 Alright, don't talk about my hair. Okay, I'm working on it. It's it's going through a lot. Hi friends My name is Fantasia in D minor. That is a great song by the way. I played it on piano Just a reminder that if you want to give me a nickname It has to start with the letter F or phonetically have the F sound because if you're new here It's an inside joke about how no one can spell my name right even though it's right here right there Do you see it? You got it good because apparently YouTube can't even get it right on my Twitter. They I don't want to talk about it. Thanks for the shout out Susan How about you stop letting people get away with shitty stuff on YouTube? So I'm about to be an incoming sophomore in college to anyone outside the US that means my second year in University and I asked you guys on Twitter. What are your questions about high school? What are your questions about the academics the social ladders the bullying the teachers anything you want? I will tell you and before I even get into this. I want to talk about the people who usually make these videos Why are a bunch of DIY youtubers who never even went to college let alone Graduate to high school giving advice to teens and how to survive high school when they don't fit in as like the people Who need the advice is it just me or when I watched these videos as a kid? They were all the popular people You could tell they were part of that group. They're like, I'm not popular, but like yeah, I have Mercedes I don't think they're allowed to give advice on how to survive high school because you need to go through the trials and Tribulations of what high school is well luckily as a homosexual Asian I did not get to the football and lacrosse playing people so a little context for you guys I moved between my first and second year of high school from South Carolina to New Jersey And I was privileged enough to get into a magna school You need it to be the top of your class to get into this school. You know, you're all a's basically I think a ranked number one last year as the best high school even though That's like saying Harvard is the best when they only accept the best It's clearly skewed and the amount of work that went into that high school was worse than anything I've ever imagined that school was harder than college for me That just shows how much that people feel the need to push a student just because they're out of magna school And when I moved I'm going to a public school, but it was still pretty good. It was in a nice town It's a very small town. Everyone knows each other. It's like let's just say Caucasian. Okay Religious you either fit in or you don't every parent thinks their child who goes to this school is perfect My child is perfect. He's a son of God. Even though he's the same one who does yeah, I won't say you can figure it out So those are the high schools I went to and obviously everyone's experience is different because your location plays a role How much your school is funded plays a role every teacher is different your friends are different from my friends You were different from me. So take this with a grain of salt. I'm not answering the question That's like, how do I befriend this person who happens to be on the lacrosse team and is in ninth grade and is born on August I'm answering the ones that will apply to mainly everyone and if it's Googleable meaning able to be googled I'm not answering it. You guys need to learn to Google things yourself. It's a great tool. You all have access to the internet There's no excuse not to know the answer to an easy question and Google is your best friend in high school and beyond Let's get started then y'all got a hundred seventy nine questions No, I'll stop when I get tired or hungry first one up How did your high school experience compare to your middle school experience? I liked high school much less than middle school Granted, I do like high school more because I did come out in high school But the moving part and like the feeling of having no friends between that period No bonus question, how do you think the experience will change for students during COVID? I'm so sorry. You guys have to go back to school I know it's an important experience But your life is more important than your education right now and once again The internet is there is right there for you You can be smarter than most high schoolers and college students just because of YouTube You just have to put the dedication into watching videos and studying on your own schools Just make you learn because you have to be in that setting, but when you're at home, it's obviously harder I know a lot of people who took online school once again It's much cheaper Please know that YouTube's a thing and Google is a thing and every question has been answered every tutorial exists What was your favorite? Oh? Honey, Jorge, we're putting you back in grammar class. Go back to English You got to fix that word. What was my favorite class and what was my best piece of art if I have a photo or something? My portfolio is online. Here's my favorite photo. It won an award. That's why of course it's my favorite It got recognized by New Jersey My favorite class of all time has to be photo because it's the only thing that gave me a creative outlet And I was friends with my teacher. My teacher became a mentor who became my therapist almost and I always stayed after class I always stayed at lunch that was towards my senior year where I stopped going to lunch because I just didn't get a table And for some reason your social status depends on where you sit at high school So I said next to my photo teacher during lunch most of the time in my senior year How did you manage wanting to have good grades, but also being able to put your mental health first? I didn't who did I'm