"You don't wanna go to classes, you just wanna play in a lab. " -- exactly how most of the best engineering students at my university felt.

Not reaching your full potential is a part of life. It happens to a lot of people. I hated how lips story line played out, I was rooting for the smart kid to make it out of southside, but I can understand his different trajectories throughout his story and the struggles he went through.

Lip went from dreaming of developing AI at MIT to dreaming about when's his next cigarette and drink

I'd forgotten how smart Lip was. It's a shame he never got to live up to his potential.

I want to see a what if episode in which Lip, and the rest of the family, meets their potential instead of consistently choosing the wrong choice.

Lip was the biggest disappointment in this series, because for the first few seasons they touted him out as a genius, and yet he never did anything with it. Which is actually more disappointing than frank. At least with frank you expected him to fail endlessly, I was really hoping Lip would be different.

They moved his character ALL around!!! Like they just couldn’t let him be successful 😩

One of my favorite scenes. Lip is obviously a genius but his ability to knock away all the social norms impresses everybody. Very heavy stuff

i love this, it shows even though lip seems like he's not a nerd, he is. c3po

Watching freshman year of college: omg lip is so smart Watching in grad school: omg lip thinks he's so smart

I hate the show ignored how smart he was the last few seasons. From possible MIT to working on bikes full Time?

This is the reality of life, Lip himself was his only obstacle that stopped him from making something out of himself. He’s like Gordon Pratt from Homicide: Life On The Street.

Saw this series as a life lesson. Lip had so many chances thrown at him, and just pissed them away. Don’t be like lip.

Philip without a doubt is a genius and sometimes things happen, but let's all salute this Lip. He knew exactly what he wanted and needed.

Lip was a huge part of why I kept watching Shameless.

He’s homeless and living with his wife in her fathers basement currently

Lip is one of those characters where so many people in the world are. All the smarts in the world but are so afraid of being treated differently by their family and friends

I wanted Lip to succeed so bad, would be a really harsh reality to come back to a place he used to live. And see all the others that never lived up to their expectations, I know its a cliche for him to make it but it would have let the series to take some other turns. Watching everybody not make it got kinda stale for me, you got nothing or nobody to root for.

I honestly would have watched a show that was just about Lip, not anyone else from the show, but just him being the sole character.

watching this episode now just need the clip of him, thanks for this homie

A lot of people are giving our about his unfulfilled potential but to be honest unfulfilled potential is one of the most realistic things out there, most people fall short of what’s expected of them or the expectations they put on themselves.

This is such a misunderstanding of genius. I swear Good Will Hunting, and movies like it, have made people believe that prodigies have super computer intellects, with none of the down sides of the commitment needed to even be exposed to the depth of all of those different disciplines. By the way, I have sat in lectures that teach algorithm modification/optimization... They are not teaching you to not think for yourself, that is anti-academic BS. In fact, they teach you how to solve problems and/or think for yourself. Turns out that a bunch of English majors that wrote this show, don't exactly know what they are talking about when it comes to advance STEM lectures. You don't create C3PO, without modifying/optimizing algorithms This pseudo intellectualism, while still being overtly/ignorantly anti-academic, isn't helping anyone who watches this show, or others like it.

Grit and discipline without genius level intelligence will still get you far in life. But genius level intelligence without grit and discipline will only get you to your front porch

What a waste. Blew everything for alcohol. Just shows you how rooted in realism the show is, and why it’s so watchable. It’s like a very real portrayal of life in urban areas and projects. This is just how their life goes. Honestly Fiona is the real genius of the show to me. She had to raise everyone and do everything, barely got her GED and somehow made something of herself. She wasn’t gifted like lip. They never show her after she leaves but I’d like to think she went on to make a really good life for herself in real estate or ownership of something.

Lip's story arcs has to be one of the saddest in TV history for a character that lived.

I like this b/c it is so realistic. There are so many who have that potential but don't escape their conditioning.

People give the writers shit for not allowing Lip to be “successful” but honestly that was something Lip never seemed to want just something people put expectations on him for because of his intelligence but Lip always just wanted to have control over his own life that’s why he constantly fights with people wanting him to do what they expect him to do just because your intelligent doesn’t mean you have to go to college just because your Athletic doesn’t mean to have to be a professional I could never imagine Lip in a stuffy board room talking about algorithms all day could you ?? Let people choose their own paths & do what the fuck they want with their fucking lives as long as he’s safe, happy, healthy, & not hurting himself or others in the long run

We need a mini series focused on Lip and the what-if scenarios assuming he made a few good choices and ended up realizing his potential.

