 What's happening guys it's Nick Chaco and back at you with another video lately I've been getting a lot of comments saying that there's someone else in Paris another youtuber someone I should connect with you guys have been asking for it so I'm very excited to announce fellow Yale youtuber Josh Beathley what's up guys I'm happy to be here so today we're gonna be doing a video talking about college life at Yale versus Princeton we thought it'd be a great idea to show you our different perspectives and just get different insights on things so let's just jump right into it let's get into it all right so we're gonna be doing a part one part two series on both of our channels so make sure you guys go check out the link down below to see the other side of the video so when it comes to extracurriculars and clubs in college you will quickly realize that there are literally dozens if not hundreds of things you can participate in some of the craziest things I can't even think of anything off the top of my head but anything you're passionate about I'm sure there is some kind of club related to it so personally speaking I play clarinet in the orchestra I do photography I do film and aside from the academic course load it's still really important and kind of vital to your college experience to be participating in these clubs and extracurriculars so that you find a new group of friends you get out of your comfort zone you do try something new yeah so just going off of what Nick said about the crazy number of clubs there are colleges just for example at Yale there is an anti-gravity club of students dedicated to the art of juggling we have a Texas barbecue club and they get money to host a barbecue once a semester and that is awesome even me personally I guess my biggest extracurricular involvement is I'm in Air Force RTC at Yale which is which is huge for me that's definitely a big time commitment each week but I've developed a great group of friends I look forward to going into the Air Force after college ask questions no mercy we just got asked we wanted beer wine champagne do demonetized along with RTC I'm in the Yale undergraduate aerospace society I spent the past year working on a satellite that we're hoping to launch soon and I guess my coolest extracurricular is I'm actually a magician so I'm in the Yale Magic Society and it's a lot of fun we actually went on tour in Costa Rica over winter break oh that's another great thing is that joining these clubs and organizations will get also give you great opportunities to travel like next year the orchestra is going to Barcelona in Madrid fully paid for so make sure you hop on that right away get involved as quickly as possible and that way you'll make some friends and try things that you wouldn't have yeah definitely but at the same time going into freshman year it's easy to get overwhelmed with the academic workload so as great as extracurriculars are we emphasize that your academic should be your priority and then your extracurriculars should be able to balance out what you're passionate about yeah one other great thing I found about extracurriculars in college is that in high school I'm sure you felt this you feel like you're constantly forced to do things just to put them on your resume or put them on your college application resume patterns yes and in college there's there's none of that obviously you want to be prepared if you want to go to graduate school or pursue other careers but for the most part you finally have a chance to do exactly what you want to do and what you'll find out very quickly as soon as you get to college is that you don't have enough time to do everything you want to do I remember when I went to the Yale extracurricular fair like the second week of school I put my name on like the list of like 10 different clubs pro tip do not put your name on the list serves for every single club that asked you planned out doing a lot of extracurriculars but by the second or third month that list of extracurriculars is going to be whittled down to probably three or four things that you're very passionate about it's just hard to find time especially we're filming in front of the Eiffel Tower right now and if you've never been there are a bunch of people who just try and sell drinks to everyone all the time they actually it's kind of annoying yeah a little bit so I think overall when it comes to extracurricular just remember quality not quantity make sure that you're being actively involved freshman year you might not be eligible for any leadership positions or anything like that so just make sure that you find something you're passionate about and just really put your all in it yeah I completely agree this might be a little contradictory to what we said before but that the academic workload is a lot and at times it does get pretty intimidating knowing that it can and will affect your GPA especially coming from an Ivy League school where if you're not on top of your stuff all the time then you will very easily fall very easily fall behind I think the biggest thing is that being at Ivy League school you're surrounded by so many intellectual people and very well-accomplished people it's it's easy to feel like like you don't deserve a spot or that you aren't worth it or that your posture syndrome imposter syndrome that's what it is it's that it's a feeling of I don't belong here I don't I didn't deserve to get in I wasn't valetory and I have a perfect score but everyone else here seems to have that when in reality it's not I think it took me a long time to realize that everyone's down to earth there are very few people who were Nobel Prize winners or anything like that if you were to look at these people's like resumes or their college applications you would be absolutely blown away but you meet these people in person at like at meals or at parties and you just have a conversation with them and it's not till like a week or two 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won't regret it alright so we talked about extracurriculars and academics now we're gonna break it down into like what a typical week looks like at one of our schools so at least for Yale most of your classes will fall on either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday and there's some Friday classes but most of the time they end before noon at least for me along with these classes I spend probably two to three hours studying each day and then another hour or two in office hours asking questions and preparing myself for whatever problem sets might be due and then most of the extracurricular meetings will normally be later in the evening 9 or 10 p.m. you'll do a quick hour-long meeting maybe we're prepping for a magic show or writing some code for the satellite and that will fill in a lot of your free time and then most of the time as Ivy League students we