 Jumping off the porch like mom's not home What is up guys? It's Josh. We're back in business with another video for you guys today I'm so happy to be back here, you know sitting in my dorm room in front of a camera. I missed it I mean honestly feels good to be back. Anyways like the title suggests today in this video I will be talking about my course schedule for my second semester of my first year here at Yale This topic was highly requested in the last couple of videos, so I guess I'm here to fill you guys in I'm gonna be completely honest This semester is pretty rough. Over winter break I was just sitting on the couch chilling, you know Bluebooking searching for the classes that I would take this semester and honestly, uh, I thought I would be fine You know, I only planned on taking four classes, which is nothing I have guys down the hall that are taking like five and a half Keep in mind most Yale students take between four and five classes each semester So the fact that I'm taking four means that I'm having a pretty easy semester comparatively Now the catch is these aren't just four easy freshman courses All four of my classes this semester fall under Yale's quantitative reasoning distributional requirement Which means they all contain some pretty heavy math and computation, but I'm a STEM guy, right? No problem No, I was I was very wrong very very wrong indeed. Alright, so I guess I'll lay it out for you last semester I took physics 180, which is a calculus based physics course in Newtonian mechanics So the natural continuation of that would be physics 181 So I'm taking it this semester it explores the realm of electricity and magnetism and honestly I'm pretty excited about it because I didn't get a chance to take an EM physics class in high school I mean I taught myself the basics for like the physics subject tests But I never actually got to dive in deep and figure out all the calculus and stuff that goes into it So far it's been great I have the same professor that I had from last semester and she is absolutely phenomenal in terms of workload I know I can always count on a pretty normal six to eight hours a week for this class So it's a pretty manageable next is computer science Last semester I took CS 50, which is the huge computer science class that's taught jointly with Harvard where they throw like Four different programming languages at you and like the basics of like computer engineering like all in one semester And it's just it's absolutely nuts, but I loved it and there there were a lot of free t-shirts, which is good Also, so this semester I'm taking my first major required CS class It's called CS 201 intro to computer science. This has to be the most unique CS class I've ever taken it's taught using a language named racket Which is kind of a it's a derivative of scheme and lisp It's a really weird clunky language for those of you that know computer science that you know There's these things called loops, right? There's no loops in racket, right? Everything has to be done using recursion and if you know anything about recursion It's pretty hard to wrap your head around So it's been an interesting couple weeks trying to figure out what I'm actually doing in the class I think I've finally grown into it though And I'm excited for what the rest of the class has to give me next on the list of my classes this semester is my first electrical engineering class, which is a EENG 201 It's titled intro to computer engineering. It focuses on the areas where like hardware and software intersect And it's a kind of a great companion course to my computer science course so far We've talked about like digital logic boolean algebra building circuits with like logic gates and transistors and stuff It's pretty cool. We've done some hands-on work with breadboards as well as programming some FPGA boards using a language called verilog I'm really enjoying it so far and I look forward to the rest of the semester now my last class for the semester is the class that I I love to hate the class that has taken up probably 75% of my time this semester the class that is giving me a new Deeper appreciation of mathematics math 225 Matrix theory. This is a proof-based linear algebra course That's right proof-based the last time I wrote a proof was 8th grade geometry where you had to use like the side angle side theorem, you know Like I know nothing about that They don't go into proofs or teach you any of that stuff in high school So this was this was a little bit of a shock not gonna lie I really am enjoying this class so far But the p-sets take a ridiculously long amount of time so long that last week I was just curious to see exactly how long they took you know So I time myself every single time that I started working I hit the stopwatch on my phone and every time I stopped I stopped it right 18 hours 18 hours into one p-set a p-set that's posted like Friday night and that's due Thursday morning Almost a day of my life this week was spent working on a math p-set Late into the night in the math lounge with a bunch of other clueless students and it's been great It's been great. You guys have been curious why I like hadn't posted in over a week. That's that's why But I got it. We're good despite the late nights. I spent pondering questions in front of a chalkboard I feel like the class has taught me a lot so far and I honestly look forward to the rest of it Anyways that about sums up my schedule. I'm taking physics CS EE and math this semester They're all they're all pretty tough But they're all great classes great professors, and I I'm really looking forward to the rest of the year If you liked the video and want to keep up with all the other fun stuff I'm gonna have to suffer through for the next three months. Definitely subscribe hit the like button Comment down below if you have any questions or concerns or just want to say hi, and I will see you soon