EVERYTHING I Wish I Knew Before Starting College (Q&A) — Transcript

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1. 0:00IF I COULD GO BACK IN TIME TO THE FIRST
2. 0:02day of college, I WOULD TELL MYSELF SO
3. 0:05MANY THINGS.
4. 0:09COLLEGE IS AMAZING, don't get me wrong,
5. 0:11but it's also so confusing.
6. 0:15Overwhelming.
7. 0:17And honestly, nobody hands you a guide.
8. 0:20So, I asked you guys on Instagram what
9. 0:22you wish you knew, and we're going to
10. 0:24break it down today.
11. 0:26How much harder are universities than
12. 0:27high school?
13. 0:29In my experience, HIGH SCHOOL IS NOWHERE
14. 0:31NEAR HOW DIFFICULT universities are.
15. 0:33Because unlike university, high school,
16. 0:36I feel like they're trying their best
17. 0:38for you not to fail. Meanwhile,
18. 0:40universities,
19. 0:41they just want your money. So, the more
20. 0:43you fail, the longer you're going to
21. 0:44stay, the more tuition you'll pay.
22. 0:47Do university go by quick?
23. 0:50So, my college experience was
24. 0:52essentially split up into two portions
25. 0:54since I graduated high school during the
26. 0:56pandemic. So, the first portion just
27. 0:58felt like high school premium cuz I was
28. 0:59taking general studies, and it was
29. 1:01pretty much easy and comparable to high
30. 1:03school. THEN THE SECOND HALF COMPLETELY
31. 1:06HAMMERED ME WHEN I STARTED ACTUALLY
32. 1:07TAKING the engineering courses.
33. 1:09But, ultimately, it did go by really
34. 1:12quick. The time I graduated, I was like,
35. 1:14"Wow, 5 years is already up." So,
36. 1:17ultimately, yes, it does go by quick,
37. 1:18and I recommend you to enjoy as much as
38. 1:21you can.
39. 1:22Is it worth it to spend 5 more years
40. 1:24studying? Okay, so if you don't know me,
41. 1:27I just recently graduated in electrical
42. 1:29engineering.
43. 1:30>> [music]
44. 1:33>> And it took me 5 years to graduate, 12
45. 1:36semesters. I took two summer courses,
46. 1:38that's why it leads up to 12 semesters.
47. 1:41To be quite honest, I feel like this is
48. 1:42going to be a different answer for
49. 1:44different people depending on their
50. 1:46situation. Cuz some people, they already
51. 1:47have a job lined up as soon as they
52. 1:49graduate high school because their
53. 1:51parents work in engineering. Meanwhile,
54. 1:53others are basically fighting to survive
55. 1:54to get an offer when they graduate
56. 1:56college. So, ultimately, I feel 5 years
57. 1:58is extremely beneficial because it gives
58. 2:00you that time to really learn the topics
59. 2:03and not feel so stressed to pass all
60. 2:05your classes in that 4-year mark and
61. 2:07better understand the topics as you go
62. 2:08on. You can also work more on the side
63. 2:10if you're paying your tuition like how I
64. 2:11did.
65. 2:16And ultimately, I feel like taking the 5
66. 2:18years for engineering is a lot more
67. 2:19beneficial than just doing the 4 years.
68. 2:22Advice for retaking a class and what to
69. 2:24do differently.
70. 2:26Don't feel embarrassed about failing a
71. 2:28class, okay? I failed two classes in my
72. 2:30college career, calculus two and linear
73. 2:33algebra. But, each time I failed, I took
74. 2:35the opportunity to learn something new,
75. 2:37whether it's betting bettering my study
76. 2:39strategy or bettering my time
77. 2:41management. Then when I retook linear
78. 2:43algebra, I MADE SURE THERE was no
79. 2:45opportunity for me to fail. I answered
80. 2:47all the questions class. I asked as many
81. 2:49questions as I can in class. I studied
82. 2:52day and night to make sure I didn't
83. 2:53fail. And after that moment, I never got
84. 2:56anything less than a C in my college
85. 2:58career. How many all-nighters were done?
86. 3:01So, actually, I never did an all-nighter
87. 3:05in all my 5 years of college.