sorry. That is such bad advice. Your mental health always comes first, but not everyone can afford therapy It's not normalized to get therapy at this age even though I think everyone could benefit from some therapy I have Asian parents so like obviously that pressure of having someone who wants to push you in life is Put into your brain from a very young age like since elementary school All I knew was how to get an A. It was easier for me to get good grades because not only was the curriculum not Intense for me compared to ninth grade. I was a fast learner And I didn't study as much and didn't have to work as hard to get good grades Unlike other people who do have to study hours and hours and that's the thing some people don't have to study Some other people do people don't learn the same way in school. It's not for everyone We all know auditory versus visual learners But we also have to agree that not every subject is gonna be your forte Math was my lowest grade by the time I got to senior year And if anyone pulls out that Asian stereotype of all Asians are good in math check your Stereotyping and racism please because every Asian has heard and has been fed up with that stereotype Especially if you weren't good in math that puts another level of insecurity on you because then you're pressured by society to be good at a subject Granted isn't AP class so like I didn't have to worry too much about it and we'll talk about AP classes soon So to answer your question, I didn't really put my mental health first But I also didn't have to worry about grades as much and my mental health wasn't bad because of grades It was bad because of Was making friends and reaching out easy How did you manage to find your people and friend groups going into ninth grade? If you're lucky enough, you will go in with some friends from eighth grade and my magnet school was connected to my middle school You're judging me. I know they were literally connected. You could walk to both schools So 50% of the people in ninth grade or also from eighth grade So I kind of had most of my friends already, but when I moved I moved during the summer so I spent three months having no friends Oh my god, it's like a flashback unsolicited obviously, but I Was able to make friends because I just forced myself to I don't suffer from intense anxiety I do get anxious in certain situations, but naturally I am able to talk to people I like talking to people so I just saw a girl. Hello Hannah who looked friendly seemed friendly and Was the person right in front of me because we were organized by last name So I just said like hi Hannah voice crack. My name is Frederick I am new here. Do you mind showing me around the school and funny enough? She is part of my homeroom and I missed my homeroom because I didn't know about it when I got there every school is different So like I had a block schedule before it went a b a b New Jersey High School a b c d e Explain what that means. It was a cultural reset for me I went from 90 minute classes to 45 minute classes, but to anyone who is more introverted and has social anxiety I just had to tell myself like if you don't speak up Frederick You're never gonna make a friend and then you're just gonna be that person who just sits in the bathroom every day So speak up goddamn it and then I spoke so it was just my inner voice pressuring me to speak because I knew that in the Long-term if I didn't make friends now I would never make friends in the future because it would just you can't it's harder to when you're moving in between Grades, but also realize that if you're just going into ninth grade everyone is Experiencing the same feeling you are literally everyone is anxious about making friends But some people are better at faking being confident most people fake being confident So it just depends on how well you can fake it till you make it Some ah did your school require you to take two years of a foreign language? If so what I started learning French since 8th grade So I'm up a Frederick League my high school, which I'm referring to my New Jersey school when I say that they only Required four years, I think so I was able to get off senior year because I already took us since 8th grade How did you deal with homophobia if you experienced any and if not bullying? I didn't experience any homophobia Honestly, which is very weird considering I lived in South Carolina and then I went to small-town, New Jersey Which is not that different. I can't tell you why I didn't experience any homophobia I guess the amount of people were more progressive and I just didn't pick a fight with them because I don't talk to those guys I think it's because they just didn't know me or they didn't care enough to bully the new kid I just did my own thing. You know, I jumped between like three friend groups I was acquaintances with a lot of people and only had three very close friends, but then I had many school friends So I don't think people would really want to bully the small Asian because it's just like why bother. He's already bullying himself I did experience some bullying from a From a sophomore. I was a senior when this guy bullied me. It was on a bus I was walking with my friend and then he said something along the lines of Qingchang Which is like yeah, you're so creative with your golf ball brain But he honestly had no right to say that because one I could totally beat him up He was skin and bones guys literal stick skinnier than me smaller than me But what he didn't know was that I'm really good friends with his teacher So I just went to the teacher casually when he was in class and was just like The friend your English teacher, they're almost always the best for some reason our teachers are also up there I had four teachers that I held very close to my my heart I would