If a kid is being bullied, that's all they think about and cannot concentrate on their academic studies.

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.

It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, there's a lot of emphasis placed on finding and celebrating instances of audience "counter-hegemony" or audience "agency" instances of people not acting in the way that TV or the culture industry tells them to - the idea being that people really do have free will.

You have to concentrate, but you don't have to calculate anything, ... The only thing I have to think about is: Why aren't they calling my numbers?

What looked attractive initially, after studies, it has some real drawbacks.

I couldn't concentrate on the game. The only thing I could think about was what had happened to him. He's the last guy you want to see that happen to. He's worked so hard.