 What's up guys, it's Josh. We're back again with another video. This is the next installment in my Gale Student Interview series. So I'm back here again with another fellow TDR, right? This is Tyler Joest. He's actually on the football team with Walker and Ethan. You guys have seen them in other videos. He's in the entryway across the way on the other side of TDR, so still pretty close. Alright, I think Tyler has some unique perspective on Gale and specifically sports and how he got recruited through football. A lot of you guys are athletes or looking at playing sports in college, so I think he can give you guys a lot of great advice and it'll just give you another lens to see Gale through, just through another student and hopefully he'll share that with us. So we'll get into the questions now. Alright, we already introduced you. Where are you from, Tyler? So I'm from Chicago, Illinois. I'm actually from Libertyville, Illinois, which is about 50 minutes north of Chicago, but it's much easier just to say Chicago when kids ask. Yeah, yeah. That's what I don't have to explain. I say northern Virginia, but most of the time I just say D.C., especially here. Yeah. So for here, kids are from all over, so it's just easier for me to say Chicago instead. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely pretty cool just like being at Yale and like having so many different people from like everywhere across the globe. Like literally everywhere. All my friends from back home, they're asking me where are kids usually from and I want to say New England, but it's just not the case because it's everywhere. Even in TD, you just get a small taste of everywhere because two kids that live by me, Sean and Sam, one's from London and one's from, he's from Hong Kong. So that's pretty cool. So people here are from all over. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Just big melting pot. Right, so like obviously you played like football in high school. I assume that was a pretty big part, but like give us a little rundown of like your high school experience. Like how did you, like how did football progress through high school? How did like your dedication to like academics and stuff and what exactly in your high school experience kind of brought you to Yale? So I kind of picked up football when I was younger and then just kept playing it all the way up until high school and then once sophomore year I'd say hit, a lot of schools, not a lot of schools, but some schools started contacting me to like maybe play football for them and then I'd say started my junior year that really started picking up with a lot of different schools showing interest and having to make those decisions on who to talk to. But I would say starting that junior year is when it really started to pick up and I actually started looking at a lot of Power 5 schools which would be the ACC, Big 12, SEC, Big 10 and Pac 12. Those are, it's called the Big Power 5. So a lot of athletes, that's the end goal I guess you could say that's like the highest competition level. But I committed to Iowa State actually my junior year, my April my junior year and that was was going to be home and then that kind of fell through. So then it was fast forward to I think November of my senior year. That's when Yale started really contacting me before signing day in February. And so my whole recruitment with Yale was actually pretty quick. A couple of the coaches came to come see me at school and then I had to apply in very short time span to try and get a likely letter. But then it ended up working out. I'm here. So I kind of had a funky unorthodox recruiting experience. It wasn't just Yale whole time. I was kind of I was committed somewhere else and then within a few months then I was in a different school. Awesome. Yeah, like so how was high school for you? Like where did you go to high school? Like how did you do any like other extracurriculars other than football or like what were your main academic interests? So I loved high school. I really did. I liked a lot of my teachers. I loved my hometown. So I'm from Libertyville and I'd say there's about 20,000 people in my town. So I'd say it's it's I love that. Yeah, it's pretty small. So it was definitely a good community field growing up. And I had the same friends from kindergarten all the way through high school. So it was really fun to grow up with the same group of kids play sports with the same group of kids. And then when I got to high school, I really tried to venture out my scope on things. And I didn't just want to be considered a jock, I guess like the stereotypical jock. So I decided to try and get involved with concert choir, which I did my senior year of high school and ended up loving it. Oh, really? So yeah, do you do any singing stuff? Yeah, I don't. But unorthodox is a group on campus for the varsity athletes. So I'm thinking about maybe next year I'll be auditioning. Okay, awesome. So that'd be cool. So I definitely just want to try and get involved with different things. I got involved with business classes in high school. Because I think that's what I want to do in the future. So I did stuff with that. But I really tried to just get involved with as many different things as I could. That's definitely a good tip. Because yeah, I just I would recommend that. Try to get involved with absolutely everything, even if you are, whether it be an athlete or academia is your thing. Or if whatever, I would just venture out. And that would be my biggest piece of advice is just trying to get as involved with as much things as you can before you get to college. Yeah, definitely. So, Tyler, obviously you went through the whole recruitment