https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcqNOzfHCvs

In the show, Shameless created by Paul Abbott, one of the main character’s Lip was uninterested in attending college after finishing high school. Lip lived on the South Side of Chicago which was one of the toughest neighborhoods in the country. However, despite those woes, he earned a 4.6 GPA throughout high school and even went as far as offering students to take their SATs as a source of income. Lip’s girlfriend, Mandy saw his potential and applied him to colleges throughout the country without him knowing. However, when he started to receive college acceptance letters, he was angry and upset at her. A man from MIT showed up in front of his door step to interview him. Initially, Lip tried blowing him off, but then the man said that he wouldn’t have made it anyway. Consequently, Lip proved him wrong after writing an incredible essay in front of the man and a few months later was accepted to MIT.  In his first party at MIT, he tried to pick up a girl similar to the way he did back in the South Side, but got flipped off. After having a rough time adjusting to MIT, Lip thought of calling college a quits and just living content with the lifestyle everyone in his neighborhood lived. His friend was disappointed in his left turn decision and tried to snap him out of it. I see Lip’s displacement at MIT conform to the models we saw in class because he feels like the “fish out of water” at MIT as he doesn’t know how to interact with people outside of the South Side and isn’t familiar with people who doesn’t deal with the same issues he deals with at home.