always go to them for help but once again, not everyone gonna have good teachers sometimes How are honors AP classes? Oh boy, how many do you recommend to take and how young do you think you should start them? I'm pretty sure you can't just start them whenever you want There's like an age where you are allowed to when you get the chance go for it If you live in another country zone out skip ahead, please because I'm pretty sure AP doesn't apply to you I will say this is a Google level question because I had to Google it when I was in high school But it is easier to hear from someone so I will briefly explain it Please do more research if you're curious AP stands for advanced placement And it's basically the equivalent of a college level class that goes regular honors AP in terms of hardness and how much that grade Accounts for your GPA at the end of the day So like if you get a C in an AP class that counts as an A for a regular class But if you get an A in the AP class that skyrockets your GPA even more because it goes above the regular number But because it's more harder typically you're allowed to not have an A because we don't expect you to have an A Every time in an AP class even though some of them These ones are very easy to get A's for me at least AP classes are managed by College Board Which is like the grand big school board the one who controls SAT the one who does ACT the one that tells you whether or not You deserve to go to college and don't be that person who's like I don't need to take AP classes It is so important if you want to go to college I wish I took more even though I got 16 credits worth So let's explain credits starting high school the classes you take start to matter because they can determine whether or not You're exempt from other classes in college and you need to have a certain amount of credits at the end of the school year to be able to Graduate high school So I think mine was around 120 credits and each class is like three four two Depending on elective or like an actual academic class and AP classes not only have credits for high school But they can count towards your college credits because in college you also need a certain amount of credits to graduate And that depends on your major so you also have to know your major when you go into college If you want to benefit from these AP classes So since sophomore year I started researching my major because the earlier you start researching the better I looked at all the similar majors at five different other colleges and saw that these ones take these classes as AP credits For my major I had to take a math class But because I took an AP math class in high school and I got a four on that AP test I was exempt so that let me pay it off instantly an NYU class cost $6,000 So I literally saved $6,000 right there that is why it's so important But you can take AP music theory and that won't count sometimes because that college doesn't accept it as an AP credit How do you find out which credits they accept you have to look that up? Also, please talk to your guidance counselor and miss bell. Thank you so much for helping me get into college But in college you also have free electives and that's the same thing in high school Like you can choose an art elective when you have room for it Most of the time your AP classes if they don't apply to your major they go in the free elective category So you're still saving money because that's still a class you don't have to take So to sum up AP classes are usually as hard as a regular college class By taking the AP test which is administered by the college board each year You have the chance of saving money for college if you want to go to college If you're taking an AP class and it literally won't be accepted by that college Don't take the AP test. You're wasting your money. AP tests are scored out of five Most colleges will only accept a four or a five And if you're doubting yourself that you can get the four or five My advice is still try it because it's only $100 to take the test And you can potentially save thousands of dollars if you happen to get a four or five Hi editing Frederick here I forgot to say this but don't be pressured by the AP test It's much easier to get a four or five on it because it is graded so generously You can get a 65% on certain AP tests and it will still count as a five You just have to look up how the grading works It changes a little bit each year but basically they have to move up the bell curve each time Depending on how well students do I literally got a 60% on the AP count test and I still got a five Oh my god that was a mouthful It's very confusing if you don't research it enough So like you're gonna have to take some time to think about it And the stereotype is AP classes are harder I disagree. Some classes are much easier than others If you are great at memorizing please take AP psych All you have to do is memorize in order to get a five on the test A student in my grade never even took the class She just took the test and still got a five That is another thing. You don't have to take the class necessarily To take the test which matters towards college The class grade only helps towards your GPA The AP test grade helps your college So research which classes you want to take Think about which ones you can probably memorize and get away with AP environment is also very easy to memorize If you're not good at memorizing and good at writing take AP Lang If you're good at math, AP Calc BC, AB, STAT I took Calc, AB, and BC and hated every moment of it How did you come to terms with graduating and realizing you're really becoming an adult? I don't think graduating makes you an adult Because there are a lot of people I know who are still just as childish Even though they graduate at high school