 Alright, now let's move on to some of the more Yale specific questions. So Jacob, what are you planning on majoring in? Right now I'm thinking of majoring in environmental studies, either that or architecture. So what classes did you take this semester? This semester I started out by taking Portuguese, which is just to get the language required out of the way. It's a fun class. I'm also taking Introduction Biology, it's a prerec for the environmental studies major. It does not go too well. Really? We'll see. You're final yesterday? I'm a final yesterday. It was not a good time. I'm also taking two sustainability classes, so I'm taking Field Science Sustainability, which is essentially a class where we go out to different farms and things and record our own data. Do your lab reports on that. It's pretty fun. Cool. And then I have a Sustainable Development in the 21st Century, which is a more lecture style class where we just learn about all the environmental topics that are in the media today. Cool. So a lot of people in the comment sections have had questions about the difficulty of classes at Yale and what's the workload like. What was your experience with your classes this semester and how much time did you spend and how difficult were they? Well, I feel like at Yale you'll get at what you put in. So if you want to have no social life at all and just stay in your room and study all day, sure you'll get a 4.0 GPA. But for the rest of us, you put in an average amount of work, it's not too much more than I did in high school, and you get pretty good grades at today. Oh yeah, for environmental studies majors. Oh my God. It's just CS, double major. I don't know. It really does depend on your major. Like Jake talked about in his interview, Jake by roommate, not Jacob. He's in the directed studies program and they obviously have a ton of reading and a paper due every week. I'm doing engineering, so obviously I'm trying to knock out a lot of those engineering pre-rec classes right now so that they do pile up, especially the p-sets. I'm taking like three QR quantitative reasoning classes this semester, which is a lot, which means three p-sets, and then I also had like a paper to work on for my English class. So it's a lot, but at least for me it was definitely manageable. You never feel too overwhelmed. Yeah, and also college, a lot of people don't realize how much free time you have. The most time I spent in class in a day was like three and a half hours, which is like nothing. And considering I didn't even have classes on Friday, you have so much free time. It's just learning how to manage your time. Okay, obviously we are students in the beautiful Timothy Dwight College. It's amazing. We love it here, right? Yes, we do. TD is objectively the best college. Objectively. Objectively. Yeah. For any of you Yale students watching. Solomon sucks. Solomon sucks? Solomon sucks. Okay, okay. Total old campus. Old campus? Old campus. Total campus. We have TD. So what do you think of TD and like what do you think of the Yale residential college system in general? I gotta say I'm a big fan of the residential college system. I think it gives us all a more tight knit community rather than just the broad Yale itself. So we get to know people that we're closer with, people that we live with, become pretty good friends. Yeah, definitely. I feel like most of my friends are in TD. I mean obviously I have groups from my classes like my extracurriculars, but the people that you spend the most time with, the people that you eat with at almost every single meal and the people you live with are right here in TD. And honestly, I think the residential college system is one of the best parts about Yale is because I mean college is kind of a scary thing. There's a lot of people and it really breaks you down into like just a small group. I know in like bigger state schools most of your friends may be the ones on your hallway or whatever, but they're eventually going to be broken up. And you know it's hard to keep track of everyone, especially in a big school like this. So rather than having to deal with the 6,000 people that are here on campus, you have 400 people in your college and 100 people in your class and then maybe 10 or so other people that are studying something similar to you. And it really, you're able to break down the big population into a lot smaller groups. It's like Hogwarts. Yeah. Yeah. We're Gryffindor, obviously. Except rather than like a sorting hat they just use a random number generator. So each college here at Yale has a dean who deals with like academics in the college, a head which deals with more like student life, and then all the freshmen are assigned in froco groups. Jacob was actually in my froco group. What do you think of the support system with the head, the dean, the froco, and you also have advisors and tutors all here