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Boston University, Too Much Freedom, and Getting Expelled
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Ike Barinholtz enrolled at Boston University with genuine political aspirations, only to be immediately overwhelmed by the total absence of structure. He stopped going to class, experimented with mushrooms and marijuana for the first time, and watched 2001: A Space Odyssey seven or eight times in a single week. By the semester's midpoint he knew it wasn't working, but told his parents everything was fine. His father, as a reward for completing freshman year, organized a Las Vegas and LA vacation — and on the way to the airport, Ike's mother called to say a letter had just arrived from BU expelling him. The family still went on the trip, and Ike endured three hours sitting next to his devastated father on a Southwest flight home, fielding the same question on a loop: 'How could you do this to us?' It is a genuinely funny and self-aware confession, and Jason Bateman immediately places it in the universal context of the 'curse of too much freedom.'
Ike Barinholtz went to Boston University to become a politician, discovered mushrooms and total freedom, watched 2001: A Space Odyssey seven times in a week, and got expelled. His dad found out on the way to the airport for their Vegas reward trip. Three hours on a Southwest flight of 'How could you do this to us?' followed.
Ike Barinholtz was expelled from Boston University after his first year, with his parents only finding out via a letter from the school.
Ike Barinholtz's first fully professional acting gig was at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, where he was paid solely to perform comedy shows at night.