All shade, all tea I don't know why people like to hold high school As like the peak of their life It's typically the popular people who like peak And then they just and my sister who did hate high school She was like Frederick I am still peaking to this day And the high schools would bully me didn't even get into college And I was like Graduating sometimes is for the better For the people who didn't have the best high school experience Because it allows you to be wherever you want In the next life, which is college And I am currently thriving because I'm about to go back to New York But it's not like I hated high school My friends made it much more fun for me Because I at least had a friend group to hang out with And some people don't want to become an adult I love being an adult I don't know about you But me investing in stocks and thinking about taxes I don't know why it turns me on a little bit For others you don't like doing that But you can be an adult and still be a kid Look at what I did last week You can still be an adult and feel like a kid How did you deal with possible academic pressure from your parents And then possibly setting high expectations for you to meet Oh to be Asian American in an Asian family Let me know if y'all can relate in middle school When you got an A Did your mom say Why no A plus? Would you get 25 cents for getting all A pluses on the report card? That was my life Hi, my name is a stressed Asian student But there is no doubt that because Asian parents push their kids so much They do tend to be more successful Academically We're not talking about the mental health right now, okay You should all know that your parents mean it in good spirit They just want you to be successful Because it is very hard to get out of that dish When you don't do well in high school And then you can't get a job Because you never graduated Or you never went to a prestigious college If anything be more amount of the government than your parents For making this system the way it is But I guess because I was so studious in middle school And read so many books that I already had some knowledge About the things that I learned in high school I learned calculus through my dad in eighth grade He was a math professor Of course I would know this stuff already I read the science book section since elementary school When my mom would drop me off at Barnes and Nobles That's how my life worked So I think that boosted me To know stuff in high school Because for some reason Frederick wanted to know this as a kid And it's not necessarily reading books makes you smarter I think it's just if you are a curious person Obviously our generation is much different We live with the internet now We grew up with it But I don't think you should be focused on TikTok in middle school I think you should be focused on studying And getting good grades Because that's what matters in life Not dancing guys And how you prioritize your time matters I'm not saying don't procrastinate ever Don't ever have fun Obviously that's not my case But try to learn some things on your own accord Don't expect teachers to teach you everything you need to know I did not learn taxes at all through high school or college I didn't know what insurance was or mortgages were Until I talked to my dad about it Was your science or history teacher also a coach Or one of the sportsmen? Yes they were Did you ever get so overwhelmed by the assignments That you even started to feel empty or miserable? Who didn't? It's not hard work It's busy work at that point It's not because I'm unable to read 15 pages of this textbook It's because this textbook is boring as shit So I went to YouTube instead And I looked at math tutorials And anyone who likes coding The coding trend is a great channel And is managed by one of our NYU professors So I will say if you do get overwhelmed by these assignments And you're not having fun doing the homework Find another medium I think anyone can enjoy learning If it's given in the right format What do you wish you could change If you could go back to your high school days? I'm tired of anyone saying I don't regret anything Because it wouldn't get me to where I am today The butterfly effect Bullshit no There are clear hindsight 2020 moments Where when you look back at your life You were like This could have been done better In my cases are I wish I took AP Lang And I wish I didn't take AP Calc Because all I needed was stat And not Calc BC for my college And it just put another level of stress on me That I didn't need And I wish I took French still Because I like learning it Now that you're out of high school Does who you were in high school even matter? This depends on some people By my last year of high school I already felt like I figured out who I wanted to be What I wanted to do And I can look at myself in 12th grade And be like Yeah you're fashion But your personality It's pretty good You know You know what you're doing Keep going Now to the other students who graduated I hope you do a full 180 Because god damn it You felt like a six year old still Boys Look cross team Watching you But when you go to college No one knows your high school experience No one needs to know your high school experience You could fabricate a whole new life Technically I love college so much More than high school personally How do you keep up with grades While still trying to have fun Slash friends Between working as a cashier I think three days a week And then editing videos I didn't really try to keep up with grades My fun time was working and editing High school wasn't that fun for me If you can tell I wasn't the part of your type And you shouldn't be First of all corona I don't know why you're partying And second of all it's not worth it You should be focused on your education You