88. 3:07The closest thing I did was actually
89. 3:09documented on TikTok and Instagram for
90. 3:12one of my projects, and I stayed up
91. 3:13until I believe about 5:00 a.m. And that
92. 3:15was the latest I ever stayed up for
93. 3:17anything. Because I am a firm believer
94. 3:19in taking care of yourself mentally and
95. 3:21physically.
96. 3:23And I don't feel the need to sacrifice
97. 3:26those two things in terms of getting one
98. 3:29grade better.
99. 3:30In total, how many hours do you have the
100. 3:32urge to scream in pain while studying?
101. 3:45>> [screaming and groaning]
102. 3:45>> Too many hours.
103. 3:47I will say too many hours.
104. 3:49How did you understand physics so good?
105. 3:52Mhm.
106. 3:53So, the biggest thing I learned to learn
107. 3:55complex topics such as physics,
108. 3:57engineering topics, and chemistry topics
109. 4:00is you have to solve practice problems.
110. 4:02It's not like any other topic like
111. 4:04English where you can kind of look
112. 4:06through text and watch videos and
113. 4:08understand concept like that. No, you
114. 4:10actually need to practice it. And for
115. 4:11me, the biggest thing is to do the cheat
116. 4:14sheet method.
117. 4:15Essentially, what it is is when you're
118. 4:17studying and you accumulate your
119. 4:18practice problems that you want to solve
120. 4:20before an exam, YOU PUT EVERY single
121. 4:23thing you think you would need on the
122. 4:24exam on a piece of paper that is
123. 4:26essentially your cheat sheet. But, you
124. 4:28use this cheat sheet and nothing else to
125. 4:31solve those practice problems. And I
126. 4:32like to imagine when I'm taking those
127. 4:34practice problems, it's the exam. I
128. 4:35don't look I don't take out my phone. I
129. 4:37lock in, and I give myself a certain
130. 4:39amount of time. And any problem that I'm
131. 4:41not able to solve with this cheat sheet,
132. 4:43I go back in the text, I go back on
133. 4:45YouTube, I go back on MIT
134. 4:46OpenCourseWare, and I learn it.
135. 4:49And that's what I did my last 2 years
136. 4:50when I learned about this method, and it
137. 4:52helped out tremendously.
138. 4:54Is an iPad a good investment in
139. 4:55engineering?
140. 4:58AN IPAD WILL SINGLE-HANDEDLY BE THE MOST
141. 5:00VALUABLE INVESTMENT YOU'LL EVER MAKE IN
142. 5:02YOUR ENGINEERING CAREER. The moment you
143. 5:04get an iPad, everything is going to
144. 5:06change. You're finally going to be able
145. 5:07to take notes over your lecture PDFs.
146. 5:09You're going to have everything
147. 5:10organized, and you can keep everything
148. 5:12in one space and share it with any of
149. 5:14your classmates. I remember the first
150. 5:16semester I finally went back on campus,
151. 5:19I was still using pen and paper, and one
152. 5:22of my friends in the class, he mocked me
153. 5:24that I was still in the 1900s using pen
154. 5:27and paper in engineering as he had iPad.
155. 5:29And I was like, "Bro, what's the big
156. 5:30deal? Like, we're both taking notes.
157. 5:32There is literally no difference."
158. 5:35Yes, there is.
159. 5:37And now I fully understand what he meant
160. 5:38by that.
161. 5:40>> [music]
162. 5:50>> All right. Now, on to the
163. 5:51engineering-focused questions. And the
164. 5:54first one is, "Was engineering actually
165. 5:56that hard?"
166. 5:59And I feel like with the amount of
167. 6:01videos I've created,
168. 6:04I don't think I have to explain that
169. 6:06one.
170. 6:07How torturous was getting YOUR
171. 6:09ENGINEERING DEGREE?
172. 6:11>> [laughter]
173. 6:12>> I FEEL LIKE THE HARDEST PART about
174. 6:14getting the engineering degree is
175. 6:16completely shifting your mind from high
176. 6:18school to just memorizing FORMULAS TO
177. 6:21ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDING HOW THE LITERAL
178. 6:23UNIVERSE WORKS.
