it looks like the bedroom of every guy i ever dated. basically you probably wouldn't eat something if you dropped it on this guy's floor, but you're also probably not going to touch any gross sticky surfaces or feel weird about sitting somewhere. the 3 who didn't look like this were not good. very nice clean homes, but were the fuck-with-your-head types :P my fiance is about on this level, and thankfully it means if i don't put away the laundry for 2 days no one's mad. also he's not going to pick my stuff up and put it in weird places like he's my mom. i do find giant shoes all over my house in random places, but there are worse things in life. my fiance's 16yr old was lamenting her messy clothes-ridden room awhile back and i was like. girl i'm 30 and i still have a took it off the hanger but didn't want to wear it chair, wore it once to the grocery store so it can stand at least one more outing chair, 3 hampers, and still end up with clothes inexplicably all over my floor like i'm still 14. pick it up when you have time and/or are bothered by it, don't ruin nice stuff, make sure there's no food, you're fine.
#1: treat senioritis - find reason to want to do things #2: remember what college is - it's not like movies, it's boring, it's a place for learning #3: make your life a routine - it's not a choice to go to class, it's a routine, schedule your day out #4: COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE #5: multitask with something you already know - put on shows you already know really well so your attention isn't completely skewed #6: being a bad student isn't cool - no being a slacker olympic, nobody thinks it's cool anymore #7: think about the money - remember, skipping a class is flushing your cash down the drain
#0 : not everyone needs to go to college despite all the propaganda to the contrary. think REALLY hard about what you want to do and if you REALLY want to spend 4+ years and put yourself in debt to do a thing. (many things that people think you need college for can be done with dedicated self study, etc.
@@markswatermelonsuppler1280 ya, sure. that somehow is an argument to you? im talking about something else completely, but if you want a more savage dismissal of what a degree is sure, lets go all in against the institution of bullshit paper. degrees are intended to be a shorthand verification of some amount of knowledge in a field. this only works if we assume good faith of - the university system as a whole (this is disproven thanks to money, thanks rich people!), the administrators ( also disproven for basically the same reason), the teachers (disproven for many, thanks tenure!), the students (lol?) so we see at every link in the chain of trust universty as an instituion has failed to deliver it's promises. oh you graduated from stanford for X thing, hired! (because you are rich/come from money/ etc.) oh you graduated from nevada tech for X thing? filed under r for recycle that resume. now obviously there are some counter examples - medicine still has quite the strangle hold on degrees, so they mean something there (they mean that you have gone through the same torture we have, in persuit of capital, so you are more trustable than the rabble) in reality the only value college has is presenting ideas you don't know to look for (use wikipedia and youtube and you can do this yourself) and networking (zoom makin this one kinda flimsy) and maybe an enviroment free from distraction (lol?) in reality a degree says nothing about what a person actually knows. in those places where a degree is required it's more about classist bullshit than it is about actual ability. we don't even need to talk about the fact that because college is so pushed to middle classers as a way to get into the more privileged higher middle class (leveraging the future for injection of capital in the present) that we have reached a kind of saturation point where degrees are nearly ubiquitous thus meaningless. (enter meme about 4 year degree holders working at mcdonalds for 14$/hr) and it's not like i don't get why you think it's a good thing right, like I GET IT. i was raised in this hell world where the entire success of a person was preached from every authority figure to be grades and getting into a good school and etc etc. but that's not the same as actually being decent at something, and if you have a way to demonstrate your ability without some very expencive gold foil stamped paper with a good name on it, edited: for possible misunderstanding request as demand. then all the better. as i said before NOT EVERYONE needs to go to college. like for instance probably you.
honestly everything he said is a mood and i do the same things in slacking ... but the advice he shared is something all college slackers eventually realize about themselves
This was so good for my mental health to watch a realistic video that admits that for some people the only way we can be motivated is caffeine and Netflix, complete with goofy dancing and a messy room. God, I honestly feel like I could cry I didn’t even realize until I watched this video all the unrealistic, unattainable content I was consuming. It just fed my perfectionist ego and made me feel like a complete failure for not feeling motivated and making my bed everyday. You guys, please really think about the content you are watching and viewing and be aware of how it is affecting your mind and your self-esteem. Your mental health is worth so much more than you realize, it is so much more important to be happy than to strive so hard to attain perfection. I just feel in my soul someone else needs to read what I just felt today.
dude I literally lost friends because I wasn't doing work my first semester. A lot of people want to overcome high school mistakes and if you're a lazy person, it radiates onto others, so they'll avoid you. No one wants to be around a lazy college kid unless they're lazy too. leave the trend in high school like he said.