can educate yourself And still have fun But for me at least In my opinion Fun shouldn't be partying And drinking and vaping And damaging your body in the long run If you feel like the only amount of serotonin You can achieve is during a party I think you need to self reflect a little bit Because I can have fun playing Minecraft guys So like I don't know what people think partying does It's not fun I'd rather hang out with two friends than go shopping What was your favorite and least favorite class subject And or teachers and why Favorite class Photography Favorite teacher Photography Also favorite teacher was my English junior teacher Because she was just my friend Least favorite class History I'm so bad at it AP government is better Because you get to learn How bad this stupid system is Yeah not a fan of history Because from my experience I learned in eighth grade that civil war was about separation of state And I already knew that it That was gonna be the narrative in the south And they just don't teach you important things in history The news does YouTube does Google does How do you keep the motivation to try your best Because I wanted to go to college so badly This is just a general thing When I'm unmotivated I do little things to get me back up So usually my routine is like I'll do laundry Or I'll cook for myself And when you're unmotivated You just stop doing anything Slowly get back into it Do those easy steps And then you'll be able to keep your motivation up Also I worked So yeah I had to be motivated to go to work Because you have to put on a smile And say hi welcome to Wegmans My name is Frederick How may I help you today Oh you have apples Great Let me weigh those for you Bananas 401 one Got it Got the code That did help me stay on And yeah after eight hours of work It does get exhausting That was me forcing myself to stay motivated And maybe that's not healthy But I can't be unmotivated Okay I can't afford to I have to keep doing things in my life To feel like I have a purpose Or else I feel like A potato Were you affected by racism Let me just ask my friends Were we affected by racism Yes Yes We still are And I would so love to tell every single parent Because there's a Facebook group Dedicated to the parents And all of the parents are just like Gassing up their child Like yeah my child is so good No your child is racist And homophobic Did I lie How did you deal with people You don't If you don't want to deal with people Don't listen to them Don't just ignore them I have better things to do I had to work Like I don't have time to deal with people I gotta work That's just my idea Did you ever wonder if college was worth it Yes I still debate it to this day And I asked my dad Like dad did you want me to go to college And he said I wanted you to But you didn't have to You didn't have to Excuse me Bullsh**t dad Like no no No Oh my no you did not That is not the mentality you gave me in high school He loves to be like You could have done anything you wanted If Fredericko were to support you That was not the mindset you gave me Why did I write NYU as my dream College or middle school then But I do think getting a secondary education is important Because it does teach you more on how to be a better person And you do mature And it's no coincidence that College makes you a little more progressive than other people Maybe it's because that's what college is meant to teach you Is to how to be a better person And be more progressive learning Also it's just better for you in the long run Having a degree versus not having a degree College isn't for everyone though Obviously but it's a safeguard Which club sports look the best on college applications How did you manage to work in time In an efficient manner is prom worth it What is the best way to prep for the SAT Damn this is loaded Obviously it doesn't matter But like if you want to increase your chances Of just getting into college Just by taking a class I think you need to think about that Because you shouldn't just take a club In hopes of it helping your college career I took photo club because I liked photography And I still do I wasn't thinking like Oh it'll help me get into college That shouldn't be your mindset all the time Alright I took up my overalls Because it's getting too hot in here A lot of you guys asked me How to manage my work in time Think about it when you're procrastinating Anytime I go on my Instagram Or just watch YouTube videos I'm thinking in my head Is this worth it Frederick Should you really be watching YouTube videos Instead of studying Or should you be trying to educate yourself And trying to push yourself to get to college If you don't have that willpower to do it You're never gonna do your work There's physically nothing I can do To get you to do your work That comes from you That's a you thing Is prom worth it Getting ready is fun On the dance floor I hate dancing first of all You get sweaty It's not worth it To go there and like just The food's not even good Getting ready is the fun part Taking pictures with your friends is the fun part Spending a thousand dollars on a dress I don't know what priorities you got Because that could have been an iPad for college I rented my tuxedo And my friend spent less than two hundred dollars I don't know why prom is so meaningful to people I think it's just a social thing What is the best way to pray for the SAT? Do practice tests SAT is to the GCSE for people in Europe If you naturally aren't gonna test taking The best way to improve is to take the test again There are so many practice tests from past SATs online If you just take the time to do them Practice SAT that they administer to your school Is not the same as the SAT My parents spent five thousand dollars To take me to SAT camp Because I got a thirteen fifty