 What's up guys it's Josh and we're back again with another video um today's video is highly requested um a lot of you guys have been asking for this for a long time today is actually the day that I will finally do a little bit of a roommate interview so as much as you guys may think I live here alone because I never show anyone else in the videos there actually is somebody here on that top bunk and his name is Jake hey guys Jake introduce yourself. Hi I'm Jake I'm Josh's roommate I'm the other resident of I35. Don't tell my room number. Okay Jake where are you from man? I'm from Washington D.C. um Tenley Town represent Tenley Town. So you guys may know that I might be a little experienced with the cards and the uh the magical arts but uh Jake over here is also quite experienced also three two one that was clean it's clean all right good job Jake. I know in my videos I've talked a lot about my own high school experience but uh hopefully Jake here will share a little bit about what he did in high school and why he believes that a school like Yale um called his name um so I'd say that my main activities in high school um athletics wise uh I wrestled for my school for four years um four year varsity wrestler um and then um outside of school I actually fenced um I have my fencing bag in here when I moved in it's gone it's at the gym now um and the other thing is that uh outside of sports um I ran a club at my school which was the military and political strategy club where we talked about foreign affairs and current events um military history I'd say those are the biggest things um side notes did a little bit of quiz bowl a little bit of debate yeah um so I'd say that was kind of my main list of activities this is kind of along the same lines but uh Jake in like more general why do you think the Yale admissions officers picked you um I mean honestly it's a good question I wouldn't say I'm at all special or different than most other people I think that in my application I tried to be just as genuine as possible I didn't try to I don't know make myself seem smart or anything I wasn't I just tried to be be really natural be myself um also just so show like learning makes me excited showing how like I like to have a fun time with my academics yeah um I think those were the biggest reasons just being genuine showing that you're a you're an interesting person who doesn't you know put on airs yeah yeah that's good okay Jake what are you studying here at Yale and what does your academic schedule and academic life look like here all right so first off let me just say I'm in ds no people a little intro into what yes actually is so um my freshman year I'm taking a program called directed studies which is basically a program where you go through a lot of the western canon of books from like ancient Greece up to Rome through the modern day so reading we take a philosophy a literature and a history class and read just a lot of books basically um at Yale there's definitely a stigma that ds students are really full of themselves and pretentious how true is it uh it's I'd say it's pretty true sometimes but we also are there are also some good chill people um so that's what my freshman year is like and then my fourth class so it's a literature philosophy and history class and then my fourth class I'm taking is just a intro economics class um long term I'm thinking about either majoring in history or global affairs which is gales international relations major okay um what are your extracurricular activities and what's your life look out look what's your life look like outside of school here yeah so I um I walked on to the fencing team here and that's a pretty big chunk of my time um we practice every day for two hours and then we go lift in the mornings um in fact I have lift uh early in the morning on Monday and Wednesday and then josh has rotc physical training one uh Tuesday Thursday so one of us is always getting up early um so that's a big chunk of my time we go and a lot of weekends we compete um I was just at Penn State for a tournament so that's a huge chunk of my extracurricular time um aside from that I occasionally wrestle with the club wrestling team just whenever I have free time and obviously uh I'm in the magic society yes um yeah that's basically my main extracurriculars um sometimes you know go to talks or events or things like that but that's my main time commitments cool okay jake so far I know we've we've only been here for like what two and a half months what is your single favorite thing about Yale oh what's my single favorite thing about Yale um my roommate no uh I don't know um I fell in love with the architecture when I came here and that's that hasn't disappointed at all I love the buildings um but honestly what I'm not joking when I say my roommate because I really love the people here um they're a bunch of really well well intelligent it's it's nothing like it's nothing like you would expect from like an Ivy League school it's a bunch of really chill down-to-earth people um who are smart and interesting but aren't aren't anything like aren't someone you would be intimidated by or not want to like talk to because they do you think they're out of your league or anything like that awesome that's good what was our first impressions of each other um meeting or like when we like found out that we're going to be roommates I thought that josh was going to be like way more of a jock than I thought he was than than he was like I mean like you did you did a ton of baseball and stuff but like I don't know my impression of you was like I thought you're going to be more I don't know I thought you're going to be more like stoic and so I mean you are sometimes but um no no I thought he was going to be more into sports and more like stoic um but I quickly realized like within the first couple of hours that he was a chill guy um and so when I could spend time with that's good that's good okay uh I guess my first impression of you was like um obviously like I remember like messaging you messaging you on the facebook page because we both did magic and like I kind of recognized before we knew we were yeah so like he posted something on the Yale facebook page saying that he did magic or whatever it's a little bio and I messaged him and yeah we talked for like just a little bit and then I actually realized when the roommate decisions came out that he was the same person that like I'd messaged like two or three months before which was crazy um yeah and unlike myself you don't have a lot online no I'm very little on my presence and like when we were talking like uh texting each other before like trying to arrange everything for the room we which we didn't get anything we kind of just we kind of yeah we kind of just winged it um before we got here so that was fine and then uh yeah I guess my first impression of you when we got here like you seem like you got it all planned out like seeing and like like you're like a really busy guy and like yeah it's awesome yeah well I appreciate that especially the fencing and then you're still like trying to do like club wrestling sometimes like sometimes but like you also I mean like you have rotc like freaking like every day pretty much yeah it's fun yeah we all enjoy what we do exactly it's it's a busy time in terms of like how we interact in the room um do you think there's do you think there's a messy roommate among the two of us I think that like I don't know if there's like a the messy roommate I definitely tend to be messier um and what I think what happens is like it goes in like a sine curve because like Josh is usually like I like a pretty level I mean I don't know I'm definitely messy but yeah it's like it doesn't ever like get out of control yeah it never gets out of control whereas like for me like there's sometimes like a neater than Josh and then sometimes I'm a lot messier than Josh and it like goes back and forth so I think that like overall I would be the messy roommate but sometimes I'm the neat roommate too okay yeah that's good um and then like who goes to bed earlier depends I feel like it depends on the night I I never go to bed early like I have like a set like one o'clock bedtime every single night even if I have to wake up at five I just can't get myself to go to bed earlier and Jake Jake spends a lot of time in the library yeah I don't know so it depends sometimes I go to bed like early like 11 or like sometimes even go to bed like 10 30 but then there are other nights where I'm like up until like five in the morning um like I literally I literally before I turned in one of my papers um I was up until five writing it I come back this guy I come back here at 5 30 Josh obviously is asleep and this guy Walker down the hall from us is getting up to go to football yeah well I'm going to bed because I just finished well sorry I just finished my paper good times good times oh yeah we should talk about like sleep shame in it yeah yeah people don't like it when you sleep yeah like if you if you get a lot of sleep like people kind of shame you for it yeah I like to think I get a lot of sleep I shoot for between seven and eight hours every night which doesn't always happen but but but I get like I'd say I just get I get consistently like seven hours of sleep which is more than a lot of people I know yeah I flip flop between like eight and three and a half depending on which night it is and how it relates you get up yeah I've been trying