179. 6:25BECAUSE, you know, IN HIGH SCHOOL,
180. 6:26YOU'RE TAUGHT THE FORMULAS, and you
181. 6:28basically have a fundamental
182. 6:30understanding to it, okay? You plug in
183. 6:32X, you plug in Y, YOU GET Z. BUT,
184. 6:35>> [screaming]
185. 6:35>> NO, NO, IN ENGINEERING, YOU HAVE MANY
186. 6:37EQUATIONS THAT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND
187. 6:38WHY IT WORKS, HOW IT WORKS, BECAUSE YOU
188. 6:40HAVE TO TAKE THEM, GO BACKWARD WITH
189. 6:42THEM, GO FORWARD WITH THEM, AND
190. 6:43MANIPULATE IT TO WHATEVER SITUATION
191. 6:45YOU'RE IN. BUT, ULTIMATELY, it is a very
192. 6:47rewarding process.
193. 6:50Why did you choose electrical
194. 6:51engineering? I chose electrical
195. 6:53engineering because in high school, I
196. 6:54thought it was the field that had the
197. 6:56highest potential for advancement in the
198. 6:58next 50 years, and I wanted to be a part
199. 7:00of that. And now, unfortunately, thanks
200. 7:02to AI, a lot of fields don't have that
201. 7:05potential anymore. If you had to pick
202. 7:07one worst course of all time, what would
203. 7:10it be?
204. 7:12In terms of electrical engineering, ECE
205. 7:133250, electromagnetism, WITHOUT A DOUBT.
206. 7:18LIKE, WHAT IS THIS?
207. 7:21HOW TO SURVIVE THE DOWNS of EE, mental
208. 7:24health.
209. 7:25So, with all things that are worth your
210. 7:27time in life, there will inevitably be
211. 7:30ups and downs. And there will be very
212. 7:32low lows, and there will be high highs,
213. 7:35as that's pretty much how the world
214. 7:37works on. Whatever you want to achieve,
215. 7:39you have to be willing to give up
216. 7:41something. But, that doesn't mean it's
217. 7:43going to last forever, as I'm an
218. 7:45example. There will be times when you
219. 7:48feel this major isn't right for you, you
220. 7:50don't deserve to be in this spot, and
221. 7:52[music] things are just going to get
222. 7:54harder, and it's going to be very
223. 7:55discouraging. But, the thing is, as long
224. 7:58as you keep pushing,
225. 8:00>> [music]
226. 8:00>> you will prevail, and you will end up
227. 8:01being successful and realize you really
228. 8:03do deserve everything and more. As I am
229. 8:06a prime example because I went through
230. 8:07these feelings [music] during my degree,
231. 8:09and I really didn't feel like I was
232. 8:11right for the spot. And now here I am,
233. 8:13graduated in electrical engineering
234. 8:15>> [music]
235. 8:15>> and going for my master's. So, I feel if
236. 8:18anything, you can take me as inspiration
237. 8:19[music]
238. 8:20to keep going.
239. 8:22Sometimes you just get so sucked up in
240. 8:24the routine, you just feel like there's
241. 8:25no way out, and there's no way you're
242. 8:27going to be able to succeed. And at this
243. 8:29moment, you just kind of have to stop,
244. 8:32take a couple steps back, take a deep
245. 8:33breath, and analyze everything that
246. 8:36you've achieved and built yourself up to
247. 8:38this point, as I did. Um
248. 8:41And [music] one thing I can say is to
249. 8:43write down everything so you can
250. 8:44visually see it, and from there, [music]
251. 8:46have a point of attack, and don't let
252. 8:48these events attack you.
253. 8:51Do you enjoy engineering or you regret
254. 8:53studying? I I enjoyed engineering. I
255. 8:57enjoyed engineering.
256. 9:00Engineering has to BE THE LITERAL
257. 9:02DEFINITION OF A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP.
