 Alright Tyler, you said you're interested in like business and stuff, what exactly are you studying? Do you have like a prospective major? So this year I've kind of used as I guess a typical freshman, it doesn't, not even Yale, just any college or university across the country. This year I kind of used to get a lot of just core requirements out of the way because Yale requires, what is it, two QR, two writing, and three semesters of language? Yeah, so I think I've talked about the Yale like distributional requirements system before but we have like six different categories and you need like two credits in each category to graduate in addition to like the requirements of your major. Like rather than just like requiring you to take like specific classes like intro chemistry or like intro writing, they just kind of let you explore and as long as you're taking a class that falls into one of those categories it'll count, which is pretty cool. So I've kind of used this year to try and get my QR, my writing and as much as my language as I can out of the way because that way it'll free up my sophomore, junior, and senior year to take classes that I'm really interested in and hopefully prepare me for whatever job I end up taking after college. As far as majors, I know that Econ is a very common path for business-esque students. However, I think I'm going to do political science just because it opens up a lot of flexibility on what classes I can take because Econ is a very specific path, I feel like, of classes that you have to take and a lot of pre-rex. So I think I'm just going to do polysci because then that will free up a lot of classes that I can take and it's not as structured so I feel like I'll have more control over my schedule when I'm at Yale. What classes are you taking this semester? So this semester I'm taking Math 111, I'm taking Yoruba, which is an international language for those of you who don't know. I've spoken in Nigeria, I'm taking English 20, I believe. It's a freshman seminar so it's got a unique number. What's the topic? It's called Sequel and Revision in Modern Literature. Sounded pretty tough when I was reading about it, but the professors ended up being amazing. So I guess that would be a piece of advice. You never know. You never know until you show up shopping period if you're going to like it or not. So I needed a writing credit, signed up for it, and ended up loving it. It sounded like it was going to be a really hard class, but Dean recommended it to me and I ended up going through with it. That's another good point. I don't know, the Dean and the Head of each college play a very specific role, especially when it comes to classes and stuff. I feel like I can approach her about anything, whether it comes to personal problems to either just like, even just like class decisions. Yeah, I'd say I meet with Dean as much as I can. When I came to Yale, I was thinking the Head of College and the Dean were going to be very intimidating people who I meet with maybe once a year just to talk about stuff and just that person I needed to turn my schedule to or drop a class or something like that. That's what I was accustomed to in high school. Then I got here and I met with my Dean. I'd say I'd try to meet with her at least once a month just to talk, even if I don't have anything specific to talk about, just to say, she's always more than happy to meet with me and just say, hey, what's going on? Let's talk about that or whatever is on my mind. I can always just go to her. It's a great resource, great person to lean on past like your sweet mates and your froco. And I'm also taking Intro to International Relations, so get a polycyte class to try and get a credit just to get used to what I'm going to be taking probably the next four years. Yeah, I think Jake's in that, too. Yeah, Jake is. Yeah. Josh was remaced. Isn't that class? What do you think of classes in general? Yeah, like how's the workload and difficulty compared to stuff you've done in the past? Yeah, it's definitely a stuff from high school. It's different because in high school, I felt like you go to class, you learn stuff. It's the same here, but I feel like it's very specific on what homework you have to do. Every night you're going to have homework in probably every class, whereas here it's much more, A, you don't meet in that class every day, and B, a lot of it's optional. On a syllabus, it'll say, do readings X, Y, and Z this week, and it's up to you to kind of be a diligent student and do it, or else you're going to be under-prepared for discussion section. So I'd say it's different. It's definitely harder for me at least, but I like it a lot because it gives you, the other side of that is it gives you a lot of flexibility. So if you have a night where you're just not feeling homework and you need to get some sleep, that's okay because the next day you'll be more rested and you'll be able to do it. Whereas I feel like in high school, no matter what, you kind of had to push yourself through it, which everyone has those nights where you don't want to. It's definitely a lot more flexible and a lot more of kind of an independent commitment. Definitely. Which I like a lot. But I also, like I was talking about, so I talked about that professor that I end up loving, that's another thing I love about college. As far as the Yale experience, I feel like I've had a pretty good relationship with my seminar classes, those professors, I've had an overall pretty good experience thus far with those professors, whereas I feel like other universities, I don't know how it works because we don't go there. But yeah, I feel like Yale's classes either fall into like, I don't know, there's obviously the big lecture halls, like Intro, like Econ, I don't know my physics classes like 150, those are your big general intro classes. Then you have most of your major classes, which are maybe 30 kids if you're in STEM or so. But if you're doing a humanities major, most of your classes will be seminars with like 15 people sitting around a table just having a conversation with the professor, and it's a really cool experience. Which I know for me, I enjoy, because I like those type of classes in high school too, whereas high school, all your classes are smaller, but you have, sometimes you have those really special bonds with the teacher, and those are the classes I end up doing really well in high school. Whereas I like that at Yale because I feel like I'm able to have a good relationship with my professors, talk through with whatever issues I'm having with the class, or just any additional questions. I got to college and I didn't realize how many additional questions I had, course material. I feel like in high school I just kind of would leave class, go to the next one, whereas here you find yourself just wanting to know more about your professor or whatever. Because most of the time they're usually pretty far up in their field and pretty impressive people. Definitely, yeah, professors here are crazy and I definitely recommend like getting to know your professors wherever you like end up. Great to have those relationships, especially if you're like curious about like job offers in the future or like research internship opportunities that they're there for you. So how do you like TD so far? Our residential college that we live in. TD is the best. Simply put, I think that we have the best dean on campus, and I think that Josh would agree and anyone else in TD would agree. She's amazing, but I just like the community at TD. It's just a really good group of people and I feel like we've all gotten to know each other pretty well as freshmen, along with all of our upperclassmen here in TD, because kids in the other colleges live on old campus. They're freshman year, which is like fun to get to be with all of the freshmen, but I think it's very unique that we get to live with sophomores, juniors, and seniors just right from the get-go. Yeah, you really get to know all the upperclassmen pretty quick. And we get to go to old campus when we want.