don't get to bed very early a lot of times we'll be working on stuff or just hanging out with friends talking in our suites till 12 1 2 sometimes 3 in the morning but you know it's college and it's a great time along with all this work we also like to have a lot of fun in college sure Fridays and Saturdays are super popular nights to go out at Yale there's fraternity parties there are local restaurants and stuff that put on events and I guess a very popular Yale tradition when it comes to going out is Wednesday nights Wednesday nights at Yale are known as wodes at Yale we have a dance club on campus called Toads right in the middle of campus on York Street it's it's really yeah it's a really great time and every Wednesday they host dance parties only for Yale students so you show your Yale ID at the door and you get into this wild Wednesday night yeah they go to like one or two in the morning it's a great time and for me schedules pretty similar you know I tend to not be a morning person so I like to schedule my classes in the afternoon maybe 10 or 11 30 just so you can sleep in a little bit more you go to classes up until about one or two and then afterwards I have a few hours to study go to office hours get ready for an essay or a test and then right around five or six is dinner time so I meet up with some friends sure the same yeah and then from like seven to nine is probably like studying time cram time just getting ready for whatever is coming up that week for us the bigger nights are Thursday and Saturday so everyone goes out to what we call the street which is where all the eating clubs are held we'll get into all that a little bit later but it's always a great night all your friends are out there you just have fun relax because even though you are at an Ivy League score whatever school you're at doesn't really matter it's always good to just relax on wine because there's no point in working so hard if you don't find the time to relax and enjoy college for what it is because we're young you know we should be living life and like Josh was saying there are nights where you will be up until 2 or 3 a.m. whether it's studying for a test doing some homework crying over an essay or whatever but at the same time there will also be nights where you're just up having conversations with your friends because you're just finding interesting stuff to talk about and I think that's the huge thing that we both found at our schools is that there are so many intellectual people that are just curious and love to talk and I think coming from high school people are much more open-minded I'll say right and that people are wanting to learn people want to argue people want to debate over new perspectives and that's perfectly fine that's good yeah yeah what I found at Yale is every single person you encounter will have something about them there's the certain thing that kind of makes it yeah exactly talking about like everyone has that one passion that one interest that one thing that they did in the past it really just sets them apart and you can tell that from the get-go now I think a very common question we get is that oh how do you get into the Ivy League is it worth it what's it like at an Ivy League school after our first years of being there I think that you know it's great there's so many opportunities there's so many resources and it's really cool having a Ivy League game obviously but at the end of the day it's not the end of the world if you don't get into Harvard Yale Princeton or whatever I say this all the time to my friends but college is really what you make out of it it's what you put into it you'll get that much out of it there's a bird calling out right now is it cool to be an Ivy League absolutely is it the end of the world if you don't get in by no means yeah going off of what Nick said if you guys have been watching my videos for a while you know that I was pretty much set on Georgia Tech for like a solid four months before I found out about my Yale acceptance like I already talked to one of my friends and we were decided we're gonna be roommates and everything but then I get my Yale acceptance and it changes everything but the thing is I feel personally that I would be just as happy at Georgia Tech I would be just as happy at the University of Virginia they're all great schools and like Nick said college is what you make of it if you want to go into college with an open mind and set goals and have big ideas and that you want to share with other people you can do that at any school the Ivy League is not special in that in that way it's just it's it's a lot of fun it's a lot of work but at the end of the day it's there's not that much that separates it from other schools okay to kind of wrap up the video we're just gonna do a quick like pros and cons of each of our schools as much as we do love our respective schools there are kind of things that we dislike and wish we could improve on so personally at Princeton I think my favorite thing and I'm sure it's same at Yale but it's just like the people that you mean like I said like we said before you mean some of the most intelligent people who have accomplished so much crazy things in their life you're constantly inspired and motivated by your peers to just do better and and work harder every single day so that's definitely been one of the most eye opening things that when I got to college all right pretty similar to Nick my favorite thing at Yale has to be the people no other time in my life why be able to spend so much time living with such an amazing group of people like I said everyone has their unique thing that sticks out about them I have had some of the most interesting conversations I've ever had at school whether it be me just sitting in a dining hall for two hours straight talking about everything or me like up till 3 a.m. talking with one of shut up me staying up till like 3 a.m. in the morning talking about quantum mechanics with one of my sweet mates who's like a physics major it's so many different people so many different things to share and to grow with each other you learn from one another I think that's the biggest thing is that you learn to take challenges to your perspective and grow from it whether it's something that you believe in or someone might influence you to change your beliefs on alright guys that about wraps it up for this video I hope you enjoyed seeing our different lives at Yale versus Princeton this is obviously a very special opportunity to be doing a collaboration in Paris of all places which is crazy but you guys only saw half the video the other half is live on Josh's channel right now make sure you guys go check out his channel give him a subscribe he's a great magician and he makes really great videos about college as well that wraps it up for this please make sure to subscribe and I'll see you guys next