 we weren't rolling before wow you missed the whole like cringy I don't I didn't like the other one it was like I didn't you're so close to me it's making me really nervous what's happening guys what's happening guys it's your boy Nick chay today I'm here with my good friend a drillie you've seen her in a few of my vlogs and today is a little bit exciting we're doing our very first mukbang today we have buffalo wild beans and we're gonna be answering sponsored not sponsored I wish it was sponsored but today we're gonna be answering some questions for a freshman year college Q&A and yeah let's get it I'm hungry first let's eat okay all right you're really close to me did I mention that it's mmm you got to do the yummy before this video begins a drill is a gonna be she's in my year so she's gonna be a sophomore at NYU studying fashion merchandising wrong you are so wrong she was at my you so follow you don't even know what my major is with it global rural studies alright first question from Tyler when did you start college applications I started mine in August September I always recommend starting early just so you have a lot more time to figure that out is it okay to be stylish slash fashionable if you're living on campus doesn't matter yes 100% of course it's okay doesn't matter in my opinion I think it does like I'm always dressed up for class like you always want to be looking on fleek I like never wear t-shirt yeah dude if you wear sweatpants and t-shirts and slides to class like you're doing something wrong what is something you wish you would have known before you arrived on campus during like the first week like you have like make sure you make a lot of friends make sure like you just make the most connections as you can because that's when you're gonna meet like the most people yeah I think going off that like the very first week that you get on campus it's gonna be a little overwhelming there's gonna be so many people people you've never seen before and you know it's hard to like try and find your good friends especially within that first few months but I think the best advice is to just go out there and like be proactive in making your friends and be outgoing and join clubs join clubs but don't feel pressured to join like too much because like you don't want to make and I were pretty involved but like you don't have to have like that whole mindset of I have to be just as involved in high school and especially in college like the clubs just take up a lot more time so only invest your time into things that you're really passionate about do I get to beat up nerds if I get into an Ivy League school I hearted that one like absolutely where are the negative things about being a Frenchman just ignored me what are the negative things about being a freshman nothing no I think there's a fair amount of I think freshman year is like the best year you literally get you get a pass for everything okay you do get a pass like you're you can act like you're that naive freshman who doesn't really know anything but on the other side seniors and upperclassmen will look down on you if you're being that annoying I'm not just freshman so don't be that kid how's it to live in a college dorm what is positive what is negative one big pro is that like you're obviously independent you don't have parents to be looking out for you but that does kind of count as a con because you don't have someone to cook for you and do your laundry and chores and whatnot now you disagree yeah it's like so much freedom yeah I want to go back right now I'm ready to be back but some people don't know how to do their own laundry or cook or anything do anything for themselves no tino shade but tips for college applications what to say what to put down what to not to do also the advantages of choosing different deadlines earlier regular I don't think there's like an end-all be-all perfect college application and I was pretty close I think the biggest thing is like just be yourself what are you doing bro don't try and be someone you're not and try and use like bigger words or put stuff on your resume that doesn't really accurately reflect who you are wait did you do ed for Princeton I did ed for Harvard I got deferred and I got rejected but I think the advantages of your application early on is really stellar it's on point like you have it figured out really early then I mean like go ahead and submit it to your top school because it there statistically speaking it is a higher chance to get accepted if you do early I think if you have a dream school then definitely do ed because NYU was my dream school that was the only school I wanted to go into and I did ed and I should accept it I was there when she got in I'll play the video right now I don't know I advocate for advocate I'm an advocate you're an advocate but you advocate for ed oh this one's a good question it was how hard it was it for you to stay in touch with all of your high school friends that went to different schools so like I said she goes to NYU I go to Princeton meaning that it's only an hour and a half away from each other I mean since we are really good friends she came down for one of my formals I went up for her birthday I'm in New York a lot so I mean we see each other a fair amount of times regarding like other friends like if you're not close like for me it wasn't hard at all because I mean you have a phone like all you have to do is send a text like there's not yeah there's no excuse for you to not keep up with your friends like what I would do is like I would go on like Google Hangouts with my boys back home we would do that like once a month and once every few weeks just to catch up because like especially in college like everyone's schedule is so busy that you don't have time to always be texting or snapchatting every single day but like if you want that friend and that friend really wants you then like it's a reciprocal relationship worry ways of managing time and having a productive day during freshman year I have a planner oh angel is literally the best person I know about planning her schedule she has a planner literally every single day like hour by hour it is planned out with lunches dinners meetings homework when she sticks to it to a tea like if you texted her to hang out like she's like nope I'm already busy that day it took us like two weeks to plan this no it didn't don't lie I definitely recommend you get a planner it's a life-saver for me it's more so just like having a consistent schedule every single day of like waking up at a certain time going to the gym getting breakfast going to your classes and then dedicating like a few hours to do your homework to study etc etc and then once you like get into a routine and a constant schedule you find that like it just gets easier and easier and you find that like when you miss the day of the gym or miss going to eat at a certain time then your schedule is kind of out of whack but at the same time like be flexible know that like your college schedule is gonna fluctuate a lot so don't like be dependent on one thing every single day be dependent on your college classes schedule that's the only thing that's ever gonna stay in place and everything else is like interchangeable basically in terms of clothing how much should I pack for the first semester let me tell you right off the bat that you will not wear half exactly like bring half of what you think you're gonna need and leave everything else at home because I guarantee that first you're gonna get a lot of t-shirts second you're just gonna be rotating the same few items that you wear every single day and third like not having clothes at home to wear when you're on home for breaks sucks like that's the worst thing this kind of applies to both of us cuz she's just now starting out of her YouTube channel I will link it down below make sure you guys go subscribe she hasn't posted anything yet but hopefully this will force her to