258. 9:04>> [screaming]
259. 9:06>> BECAUSE IT PROVIDES YOU ONE OF THE
260. 9:07biggest challenges you can face in your
261. 9:10entire life. And there's a saying that
262. 9:13once you climb the tallest mountain in
263. 9:14the world, every other mountain is just
264. 9:17significantly easier. Essentially
265. 9:19saying, once you do the hardest thing
266. 9:20you can possibly do, every other
267. 9:22challenge that comes towards you will be
268. 9:23significantly easier. And when you have
269. 9:25that mindset, I feel like it can apply
270. 9:27to any other aspect of your life. So,
271. 9:29not only is it a piece of paper or a
272. 9:31degree, but it's also instilled mindset
273. 9:33in your head. THE ONE THING I HATE
274. 9:35THOUGH IS WHENEVER WE HAD TO WRITE
275. 9:37SOMETHING FOR ENGINEERING like lab
276. 9:38reports. LIKE, I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR
277. 9:40THIS MAJOR TO WRITE REPORTS. I JUST WANT
278. 9:42TO DO MATH AND BUILD COOL STUFF. OH,
279. 9:44that's one thing, too. If you're doing
280. 9:46reports in engineering, please just
281. 9:47switch over to LaTeX as early as you can
282. 9:49because it'll make your reports so much
283. 9:51nicer, easier. You already have the
284. 9:53format every time. You don't have to
285. 9:55format it every time like on Google
286. 9:57Docs. Just trust me, LaTeX.
287. 9:59Does the impostor syndrome ever go away?
288. 10:02I'm not going to lie about my impostor
289. 10:04syndrome. It was super bad when I first
290. 10:06stepped onto campus, I think my third or
291. 10:08fourth semester.
292. 10:10I saw people around me talking about
293. 10:11topics I've never even heard of and
294. 10:14quite frankly my hobbies were quite
295. 10:17unorthodox to the people around me. So,
296. 10:19with this major being notoriously known
297. 10:22for being one of the most difficult
298. 10:23majors in all of college and me talking
299. 10:26about, "Oh, I go to the gym. I work on
300. 10:27the side and do all these other things
301. 10:29besides from studying me while the peers
302. 10:31in my class were talking about studying
303. 10:32all day and night not getting any sleep.
304. 10:35I felt I was going to fall behind and I
305. 10:37thought I was doing something wrong in
306. 10:38my entire early stages of engineering.
307. 10:41But eventually towards the second half
308. 10:43of my engineering career, it did get
309. 10:45better until I learned that
310. 10:48there's always going to be something
311. 10:50you're not going to know in engineering
312. 10:51due to how broad these fields are, no
313. 10:54matter if you're an electrical or in
314. 10:55your computer, mechanical because
315. 10:57there's always going to be peers in
316. 10:59other majors that know more about you in
317. 11:00that topic and you're going to know more
318. 11:02more about them in another topic. And I
319. 11:05learned it's okay not to know as long as
320. 11:07you're willing to learn about that new
321. 11:09topic because it's going to elevate you
322. 11:10as an engineer and just as a person in
323. 11:12general.
324. 11:16>> [music]
325. 11:21>> Now onto some more personal questions.
326. 11:23The first one is
327. 11:25who are you?
328. 11:28Who am I? I'm Sebastian Ledesma, a
329. 11:31recent electrical engineering graduate
330. 11:33and [music] I can be found on all
331. 11:34platforms at @juiceditup and I'm
332. 11:38honestly just a lifelong learner. I've
333. 11:40read 30 books in 30 plus books in the
334. 11:43past year and I love expressing myself
335. 11:45through social media, through videos and
336. 11:48sharing what I learned throughout the
337. 11:49way while documenting it.
338. 11:52What is the best course you have ever
339. 11:53taken?
340. 11:55Mhm.
341. 11:56In terms of general education courses,
342. 12:01I don't [laughter] think I enjoyed a
343. 12:02single general ed course. I don't
344. 12:06remember any of them being like, "Oh
345. 12:07wow, this is so interesting." I just
346. 12:10literally wanted to get the units. But
347. 12:12for engineering courses, I think the
348. 12:14best one I ever took has to be signals
349. 12:16and systems.
350. 12:20It's not in terms of the topic I
351. 12:21learned, but the professor I had was so
352. 12:24good. He honestly changed my entire
353. 12:26perspective on how to actually learn
354. 12:28material. Just the Just the way he
355. 12:30formatted the class, it just showed me
356. 12:31how to actually research topics and how
357. 12:34to explain it as if I'm actually
358. 12:36teaching someone instead of just writing
359. 12:39a report. It was honestly one of the
360. 12:40first classes I finished and I felt like
361. 12:43I could have tell I could have taught
362. 12:45someone the entire course myself, which
363. 12:47is
364. 12:48amazing. How did you envision your
365. 12:50success? Mhm. This is a good question
366. 12:54that I feel like not a lot of content
367. 12:56actually goes into detail about.
