 guys what's up it's Kinsey and welcome back to my channel today I'm gonna be filming a non-traditional college Q&A I know there are so many Q&A's on like rush and just like normal for your universities and I am going to share with you guys kind of my college journey what I've been doing what's worked for me what hasn't it's kind of like give you guys some answers to questions that I get asked a lot and also some of you guys are kind of looking to go down like the same route as me I think that this video could possibly be helpful so if you guys are not subscribed be sure to subscribe I'm going to be taking some questions from Instagram so you guys ever have any questions that is where to reach me also you should follow me on there anyways so I'm gonna kind of give you guys my like backstory with schooling college I honestly was a pretty good student growing up actually was a very good student I cared a lot more about my grades than I probably should have but then at the same time I feel like I didn't care at all I was always wanted to do something creative like I grew up in a town where like every single person goes to college like that was always like you go to a university I mean not every person I'm being dramatic I'm being very dramatic but college was definitely the norm in my hometown and I always plan like I was never not gonna get a degree but instead of looking at schools like Alabama I was always looking at schools like FIT or FITM or something like that so I've never ever had a desire to rush in my life I think that's awesome if you do it and I think there's like so many benefits to it but like that is just not my thing like any of my friends who know me is like no not for Kenzie with that being said I like to think that if I would have just gone down like a normal four-year traditional route and college I probably would have rushed just if it was popular at my school just because I feel like that's really important for like social aspects and I would have tried it out I like to think that if YouTube wasn't in my life and I would have looked back on it that I would now be in a normal four-year university because that probably would have been the best decision for me because now knowing people who went to FITM and like I've spent time at both campuses I wouldn't have really no actually I think I would have liked it I don't know hindsight is 2020 but those schools are definitely more tailored and you have to be like very driven and very like serious about them and kind of know what you want to do that being said I moved out my senior year to LA so I moved and I only had like a few credits up that I needed for high school so I graduated my senior year early but I graduated online you don't drop out of school to graduate online that's like a common misconception people are like oh yeah they dropped out and graduated online like you just transfer to an online school like you didn't drop out so I don't know why people always think that but I just transferred and I graduated online at that point I kind of was planning on going to FITM then I was living with Molly and a bunch of people everyone hated FITM and I realized like it wasn't really what I wanted to do I was planning on applying there but then I was just like I don't want to go here so since I had been in LA for a year I was gonna have residency in California so I could go to Santa Monica College and get it like a thousand dollars a year instead of 20,000 so I was like this is smart and I could do it online I did take one in-person class because Andrew took one and he wanted me to take it with him but yeah so basically I did that from the summer before like my what would have been like my normal freshman year of college to the spring of my sophomore year so I'm now going to be a college junior and I would have transferred mid sophomore year this is also confusing I've also have not stopped taking classes since basically my senior year I always take summer classes and I do most of them online with the exception of one that I took in-person at Santa Monica College which is a community college I think community colleges make the most sense financially they make the most sense I totally understand if you want the four-year experience if I wasn't doing what I was doing and what I wanted to do I absolutely would have I like to say that but like four-year colleges I would have wanted if I would have done that I would have wanted a four-year college experience because I was like stubborn I wouldn't have changed my mind but if you're paying for your college or something like it's so so so much cheaper to go to a two-year school say a bunch of money make a lot of money the classes are typically easier there and then transfer in to a university so really just depends on what you want to do I really never plan on going to a physical school like ever I really just like was not I thought it's gonna graduate online basically which graduating online a lot of schools you get the exact same degree in the exact same like diploma as you would as like an in-person student you need to check the program and see check that out but I was gonna transfer to like another university California and do that online you can't normally tell that you just did it online so you get the exact same degree and it's more based on your schedule I feel like I would not recommend online schooling to someone unless you absolutely cannot make physical schooling work with your schedule it really was difficult for me because my school was like 45 minutes away from me at the time in traffic it would have been like a whole day or a deal balancing like doing YouTube full-time and that was a lot it wasn't like I was like living on a campus and I would have like made it work that being said I could have but I just didn't want to and I liked online better I personally work better in all my classes I am a huge fan of online schooling but again that's like 2% of the world just like doesn't make sense if you are not self-disciplined I would not recommend it to you also other downfalls of online schooling people don't really talk about it gets extremely lonely it gets extremely depressing you don't have any social interaction with people you can really just like not leave your house yeah so I was tired of that routine and I like wanted something different and I happened to see my school like literally on Instagram Zoe leadership college Zoe is a church if you're familiar with like Hillsong it's kind of similar to Hillsong but they have a college through it which is accredited through southeastern University in Florida so it's kind of confusing there's a lot of extension site campuses with southeastern though so if this is something that like interests you check it out because I know a lot of