[speaker001:] I'm Bridget
[speaker002:] hello my name's Dan
[speaker001:] it's nice to meet you are you ready for me to push one
[speaker002:] nice to meet you I think so
[speaker001:] okay  okay do you have any kids
[speaker002:] uh no uh luckily I don't I just rent them
[speaker001:] you do
[speaker002:] yeah I'm a I'm an assistant scout master for a boy scout troop
[speaker001:] oh that's good
[speaker002:] yeah it's it's it's it's so much better to to rent
[speaker001:] a little easier
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well what would you think if they were going off to college
[speaker002:] ooh that's uh let's see I I used to be able to do this quite well but that was when I was in college
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah the college that I've got that that I went to was pretty good which was Cal Poly in Pomona
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh you know it was a regular it was a state university and it seemed to be pretty good
[speaker001:] yeah because I'm in college right now I thought God this is a good question
[speaker002:] oh really which one
[speaker001:] I was like because I I know how my parents when I was looking at colleges
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they didn't really say anything I mean they didn't say you know I want you to go here or you know they left it up to me
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I thought it was real interesting because I picked where I wanted to go and then afterwards my mom was like oh I really kind of wish you would have gone there and I didn't even know that she'd even you know liked another place or anything
[speaker002:] yeah uh
[speaker001:] but I don't think parents could make that decision for you
[speaker002:] well my my parents wanted me to go to uh community college
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I ended up getting into the university and they never really said anything about it until uh my sisters went to college and they they went to the community college
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and my parents my father's going jeez it it it uh costs a lot more or just as much to go to community college and you aren't getting as much you know so
[speaker001:] yeah definitely because I know people I know some of my friends whose parents really wanted them to go somewhere so they did and they hate it you know
[speaker002:] um-hum oh yeah
[speaker001:] or that they don't do good and they fail out and it's like because I know one person
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um his parents wanted him to go to SMU really bad
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and he went and he doesn't like it I mean he wouldn't admit to you that he doesn't like it but it you know he's not doing good and he never is excited about it or anything and he won't tell his parents I was like well why don't you transfer you know
[speaker002:] uh well because his parents gave him the car to go there well you know
[speaker001:] yeah I mean I really the car wouldn't get it because I just think that's sad I don't think parents can can make that decision for you I you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] if you if they let I think you should choose and you know work something out between y'all God
[speaker002:] uh-huh that's that's the way colleges are right now anyway is they they have a bunch of kids come down they say hey you wanna be here
[speaker001:] yeah yeah oh I know
[speaker002:] it's it's so it's pointed towards you
[speaker001:] yeah see
[speaker002:] and if they sell you well enough there ain't nothing that's going to change your mind
[speaker001:] that's right that's right that's definitely true
[speaker002:] we're consumers in society
[speaker001:] yeah sad as long as I just think as long as people are happy so many people will go some place and transfer or whatever
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] it's like you got to find where you fit in best
[speaker002:] yeah you got to got to find the good classes and things like that
[speaker001:] yeah really I know I have some hard classes now that I'm just like uh
[speaker002:] I I well I can imagine that I I started off the the counselor at high school said oh you wanna do this well then go into aerospace aerospace
[speaker001:] stuff like that uh-huh
[speaker002:] I went and my first day of enrollment in college I walked around I go into the aerospace building they give me the curriculum and it's like twenty one units to twenty four units a quarter
[speaker001:] uh and you're like uh I don't think I want to do that
[speaker002:] yeah and average is like you know it's supposed to be like sixteen eighteen you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know this is like I don't want to be a doctor
[speaker001:] yeah you're like I I really didn't want to do it I was just kidding you know I just thought I'd come try it out
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I happened to be walking down the hall turned into some some other instructor's office and said help me and he sold me on his program
[speaker001:] yeah really yeah you can't have someone can't choose that for you that's why I think people people I know that stay in school so long it's because they can't figure out what they wanna do
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] like what you know and they start with one major and they go through the certain you know classes you have to take for that major then they change their mind
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and it's like oh you got to start all over because you lose all the classes you just took that's crazy that's like
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they need to hire someone to help you and everyone should have to take like a test or something of what you might want to do because I think that's so sad because people
[speaker002:] yeah well they there there's some tests like that now but they're kind of strange some of them you know it's like you you you should be a cement mixer or something like that you know
[speaker001:] yeah there are yeah yeah I know yeah I know they have better ones yeah
[speaker002:] you know and the guy walked in going yeah but I wanted to be a psychologist
[speaker001:] yeah you're going you should be a farmer you're like a farmer what yeah I know we took those in like high school those are stupid
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] they ought to tell you mine is psychology
[speaker002:] what's what's your major