368. 12:58So, the way I envision my success is I
369. 13:01write down every single thing I want to
370. 13:03achieve for the year because a lot of
371. 13:06times things pop up in your mind and you
372. 13:08think you want them,
373. 13:10but you really don't. So, I write down
374. 13:12my big goals in a whiteboard that I can
375. 13:14see every single day that you might have
376. 13:16seen in some of my videos because they
377. 13:18pops up in the background on almost all
378. 13:20of them.
379. 13:21Now, once you write down your goals, I
380. 13:23put it in a spot where I'm going to see
381. 13:25it every single day [music] to make sure
382. 13:28every time I wake up, I see it and
383. 13:31remember remind myself this is how my
384. 13:33life has to look like in 3 months, in 6
385. 13:35months, in a year from now. What can I
386. 13:37do today to put myself one step further
387. 13:40into these goals? That shifts it from
388. 13:42something that's just in the back of
389. 13:44your mind that you might want to achieve
390. 13:45to a concrete guide to how your life has
391. 13:49to look like in a set amount of time.
392. 13:51Then with these big goals that I
393. 13:54typically make yearly goals, I break
394. 13:56them down into this small notepad that I
395. 13:58see every single day into monthly goals
396. 14:01and how I break it down into how I will
397. 14:03achieve these monthly goals. These are
398. 14:05more digestible goals for the month and
399. 14:08the thing that makes a difference is I
400. 14:10write down how I'm going to get them
401. 14:13done. What needs to get done? So, in
402. 14:15terms of let's say financial goals,
403. 14:17okay, if you're doing a side hustle,
404. 14:19let's say you're doing car detailing,
405. 14:21how many details do you need a week in
406. 14:23order to reach your goal? And what do
407. 14:26you have to do in order to get more
408. 14:28details, more clients and so on. You
409. 14:30can't just write down a goal, "Oh, I
410. 14:32want to make $10,000 a month." and think
411. 14:34you're going to figure out throughout
412. 14:35the month. Then comes the 29th of
413. 14:37January and you are at $1,000 and
414. 14:40haven't done [ __ ] Want to know your
415. 14:42daily routine. I mean, you have this
416. 14:43muscle, get the EE degree and make
417. 14:45videos.
418. 14:48So, for me it's pretty simple, it's just
419. 14:51not easy. So, I've said in a video prior
420. 14:54that typically my days
421. 14:56in college will consist of typically I'd
422. 14:58be there from 1:00 p.m. until 9:00 to
423. 15:0010:00 p.m. So, that's the entirety of
424. 15:02the day. So, to work out, I really only
425. 15:04have two options, work out before school
426. 15:06or work out after school. And you
427. 15:08already know it is a significantly
428. 15:10harder to work out at 10:00 p.m. when
429. 15:12you already finished all your classes,
430. 15:13whatever else you have to do and there
431. 15:15are going to be a lot more thoughts
432. 15:16going on in your head that, "Oh, I'm
433. 15:18tired. Oh, I can do this tomorrow
434. 15:20morning." and you have to do everything
435. 15:22you can to avoid that situation.
436. 15:25So, with this information, I would
437. 15:28make it a priority to go to the gym as
438. 15:31early as I can to get it out the way so
439. 15:33there's no possible way for me to skip
440. 15:34it. But now here's where the hard part
441. 15:36comes in and how I make my videos. The
442. 15:38only other option for me to make my
443. 15:40videos was after school when I got home
444. 15:42after my 40-minute commute at around
445. 15:4510:00 to 11:00 p.m. And you can see it
446. 15:47in my early stages of my videos, every
447. 15:50single one was recorded at night.
448. 15:53And at that stage, it was pretty much
449. 15:55just complete willpower that I wanted to
450. 15:58create videos and I had to create a
451. 15:59daily video
452. 16:01and really your priorities in straight
453. 16:03and how much you want something.
454. 16:06Why use your name juiceditup?
455. 16:09>> [laughter]
456. 16:10>> Okay, this is actually pretty funny now
457. 16:12that I'm doing college content,
458. 16:13education content, engineering content
459. 16:16because prior to this type of content, I
460. 16:19initially started off my content career
461. 16:21as a fitness creator. So, the name
462. 16:24juiceditup really went well with it and
463. 16:27the persona I was trying to give off.