churches do this but as a college it's fully accredited I'm getting a business degree like it's not just a ministry school by any means it's like a non-traditional ministry school kind of I go to class with last semester was 31 kids right now we're looking at like 45 for the fall semester so it's a really small school life is funny if you would have told me that I would have ended up at a small school going to school would have never believed you I'm a very social person I love big things like would have never believed you in the way that works for us is that we take our classes online so like Tuesdays are typically when we do our schooling and like we take our classes online so we're kind of online students but we're extension site students so it's a little bit different it's not a fully online program the extension sites are also cheaper and extension site just means that you're at another extension campus of southeastern so we go to school like in the Zoë offices it's awesome I on top of that with my schooling I have like mentorship leadership new outreach programs I also work like very heavily like in the track that I serve in so like I work a lot like on Zoë TV which is a YouTube channel what else do we do we're starting to change it up a lot this upcoming fall and it's gonna be even cooler and better I personally like could not be happy with where I'm at school which is just crazy to me because I was so stubborn when I was younger and I would have never ever gone to the school when I was first moving here but I really just kind of realized like you don't have to want exactly what everyone else wants and you also don't have to want even you wanted a year ago it's totally okay so I would have never expected that I would have ended up doing this but I'm so glad I'm so happy that I did so that is my intro so you guys can understand where I'm coming from I'm gonna answer some questions that you guys have on not going to like a traditional school again I think a traditional college is amazing I think education is amazing really valuable I don't think it's for everyone for me personally I really wanted an education I love learning if you don't have like a valid reason to not go to college I feel like there's not really anything I feel like like how else are you gonna spend the years between like 18 to 23 better than going to like college whatever also that's just for me personally like take it with a grain of salt if you're like considering school I would at least try it out if not if you're doing something that like makes you full-time like I I understand why youtubers aren't going that's a controversial topic I get it like whatever you go on different routes a lot of them are spending that time and doing different things you know that's kind of like what I thought I was gonna do I still think I'm gonna do that I just like definitely really needed to be at zoe another reason that I went this is like gonna be a little bit different unless you are someone who wants to do like an extension site somewhere I recognize that I was really young and I didn't really know what I was doing and without what I was doing like I was working full-time from home and I was doing school full-time from home so I didn't really have adults kind of like not telling me what to do as in like barking orders at me but kind of like leading me like that I could learn from that I could learn leadership from that I could grow from I was really kind of just secluded to my apartment which was awesome I loved my apartment I was really living an amazing life like I'm not complaining about that at all but that was a huge reason like that was probably the biggest reason why I is going to zoe leadership college also it's located in LA I think you guys are new it's in based in LA but there's a lot of extension sites elsewhere also community college awesome online college awesome if it's for you I'm not gonna lie it can be very very tough with the least amount of effort I can put into discussion posts and still best this one's funny if you guys struggle with online schooling with discussion post comment down below it's like hi like hi Erin nice post I really love what you said about this like it's so stupid number one tip on building your business while doing online school okay so this is something I think if you are I think there's select few people who are meant to do this and I don't mean this like oh I was meant to do this it's like you guys are meant to do something that I'm not meant to do I do think that I'm supposed to be doing this so I think it's for select few people I do think that I kind of rush growing up that is one thing I regret this is not even what you're asking I did definitely rush growing up though and I did miss out on a lot of things I don't necessarily regret missing out on them but that is like a price to pay but with that being said I time block things I scheduled things time management is the number one tip like you also have to be willing to give up certain things and just work really really hard but also you it's so important to rest but my number one tip would just be like time blocking do your friends and family ever suggest that you should go a more traditional route my family has never really suggested that with me my family is very like everyone like they want you to go to school not going to college wasn't really necessarily like an option or not like doing something else like my sister's kind of doing something else too and my brother will go to like a normal university technically I do go to a normal university like I'm gonna roll to southeastern but no my dad knew me really well and he was really supportive and he was just like you know you have this going for you you might as well go after it like it's now or never kind of thing it was a difficult to put time into college and when it was up to you did you do it I'm very self-sufficient and I'm very self disciplined that also goes with like anxiety and that's kind of how I deal with it so it's not necessarily a healthy thing so it wasn't like that difficult for me but like it would be really difficult if you aren't someone who like can just get it done you know I don't mean any of this like ragging about myself and just trying to explain like how I work how do you deal with opinions of online school my family is judgmental of it and the thing about online school is that like a lot of my classes are literally the exact same curriculum except for you don't have a teacher in your face so if anything they're harder without being said it's easier to cheat it's easier to do whatever but at the end of the day like you've got to do what you feel is right for yourself do you ever feel FOMO from the typical such big college experiences no honestly like sometimes