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It's your boy Nick Chay coming back at you guys with a new video today We're talking about something that I've been wanting to kind of just get off my chest and put out into the world And I know it's gonna be very controversial And so there's a few disclaimers I want to get into but before this video gets started If you enjoy these types of videos just talking about college and honest reactions and everything like that make sure you Guys hit that subscribe button because there's gonna be tons of new content coming out for you guys But yes, this is not clickbait This is exactly what you guys have been wanting to know and something that like I said I've been wanting to say and it's the shit I hate about Princeton now the disclaimers first off I understand I am very very fortunate to be where I am at the school that I am with Opportunities and the resources that I have so everything I say in this video Please take with a grain of salt because I know that people are gonna be typing in the comments Like oh you go to Princeton you're so ungrateful like I literally just said that like I know I understand that I'm fully aware of that But there are still the cons of the school still the negative sides that I feel like people don't talk about and if you Know schools like this or Harvard or Stanford or whatever are your dream schools Then it's good to be informed of the reality of the situation because they're not just all magical places where everything is nice all the time So that's the first disclaimer second disclaimer is that this is just my opinion one student going to the school There are literally thousands of other people So if you are a person student yourself right now watching this your opinions could be totally different from mine And that's fine. It's okay to agree to disagree But I mean this is what I have taken away from my two years here Not that anything I say is you know right or the right mentality to go about things But just how I'm feeling and I think that would be beneficial to share with you So let's just jump into it now first and foremost the biggest thing I hate about the school is the self-inflicted stress Now granted there are dozens of variables that go into why people are stressed here But for me I definitely think that the majority of it is self-inflicted meaning that Students here just tend to like stress themselves out Unnecessarily over things that really don't need to be stressed about and it's hard not feeling like that when you've just got so much Stuff going on like obviously your academics the classes are super hard the extra curriculars Everyone's involved in different things on top of that you're doing interviews got job applications You got real-world shit that you got to get taken care of it's just so much negative energy that you can just kind of feel it on This campus and it's not good It's not healthy and on top of that just seem to like everything piles up on top of each other and just makes sometimes like Really really miserable like midterms week and finals week You guys know how much I hate that period of this school year And it's just getting annoying sometimes because not that any other school isn't hard But as much as I hate to say it like this is Princeton. This is Ivy League like classes are just Objectively harder like the courses are harder the material you have to cover is harder The semesters are shorter meaning that you have to cram all the information into 12 weeks compared to 15 or 16 weeks at Any other school and that just makes it really stressful and just something that I am really fed up with right now Number two is this underlying Competitiveness within the student body now This is not something that people are gonna tell you that Princeton is a very cutthroat school that there's competition everywhere and that people Are always trying to outdo each other, but it's underlying. It's unheard of it's like not spoken about which is one like I said Not good. It's not healthy It's not conducive for our school to be a better community and grow from it because It's like the sense of like people are like Subconsciously judging one another for either not getting an internship or the summer or not having job applications ready or whatever The case may be like there is always some kind of like underlying competitive news that goes around the school Like you have someone what you're doing this summer and oh, I have an internship at JP Morgan or oh I'm going to Goldman Sachs or whatever and like it just makes you feel almost inferior feeling like oh crap Why don't I have my shit together like why didn't I know about this why I did not get my application ready and like No malice to anyone that is on top of all their stuff that they need to be and they're succeeding and they're taking advantage of everything School has to offer, but I just don't want that negative energy to almost lead into this Like I'm trying to outdo you but I'm not going to tell you about a kind of mentality now That's very vague and it's hard to understand unless you're kind of a student here But I hope you can kind of get the gist of that point number three now This was not something I was very aware of before coming to college But especially coming to school like Princeton social climbing that shit is annoying like people will do anything to try to Climb to the top of whatever it is That's not to say people aren't going to be doing things to maneuver their way to the top of the social ladder Whether it's just like acting different around certain people or trying to fit into groups that they're not really a part of like It's a very controversial thing and something that like is a negative thing on campus to be talked about But that's just my two cents like I clearly don't know everything about this I might just be being shit up, but like I don't know it's annoying to me number four is the Unnecessary bullshit now. I know this whole video just sounds like me complaining on and on about how hard the classes are And I know I signed myself up for this, but sometimes I'm just sitting in my classes I'm like bro. This is some straight-up like what like it is unnecessarily Difficult the workload is unnecessarily too much in my opinion like for some of these courses I'm like bro You want me to read what in how many days and do this piece out on top of that on top of three other classes and Staying healthy and fucking like getting asleep and It adds up and it's stressful and just unnecessary and I know that I'm saying this right now And I know that in 20 years. I'll look back and be like thank god I did all that because it put me in a better place for this job and I was successful from it or whatever And I know I'll thank myself in the future But right now Kurt Nick is like man This is it's almost like not a waste of my time because I know that like I signed myself up for this Like I said and that like I just need to get through it get the degree get out of here But man like and to be honest like I don't even have it that hard like I'm an econ major and yes That's hard, but some of my friends are doing computer science or electrical engineering They're taking like all these courses that seems so hard. I'm like I feel bad But I feel worse for my friends sometimes, but that's just another thing that's super annoying about the school now I know that wasn't a super long list It's not as juicy as some of you guys might have been thinking it was gonna be but I don't know That's kind of where I get that off my chest. I know that I could have easily made a video talking about things I love about Princeton because that list is way longer But that's the thing that I've already talked about and I know that a lot of you guys are looking up high schools like This but just keep your mind open You realize that like what you're signing up for is going to be very very very difficult very very stressful and At times it's not gonna be all fun and games like it's real shit. You got to do man like Now I just want to re-emphasize that these are just opinions of one student at the school Some people may be loving their time here not having no difficulties even though that's probably impossible You know so just take everything I say with a grain of salt Don't think that the school isn't great or like if you get in like you're not gonna have a good time Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this real talk if you did make sure you guys leave a comment down below Let me know any new types of videos you guys want to see and I will see you guys next time You