464. 16:29BUT THE NAME ACTUALLY originated years
465. 16:32before I started doing content in high
466. 16:34school.
467. 16:35And it started in I played football all
468. 16:384 years in high school and I started off
469. 16:40relatively skinny. But one winter break,
470. 16:43I learned about bulking and I wanted to
471. 16:45see how much weight I could possibly
472. 16:46gain. So, throughout a winter break, I
473. 16:49bulked up I want to say around 20 lb and
474. 16:52for a high schooler, that is a lot. So,
475. 16:54when I came back from winter break,
476. 16:57everybody saw the transformation I had
477. 16:59and said I was juicy.
478. 17:02And from that, it originated the name
479. 17:05juice and people would call me juice in
480. 17:07high school.
481. 17:08Then going on from there, during my high
482. 17:10school stages,
483. 17:12uh having a spam account was very
484. 17:14normalized and I was coming up with my
485. 17:16name for my spam account and it's
486. 17:18basically an account where you post more
487. 17:20personal stuff basically just for your
488. 17:22close friends on Instagram and I came up
489. 17:24with the nickname juiced it up, a
490. 17:27spin-off from my nickname juice and the
491. 17:30establishment juiced it up. Then when I
492. 17:32started my content in 2022, I didn't
493. 17:34just want to go by my name Sebastian.
494. 17:36So, I just grabbed my username from my
495. 17:39spam account juiced it up and just
496. 17:41created that account for my social media
497. 17:43content career.
498. 17:45And now we're here.
499. 17:48Congratulations. What was the hardest
500. 17:50time during this journey and in the
501. 17:52academic years one through now?
502. 17:54>> [music]
503. 17:54>> Ooh.
504. 17:56Damn. Okay. So, I already know this
505. 17:59right off the bat, the hardest time I
506. 18:01had during my college career was the
507. 18:03spring semester of 2023, which was which
508. 18:07was ending my third year.
509. 18:09It was a phase where my classes started
510. 18:11become way more challenging. I was
511. 18:13taking on a lot more engineering classes
512. 18:14than general ed classes
513. 18:16and they just started to
514. 18:19shift from actually memorizing the
515. 18:21formulas to understanding the concepts.
516. 18:23[music] And I remember I was in my
517. 18:25circuits two class
518. 18:27and at that time, I was doing really bad
519. 18:30in the class.
520. 18:31I was also taking my microcontrollers
521. 18:33class, [music] which I had a a big
522. 18:35project for that was worth a big portion
523. 18:37of my grade
524. 18:39and I remember a time I I've never told
525. 18:40[music] anyone this before, but uh
526. 18:44in the class, I remember I felt so
527. 18:46overwhelmed. I was doing bad in the
528. 18:47class. I had a project coming up that I
529. 18:49haven't even started on
530. 18:51and I felt like there was
531. 18:53no way I was able to achieve or [music]
532. 18:55finish everything in time
533. 18:57with how much I was behind in that class
534. 18:59and all my other classes
535. 19:01and I started develop panic attacks.
536. 19:04And in that class, I remember
537. 19:07it was super close to hitting me. I
538. 19:10started to breathe really hard, almost
539. 19:12to
540. 19:13>> [music]
541. 19:13>> break down
542. 19:15and yeah, I just felt really bad.
543. 19:17Really overwhelmed.
544. 19:19But overall, this is more of like a time
545. 19:20management error on my side because at
546. 19:22this time, too, I was also taking
547. 19:24[music] a a lot of days on at work. So,
548. 19:27with me being at school all week
549. 19:29>> [music]
550. 19:29>> and essentially my weekends were given
551. 19:31up to work because I worked Friday
552. 19:32through Sunday. So, I had no time to put
553. 19:35in
554. 19:36>> [music]
555. 19:36>> work for these classes aside from the
556. 19:38days of the week I was at school. So,
557. 19:40whenever I was in the library,
558. 19:42but I don't say any of this to put fear
559. 19:44into your mind, but more so
560. 19:47I I give I feel I give off this persona
561. 19:49now that you you see my success. You'll
562. 19:52see I've graduated in electrical
563. 19:54engineering. You've seen in my previous
564. 19:55YouTube video where I took eight classes
565. 19:57in one semester. You'll see me talking
566. 19:58about all these topics and I seem to
567. 20:00know everything.