@@anglfce611 Oof. My roommates and my across the hall neighbours procrastinate about as much as me. Actually, that's bull. I'm so much farther behind than everyone else. I guess I'll keep trying to not be a sack of shit.
Bih that's ME. There are days where I don't even talk to my friends, I just ignore them, and days later I think they hate me for that, but them I talk to them and they are like ok but I feel bad anyway, so I correlate having friends with the feeling of rejection and then I don't want to open to people because I would end up having more ''social responsibility'' to talk to them. I kind of don't give a fuck about having friends at this point of my life , I guess. This is a real issue, asking for an advice
@@madeleynecarat3368 don't even kid, I 💯 % relate to every single word. . that's legit one of the top 2 reasons I barely have friends.... Barely is a stretch 😅. heck I only even have a long standing/best friend cause she's never been offended by it.
It's so hard to get motivated when you don't really wanna do anything AND your environment doesn't help at all. I lost a whole year because I was going to 'prepare/know myself better' but ended up being consumed by my family, helping my sister in the morning-evening with her daughter so she can work and study, helping my mother with the house cleaning because she has to work, and that's all my day. I've tried to organize my time but It seems It isn't on me to decide what to spend my time on. I'm so frustrated I didn't even made sure I wrote all of that correctly (english isnt my first language after all)
Dude same. Except i got it worse, i too am stuck in an unmotivated rut for a whole year doing nothing. I started working on my thesis again after i moved my ass out the city to my best buddy's place and reaching out to people again.. still hard to move myself but i got progress each day.
Maybe, you shld step back from your family and take time for yrself. Trust me. It would be much relieving cause I've been through this quite early in my life
THIS. Oh my God, this. Family cannot see you without a full-time job or they will pile their own responsibilities onto you because "it's only fair, right?" Before you notice, you are not living your own life anymore, you're just a jack of all trades errand person for all their stuff, and they will still look down on you for "not doing anything" while your every waking hour is spent putting out their fires. I am so sorry you lost a year. I hope you can either move out, get started on school or employment, or set some boundaries (expect lots of pushback) to take your life back because there is nothing more frustrating and demoralizing than losing it that way.
I thought this was gonna be a joke, like you were about to offer me sarcastic, comedic advice, but this is actually the best set of college advice on the internet.
That first minute talking about how watching these productive videos make you feel more productive by living bycuriously through someone else being productive is literally the most factual thing I heard all week. I literally watch these videos before being productive myself and honestly it helps
On the multitasking thing, I get some of my best work done when I study with the same song on repeat in the background. I’ll literally do that for hours and get SO MUCH stuff done.
I first watched this video when I started my bachelor's degree three years ago, and had it saved all this time to come back to for the master's degree I'm applying for now! The advice still rings true, thank you for giving realistic tips :)
As a student I find it easier to study if I'm not constantly making it a big of a deal. My advice is whenever you guys study, manipulate yourself in to thinking that you're actually curious about the topic and just act like you're Mikasa or Rancho or any characters from movies or anime that have that calm demeanor.
"College isn't a video that you can scroll through and skip to the best parts. You actually have to sit through the boring parts." Well said man this is SOO true!
I had to come back. Watched your videos the year I started Uni, right at the beginning of the pandemic. You kinda changed my life, not even kidding, and I wish I could hug you, but thanks I’ll graduate this year. With a different name, a masculine one (bc your talk about changing yours inspired tf out of me, and later on I realized I was building the structures to be brave enough to come out and transition), and a completely different overview on life than the kid that first found you back then, and my Uni experience wouldn’t have been the same without your vids preparing me for that journey. Thanks bro, wherever you are, I hope you’re rocking through the good, the bad and the ugly, but knowing you’re rocking it nonetheless 🤟🏼💖
His dancing isnt abnormal tho ...its different but if someone was dancing in front of me regardless of good,bad neutral my i would atleast give it a glance since lot of people naturally look at changes in their surroundings for eg. They d glance even if someone enters through a door unless they are really concentrated on something (she could really be concentrated on phone ((sns,work,video etc), or it could just be a daily occurrence)
@@atomamalgam7607 as great and dreamy as that sounds, im pretty sure those aren't the ONLY attributes a person needs. 😟 Stanford has a 5 percent acceptance rate, definitely some intelligence involved.