process. You gave us a little intro to that before. Do you have any like specific advice to students that are looking at trying to get recruited by colleges, but more the Ivy League specifically? So I guess my biggest advice that I could give would be to use social media. I would definitely say Twitter is a good resource just because that's an easy way for coaches to connect with you, send you messages for you to send messages to them. It's just a very, very easy way to get in touch with coaches. Yeah, that's what Walker said to Walker said that. So yeah, I would definitely agree with that. Twitter is a definitely great resource. I would explore every option. And I say that in that even if the school contacts you, and maybe you're not as excited about this school or this coach, you never know where that person could end up. For example, I did the Northwestern showcase because that's close to my home. And a lot of colleges and universities will go to that to look for talent. Yeah, kind of like a mini combine almost for high school students that will just come to Northwestern. And a lot of schools came up to me that were maybe smaller schools or schools I wasn't very interested in. But some of those coaches down the road would get promotions to bigger schools. So you really never know where those coaches will end up. And maybe down the line, they'll say, Hey, we need we need a for in my case, an offensive lineman. What what are you thinking right now with recruiting? And maybe at this point, they're at a school that you end up being interested in in the first place. So I would say to never cut off a line of communication with a coach because that that connection with the coach is really valuable and you never know where it could take you. Yeah, that's a really good tip. You want to say something Walker? We got to we got to guess the parents from myself. How is everyone? They can't respond to you walk. Um, which I'm talking about just stuff stuff. Yeah, every day life. Yeah, a little casual. Yeah. Yeah, stuff. Nice. Enjoy. Alright, a couple more questions. Um, so obviously as a like an athlete, you're you're pretty busy, pretty stacked. Do you find it hard to balance like academics and athletics? Or do you think Yale does a good job at trying to manage those two? I don't know. Yeah, Yale does a great job of balancing the two. Um, I mean, being a varsity athlete, whether it's football or whatever, it's just a huge time commitment. And uh, happy birthday. You guys have a happy birthday. Thanks, bro. I had Tyler's birthday. So make sure you wish my happy birthday in the comments. This video probably won't be up for like a week or two though. That's fine. It's a week or two after Tyler's birthday. Did you guys get Ben and Jerry's for us? No. No, it's for us. It's good though. You should walk over like all the way by like the movie theater. We went to go see a movie. Turned out that movie theater didn't have the movie we wanted to see. So in order to see some movie with like a 14% on a rotten tomatoes, right? It was definitely. He thinks that listening to movie reviews is a good idea. Whereas you never listen to the movie reviews. You go see for yourself that way you can have an honest opinion of it. He agrees. Do you agree? I say I agree. He agrees. Josh is out. I don't buy it. I don't buy it. So in order to drown our sorrows for not be able to see the movie, we get ice cream. Great. Great choice. Thanks for the update guys. Great choice. What's going on with us? Yep. All right. Great day. Thanks bro. See you. All right. That was interesting. I may or may not go in. Okay. Um, what were you talking about? Yo, that's a great job of balancing athletics and academics. It's definitely tough to do both. But I would definitely recommend it if that's something you'd like to do. I've made some great relationships on the team and I've really loved it. Um and academics here are are really tough or any school they're they're hard. So I would definitely say that if that's something you're worth you want to do and um at school, it's definitely doable. I do it Walker does it and you know it's it's possible. It's a lot but I I love it. Um Yale really like values academics. Like I feel like there's like I don't know at some other schools there might be some stigma of like like athletes kind of getting a break or whatever that is not the case at all here. Like these these guys are some of like the hardest working people I know because they'll come back from like a three-hour practice exhausted and then have to like work on homework till midnight. Like it's crazy. I respect you guys so much for that. Oh, thanks mom. Um yeah I also think Yale does a good job of like a lot of times like I don't know like athletes may be like separate from like the like the just the regular students and I feel like Yale is a good job at like like he's not I mean he's here with me and TD right now. He's not like the athletes aren't in their own separate spot like they get sprinkled between the residential colleges just like everyone else does and the fact that like we get to like interact with them and you guys like yeah I mean it's not there's no divide is what I'm trying to say. Yeah yeah and I love that about about Yale that going into this summer um I was able to get placed in a TD and there's not an athlete residential college or anything like that we get um you know we're with every other student on a daily basis which I love like I love having um roommates that are involved with different things I think it's I think it's the best just because you know it'd be fun to live with um fellow football guys but it's really fun to have um friends outside the team too.