 This video is here to say thank you to all of you people who have subscribed to this channel and just to give you a little preview of what's coming up next on the channel because I'm super grateful we've passed over 750 subscribers recently and I've seen a lot of growth on the channel recently and I just really want to say thanks because about a year ago I made a video talking about why I quit my day job and you know I didn't know where I would be a year from there but to see this still going strong and doing well and to be here still in front of the camera is a pleasure and it's an honor and I'm just extremely grateful so I wanted to take some time this video to just tell you guys a little bit about my travel plans because we're going to be checking out some really awesome universities and I could use your help. I'd love to know what you want to know about these universities so that I can make them even better for you going forward. I'm going to be visiting a bunch of universities in the United States and Canada on this multinational university tour. So let's start talking about it. First I'm going to be in Dallas, Texas my first time in Texas. I think it's going to be pretty cool. I'm going to visit Southern Methodist University aka SMU. I met Jeremy Brown at the IACAC conference and he was an absolute delight and I'm looking forward to working with him on that video. I also met Andrew Stonebarger a really cool Peruvian guy who happens to be working at SMU so we got a Peruvian connection there. Looking forward to seeing those guys again. They were an absolute blast over in Albuquerque. I'm going to be staying right by the university and covering it for a couple of days before proceeding to the Rocket League World Championships. From there I'm going to be flying up to Michigan to spend some time with family and from there I'll be leaving to go to Canada. We've got three universities to go check out in Canada McMaster, York and Toronto Metropolitan University. They changed their name because people in the past did bad things. I'm super excited to go visit these three universities in particular because all three of them have people from SCORE who have gotten in and a couple of those guys in particular Joaquin and Renato. Love you guys. They're my former student. I want to see these guys as they're arriving to their universities, talk to them about what it's like to go through this whole process and finally get there. So you're going to be seeing not only university episodes about those universities that I'm going to cover but a bunch of student interviews as well. I know you guys like those so I'm going to have a bunch of those coming out not just with SCORE students but also with people from the general population. So I'm hoping to get like two maybe even three videos out of each one of these visits. So you're going to be seeing a good amount of content from that Toronto area. After Toronto I'm going to head down to New York but not like the city immediately. Okay I'm going to stop at RIT. I've got to go cover RIT because like at the very beginning of university it was only virtual. I couldn't actually go anywhere because it was early 2021 and everything was still locked down and universities weren't even taking visits anyway. So I reached out virtually and RIT was the first university to say yes to a university episode for which I am forever grateful because they validated this whole idea that I could cover universities and make interesting content and they even gave me some really good advice. Thanks David for how to film better. Like they've been nothing but a blessing to this channel and they're one of the most popular university episodes. So like I want to do them justice. I want to go cover the campus myself and that's why I went back to IIT this year in January and that's why I'm going to go to IE University in Spain later this year. We'll get to that. After RIT my next step is going to be Binghamton. Binghamton is a public university located at the border of New York and Pennsylvania and I can't wait to check them out. Once I'm done with those upstate New York options I'm going to be making my way into New York City. It's been a long time since I've been to New York but we're going for a very special occasion which is that we have two students from SCORE who got into Columbia with a full ride scholarship and I want you to hear their stories to see what it's like for them to get there. I'm going to be there on like I don't want to say the exact day because you know stalkers around the start of the school year okay so I'm going to try to capture those first moments of university life in another country and at an amazing Ivy League institution but that's not my only visit in New York. I'm also going to be visiting PACE University and I've got a couple other possibilities lined up that I'm still working on maybe NYU you know and I'm still not done. This tour is not going to end. I'm probably gonna I'm going to be hurting when this tour is over okay. It's a lot of work. We're talking about a lot of miles. I haven't looked up the number of miles. I haven't really rehearsed this video so I'll show you on a screen like an approximation of the travel distances here but like jeez man jeez hey what's going on fellas jeez man nothing man we're just hanging out and stuff I hear that jeez it's gonna be a lot of a lot of driving in the car. After New York City I'm gonna head down to Philadelphia because there's a few universities that I've been dying to check out for a while in particular Franklin and Marshall. I had a lovely meeting with one of their representatives Hannah and that was actually last year that I first talked to her and we had talked about maybe going out to Philadelphia when I was on my last tour where I went to Pittsburgh last year and and it just didn't work out so I said listen I'm gonna keep my eye on this I'll come back don't worry I'm gonna get to you and now we figured it out we met each other at the conference in person it's done I'm going to Franklin and Marshall. I might also be able to make it out to Swarthmore or a couple of other universities in that Philadelphia area I've been knocking on the doors of like Drexel and Temple but nobody keeps responding to me man so guys if you want to go see Drexel or Temple or any other universities leave comments and then I can send screenshots and be like look the people are asking for this. I'm still not done after Philadelphia my plan is then to stop by a couple more places along the way as I drive back towards Michigan so I got a couple of options in mind I'm looking for an excuse to stop in Pittsburgh so I got to talk to Duquesne because we had a really good connection at the conference and any excuse I can get to go visit my hometown again I'll take it from there I shall return my rental car return to Peru and make a ton of sweet content for you people so if you guys have anything that you want me to ask about anything that you're interested in anything that you want to know about these universities let me know I've already got like eight different universities lined up for this tour but I can fit more so if there's more stuff that you guys want to see let me know in the comments and if you want to check out these videos when they come out then you can subscribe to the channel because they're going to be coming out as I'm doing this trip like I don't really have a whole lot of stuff in the queue right now which is part of the reason I'm making this episode because like you know I mean I love you guys but it takes a lot of work to produce a video every week and I got to leave in a week and I don't have anything in the queue right now so we're recording a few episodes at the same time today so yeah if you want to see these videos when they come out I'm going to be releasing them while I'm traveling like I'm literally going to be editing after filming and then putting them into the queue so you're going to be seeing these videos coming out probably by the end of August or at the very latest early September and so if you want to see those when they come out subscribe to the channel but if you guys are already subscribed thank you so much like you're making this possible and if it weren't for you people and the numbers that you add to the total count you're not just 750 random dudes or whatever you're like legitimately each and every one of you is like a pillar upon which I stand the channel can be successful because I have a little bit of a following and people are inclined to say yes when they see that and that's it's remarkable to me I wouldn't have thought that with the following we have right now we would have as many opportunities as we do on this channel but we do and it's thanks to you people and it's thanks to you watching this stuff and it's thanks to you coming back that I'm able to keep doing this and and so I just want to say thank you so much and like I appreciate your support in every way it is absolutely one of my biggest motivators is just knowing that there's people that expect this stuff and people that want to see this stuff and people who you know comment and say things like oh I'm seeing college in a different way or like you've really made me think about this and I really want to enroll in this university you know I really want to apply here like that kind of stuff you know fills me with motivation so thank you guys so much for all of your support I hope it continues I think we're only getting started it's just about to pop off so let's keep it going all right thank you for watching this and I will see you next week