 2017 was a pretty good year for me. I have to say I graduated high school, started school at Yale, and hey, I even started this YouTube channel, which is something I really never expected that I would do. 2017 was full of surprises. I mean, I'm a completely different person now than I was when I started the year, and it's important to recognize that. Although reflecting over this past year is definitely something that's good for me to do, I am not here today to reflect on my past. I'm here today to talk about my goals for the future. Why am I sharing with you my goals, you may ask? Well, for a couple reasons. First of all, I just want you guys to know what I'm working towards. I'm constantly trying to work on new things and bring new ideas, whether it be in this YouTube channel or whether it just be in my life in general, and I want you guys to be a part of that. And second of all, I want you guys to keep me accountable, okay? I'm setting these goals, I'm making these statements, I'm putting this video online so that a year from now I can look back on myself, and realize that I did accomplish everything that I set out to do. So I would divide my goals into about four or so categories. Academic, business, fitness, and health, and then personal goals. Well, I guess I'll start with academics. First of all, I am a student at Yale for a reason, okay? And that reason is to succeed academically. I worked my butt off all of high school to get to the school, to get this education, and I don't want that to go to waste. My classes need to come first, and I need to keep my grades up. I did a pretty good job with my first semester, but now that I've kind of experienced the stress and expectations and the workload that Yale kind of pushes upon me, I expect to do a lot better in second semester. I'm going to have to because this semester I plan on taking five courses instead of the four I took this semester. So we'll see how it gets. Now on the business side, I have a couple things that I'm working on, one of which is this whole YouTube thing. You know, I never expected it to become this successful, and I want to keep seeing how far I can push it. I have some big ideas for the channel this year, and I hope to share those with you soon. Just this year, I managed to hit 10k, 10,000 subscribers in just over five months or so. So hopefully this is somewhat realistic. My goal for 2018 is 50,000 subscribers. By the end of 2018, I'd like to see the channel grow to 50k subscribers. I think we can do it. I believe in myself. I believe in you guys. We got this. Speaking of that, I know there's a lot of you that watch these videos that aren't subscribed yet. Come on. What are you doing? Just subscribe. It takes a lot of time to put together these videos on a consistent basis, especially while I'm trying to balance being a student. So show me your appreciation by liking the videos, subscribing, and sharing the videos with your friends if you found them helpful. That's what helps me most. That's what helps the YouTube algorithm rank my videos higher and recommend them to more people. So I can reach a wider audience and help more people get into college and kind of share my college life with more people. That's the ultimate goal here. Apart from YouTube, I have a couple other ventures I'm kind of looking into right now and talking with some of my friends about. We'll see where that goes. I'll definitely keep you guys updated in the future on the any developments in that realm. Next goal is fitness. Obviously, I feel like it's one of the most cliche, like New Year's resolutions things. I really even hated putting it on this list. But you know, I played baseball for my whole life. And after I got done with my senior year, I just stopped playing, you know, I played baseball for literally 13 years straight. And then one day I just stopped. You know, I have my baseball love sitting on my shelf at college. And I haven't touched it in a while. So one of my goals in 2018, I guess is maybe gradually get myself back into baseball, whether that is just playing with my siblings more getting involved in their games and practices, or maybe even seeing opportunities at Yale. I don't know. I am doing PT twice a week. And I try to lift on my own. But I'd also like to kind of get on a more consistent workout routine. I mean, I'm in pretty good shape right now. But you know, I can always do better. Alright, lastly, there's a couple of personal goals that I have for myself. One of which is, you know, sometimes when I'm presented with a problem, and the the answer isn't immediately apparent, or it takes some extra work on my part to kind of figure it out. A lot of times I just, you know, immediately say no, like I don't even give it any thought. Then that's something I really need to work on and something that I plan to work on this year. This is something that really prevents me from experiencing everything that I want to experience. And I feel like I'm missing out. So that's one of my personal goals for this year. The other one is kind of stupid. You know, I want to say hi to more people. You guys know Walker. He's one of my good friends at Yale. He literally says hi to everyone that walks by him, whether it's one of his friends at Yale, or, you know, it's just some random person. And it's led to some pretty funny situations sometimes when he's just, you know, trying to start a conversation with a person he's never met. But that's that's something that I kind of want to aspire to be. Although I may not, you know, take it to that extent. I want to try to meet and talk to as many people at Yale as possible. No other time in my life will be in a group of such concentrated, similar minded individuals. And I really want to take advantage of that. All right, that pretty much sums up my goals and my plans for 2018. Hope you guys enjoyed the video and hope you guys will support me in pursuing these goals. Of course you will. You guys are awesome. If you enjoyed the video, make sure to like and subscribe. You know it helps a lot more than you think. So please do that. If you have any questions, any recommendations for the channel, any, or you just want to, you know, talk to me, do it down in the comments down below. I try to respond to as many people as I can. I guess that's it. I'll be back again in a couple days with another video. So stay tuned. I will see you soon.