 What's up guys, I actually forgot to shoot an intro for the video that I'm posting today when I was in Paris, but today's video is a college Q&A, it was the second collaboration video I did with fellow Princeton YouTuber Nick Che, I'm really excited for you guys to see it, it's a great video, we answered all the questions you guys sent to us, and without any further ado, let's just get into the video. Alright, so our first question is, what did you struggle the most when you first got to college? I think the hardest part eventually got better but at first it is hard finding friends and people that you click with because the school is so big while relatively it's not as big compared to our state schools there are still gonna be thousands of other kids so just finding people you have similar interests with and people that you click with, it's a little hard at first but it gets better with time. Yeah definitely one thing that I had to adjust to was a couple weeks in as soon as classes start to pick up and you've kind of found your solid group of friends and your and your residential college or your dorm or whatever, you find that there's such interesting people that you will participate in like hour-long, two hour-long conversations and then you'll come back to your room it'll be like 12 30 at night and you realize that you haven't finished your math piece yet and that's something that I really had trouble with is because in high school you live at home, you do your work at home, yeah you go out on the weekends and meet up with friends and stuff but for the most part it's completely separate where at college you live with your best friends and you have to get your work done there. So it's definitely hard like finding a balance between how much time can I spend eating dinner or just having a conversation when in reality you probably have to get to your work. Next question is do you think high school prepared you for college specifically AP classes? In my opinion it's hard to say because it varies depending on what high school you went to the if it's private or public or anything like that but I will say that going to the Ivy League is a completely new ballpark that I personally don't think that any high school will really prepare you for it like it will give you the fundamentals of learning how to manage your time or doing or having good study habits but there's nothing that will really prepare you for the rigor that is the Ivy League. Yes high school and AP classes and like loading up on AP classes definitely teaches you how to work hard and you'll begin to develop study habits but you kind of have to come up with a new game plan when you get to college like some of the things that worked in high school might not work in college because things are so different aside for the types of classes that you're taking like lectures and professors and not having a teacher that you can always ask questions to like that kind of gets difficult. And the classes the classes are just really really hard and you just you have to like for the first time for me in college I in high school if I didn't understand something in a class that was that was rare because I would I would always work to make sure I understand something I after every single physics class first and second semester I would walk out of there and what happened what happened that was that was not English. Yeah it's it's definitely an adjustment because the material is just getting so much harder and you have to you have to keep up with it. And the thing is like if you don't keep up with it if you're not on top of your workload don't have your schedule planned out correctly then you start to get behind and it just gets a lot harder like trust us when we say that it's super it's super important to manage your time very well and you know prioritize what's most important to you. Yes obviously I recommend taking a ton of AP classes in high school. It will prepare you for college but ultimately it's a whole new vlogger. It's a whole new ballpark. Yeah all right our next question is a good one it is from m underscore Berg 29 he said what do other students at Yale or Princeton think of you being a YouTuber? Being a YouTuber in college is especially at the Ivy Leagues where vlogging and like pranks and videos like that like that's not very common that's at the bigger state schools so for us being vloggers it's definitely putting yourself out there you definitely have to have a lot of self confidence and really not care about what people think carrying around a camera with the tripod looking kind of like an idiot or trying to film in like a lecture or something like that yeah the first few months are definitely hard but once you see the progress and the work paying off and making an audience and growing like that's when you start to realize like this is all worth it I'm not going back and to be honest like your friends at school they'll ultimately support you they think it's cool that you're going out of your comfort zone doing things that no one else has done and especially the fact that like we're kind of like the first wave of Ivy League YouTubers makes it you know really important for us to like set a good precedent for anyone else that wants to follow yeah so that was definitely one thing that I did not account for in July when I started you know making YouTube videos is what my fellow students at Yale would think of them when I'm kind of putting myself out there and using the Yale name so it was definitely an interesting experience the first couple months as people kind of gradually discovered that I was that guy or you know you go on YouTube and you search Yale or you go on YouTube you search Princeton where the first one to pop up yeah that's that's us and that's it's kind of it was kind of awkward a little strange when you just get approached by random people at your school like hey like you're the you're the YouTube guy but it's also it's also really cool especially for me during our accepted students a week Bulldog days that was one of the craziest experiences of my life when I actually had people come up to me and say oh like I watch your videos but not only that I had people come up to me and say hey like I didn't even think of applying to Yale until I saw one of your videos and like now I'm here and it just it just really hit me about how much of an impact we actually have it's going off that it is pretty surreal at times when you're just walking down the streets maybe not even on campus if people will go up to you like hey I saw your video on YouTube like thank you so much you inspired me to apply to this college or you you help me so much through the application process like that's what means the most to us like we don't care about views we don't care about likes or responses or anything like that like we care about making an impact on you guys and like showing you that we're just normal guys we worked hard in high school we got to where we are now but we want to just walk you guys through the process and show you our journey because that's the coolest thing for us yeah definitely I feel like like Nick said we're kind of the first wave like not a lot of people have done YouTube videos from a student's perspective at these Ivy League schools and they're kind of this mystic thing that you don't really know how to approach them you don't know what life is actually like there so that's that's kind of our job we're here to help you prepare yourselves for those schools and then give you a peek into what life is actually like and for me I'm sure it's same for you like when I the reason I started to make these videos was that I was researching like on YouTube like vloggers at Princeton or whatever and and for me personally like I'm sure it's the same for you but like when I was starting to make these videos because I was going on YouTube like looking for campus tours or what life is like at our schools and I mean Nick's the only youtuber