Romy
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233 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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I feel like everyone was kind of annoyed at the end of this class because they were like, why do we have to spend so much time, like so much of our free time, homework and everything on a yogurt question that nobody cares about?
They're like, look, I get it, this is school, but if we're going to be taking a two-year research class, why can't we spend our time researching stuff we actually care about?
We have been told that, oh, you have to do a project about something you're passionate about, but we have been presented with things we're not passionate about.
So what do they want to know about? Not yogurt pots. What do you wish you were spending your time on instead of thinking about yogurt?
Hearing her talk about this, I was like, of course, this yogurt question sounds stupid to you. Of course, this feels like a waste of your time.
That was the feeling I was having in this library is like, oh, these students are coming alive for the first time because they're talking about stuff that they're excited about and it's not yogurt. What do you wish you were thinking about in your yogurt thinking time?
To be completely honest, I wish I was spending this time to figure out what I want to spend it about. I'm really bad at just finding specific questions or specific things that I'm interested about, so I have some general themes. So I love design, I love architecture, art, but I just haven't been able to come up with a specific question.
Anouk doesn't know what she wants her final project to be, but in what I'm learning is like kind of classic Anouk fashion. She was like, I'd rather just be using this time to figure out what I actually am interested in. And so like, again, a clay pot of yogurt, not something that was immediately attention grabbing for her. Right.
Well, it's funny because this is something that, like, occasionally comes up for us on our show. Some weeks we spend our time thinking about small and unserious questions. Like, we might be trying to track down a Russian rapper, and meanwhile the economy is crashing and the president's trying to, like, dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or something.
It's like, wait, how sad are the monkeys in the zoo again? And that was coming to mind as I was hearing them talk about their... serious research interests bumping up against this silly yogurt question. But this is in some ways the entire point of David's class. He's trying to teach them the disciplined form of curiosity.
Yeah, he's trying to say maybe it's a more valuable skill or at least it's the skill that this class is trying to teach you that you should be able to chase down answers to questions that you don't care about.
I've kind of been like a connoisseur de monde build where I'm like, let's just see if this is possible.
Welcome back to the show. Chapter four, looking for treasure. So PJ, a couple of months have passed since my first visit to the French school and we're about to hop on a call to start our investigation for real.
No, The thing that I think is propelling me and motivating me at this point is the fact that I'm getting to investigate this alongside two high schoolers who seem bored by it. The fun part for me is not, can I answer this question? Can you make them care about it? Can I get these students interested in this question? Okay. So I get on a Zoom with Romy and Anouk.
Can you both tell me what you had for breakfast this morning so I can check your levels? Yes.
I had cereal for breakfast. I had a child's breakfast. I had carrot cake and chocolate cake for breakfast.
You had two types of cake for breakfast? That's inspirational, I have to admit. It's funny, everybody we ever interview, we ask what they had for breakfast. And then with an adult, we usually follow that up by saying, can you say your name and what you do for a living?
But for high school students who don't yet do anything for a living, I had a different introductory question that I thought might tell me something about them. So when you guys were both younger, I'm curious, what did you want to be when you grew up? Like the earliest answer you can remember for yourself for that question. What did you guys want to be?
I think I wanted to be an archaeologist. I was really obsessed with history and I was a super curious kid and I really wanted, like I loved treasure hunts, stuff like that. For example, I love thrifting and I think it's the same feeling in a way. It's like you're trying to find this
treasure that feeling that anuk's teacher is trying to inspire in her like curiosity about the small things she says it's a feeling she often has just rarely about school so i don't really like school because it just takes away like free time from me like i would much rather just spend my entire days like drawing and playing music stuff like that so i usually find school pretty boring
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