you could go back, what about college would you do differently?
I might have cared a little more about my grades. I ended up with a 3.1, but I could have easily done a lot better. I just didn’t care too much.
I had a class where I was actually tutoring two kids from the wrestling team, but I got a C because I didn’t do any of the homework. The teacher said if I turned in my homework on the day of the final, she’d give me my A or else she was going to give me a C. The guys I was tutoring gave me the homework to copy, and I copied four of them and said forget it: I’ll take the C. Stuff like that. Not that it matters too much. I mean, I graduated.
What was your favorite hangout spot?
I used to bar-tend in college at a cool place. It was called Brubeck’s. I worked probably six or seven days a week. We’d get a lot of different people there; it was a lot of fun.
Which schools did you apply to?
U of C-Berkeley, Cal Poly, and other West Coast schools. I went with Cal Poly because I wanted to wrestle and play football.
Did you get into all of them?
I got into all the schools I applied to except Cal Poly. I guess they lost my application. I never got a rejection or an acceptance. I either messed up on the application or it just didn’t get through. My coach had to get me in. They have a way for a lot of teams to get you into the school. I don’t know how it worked exactly, but I had the grades and SATs to get into my major.
My Notes
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You may want to point out or ask students to try to locate and revise the example of faulty parallel structure in one of Liddell’s responses: “The biggest thing was balancing working out, competing, and academics to graduate.” A possible revision would be “The biggest thing was balancing working out, competing, and studying in order to graduate.” Explain that even polished speakers use technically incorrect grammar when they
are thinking “on their feet” in an interview situation, but that these flaws should be corrected in a written or rehearsed speech.
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find examples of parallel structure in Liddell’s responses? Why do you think he uses parallel structure in each instance? Read the section
of the transcript where the interviewer asks, “Tell us one way in which college changed you.” Liddell uses parallel structure in his response. Underline his use of parallel structure,
and explain why you think he chose to use parallelism in his response.
4. Key Idea and Details (RI.9–10.1) After
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reading this interview, what inferences can you make about Liddell’s character traits? Cite text evidence from the transcript to support this statement, “Liddell is a hard worker.” Cite text evidence from the transcript to support this statement, “Liddell is a motivated individual.”
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