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  • Oh my gosh. He reminds me of Colin in John's book "An Abundance of Katherines" :D

    AND Sheldon!!!

  • I enjoy hacking too. though, i must admit i'm kinda not really good at hacking. but i didn't let that stop me from writing a rap about it.

  • I think I can safely say that all Nerdfighters are huge fans of The Big Bang Theory. :D Honestly, it's the only show I GET...

  • what are those 2 stacks of manga in the background? I'm curious :)

  • YOURE SHELDON COOPER

  • @DotDotDotDotDot u have no idea who often i have the same thought

  • Does anybody notice the missing 3:58?

  • Phenomenology |fiˌnäməˈnäləjē|

    (noun - Philosophy)

    the science of phenomena as distinct from that of the nature of being.

    • an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.

  • So Hank's box diagram is the equivelent of Sheldon's friend algorythm chart.

  • Hank is the Original Nerdcore Hip-Hop star.

  • What does it even feel like to think that you know who you are but really not? Everyone's always all like, "You're a teenager! You're figuring out who you are!" But I'm like... I think I know who I am? But then what if I'm wrong, and that's the ignorant teenager in me talking? I dunno.

  • @DotDotDotDotDot Relax. You're overthinking. You'll be fine. Just do what you want and have fun. :)

  • @DotDotDotDotDot I felt the same way... and then I grew up a little and realized that they're right. But don't worry. Once you're over it, everything makes so much more sense.

  • @DotDotDotDotDot Just go with who you think you are but don't be afraid to change your mind later? That's what I did/am doing. ;) (Just realised this was weeks ago. Sorry)

  • Post a picture of the Box Diagram! Maybe we can figure it out!

  • I write songs about hacking.

  • 0G= Zero Gravity

  • I don't know what this represents but the advertisement on this video was for the morning after pill.

  • that journal just blew my mind.

  • Oh! You have the Watchmen! I love that book!

  • oh im learning about organic compounds!

    

  • Hank getting science wrong?!?! What has the world come to?? Those organic structures at the beginning were the first step of glycolysis, not the krebs cycle. And although the 2 are connected, they happen in different parts of the cell.

  • zero g? zero gravity?!

  • THE BOOK THIEF IS ON HIS BOOKSHELF. Hank, I love you.

  • Nerdfighteria seriously needs a PDF of that box diagram thing. I bet we could figure it out.

  • @y0seph12 I support that notion.

  • this video makes me want to start a journal so in the years to come i can look back at it and laugh

  • @fruiTmajik thanks. I'm not sure if this will reply to you or not, because I'm using iPhone app, but I'll try.

  • XD He has the Katherine theorem.

  • Does john have a jounal video? If so what is it called?

  • @vodloxstowel Beanie John's love advice. He wears an amusing beanie and has the lyrics to Ice Ice Baby which was new on the radio.

  • @vodloxstowel It's back a few videos, "Beanie John's Love Advice."

  • I wish that teenage boys these days were more like the teenage version of Hank and John.

  • Scan the box chart!!

  • I logged into the Myspace account I had when I was 16 a few days ago, oh the shame! It's a bit scary how much I've changed since then but I'm sure it's the same for everyone. At least I'm much happier now than I was back then :).

  • you may think that the cube thing is weird, but to me it seems infinitively brilliant. its amazing that even in high school you could think in such a serious, imaginitive and sophisticated way.

    seriously, i can imagine a book in which people are discussed in relation to their various 'boxes'.

    and vinceandlilly, i think you're absolutely right. Nerdfighters need to get a look at that chart :)

  • hank, I have just started my journey on your cubes... it's coming along nicely.

  • Am I the only one who's super impressed with how awesome the drawing at the start looks...

  • I sometimes go back to my old journals and read them just to see how I've changed. Kind of fun. I lost the diary I kept until I was like 10 or 12, but I have a lot of my journals from junior high on...

  • i always come back to this vid when i want a good laugh. oh, hank.

  • very similar to my journal, except I just graduated from highschool *facepalm*

  • I get creeped out when I reread my journal. It's either depressing or just plain creepy. Not recommended.

  • Trippin down w/ zerog = Tripping without Gravity (Zero Gravity)

  • zerog = zero gravity!!!! huzzah

  • Woo! Hank Green said my last name! Goooo Krebs Cycle!!1!

  • @thetownwaspaper He said your surname? He almost shares my surname - I'm Greene. Haha :)

  • Looking at anything that you've written down in a journal- even as little as a week ago- is HORRIFYING.

    It should never be recommended.

  • that boxes thing reminds me of the theorem from an abundance of Katherines

  • Hank, when you were in high school, you were Sheldon Cooper.

  • @xOliverTuesday Part of me thinks he still is Sheldon Cooper.

  • a journal entry from when I was still learning to write:

    Today at day-care Chelsea almost STOL my favrit toy!!!!!!!!!!