in the college? What do you think of the whole support system here? I think there's definitely a lot of resources, sometimes too many resources that are just out there for you to use. You have your writing tutors as well. Yeah. And I don't know, our dean and our head of college are pretty great people. They're really nice. Yeah. They like magic. They do like magic. Everybody here likes magic. Tell them a story about how you hypnotized the dean. Oh yeah, and if you guys haven't checked it out last community night here at TD, me and Jake we actually managed to hypnotize our dean and make her forget how to read. So that video is a couple months back. Definitely check that out if you haven't. It's a good one. Jake was there. He saw it live in person. Oh yeah. It was insane. It was incredible. It's really good. Can't wait for next community night. Oh yeah. You're going to teach me a mock or a trick? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe. We'll see. The magician never reveals his secrets. Sure. We'll show you now. We'll see. So Yale obviously has a lot of extracurriculars and a lot of activities to offer all around campus. What extracurriculars are you involved in? One of the biggest things I'm involved in is the Yale Precision Marching Band. So it's our schools, our pet band, our football band, our everything band. I don't know how precision or marching they are. You know, we do our best. We do our best. We do our best. It's funny. The shows are really funny. They're really. Yeah. Good quality jokes. Good jokes. So Jacob, along with your extracurriculars, do you have a student job here at Yale? I kind of do. I volunteer in a TD's buttery. So that's essentially our late night stack shops. So we make a lot of fried food, a lot of unhealthy food. It's a great time. So you guys may have seen in the day in the life video I posted, towards the beginning, I gave you guys a little tour of the basement of our college. But down there, there's like a game room, like a little area to hang out. And then there's also the buttery. And the buttery is open from what? 10 to 1 AM on weeknights. And so if you're up late studying, you just head right down to the buttery and super cheap snacks. It's like a dollar for like chicken tenders or fries or quesadillas. Nachos. Nachos, drinks, everything down there. Nutella quesadillas. Good stuff. Oh yeah, Nutella Dillas. Good stuff. And every college actually has a buttery. So I haven't tried any of the other colleges. You're right. But here that makes pretty good stuff. We like the TD buttery. And Jacob works there on Wednesday night, so we like to go down there and see him. Oh yeah. A lot of people think that us Yale students are just cooped up in our room all the time studying. Some of us are. Some of us are. Roger. Roger. You'll meet Roger in a future video. He's an interesting guy. But there is a lot of social opportunities here at Yale. You want to talk about social life here at Yale? Sure. I spend a lot of my time with the guys on our floor. We hang out a lot. There's always a free game of ping pong. There's always some fun theme parties when it comes to holidays. We have Christmas parties. We have Halloween parties. All that fun stuff. Band? Band. We've got some pretty good parties. With the band? With the band, yeah. Yeah, I've also had a generally good experience here. There's a lot of great people. I mean, some nights you might go out, but some nights you might just find yourself sitting in your room talking to some sweet mates or some people that are coming over. Until 4 a.m. 4 a.m. just talking about cool stuff. When I applied to Yale and I envisioned what Yale would be like, it was talking to people about quantum mechanics until 3 a.m. in the morning. And it's fun. But there's also great social opportunities. You definitely... There's something for everyone. You'll have an opportunity to meet a lot of cool people. All right, Jacob, what is your single favorite thing about Yale? One thing, if you had to pick. I think my favorite thing is definitely the architecture. I'm from Arizona, so we don't really have a lot of old buildings like we do here. So it's just fun always looking up, always seeing something new. Yeah, I feel like Yale has some of the most unique architecture on a college campus in the country. Every single college has its own unique architectural style. There's like five or six different styles going on on old campus in each of the different halls. And I mean, sometimes when you're stressed and you're going between classes, you forget about all of it. But then sometimes you just take a deep breath, you look up and you just see like Harkness Tower. Or those weird carvings in some of the buildings with people. You just look up, you always notice something new, you know, like SSS, the Law School, Pain Whitney. Bionic Library. Oh yeah, a lot of cool architecture.