if I'm home with my friends I'm like oh my gosh like the grass is always greener like I just I think with like what I'm doing now I put a lot of pressure on myself like a ton of pressure on myself so like sometimes I'm like oh if I just like didn't do this and I just looked like a normal life and I was like university and I went off my friends and I was like partying every weekend I'm like oh that would be fun but like I know myself and I want to be happy doing that so rarely do you ever wish you went to a four-year university and lived on campus no were you scared to apply for a four-year no I think that's also something that people think like people will be like oh like they're doing this that they're not smart they couldn't get into college I had really good grades I was like president and student council I was like really involved so I was not like afraid of that how did you decide it was the right path it was kind of like a series of things that worked out for me it just works for me such a personal thing do you go to college parties do you feel like you missed out on that oh do I go to college parties did I go to college parties is more of a the better question so my first year in LA which was second to my senior year online I lived really close to USC so I went out to USC like three times a week I really got my college partying out of the way like I quickly got over it it was really just like a few months long of a phase for me I did it I'm glad I did it I got it over with but I don't miss it that also made me realize that like I actually really like nothing that's all the colleges but like that was like another aspect of people been like you're gonna miss that and like I didn't I loved it during the time and then after I was like I'm not doing this anymore but I have a lot of friends who go to normal colleges around here so yes I do do that but I rarely go to parties honestly but that's because I don't really want to so there's still ways if you do online you just have to like meet people at the schools what are you majoring in I'm majoring in business I'm trying to switch my major right now so I'll keep you guys posted is it as expensive online schooling it depends on where you go like it really depends I want to say for the most part it's typically cheaper but it really depends on where you go I know sometimes it's the exact same as tuition but if you're doing it from home and you're living with your parents or whatever then yes it would be cheaper and then like rather than living on campus what's one thing you wanted to experience that you didn't get from that you didn't get from like non-traditional college six months ago eight months ago I probably would have said like the people like the friends and stuff even though I have like amazing friends in LA but now I have that like I have the community not even a people I would have said the community that you're around people every day that's what I would have missed but now I have that so but if I was just an online school student I would have I would have missed that is it as hard as everyone makes it seem I'm scared and I need to know love you yeah like it's definitely colleges hard I think it's definitely manageable I pretty much rarely complain about it like in videos unless I do and you guys were like you always do how do you stay so self-disciplined besides it coming naturally this really just roots from my like anxiety honestly so it's not like a healthy thing but I am a big advocate for a planner if you guys are doing this and you're gonna go where you're not going in person you have to keep yourself accountable and a planner is like a really really good way to do that also doing schoolwork outside of your house going to a coffee shop that gets me so much more motivated if that is like a huge one also I don't procrastinate the day that my assignments come out my assignments come out during the summer right now they're coming out Mondays and they do Sundays and then in my school in the fall they come out Wednesdays and they're due Tuesday nights it's like a weird system but I do it like the first day and I also depending on which class you can sometimes get ahead so on average I'm like a week or two ahead on assignments just because that makes me feel better because I have like YouTube and everything else to do so yeah just getting ahead on things is like my biggest tip as well when like starting a business like staying ahead on schoolwork is helpful the hard-living alone when you did school in YouTube like from home I answer this kind of but definitely that was difficult I love living alone at the time I don't I thought I would miss it when I moved into this house but like I really don't miss living alone at all but it's definitely hard if you're gonna be someone who is like really secluded unless you're like living on campus somewhere then that's fine cuz you're gonna like meet people or whatever but I was like working from home doing school from home like anything the only thing that was like social that I had in my schedule besides like going to see friends was church so I think it's important to have some sort of community people come asking about like housing and stuff I mean you can live wherever if you're doing this but the number one thing I will say and this is something that I would if I wouldn't have had to move across the country like I think living with your parents live with your parents as long as you possibly can like you will save so much money it's so nice to live with your family like when you move out you're gonna miss it unless it's like a bad environment at home or whatever but like if I was living in Texas I know I would have moved out immediately but I wish like if I could go back and tell myself something not now because my situation is different I had to move to LA but I think like there's nothing wrong with living with your family you save money you save so much money you have like meals which I still make real meals but like you have so much at home and it's comfortable if you're not totally against it I would absolutely recommend not moving out and living at home because you save so much money who cares like there's some like stigma to it literally like stay home it is fine and you will love it living on your own is so much especially if you're someone who like struggles with anxiety depression it's hard you know so live at home that is it for my video today I hope you guys enjoyed I hope it helped some of you guys if you guys want any more videos that are college related let me know and leave the request in the comments down below love you guys so much be sure to subscribe I'll be posting a lot of college week in my life this upcoming fall I really hope you guys enjoy this video and I'll see you soon bye