make more videos but what motivated you to make your YouTube videos and how did you grow your YouTube channel what motivated me was that I found that there was a big lack of Princeton youtubers or Ivy League youtubers in general and I found that like since I was accepted I have a very like unique position and a lot of advice for those who are in that same position and wanting to get into these really selective schools and how it grew so fast was that just consistency and finding ways to post out content and I think for me specifically is that I don't just do college or Princeton vlogging I do you know fashion and photography and videography so that I have a lot of like different sub topics which are good to expand on why do you want to start a YouTube channel just for the hell of it why not be fun like I think the biggest thing like to start a YouTube channel is to just do it like don't stop asking questions about how to start or what you need to get started is just do advice of finding your people and making real friends in a big college campus I think she can speak better on that because I might use a lot bigger I think we kind of have the same story like this goes back to high school like we never had like a solid group of friends we were like the floaters so like we were friends with a lot of people from different groups I think college was the same like I don't have like a like solid group of friends I just like like meeting people from like everywhere but if you do that like you're genuine and people like you then it should be fine like it's not it shouldn't be hard finding real friends and the biggest thing is like put yourself out there and don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and just make the initiative to talk to someone I think that's the biggest thing is like if you don't put your foot forward and be like hey I'm Nick nice to meet you especially those first few months when everyone's trying to make friends like be that person that goes out of their way because because you can't expect other people to do the same if you're not willing to do that yourself how do you manage stress and get over anxiety me personally I'm actually never want to really get stressed like I do pretty well with managing my time and yeah like how often might actually stress or get anxiety or like have like don't that whoa I never thought of that with all the things I have going on like you would think that I'd be someone who stressed out all the time but I don't know I just I just don't find things that that important in life like there's nothing really to stress over like obviously grades are important and like making time for your friends and academics and YouTube like obviously those are all important but I'm at the point where like I figured out how to balance it how to work hard and like get through it like I know that the end of the day I'll be fine so I mean that's not a lot of help but you get stressed I get stressed so easily you just over the little things and I think that's the problem is that like you know I don't get stressed over the little things it's because I try to please everyone like all the time and then it's like it takes a toll on me but that's another story it sounds like a personal issue stop talking in your life especially near as bad as people make it to be when I went into college I thought oh my god like midterm season final season like whatever it's gonna be so hard like it's gonna be just the most stressful time of my life actually it really wasn't like if you know what you know and you're confident in that then it should be fine I think of all the years freshman year is going to be the hardest because you have to figure out how to acclimate to college environment it's an entirely new ballpark from high school like once you get over that world block like I think the first like three months of college with the hardest but after that you like get settled in and now like going back for sophomore year I'm like ready I'm pumped I'm excited I think college is honestly easier than high school in my opinion how so like okay so the workload is not easier the work itself is not easier the content is not easy it's not none of nothing is ever um what's called busy work you don't like your professors are actually like so cool well most of them you're more of like friends with your professors rather than like you're like colleagues and like they're your mentors and you look at them as professors not just as teachers and they're not out to like get you or like try to like I don't know it's just a different dynamic how should a freshman efficiently and effectively effectively figure out their career path slash what major they want to go in the hardest thing when it comes to like finding a major is like finding what you're passionate about and especially at a young age like when we're 18 and 19 like it is hard to think about what we want to be doing as a career when we're in our mid 20s so if you have something you're passionate about whether it's music or art or fashion or business or whatever like obviously pursue that but if you're like someone like me who doesn't really know like I I'm like I said I'm doing I'm doing economics but you guys know my passions photography and film but I think the more practical route for me to take is to get the economics degree have it in my back pocket as a safety and then pursue whatever creative endeavors I want and if it doesn't work I still have an economics degree to fall back on yeah I think it's like key to always be practical or like even have a backup plan because what if that doesn't work out then you have to be able to get back on your feet with something and then just start over it is a little scary thinking about like pursuing a major and then finding out maybe that's not right for you so I mean take a lot of time ask your friends ask your parents like what what they think you should be doing you should definitely have a good relationship with your academic advisor that's like that's the most important thing like if she sees a internship then she's gonna take that and give it to you and say hey are you interested or if you have like a schedule problem like she'll be more than happy to help you if you she's basically like she's gonna be like your best friend in high school or in college because like you're gonna go to her with all the problems that you have like I don't know when to graduate blah blah like all that stuff and that I think that same thing applies for high schoolers like get in touch with your high school counselors and you know make sure you're close with them because they're writing letters of recommendation for you and they're super important for you to get into your college if you would sum up your freshman year in one sentence what would it be a growing experience a learning experience absolutely yeah that's what I was it's so fun and you learned so much it's honestly I think freshman year was probably the best year of my life I think you mature a lot I think you figure your own shit out and like realize that like there's no one else to be accountable for your actions so you have to be responsible for everything whether it's your classes or going to eat healthy or working out like all that responsibility lies on you which may it's probably not have ever been the case for any of you guys before especially with her living in New York like she's living in the real world every single day she takes a metro she like goes out on the weekends like in the city so it's very liberating yeah it's liberating it's like it can only get better from here it's not going to get worse this is the start of a big journey are you sure you don't want that bro I'm full that's a lot bro I'm gonna finish this okay I don't doubt it but that wraps it up for this video thank you guys so much for watching if you enjoyed this mukbang Q&A leave a like down below 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