The dumbest thing lip ever did was think he was always the smartest person in the room. His blatant disregard of learning was the worst thing he could have done to himself. No matter how smart you are doesn't matter if you aren't educated in the basics. Relearning everything for yourself takes too long. Lip wasn't smart, he was written how people think geniuses are. In reality he's just ignorant and doesn't understand the power of respecting others.

Lip should have been more than what the writers did for his character. This was one of the best parts of the show and it was eventually ignored. It could have been done so much better into a spinoff show. Lip was the best part of the show at this time.

"You don't wanna go to classes, you just wanna sit in a lab." exactly how i felt going to school for computers, thought i was gonna learn coding and how to build computers but i just learned basic IT stuff that i could've figured out on my own.

I agree that the writers should have done more with his character, he is a genius. But, then it wouldn't really touch the audience who can relate to Lip's story. I'm not saying I didn't want the character to succeed, it would be a lie if I say I didn't. But this type of situations sadly happen a lot. There are a lot of smart people, who could have done better but were(are) like Lip.... I still wanted him to do more

"Just modifying algorithms": Tech / science revolutions were not a single hero guy suddenly having a brilliant idea, but a lot of brilliant people having lots of brilliant ideas over decades and building on each other. In nine times out of ten. It's just presented that way in popular science documentaries and school to make the story simpler. And guess what, classes tell you the full messy story. Then you start to realize, after a lot of work, that you have finally begun to traverse the Dunning-Kruger valley. And you become more balanced.

I wanna read this entire essay.

Fun fact, de ends up being a chef. A damn good one too

Still want more of this show man

They could have done so much more with his character

He turned into a great delivery guy

Wonder how he feels knowing his brother is a Jedi

Man the writing isn't great, it's like how a dumb person would think an intelligent person would talk

What doesn't make sense about this part where they make Lip to be this genius, but he has trouble writing essays his freshman year.

"That's not how this works. That's not how ANY OF THIS works."

This is the moment they made it to a show

The inside and ouside of that house are so outlandishly different it is actually hard to see past it

One of the best characters to be on TV

The writers of this show obviously watched Good Will Hunting one too many times, and said hold my beer in terms of cringy over the top dialogue.

I like to believe that after the series ends Lip eventually carves his own path. He was never meant to be an executive on the top floor of some skyscraper or become one of the leading scientists with a handful of master degrees but maybe he sells the house and he invests into a start up or he gets involved in stocks and makes millions or he starts flipping homes and he creates a successful business. He shows he has a talent for it in the final season. I want to believe he gets out of hood and him, Fred and Tami move into a house in the suburbs. Lip is the type of person who needs to go through countless hardships to take a giant leap in the world. I’ve known people like him and I really think that’s where the series was going but we never got there because the show desperately needed an ending. But that’s where I think he ended up. I think all the characters find happiness in the end. Carl has a successful career as a cop and maybe he brings some real change to way police do things Ian and Mickey have a kid and they might go through some marital strains but in the end grow old together. Fiona, wherever she is continues to be successful Debbie eventually finds love and continues her handywoman business giving franny the life she always wanted. Kevin and Veronica move to Louisville and everything goes well for them. And finally Liam will grow up and get to live the life lip threw away.

Yeah, Lips 100% wrong here. But I guess it’s a common attitude for 17 year olds to have. The industrial revolution was built on thousands of inventions not just one. Wikipedia required home computers, the internet, and a hundred other things. That being said, the whole point of the show is to stand up characters with hope then pile drive them into the ground with their own poor decisions. It’s a repetitive formula. Like watching an all-drunk version of NASCAR, it’s fun for the explosions at first but eventually it gets old.

This was the most edgy thing either haha I disagree, but I enjoyed how his story played out. He was an alcoholic, and egotistical, and him being smart alone couldn’t fix all of that.

Damn that 5 minute essay was 10x better than my college essay….

I miss this Lip.