And I needed a fourteen hundred at least In their eyes And I'm siding them Because they're the same people who say You didn't have to go to college You took me to camp for summer mom So yeah They literally spent five thousand dollars To take me for two months worth of summer camp In which I went to another school Five days a week Eight a.m. to three p.m. And took over fifty SAT tests Yeah, I'm damaged But because of that I was able to get a fifteen forty on the SAT So there's no doubt that it did help me But I could have done that for free If I just did it at home In my head if I knew that was what it's gonna be I could have just done it at home So practice, please But also colleges don't care all about the SAT guys I saw some people asking me like What was your club? What were your grades? So I can know if I can get it to NYU It does not work that way Just to let you know my GPA was a four point one nine Fifteen forty on the SAT Seventeen forty on the English Eight hundred on the math I had photo club I was a cashier Wegmans But I was also a youtuber That is a big thing guys Okay, that is what stood me out to NYU probably Not the photo club or the Wegmans thing It's all about being well rounded So to give you an example If you're worried about your SAT grade Carolina I'm putting you on blast honey My friend Caroline who does go to NYU too You've seen her in some blogs She got a twelve fifty on the SAT I think And she got into NYU Why? Because she was on a robotics team And she was in Girls Who Code And she was an amazing coder in high school And it's still an amazing coder right now And because she went into NYU Tandon Which is an engineering school Focused on coding too in her major That is what appealed to the college people Be well rounded is all I'm going to say Make it make sense for your major What was it like being queer in high school? I didn't really date people If they lasted less than a month And my longest was only three months And that was a long distance I didn't care to put gay as my personality Because that's stupid It's just an addition to you You know it's not like revolving around you If being gay is the only reputable thing you have Prioritize some other things please Because that's not going to get you so far in life And plus it's not a personality It's a sexuality No one uses being straight as a personality So why are you using gay as a personality? It doesn't make you better than them What do you miss about high school? What's the best way to take care of a mental breakdown Due to stress of too much work and extra activities? Oh to have breakdowns I didn't know if I handled them too well But I did go to my school therapist a couple of times Just to let it out Honestly letting it out is good Talking to your friends is good If you have no friends think about why Like are you actively trying to search for friends? Think about who you're befriending You can always find good ones And talking to them is great My friend group was I'll pull up I will get it out of you You're not holding it in So yeah I do think letting it out is the main thing And obviously it's not for everyone Because not everyone had that option to let it out In their house I know in my house it was so sad to be in there Just because like first of all I still didn't like my parents My parents didn't like me at that time We only started bonding towards the end of 11th grade So just having an outlet And YouTube was my outlet My parents always compared with my friends Peers with academics and extracurriculars If you experienced something similar How did you deal with it? I would say just ignore their words Because you can't prevent them from speaking I don't know why we live in a culture Where it's like You feel the need to compare yourself to every other person And I'm victim of it too Trust me like I don't know why we are so wound up on it You're literally not that person There's no reason to compare yourself This goes for anything If you're insecure about your body type Your acne Your hair How you dress Your grades You are not that person Don't let them get to your head Your self concept is very important How you see yourself is very important Find people who boost you up Find people who let you know That you are not as terrible as you tell yourself And the way I was able to get there Was not only with my friends and teachers But with my assistant principal He still helps me a lot to this day I talked about him in a previous video He just made me learn to love myself So yeah, thank you to Mr. Williams What was it like making YouTube videos in high school Where people are wearing your channel? Yes, they were aware of it No one really bullied me for it If anything I was just uncomfortable when they ever brought it up Because I was like I don't like talking about this outside of my life And also I wasn't a big creator I was just doing it for fun Like my content was sh** back then It might still be, it's debatable Oh, for anyone who is a freshman A lot of you guys are worried about making friends this year Because of COVID This is a universal thing Introvert, extrovert You got the anxiety or not If you don't try to make friends You're not gonna make friends No one's going to spoon feed you at this point You cannot expect people to be your friend If you don't even put yourself out there into the world What's the worst thing that will happen? They're gonna say no, let's not be friends Okay, if you can get it in yourself to try That's all you need No one can force you to make friends It's only if you want to make friends actively Were you one of those people who didn't know how to study But then needed to learn When you started taking harder honors courses If so, how did you learn how to study? If you don't know how to study Google There is some outlet