Read this excerpt from we beat the street. "but i don’t want to teach—i want to be a doctor or nurse or something medical." "i don’t even know what you have to do to become something like that," sampson said honestly. "i don’t know either," george said. "but i figure you need big piles of money and about a million years to spend in college." "hassan and ahi are going to howard university in d. c.," rameck commented, "but their folks have a little cash." he fell silent. . sampson drove the other two home then, their hopes and dreams left in the starlight. what central idea do the details in this passage support? having little money often makes the friends think that their goals are impossible to achieve. the friends wish they had more time to dedicate to college classes and studies. the world is filled with opportunities as long as the friends are determined to find them. school plays an important role in the friends decide what they want to accomplish.