 Greetings and salutations friends. It's your boy Nick Shea coming back with another video. Today is Something I've been needing to get off my chest for a little bit now. You saw the title. This is not clickbait and Yeah, I failed my Princeton final Finals were about a month ago and when I opened up my transcript to check my grades I was kind of just devastated shot Confused pissed and there's a lot of things that I was feeling that I will kind of go through today The reason I wanted to make this video is to just kind of show that yes I am a Princeton student, but I'm also just a human being I make mistakes I fail I fuck up and you know, I learned from all that and hopefully you can take something away from this video I hope you guys enjoy this little change of scenery I feel like I haven't done one of my real talks in a bit But anyway, let's just jump right into it So the final I failed was for my math class as an econ major It is required that we take a math class and not that I'm bad at math I have never been mad at math in high school. I took Calc AB BC AP got fives on the AP test killed my SAT math Killed the ACT sections, so I've never particularly been bad at math and I've never struggled with it anything like that But when I got to college man, this shit hit me in the face real quick I realized that damn this is the real world like they're not kidding around anymore and Not that like any other schools math department isn't hard or isn't challenging But let me tell you that Princeton math department is something else Like they're taking some kind of brain steroids because that should not be possible nor feasible nor doable for any normal person But it is what it is and and to be fair. I studied a fair amount I definitely could have done more but even the amount that I did there I felt that there was nothing else I could have done more that would have Help me do better or you know prepare me for the exam because the content that was on there was just You know stuff that we had covered in class, but just took it to another level And I guess I just didn't have the critical thinking skills to apply my foundational skills to what was on that problem Anyway, that all goes to say that yes, I failed it. I think I got maybe like a 50 or 60 I mean obviously there was a curve But still I ended up with a C in the class and the moral of this entire thing is that you know There's a couple things number one is that sometimes your best is not enough, right? I put in so many hours studying cramming getting ready for the exam running over practice problems working with friends doing everything That I needed to and should have done to best prepare myself And I still wasn't prepared and you know, I think this is applicable to many situations because you know people would say You know at least you tried your best blah blah blah like people will still get like participation trophies man in college There ain't no participation trophies. You're getting an A B or C like that's about it, bro You know after dealing with that L It took me a bit to just kind of cope with get over and you know be able to talk about it like I am today And I know it's a very personal topic and not something you see a lot of youtubers sharing But you know how it is on this channel. We like to keep it real We like to keep it one Hanna moving on another huge thing I learned was that there are better things in the future You know, I talk about failure and rejection a lot on this channel, you know, I've personally gone through a ton I'm not successful in everything that I do and I fall and I always try and get back up And especially with this math class I realized that one I will never have to take another math class Thank God and two what's in the past is in the past a big mantra of mine is you know Don't dwell on things that you can't control or can't change Regardless of what happened as long as I learn from it learn my mistakes learn how to grow as a person as a thinker as a Student then that's all that really matters and no I can't promise that I'm not gonna fail another final in the future But I will use what I learned and implement that into my studying habits So that that doesn't happen again and honestly that's applicable to so many parts of your life Whether it's college applications jobs Interchips whatever it is like there are gonna be countless times that you fail But if you don't have the strength to pick yourself back up and keep fighting then you're not gonna one learn from it And two you're not gonna be able to grow from it And I think that's honestly what failure teaches you teaches you how to be a better person How to deal with things that go shitty in your life because we're all human We all make mistakes and we're not always gonna be perfect every single day number three is that you can't let one Thing define your career if I let this one see dictate the rest of my career thinking I'm not good enough thinking I'm not smart enough always doubting myself then it's hindering my growth as a student and as an intellectual There's so much more potential for me that I know I can reach But if I continue to dwell on this continue to let that dictate my entire career then you know It's it's a waste of time It's a waste of energy and if you know anything about me at all Then that's something that I absolutely hate number four you can't be good at everything coming into college I thought I was a shit because I could take photos film videos dress Well be cool had be sociable and all those things and I realized that you can't be good at everything man not that I'm bad at academics like I'm at Princeton like I know but there are some subjects that just aren't for everyone like as a Economics major, okay, maybe math is a little important But that doesn't mean that I had to be a fucking like Nobel Prize winner in chemistry or make groundbreaking research in computer Science like just because the two worlds don't align doesn't mean you have to be a fucking like Amazing at everything you do like take pride in the things that you are good at Excel in them be the best that you can be but don't dwell on the fact that someone else is doing better than you in your classes because some subjects are just suited for Different people. I mean we all have different brain conditions left brain right brain all that kind of stuff And once again comparison doesn't get you anywhere Just because your friend did amazing in the class and didn't seem to struggle and had no problems Doesn't mean that he's not doing well in another one of his classes Maybe it's an English class or an art class or whatever So I think what I'm trying to say here is don't think that you have to be amazing at every single thing you do Like be good at a few certain things and you know, sometimes you got to take the L But if you don't bounce back from that then that's that's when it's a problem Now I am wearing my Michelle Obama shirt because this was taken in front of our library when she was an undergraduate here Which is a you know just a cool testament to the fact that like you know Michelle Obama didn't even like her time at Princeton She wasn't a big fan of it Which is why she doesn't come to reunions or do any huge talks here and you know Maybe that's applicable to where I am at this point in my life for you know showing that you know It sucks now and there are hard times and their failures But I mean like look at what she's doing now. She popped off. So you go Michelle if you're watching this hit me I can't even I can't even do that with a straight face I think a few other things I just want to get off my chest is that you know colleges hard regardless of whatever school You're at academics are difficult especially on the college level because you know No matter why high school you go to it can't really prepare you for the rigor and the pace that the college courses go at Especially having a balance, you know, it's a curricular activities being sociable, you know taking time to relax All that can you know really bundle up and take a lot of stress on you and take a big toll on your academic and your mental and Physical health as important as GPA is I mean that isn't the biggest priority when you're 1819 20 Like make memories when you're in school like take the time to have meals with your friends go out and do something like last Weekend like literally last minute on a whim. I woke up. I was like, hey, let's go to New York I'll get us an Airbnb and we pulled out in New York for the day and that was honestly like one of the best times I've had so far so, you know be spontaneous take chances take risks because that's what colleges for you live and you learn and you learn to grow and And if you let your mistakes or your failures or your rejections define who you are as a person and you know Let that get to your self-worth then you've lost you've succumbed to the system You've let the game win and you know how it is. We don't let the game win We're winners. Damn. I realize my posture has been really bad throughout this whole video You know, I am a college student. I'm still 19 So I have a couple more years here, but all the things that I learned right now I'm you know gonna be trying to apply to every single part of my life Continuing when I graduate and have a job or when I have a family like like take the lesson that you learn from your L's and turn them into W's and I know I've been rambling. I didn't really plan this video out I just kind of wanted to get this stuff off my chest. You know how we do if you're an og of the channel You know what's up? You've seen these videos before I'm close to hitting 50k I can't believe that I'm super close and it is frustrating because I've been putting out so much Content like I literally film all the time. I'm editing so many hours and I'm still not at 50k So please like hit me up with that subscribe like come on guys. I put in so much work for this I think that about wraps up everything I want to say. I hope you guys enjoy this Make sure to leave a like comment down below, you know your thoughts your responses any kind of pick me up So it'd be really helpful Subscribe as always don't stress finesse Yes, do we want to see that on a t-shirt on some merch? Let me know