for you Maybe it's not PowerPoints Maybe it's not physically doing it And writing notes down Maybe it's not Quizlet But I just actively tried different ways And found that writing was best for me Having friends to study with too How'd you deal with a breakup? When you both have a lot of mutual friends Oh, see when I broke up with this person in this friend group I just left the friend group Why do you have to stay in it? You worry that you're not gonna make friends? You got a lot of years left to high school You got a chance to make friends, guys Yet to know everyone in your high school There's a lot of them out there So yeah, I was in this friend group I had a thing with this person Didn't really date I got uncomfortable so I was like, I'm leaving And that's where my breakup with the person I had a long distance relationship with That fucked me up for a while, guys Okay, I can't lie to you I didn't handle it well Therapy is all I'm gonna say How'd you find your own style? I wanna be my own person without being the trendy I thrifted my clothes I always had thrifted clothes as a kid My mom got them from Goodwill for me And for some reason we made it So that thrifty used to be ghetto And now it's trendy Just try different styles Like even then I'm still changing my style What I liked last year, I hate What I like now, I'll hate in a year I know that How did you manage all the homework? I feel like it's so easy for me to drown in it And never stay on top of things I don't know, I just did it whenever I could In different classes I would be doing homework And when I was working, when I got home I just went to work Like I was always in a working environment How did you manage being in situations Where you had none of close group of people around? I hope you mean like none of your friends were around you That's gym class for me I had like two friends in gym class And when we were separated Oh god It gets better in college That's all I'm gonna say Just survive through it Okay, push through it I also just internally didn't want to be friends with guys Because I just had a lot of distrust towards any male at that point But I opened up in college And now I have like a fair amount of guy friends Don't try to close off people In terms of who you want to be your friend Like try to be open a little bit There's no benefit in being the I don't like anyone I don't like any teachers If you're like that You're gonna have to grow up at some point What's your opinion on the most likely to do things in the yearbook? Do I got something to say? I got the most individual style superlative But our high school decided to take someone who was bullied for their looks As most likely to be a model Specifically the guys and the popular girls Took the person that they bullied for being ugly To be most likely to be a model as a joke I hate popular people I really don't like you all If you're watching I really don't like you I hope you change For good wipe out that high school life please There is nothing reputable about you guys If you're in gym class What was the weirdest thing you've seen in the locker room? When guys slap each other's butts And then proceed to be homophobic I just what? What were your opinions on the popular kids? I don't like them Just know that Kerm is a thing But yeah I really hate the social hierarchy in high school No No Mmm Garbage Jail Were ever jealous for students in schools in other countries? I still am Y'all can get college for free Why do I have to pay full tuition still? After I did so much to get into the college in the first place Jail Any tips on how to not be a procrastinator when it comes to homework? Listen I did procrastinate a lot But it all comes down to you telling yourself Like I keep saying this If you want to fix a problem You could just gotta fix it You can't just expect life to be like I'm gonna fix it for you Dippity-babbity-boop You're gonna do your homework Like that's not how it works There's nothing physically stopping you from doing your homework Unless you can't walk or write Mentally yeah you might be very unwilling to But you just have to push yourself And I know it's very hard sometimes I know it's hard I sometimes don't finish my homework too But you just gotta tell yourself like Is it worth it? And hopefully your body will push you to do it eventually After you came out How are you treated differently by teachers and classmates? I didn't really come out in my high school In ninth grade That was the first time I ever came out But they know It's obvious I didn't have to come out for them If anything people treated me more with respect They never bullied me for being gay To my face I'm sure I got some comments on the side What did you wish you learned before finishing high school? Taxes, stocks, insurance, mortgage Google them How are the hallways? Were they tightly packed or basically just a few people? Obviously when you're in class they're empty But when the bell rings Walk on the right side I had to push my weight there people And I don't want to see no one bullying the kid for running fast When you walk at a snail's pace Okay pick it up Pick up those feet Go on Yes give us nothing even though you're six foot You can tell that's a personal attack on someone Which year of high school was your favorite slash best? Last year Because I was so ready to leave And I was just happier in general Okay this is the last question I'm going to answer Because I've been sitting on my butt for two hours now How to deal with toxic friends Don't have them Don't excuse their behavior This is similar to when y'all don't want to drop your faves on YouTube When people do controversial things on YouTube And y'all still give them excuse after excuse They've already passed three strikes And it's the same thing with your friends