 Alright, what's up everyone? Um, it is currently day 23 in quarantine and obviously I'm occupying my time by sitting alone in my room, talking to my camera, which somehow seems a little bit more normal now, given the current world situation. Anyways, I realized I've been, you know, somewhat absent from the YouTube space for the past school year. Um, and you know, I've been getting a little sentimental over the couple of days, you know, scrolling through my camera roll, seeing all the memories of a year gone by, and you know, I thought I would talk about it. One, so I can update all of you guys that are curious about what I do with my life when I'm not on YouTube. And two, I kind of want to reflect back on the memories and vent a little bit given everything that's going on. Obviously this whole situation is affecting everyone differently, so I really do hope you're staying safe and healthy and your families are staying safe and healthy as well. Um, but I thought I would reflect on some of my personal good memories from this year. So one of the biggest changes for my junior year of college was the fact that I moved off campus. I am no longer living in the hallowed halls and cramped dorm rooms of Timothy Dwight College. Now I can talk about that whole decision process of moving off campus if any of you guys are actually interested, but I'm now living in a house with eight of my best friends and there's honestly no complaints. And when I say off campus, take that with a grain of salt because I'm literally across the street like Davenport College is right there. I can walk out on my front porch and see the bookstore. So I'm pretty much pretty much on campus still just not in a Yale sponsored dorm. Overall, though, I have enjoyed my time living off campus this year. Um, it's provided me a lot of flexibility that the Yale dorms haven't and I've also been able to save a ton of money because I've been cooking most of my own meals. Although the whole residential college system is great and I pride Yale and kind of upholding those community values and everything. Um, it does have its problems. I if you have friends that aren't in your residential college, it's extremely hard to live with them. Um, and most of my best friends do not happen to be in my residential college. So that was one big change. But next, my junior year was kind of a big year for my development as a computer science student. Specifically this past fall, I took a legendary class at Yale CS323, which is our systems programming computer architecture class. This class has a reputation of being one of the most difficult, hardest time consuming classes that Yale has to offer. And let me tell you it did not disappoint. As I talked about in some of my previous CS related videos, most of Yale's core CS curriculum is taught in the basic programming language of C. So that was fun. I think I logged 43 hours of time for the first problem set. Um, that's a little over a work week for something that I had about 12 days to do. It was definitely a shock to the system. The class was only five problem sets, but most of them took at least 25 hours, if not more, which is just a heinous amount of time in general. Looking back on it, though, I do think I enjoyed it. We had some really cool problem sets, everything from implementing some basic Linux commands like make or history, which I'm sure you've used before, if you've ever coded and see. And then we even built a low level latech. And the final two P sets were implementing the limples of Welch compression algorithm and then building a bash shell from scratch, like an entire bash shell, which yeah, that was fun. This last was the main reason this past semester was a complete blur. So I'm so happy I'm done with that. And speaking of last semester being a blur, it wasn't completely due to CS3-23, but a combination of a lot of different factors. If there was a phrase I could use to describe last semester would be work hard, play hard. It was a semester of flip flopping between a week of all-nighters where I'm staring at a computer screen for hours looking at seg faults and bugs that just won't go away. And then the next week I'd be, you know, popping off enjoying Yale social life and kind of making the most of that on a week where I don't have as heavy a workload. I feel like as a junior my core group of friends finally solidified and there was no more wandering around looking for things to do on the weekend. We always had plans and a lot of times they're a lot more low-key, which you know as a junior I finally became okay with. I settled down for a bit and it was nice. Looking back on it it's hard to pick out specific weeks or weekends just because it was there was so much to do and you know it was like it really was a blur and I'm okay with that. As I moved into my junior spring this semester I pretty much finished most of the computer science major. I just have three electives and a thesis left so I made it made it through all like the more difficult core requirements. So I finally had the opportunity to pretty much take whatever I wanted and let me tell you I took full advantage of that. I think this junior spring semester was the first time I could like definitively say that I genuinely enjoy and love every single one of the classes that I'm taking. Like for example I'm taking a medical software design class where I'm working on an iPhone app that uses a machine learning algorithm to make predictions of urinary events and patients with neurogenic illnesses that are struggling with urinary incontinence. So you know bedwetting basically machine learning for bedwetting that's that's pretty cool. I'm taking a cybersecurity seminar in the Global Affairs Department that's cross-listed with the Jackson Institute and law school where I just spend two hours every Wednesday morning debating the effects of cyber warfare and cyber warfare policy on national security and strategy which is just fascinating. In my wireless technologies class my final project is a drone that acts as a Wi-Fi repeater so you can so I can extend the Wi-Fi range of my own house using a drone and connect to the Wi-Fi coming from a drone. I mean it sounds crazy just talking about all this cool stuff I've been doing this semester in my classes but it's even been more fun implementing it. If you guys are curious about any of that I'd love to make specific videos about the projects I've been working on especially since I have so much time on my hands these days. With all these cool classes I also had the opportunity to meet so many new people and for some new relationships that I couldn't have even dreamed of freshman year. This year has been an absolute ride and that's kind of one of the main reasons I'm I'm disappointed that it was it was cut short. Obviously I can't even imagine what the seniors are going through because being a second semester senior all the all the senior specific events that are going on graduation senior week all of that gone in addition to the fact that we were on spring break when school was called so we didn't even get a chance to say our goodbyes. Fortunately I'm still in New Haven off campus self-isolating writing out this pandemic together with a couple of my friends which which has been great. We're just trying to live up the rest of the semester you know even though we're here at Yale it doesn't feel like Yale because I feel like the people that the people make the school and when there's no one here it's just it's just so sad. I can't be more thankful for all the people that I've met the experiences that I've had this year at Yale and although the semester was cut short I know the energy on campus is gonna be unheard of when we hopefully return in the fall. So that was a brief recap of my junior year at Yale University which it's not quite done yet obviously I'm still doing online classes and finishing up those we have a couple more weeks left of that but it's it's crazy to say that I'm three quarters of the way done with college. I just don't know what to think of it it's all gone so fast and it's been such an amazing experience that I it's it's sad it's sad. If anything that I talked about in this video interest you guys you'd like to me see me make a specific video on it obviously I'd love to with all this time and I have a lot of cool stuff that I'm working on that I'm interested in. Obviously I saw all of you guys' comments on the last video I've taken those video ideas into account I think this was one of the suggestions some I'll definitely be putting out some more you know quarantine related stuff trying to stay productive stay busy that's something that I'm personally working on and and struggling with myself. Anyways please drop a like on this video supports me and helps channel a lot more than you think subscribe if you're new and this is the first video that I've seen it's a little on the more mellow side but like I have a lot of other cool videos about Yale school CS magic all the stuff that I'm interested in on this channel that you should definitely check out comment down below any other video suggestions you have anything you liked about this video that you want me to talk about more and with that stay safe stay healthy