Lips most significant challenge in life was Lip. Mans got every opportunity and didn't do anything with it.

as much as going to MIT would have been the way out for Lip, I wish to god he wrote that speech and then told the guy and his school to kid rocks after being imressed.

Lip's greatest strength is his greatest weakness. He was always too smart for his own good

Lip was the best part of this show. He’s the reason I stayed for so long he out grew it and I stopped watching it I’m so happy he got his own show that really portrays his ability as a leading man. He should be getting movies as a lead actor.

I pretty much always think Lip was based on Matt Damon's character in "Good Will Hunting." Born into poverty, had an abusive and alcoholic father, a ton of severe trauma that ultimately cripples his ability to be successful in careers and love because he has such low levels of self worth. Only through therapy, true friendships, and people actually seeing him does he end up taking a chance and leaving his current situation. I wouldn't be surprised in a "Good Will Hunting II" if he has relapsed

This guy would fit right in on Reddit.

Saddest part of series, also saw an unused clip from Hulk, that was very similar. The waisted potential people have because of not having support. Wished this plot line was explored.

I had never watched this, and today one of these YT videos popped up. I played it, and then let the next 4 or so play. It was Lip, of course, who caught me. He might as well be reenacting the life of the friend of my youth, dead Lo! these two decades, down to the yelling and rants. Brilliant in his way, he couldn’t seem to grasp that it wasn’t necessarily in his interest to call an asshole an asshole in public. From a family not so much dysfunctional as prematurely embalmed. At some point, about three Major Universities in, I told him he needed to think about getting out, that the atmosphere was poisonous (a conclusion I had drawn some years before, admittedly) and wouldn’t help him achieve his goals in any event. But there was a fourth and final Big U., after which the smoke of burning bridges made any following a back trail impossible. He then declined, seeking solace in substances, until one day someone found the body. The coroner’s report said “congestive heart failure,” but I think he just died of having had enough. RIP.

“Alcoholic father, and run away mother” I,… so close to me. “Emotionally distant/ [uninterested in being a] father, and the other person left about a week after pushing me out of her body”. In my nearly 32(next month) years of life, that has been on my biggest struggles. A sense of lack of belonging. I mean, if my own fucking parents a abandoned me, how is one supposed to feel like they belong anywhere. My only substance has been weed and cigarettes since college. Harder drugs don’t interest me, let alone alcohol. I too feel like a failure. I know I have left some opportunities go by me.

I see a lot of comments about lips unfulfilled potential , and it's true . On the other hand I think the point is that nothing is more important than family to any character in the show . For better or for worse , they're there for each other.

I feel like some people forget that geniuses are humans with desires just because somebody CAN do something doesn't necessarily mean they WANT to and guess what sometimes geniuses get bored of all the technical stuff because it's boring yeah it can be exciting but you can't escape the fact that sometimes it's boring and tedious and some people just don't want to do that kind of stuff even if it's necessary

Lip was always the character that gave that show some value , of course they had to match him with the family vibes but he was the most grounded and id be tempted to try watching the show ( never finished it ) just to see his story

I swear the first 6-7 seasons and the last 4 seasons are a completely different show, ultimately throwing away Lip’s potential which hurts the show in the long run for me

Lip is the reason why I want to finish college All that potential…what a shame

Never heard someone refer to Threepio as a badass before.

I thought that the way Lip’s story ended was disappointing but also realistic. I feel like Tami wasn’t the right person for him to end up with. Sure they were cute together but compared to some of Lip’s other relationships, this one lacked emotion and passion. I had a hard time believing that they loved each other and think that they were together because it was convenient for the baby. We all had such high hopes for Lip when he started college, as he was the one most likely to get out of the ghetto after Ian’s whole army plan went south. It was obviously Lip was incredibly smart and that at college he could get away from the south side life and focus on his education. However as Frank so poetically put it ‘He can’t stay out of his own way’ and lips down fall was the inheritance of the alcoholic gene from his father which led to his expulsion from college. We do see Lip overcome his alcoholism, despite a few setbacks because unlike Frank he cared about the people around him and the damage it was doing to them and himself. I do often wonder though, where Lip would be if this hadn’t been a factor in his life. I think we see that Lip, like a lot of the Gallaghers, doesn’t always learn from his mistakes and sort of goes around in circles and at the end of Season 11 he is still trying to figure out how to make his way through life. The one thing that was a good ending for Lip was his son Fred. He was always sort of a father figure to his siblings, being the oldest boy but we see throughout the series how he had the potential to be a good father and wanted kids. Seeing how devastated he was in the delivery room when he realized that he was not the father of Karen’s baby and then when he took care of Xan when she had no one else, it was nice to see Lip with his own kid at the end because we know he deserves to be a father. I don’t think that I would have envisioned that ending for Lip when I first started watching shameless but then again, the show shows us real life situations and that life isn’t always a perfect happily ever after.