Your friends will make mistakes And if you can talk it out that's perfectly fine Like if you just pull up with them And get them to realize that they're in the wrong Yeah you just They're learning too But if they're clearly toxic and manipulative Just don't be their friend I left a friend group because they were toxic in my mind And I didn't feel good in it I did it to better myself You know leaving helps you in the end Because you want to feel happy with your friends right If you have to make a good versus bad things they do list Leave them You shouldn't have to do that You shouldn't ever have to do that with anyone With someone you're dating too Like that's just no Drop your faves guys And I know it's hard because some people feel like They can't make any more friends after But trust me The moment you leave them better people will come your way Because you now know what to look for in a person That's just a generic life lesson It's not just applying to high school friends And don't feel like not having 80,000 friends In high school is like the end of the world You'll get out of it It's only four years And it feels like four really long years Because you haven't lived that long yet But if you think about it You're gonna live for a while So you gotta room to make friends Especially during college Those are the ones that last And I asked my sister the same question She's friends with like two people from high school I barely talk to any high school friends anymore Because we just sometimes we find better people And I hate this town I can't stand small town aesthetic So that's the T on high school That's the reality on high school And once again this is not gonna apply to you always Because I had a different high school experience I went to a different high school than you probably But regardless of which high school you go to There will always be social status Bullying, clear discrimination, and stereotyping Bad teachers, good teachers, good counselors, bad counselors But at the end of the day you want to get a good education And that might not be from a teacher It might be from Google or the internet Either way I want you guys to be motivated To get an education because it is important in life And yeah the lighting has changed a lot Because it turned night But I'm doing a little giveaway for you guys If you happen to watch to the end, congratulations You made it I'm not gonna put in the title of the video Okay I'm not gonna get you to click just because I said giveaway It's not a lot But I moved my sister out of her apartment And I'm moving out of this house And I've collected a lot of things that are Considered back to school, high school stuff And I'm sorry I can't get you guys better stuff Like a lot of backpacks or textbooks I'm still trying to pay for college myself But I hope this can help out in some way This giveaway is not for people who just want free stuff Okay I want this to be for people who want to use these supplies I try to divvy them up evenly So here's package number one Package number two Package number three Number four Number five Number six I'm a dumbass There's another package I'll just call it package number eight Here it is Finally number seven This one's the big boy Okay this is a swiskier backpack I used this for high school It has never failed me It's never even broken This bad boy is indestructible And I didn't take a screenshot of the stuff Because there's just too much But there is a black folder for you A bunch of colored paper Black binders that are very high quality They will not break on you guys And they're going to help you for every subject you need I even have whole puncher Two five subject notebooks that I've used a little bit of But like it's a five subject notebook You're never going to get through that Okay there's too much paper in there A bunch of graph paper And most importantly this This is given to me from that camp And it seriously helps This is from college board itself Okay I only did like two examples in here So there are plenty of tests for you to try out And it's in pencils So you can have your parents erase the markings for you And I also have my AP psych notebook I told you guys this is an easy five And especially if you have the vocab There's over 500 vocab words guys Oh never mind it goes to 600 So yeah all of my notes from AP psych are in here Even AP music theory In case you want to take that Hopefully this will help someone And encourage you to take an AP class It's not sponsored by college board I swear All in all this package Is not meant for the person who has already went through the SAT I do ask you on the google form to tell me why you want each package I'm going to have you rank them from what you want the most to the least Because I know everyone's going to say number seven Because y'all all want a backpack So just don't lie Because if you lie you're lying to me And I hope you know that I just want whoever gets this package To push themselves in high school And try to get into college Because I just I want you guys to be motivated To get an education and continue with after high school And I hope it helps someone So that's all the giveaway is It's not a lot but hopefully you'll save some money On pencils, washi tape, random markers Highlighters It's only gonna last until next week And I will give you an email Or I will contact you some way You'll have options of contact on the google form And I'll just let you know what you got if you win And that's all I have for you guys So if you enjoyed give it a like Leave a comment down below about what you want to see next week Subscribe for more videos I post every Saturday Turn on my notifications Social medias are all here And as always I love you guys and everything is less than three Wait what happens if I Oh no no no no