    This was, apparently, a big deal.

  • wow. see hank, this is why you are amazing

  • your journal lacks continuity.

  • Zero G? Zero gravity, maybe?

  • @animeotaku There's a company called Zero-G that released some english Vocaloids. They might have existed then.

  • i think the vlog brothers know about ugle johns bathroom reader

  • So my journal is relatively normal, you know, mostly about guys and life and how I don't have any clue what I'm supposed to be doing...but I find your journal very interesting, and I would probably have been your best friend in high school xD

  • i wrote a journal in grade six. i've only read bits of it, but as far as i can tell it's really just a book full of all the times i was confused by something someone did or said. so pretty boring, compared to yours

  • Krebs Cycle woo! Looks like I'm on Hank's path :D (Haha not so sure about that.)

  • Really want to hear Highschool Hank's "raunchy" lyrics. I shouldn't, but I do,

  • so pretty much your journal is pretty normal compared to mine

    I swear theres a part in my highschool journal where I am convinced that one of my teachers is actually my mother...I also wrote her a poem, talked about teachers being pregnant, talked about teachers having imagined relationships with students or inevitably eachother...the only boys I talk about were on tv and how much I believed I was going to marry them all...

  • aw man why didn't I write a journal D: It would have been hilarious later on

  • I think when comparing John and Hank's journals, we must keep in mind that Hank says he wrote the journal in highschool, whereas John's was in middle school.

  • Anyone else here actually GO to the inaguration?

  • your "auto power off" beeping noise is the same as my straighter :)

  • That snort after you said "apparently I liked to rap about hacking" killed me and I had to pause the video.. (x

  • you should try giving the "box diagram thing" to nerdfighteria and see if we can figure it out some of us are also highschool age which may help somehow

  • I want the cube chart in a google doc please

  • lol Hank's journal seems more sophisticated than John's because Hank has more science and philosophy entries, while John's has a lot about his crush Whitney who he thought (at the time) was flat chested :O

  • don't worry about your journals- I write a diary and looking back at some of the stuff abotu 3 years ago when I was 9 or 10 is weird- I was excited about everything; "Oh my God, I am soooooooo(x3) excited!!!!" I would put in several lines of 'o's and '!'s, and it's painful to look back at XD

  • I love how Hank was all neat and tidy. he typed up his journals, whereas John just randomly wrote things in, like Whitney being flat. *snorts loudly*

  • But you turned out fine, Hank :)

  • Your reflections on your past self are really interesting. I wonder what I will think 20 years down the line when I read the journal I'm writing right now.

  • That Flow Cube to simplify personal interactions and thoughts is really really awesome :) If you could explain that further, that'd be even more awesome :D

  • wouldn't ZeroG mean Zero Gravity?

  • That could be a punishment. Singing some of the old high school songs XD

  • alpha and beta glucose! I totally just learnt about that! AND THE KREBS CYCLE!! :D xxxx

  • I want to see the flow cube thing please.

  • sounds like you were a total caulfield... i have a soft spot for holden caulfield, so i have a soft spot for teenaged you too =J (that's a half-smile emoticon...) i mean, really hating and really liking the guy that wrote that journal, that's pretty much how most people feel reading catcher in the rye (i think) so yeah. smiley and dftba ;)

    btw- zerogy=zero energy... unless i totally misunderstood the rap

  • This whole video just SCREAMS "nerdfighter pride"

  • You should digitally scan that box flowchart and let the Nerdfighters try to get some sense out of it!

  • I want to hear your rant on Capitalism!!!

  • i wanna hear your raunchy songs

  • i like the rap about hacking.

  • I think that if i had a time machine, i would definitely go back and stalk Hank through high school - in a good way, of course.

  • The box thing reminds me of the love equation thingie from An Abundance of Katherines.

  • Hank you are a Nerd through and through. I understand the detailed simplification graphs, and I agree...excellent inaugural address.

    -DFTBA

  • i love that he has 'the book theif' behind him..

  • dude, i really want to understand that cube/box thing.

  • This reminds me so much of me that it's kind of scary 0.o

  • Not only will I keep a Journal in 8th Grade and fill it with profound entries, like John did. I will keep a Journal in Highschool and do the same ^^

  • What's the manga behind you? Is the yellow Inuyasha?

  • isnt 0g like no gravity?

  • i just learned about phenomology! its my new favourite word

  • Oh you used an SAT word Quell!

  • Is that the ho house?

    That's what my bio teacher called the glucose diagram lol

  • I was reading Carl Sagan's 'Contact' today (Nerdfighters!), and there is one point when it says "zero g", and based on the context, I'm pretty means zero gravity.

  • Fancy illustrations of Organic Compounds. Lol. I made those...