568. 20:02But at one point, I was someone who was
569. 20:03struggling, someone who felt lonely,
570. 20:05someone who
571. 20:07just [music] ultimately was struggling.
572. 20:10Yet, I was able to keep pushing myself
573. 20:12and get myself out of that hole and be
574. 20:14able to put myself in the situation of
575. 20:16success. Even if you think times are
576. 20:18tough right now, I promise you, you'll
577. 20:21push through it and you'll come out
578. 20:22tougher.
579. 20:23What subject do you absolutely hate and
580. 20:25would never study if you could?
581. 20:28Damn.
582. 20:30This is actually pretty tough.
583. 20:32If [snorts] there were one major one
584. 20:33topic I would never study,
585. 20:36is business.
586. 20:38You used to play football, WHICH
587. 20:40POSITION?
588. 20:41>> [laughter]
589. 20:42>> HEY, YO, how did
590. 20:44how did you know this? But yes, I played
591. 20:46football all four years of high school
592. 20:48and I was a safety for most of those
593. 20:50years. And here's a little clip of me.
594. 21:00>> [music]
595. 21:06[music]
596. 21:14[cheering]
597. 21:15>> How are you so knowledgeable in almost
598. 21:17every college courses?
599. 21:19So, during college, you know, you always
600. 21:21meet someone and you ask the typical,
601. 21:22"Oh, what's your major? What year are
602. 21:24you?" But aside from that, I would also
603. 21:26like to ask, "What's the hardest classes
604. 21:28you're taking and what makes it hard?" I
605. 21:31just like to learn about different
606. 21:33majors and what they're actually
607. 21:33learning. So, I talked to a lot of
608. 21:35biology majors, a lot of chemistry
609. 21:36majors, a lot of majors all around and I
610. 21:38always just ask about the class. So, you
611. 21:40I learned about the core classes like
612. 21:41everyone takes, organic chemistry,
613. 21:44for mechanical engineering,
614. 21:45thermodynamics, heat transfer, all those
615. 21:46classes and just slowly I started
616. 21:48building my knowledge on every major.
617. 21:51Any funny professor stories?
618. 21:54I wouldn't say it's funny, but maybe for
619. 21:57y'all it would be. But my linear algebra
620. 22:00professor, the first one I failed, I
621. 22:01remember
622. 22:03it was the second midterm we took and he
623. 22:05marked ME WRONG LIKE 10 PROBLEMS. AND I
624. 22:08WAS just I was looking through it. I was
625. 22:09like, "There's no way he just marked me
626. 22:11wrong." Because they were right and I
627. 22:12wrote it down completely right. So, I
628. 22:15brought it up to him and mind you, I
629. 22:17wasn't doing that bad in the course, but
630. 22:20I was around the average, which was
631. 22:22terrible. It was like a 37% average. I
632. 22:24was probably tossed up the exam
633. 22:26somewhere in here.
634. 22:27But when I brought it up to him,
635. 22:29I asked him to fix it and he marked
636. 22:31about one or two of them right and after
637. 22:34that, he just looked me in the eyes and
638. 22:36told me,
639. 22:38"It doesn't matter. You're going to fail
640. 22:40my class anyways."
641. 22:45What
642. 22:45What do you mean I'm going to fail my
643. 22:46class? I'm [laughter] trying to pass
644. 22:47your class. You you just going to tell
645. 22:48me you're going to fail me?
646. 22:50There was I I just fell in shock cuz
647. 22:52this was the first semester I was back
648. 22:54in person. And that just gave me the
649. 22:56impression like, "Oh, [ __ ] Like, this
650. 22:58college stuff is for real. Like, there's
651. 23:00no [ __ ] around."
652. 23:02But
653. 23:04yeah, that just kind of left a hole in
654. 23:05my heart and I was just like, "All
655. 23:07right. Well, like, [ __ ] me, I guess."
656. 23:10But yeah,
657. 23:11those are all the questions I had for
658. 23:12today.
659. 23:13But you know, if y'all ever have any
660. 23:15more questions, I always turn questions
661. 23:17into videos. So, if you have any, feel
662. 23:19free to drop in the comments. I'll see
663. 23:21y'all in the next video. I'll see y'all
664. 23:22in the next short. I'll see y'all in the
665. 23:24next semester. But I appreciate y'all
666. 23:26watching. Thank you.