If the essay was plagiarized there was no way he was getting an interview.

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Best part is that any software innovation in robotics which comes from ai is just modifying algorithms.

Horrible character development for him so much build up just for him to become a mecjanic

Lip is smart, but he's not completely right. Maths requires "fixing" little details to derive the laws of nature. If you take Pythagorean theorem, with a series of steps, you can derive the lorentz gamma factor, which explains time dilation in relativity.

Just a lot of pseudo profound statements. The steam engine was derived from already existing engine technology developed in the first century CE. Wikipedia was derived from already existing encyclopedias which were derived from billions of historical and factual documents over thousands of years. Technology is built on other technology - ie "modifying algorithms". Sounds like some kid who thinks he's really smart but hasn't actually done anything academically outside of high school. It's also worth mentioning that university students invent/develop new tech all the time, and it wouldn't be possible 99% of the time without being exposed to new information through classes. People are given access to fancy labs and research grants because they demonstrate that they know their shit during their undergrad and graduate studies, they don't just show up and magically change the world.

Them referencing C3PO aged differently as now Ian is in the Star Wars Jedi Games

I love how KZfaq recommends "Mac Stupidity Compilation" (from IASIP) for my next video

3:25 it's a nice spiel but big things do happen in small increments very often. We didn't go from the Model T to "what if we didn't have to shift manually" and then boom the planetary gearset. It came from small and incremental upgrades an inventions over time. Pretty much all inventions are people taking existing technology and slowly building on it over time to eventually create something that we have today.

My college classes did not see ChatGPT coming….

Imagine writing "eat that shit up" in an essay.

He could have gotten into any College..MIT is very Prestigeous...He could have gotten into Community College too...Sometimes the main goal should be just to get the Degree. All the kids were smart. Frank and Monica met at Northwestern University..

it was hard to watch that as bright as Lip was , the Gallagher blood inside him constantly derailed him from his potential

That reverse psychology worked.

250 words is hardly a paragraph let alone an essay

I thought the interview was going to be a frequent character of the series but sadly it was just in this one scene.

He still had this thing to prove it but honestly he can I would have

I am a PhD student in Data science and All I do is modifying algorithms. My life sucks.

It wasn't one person it was incremental. Wikipedia was community driven and is just an outcome of the internet. The steam engines principles had existed for hundreds of years but until the large scale coal mining was in place it was a novelty.

Once again - the music volume overwhelms the voice track so much that you cannot hear what is being said. Frickin sound engineers !!!!!

What's up with America and it's essays.

story of my life! but i learned not everyone want to be saved they want others to do the work for them instead of learn it themselves so i gave up on mankind!!! now i just keep my smarts to myself

Man, Lip is such a sad case.

Lips character became so disappointing. It would’ve been one thing for Lip to drop out and go back home to his old self, but his brilliance completely disappeared. Before MIT you’d see him reading several tomes of complex books at once, being able to sharply recognize an authentic Louis Vuitton bag by its stitching and material color, building robots, etc. After he moved back home those characteristics of genius were gone and he was just another average Gallagher. Lame character regression

Imagine impressing an MIT administrator with simply a pen, a NOTEBOOK, and just your fuckin ideas ...

Never had the makings of a varsity athlete...

THATS OSCAR FROM THE ROOKIE

Things do happen in increments I don’t know who wrote this but you can trace the steps towards the steam engine and wikipedia

Theirs a reason he's got an emmy and golden globe, Jermey Allen can act 👌

Why’s everyone acting like lip didn’t amount to anything, he was a top mechanic at Born Free cycles !

250 words is a paragraph not a fucking essay.

Honestly the only American remake that actually worked, 100% due to American Frank

U can see how much he was a Kid