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  • I'm pretty sure 100% of high school journals are worrying and narcissistic, don't worry about it. Although I'll admit most aren't quite that nerdy.

  • Glucose - 6 - Phosphate :D such a lovely compound, where would we be without it? oh yeah, not able to get energy ^^

  • zero gravity, silly boy.

  • is it just me or does hank's diagram so much similar to the thoughts of one of our favorite john green character in the book "An abundance of Katherine's"?

  • "but apparently i liked to rap about hacking"....*snort*

    ohhh hank you make me laugh.

  • Watching these videos me me wish I had kept a journal through school...

  • I've always liked the idea of keeping a journal and going back and reading it years later to find out what myself and my life was like then, even if it was embarassing, but my handwriting is pretty bad for someone my age

  • @windpotato type it out! That's what I'm doing. It can help you understand yourself better, and in ten years you'll be able to look back and have something very interesting to read.

  • NO! NO OBAMA HANK!!! This bastard is incredibly corrupt, and breaking the constitution.

    I hope you aren't blind to his attempting socialism...

    But, I love your journal =]

  • @Sims2players exactly. i wonder sometimes how the Greens can blindly support such a twerp when he's trying to take power away from the states, and basically ruin our 'great' nation....it's heading towards a 'why live there' nation

    And i generally find the Greens smart. so this is very confusing to me.

  • @shmoofoobean44 Yes, I feel the same. Isn't it funny they predict the world will end the year Obama is supposed to be out of office? Wouldn't be surprised if it happened because of all the turmoil he is causing.

    I don't see how the Greens fall under his "charismatic charm"

  • @Sims2players EXTREMELY ironic. xD even more so [if you're christian like me] now russia&turkey have sided with iran against isreal O.o that was The End prophecy.

    Osama...ekhem....Obama doesn't care to contribute, so the USA might as well be against them too.

    "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." -don't ask me who said it xD

  • @shmoofoobean44 That post made me smile =]]

    But, I am not a Christian. The religion is kinda hateful and oppressing.

    Try; Yay Gay Boo God by Onision

  • @Sims2players i'm sorry you've met some bad 'christians' :( it's not really a religion, but a relationship which is entirely loving, and embracing forgiveness of yourself and others. like i said, the prophacys in the Bible have been coming true after true [in sequence]within the last 150 years. O.o no 'religion' makes prophacys so particular that have ever come true like it is right now.

    the earth is testing grounds. God is waiting for us 2 choose a side. He's coming 2 clean up what we've done

  • @Sims2players if that sounded rude or anything i'm sorry again. who doesnt want to be loved? i'm all for people's rights to do what they feel is right. If gay is your way, do it [just not in front of me] lol

    there is something in the idea of Karma, and it's about to bite the world. big time.

    try: BARACK and RAHM by ppsimmons

    it's theyre new video, since i know your wise and aren't star-struck by obama so you'll like this.

  • @shmoofoobean44 if it's okay for a man and woman to kiss in front of you, it should be fine if a man and man or woman and a woman do.

  • @Sims2players :D my best friend wouldn't stop kissing her husband in front of me :P* i'd rather not see that either, but thats their freedom to do so. :/

  • fuck you

  • i love the journal videos. mostly i love the mere fact that two teenage boys bothers to keep journals. i think it's amazing and funny to look back on and i love the vlogbrothers!

  • Zero G = "Weightlessness is a phenomenon experienced by people during free-fall"

    Trippin' Down = probably like.. you know, trippin'.

    Did use any illegal substances in highschool, Hank? Haha, probably not :)

  • Your Montana accent comes out every once and again. :)

  • 0G is zero gravity.. surely.. I didn't use to keep journals and still don't because i'm afraid recording my thoughts will make me realize what an idiot i am and ruin my wonderful view I have that I used to be intelligent and I've been gradually getting stupider. If i realize i've just always been stupid that would suck.. but maybe i could laugh at myself

  • I love this video, but it terrifies me because I'm afraid of how ridiculus I must be because I still am that age. Like, I could be that nuts and still be thinking that I'm just fine.

  • @Cassiestarglimmer Like, you could start, like, a sentence with "like". STEP 1: STOP SAYING "LIKE" IN PLACES WHERE IT'S NOT NECESSARY.

  • @Bwh2q I only said "Like'" once. I understand if the word annoys, but it still made sense. Calm down.

  • The boxes may represent the different emotions of your life and how you would like to organize your feeling by filing them away into neat little boxes. When in reality your emotions were jumbled across your life in a difficult to deal with manner. The boxes were a way of validating your confused feelings.

    -Or maybe that's just what a crazy psychologist would say, when all you were really trying to do was express your love for convenient places to store things.

  • this video made you my favorite brother officially!

  • hello sir.. Im commenting because

    i need help getting my voice heard..