Princeton I'm the only youtuber Yale and John's only youtuber at Harvard if you're watching this John hit us up we'd love to do a collab alright guys to interrupt the brief programming we 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Christine Lee did you guys pick your colleges mainly for a certain major or certain program or the colleges themselves personally right now I'm majoring in economics I did not go into school thinking I was gonna be doing economics but luckily any of the Ivy League schools have really great degrees in whatever program it is that you're gonna be applying to so personally I don't think I chose Princeton for its specific degree if I was planning on going to photography or film that obviously I would have chosen an art school like NYU or a USC or something like that but I think like like Josh said having a liberal arts degree is very beneficial because you have such a wide variety of things that you're gonna have to learn it's gonna well prepare you for when you get into the real world because you're not just gonna be really smart in engineering you're gonna have a really diverse background in a lot of different subjects yeah I mean Yale has probably almost a hundred different majors that you can choose from they're all absolutely phenomenal I didn't choose Yale for whatever specific program I was gonna say I chose Yale because it's Yale and the opportunities that are present there I've rambled on about it for like way too long and some of my other videos just about how great the opportunities are how great the people are how great the resident of college life how great the social life it's just absolutely amazing this question is from Kai when you first arrived at Yale or Princeton did you ever find yourself comparing yourself to your classmates or did you feel the need to show off that you were smarter than them or that you weren't stupid you know it's that's an interesting question so this is commonly known as the imposter syndrome we talked about in one of our previous video videos but it's essentially where you feel like you don't fit in like you don't deserve to get in and my kind of philosophy on that is that you got into school so you deserve it right like there should be no comparison between you or the person next to you on what your SAT or ACT score was I literally I think it took me about half a semester in when I figured out what my best friend ACT scores and I was literally just like we're talking and we're curious like no one's going around like hey would you get on your SAT and no one cares like no one cares if you're a valedictorian or if you're a national merit finalist or whatever right like everyone's there for a reason and and you shouldn't question whether or not you deserve that because you earned it and you should be enjoying it because spending more time on dwelling on comparing yourself it might good enough it might not the smartest one or whatever like you're not you're losing time to enjoy the college experience yeah definitely I I suffered a little bit from this my first semester coming in as a CS major with only like a year and a half two years of previous CS experience where I'm taking classes with kids that have been coding since kindergarten it was definitely a little bit of a shock when this comes so much easier to other people that then I thought about it like I I put the work in I deserve to be at the school I'm taking the same classes I'm succeeding in the same classes as these other people if anything it's a compliment to my own like work ethic and ability to kind of adjust to a new environment I think the biggest thing is that regardless of whatever college you at whether it's an Ivy League or state school or whatever people don't care about what you did in high school like sure your accomplishments were amazing on your resume and they helped you get into that school but don't go around flaunting it and bragging about it like oh I was valedictorian or whatever like everyone's a valedictorian everyone student council president yeah it's it's just something you accept and you don't talk about all right so when I was tips on socializing and making friends in college especially those not in your dorms and classes we said this before but I think it's super important to just get out of your comfort zone and go up to the stranger and have a conversation those first few weeks of school are super critical to just meeting a bunch of new people even if you don't remember their name at least you made the effort to go and talk to them and eventually if you guys click then that could turn into a friendship yeah my biggest tips for socializing especially I've gotten a lot of questions of people that oh maybe they they don't like their roommate or the people on their floor like aren't interested in what they're interested in and they're having a lot of trouble developing relationships with the people that they're living with my biggest tip is to start study groups because everyone's at college to take classes and you'll get your guaranteed to find a lot of similar minded people that are interested in similar topics or majoring in the same thing as you in your freshman introductory classes so find those people get their numbers text them ask them questions about p-sets and begin to develop study groups that office hours peer tutoring whatever it is another huge thing is they get to be actively participating in social events and getting out of your dorm room on Friday nights if you don't go out of your way to talk to people and make friends like you can't complain when it comes to the second semester and you don't have a friend group or people to hang out with because like we said the first few months are so crucial to your college experience but at the same time you still have four years at your school so don't freak out if you don't feel like you have a friend group like I don't even feel like I have a solid friend group because things change and as we get into our older years you know a lot of social opportunities open up for us yeah going off of what Nick said trying to get out of your dorm room on Friday or Saturday nights like at least for me I wasn't a party animal in high school I almost felt guilty about sometimes going out to parties just because like I I had these big goals these big aspirations and some of these kids all they wanted to do was party during high school and it just it just didn't feel like my vibe it wasn't it wasn't what I was going for but then you get to Yale you get to Princeton and you go out to these parties everyone there got into Yale or Princeton you're at this party you're having fun and all these people are are incredible and how easy it is to just go off and talk to people grow up and socialize and meet so many people I was so surprised like my first week at Yale my first time like going out at my new school just how many people I met and how open everyone is especially at these big social events you'll quickly realize that people are very open to conversations especially that orientation week or when you're first beginning to meet people because chances are no one knows each other so take advantage of that and utilize it to just meet as many people as you can yeah definitely all right guys that's about it for this Q&A I hope you enjoyed if you did feel free to drop a thumbs up down below it helps me and supports the channel a lot more than you think if you have any other questions for us drop in the comment section below we will try to answer them I want to thank Nick for filming this video with me definitely go over and check his channel right now because you actually saw half the video the other half is on his channel definitely subscribe he's a great filmmaker great youtuber and he can provide a lot of good content for you guys if you're new and this is the first video you've seen so far definitely subscribe because it's not stopping anytime soon and with that I'll see you guys in the next video.