    I've been called alot of horrible names

    at school because of the way i look...I thought about youtube.. thought it might

    be a way to get people to realise that

    being mean to people like me is not

    right.. im tired of all the discrimination like..all the time..

    just check out the vid i recorded..

    thanks alot, really,

    mike

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  • ...I WANNA BE IN YOUR BOX! ;)

  • You are nerdily endearing, but even the cuteness of your akwardness can not charm away depression.

  • by zero g i think means no gravity

  • Reading old journals is the best. I also find myself loving/hating the person who wrote down my life years ago...it's a good learning experience. Entertaining too!!

  • zero gravity tripping down with zero gravity and hacking... your an angsty science freak... yeah Xp

  • I'm afraid that glucose-6-phosphate is involved in glycolysis, rather than the krebs cycle.

    Sorry Hank.

  • The inaugaration was AWESOME!!! Cold because we were in Washington and tiring because I had to wake up early (4:00 in the morning) to get there on time (subways on important days, SUCK!!) but it was still amazing. I probably only heard about three words of the speech(I watched it at the hotel later) but it was one of the most memorable moments of my life. You could feel the hope and the joy of the people around you. Its what I imagine a nerdfighter event to be like actually.

  • the box thing sounds like something Colin Singleton would do

  • HA! I knew it! I just commented on John's video about how you probably had your own little narcissistic journal. I was half right lol. I love dorks, though. They're just the best!

  • I feel the same about my old journal - if I was a parent and found it, I would be concerned.

    But at least your journal is typed. Mine is just scribbles in a notebook.

  • If you could figure out the box thing, It might actually have some significance....

  • *sigh* i love nerds that kept journals :D

  • I didn't keep any of my old journals. Any of them. Still wish we could read a bit more of yours. Nerdfighters could totally figure out your red box, blue box thing. Maybe.

  • I believe the real question here, is who is "Hank."

  • @carrierocks1022 Who the EFF is Hank.

  • @carrierocks1022 Hank is a bound book that is generally used to record thoughts or ideas in. Hank remains one of the most intimate records available of monumental historical events such as the Holocaust and the settling of America.

  • @carrierocks1022 no it is who the F is hank

  • . . .

    You can't be serious.

    vlogBROTHERS.

    Hank Green. Musician.

    &

    John Green. Poof Hair.

    ._.

  • lol angsty Hank.... awesome

  • omg!!!!! janaury was 7 months ago but obama was president!!!! hes been president for 7 MONTHS!!!!!!!!! jesus time has gone quick! im slightly scared now

  • Wow, that was awesome! I happened to notice some Tokyopop mangas in the background, what series were they?

  • I LIKE HANKS CLARK KENT LOOK.....

  • Zero G = no gravitation, perhaps.

  • Journals are cool. Your journal is a witness.

  • aw man. i wish i'd kept a journal too!1

    i was constantly trying to figure stuff out...

    mind you, i say this like it's new or something. i bet freakin' everyone here is STILL figuring things out (meself included). i never tried to write songs either, though i wanted to. i betcha a TONNE of young people want to write songs and are too embarrassed to.

    and also...this vlog or whateve you call it did kick a serious amount of behind. like a lot.

  • This just makes me wish I'd started keeping a journal regularly a lot sooner. The half dozen entries I did write during high school are absolutely horrid though. I did have essentially the same reaction to what I was thinking as you. Seems pretty normal. BTW Hank, have I mentioned how much ass you guys kick?

  • why not a compact light bulb?

  • i agree the hair is quite cute

  • Hank your hairs fucking sexy here, man.

  • so cool!

  • That's not just any drawing of any organic compound, that's the first step of glycolysis (the first step in cellular respiration, and certainly the quickest. It took me a few minutes as to why there was a phosphate on that glucose molecule, then I saw the ATP going into it. Then I remembered my biochemistry classes.

    The Krebs/Citric Acid/Tricarboxcylic Acid Cycle (all the same thing) comes later and does not involve any molecule with six carbons, Hank.

  • Writing rap songs about hacking is about as nerdy as it gets. Well done young Hank!

  • hank you are honestly the coolest person ever:]

  • your awesome

  • "I pretended like I knew a lot about myself when really it's because I knew nothing about myself... and so I had to pretend to try and get somewhere." Hank, you just basically summed up the entire meaning of high-schooler-hood. Well done, my friend. Well done.

  • maybe i should write a journal about my final year in high school. and your hair looks really awesome here XD

  • post it!!!!

    I want to see.

  • OMG So much like Colin in An Abundance of Katherines with your friendship diagrams...not that much different than the Underlying Theorem for Katherine Predictability!

  • I wonder if his predictablitity led TO a Kathrine, and not flaud by one hehehehe ^w^

  • lmao u made diaqramsz 2 explain people haha wtf im qussinq u relli took life logically damn haha

  • John was with a Marie? That's my name. xD Semi-awkward/semi-awesome?