@@ninashaven yeah i may have meant to say that instead, but i find the concept of intelligence to be so loose due to cognitive biases that the human mind is inherently riddled with. like the duning-kruger effect where less intelligent people will overestimate their intelligence by virtue of ignorance, basically "you dont know what you dont know" and true knowledge resides in knowing that you know nothing (a la socrates), also because of iq tests whose concept is also extremely loose that even if you were smart, its best to simply assume youre average. when you imply that you need to be smart in order to be accepted in prestigious schools, you promote this way of thinking that limits your potential simply because of a trait that you think you have no control over. i also feel that this is a side effect of public schooling because they are the hotbed of generating fixed mindset societies by using external rewards (gold stars, grades, etc) as a determinant for inner worth and competence. also those acceptance rates remind me of this quote i read a long time ago, "a fool with a plan can beat a genius without a plan." i understand that everyone is different, and i may only be just making these claims because of my disdain for school systems and the toll it takes on young/old people who have so much potential, also because i believe every single person has the capacity to improve, also because of my lack of knowledge on what truly is intelligence, and also because of my inclination towards metaphysical ideas and the feeling that there is something nonphysical that "underlies" physical outward appearances. but i find myself curious about that topic so often that ive started digging out more research, personal observation, and reading philosophy.
God, this is so relatable. I'm just starting university, and I'm literally failing most of my courses because I stupidly thought cramming all the semester in 3 weeks was enough. Now I'm in a strict diet of coffee and Doritos, while studying for 2 hours then playing btd6 for 1 (That from 7 am to 2 am the next day).
It especially sucks when you get into a top college cause everyone is smarter than you and better than you and you might have a problem competing with them and your grade might drop and you wouldn't be that straight A kid from school anymore. This demotivates me a lot.
Jim Goldstein wow u literally making the same replies under every comment just to body shame her😂? You must be a really miserable person. She is beautiful and u will never be able to have an attractive girlfriend, as the result of ur pitiful mentality.
Thank you. I always go back to this whenever I have no motivation because your advice was realistic and helpful (for me). Thanks for reminding us that we're not the only ones experiencing these hardships in college. You cool 🤟
Hands down my favorite video on the internet. I'm now starting my third year in med school and ever since my first one I come and watch this video every now and then because it just magically makes me put everything back into perspective reminding me of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing and that it's normal that everything just doesn't go smoothly it has to be difficult and it's just fine. I'm just glad and grateful this video exists and that your mind exists thank you
Samee. I'm in my third year of medschool now, and I come back every couple of months to remind myself that, in Arpi's words, "it's not okay to be a sack of shit"
When an older person told you that you were "mature for you age" as a preteen, what they really meant was "wow you're so young and you've already lost all your serotonin"
He could also mean that he feels that he isn't really trying as much as he could have. If he wasn't a slacker he could have had a 4.5 GPA. That's how I thought of it, as someone with the same GPA as him.
@@anythingbutmyrealname yo you do realize that even 4.4-4.5 gpa's are pretty easy to get right? I managed to have a 4.4 gpa while bombing multiple tests and maxing 0 classes (i second-tiered all my classes) and procrastinating an ungodly amount. If you're smart, you can get high scores on the SAT"s and ACT's because they only test up to like algebra 2 and english 3. I've had friends get 1600's back in 7th grade by accident. If you're dumb, like me, you can still do very well with enough studying. You don't need to be a robot in order to get good grades, all you need to do is to understand the material, listen in class, and cram the lunch break before test (at least thats what i used to do lol)
i watched this already a year ago and it popped into my recommendation again. I am now a rising sophomore probably with mild depression. It is only now that I truly understood everything he said in this video. I guess college is now just 2x harder cuz of the epidemic. I need this motivation now more than ever.
“In college you will have a rude awakening that it’s no longer cute to be a sack of shit.” A summation of my 6 years of higher education in 20 words or less.
Go get em man 🤟 People underestimate art majors and its a competitive ass field. Get networking with people, it'll up your chance for a job if you have your work in official stuff + connections
I'd say don't go to college unless you can find a way to live a very short distance away so you can get more sleep. I lived in the country and had to get up at 530am every day during college to get a ride to start class at 9 and I often didn't end up getting home til around 7pm. It was not a good couple of years.
Dude is probably talented but never put much effort. Generally think people underestimate hard work and dedication. Yes talent will always have an advantage but I thing those advantages most prevalent early in their childhood and at their peak. While this guy goes through his mental breaks down, the hard worker powers through and surpasses talent in whatever they feel to compete in. Just through the passage of time the hard worker will be reputed as "smarter"
@@Lukasnextdoor agreed low effort doesnt mean a person doesnt know how to work either. I just went off on a tangent because I've just been around some kids who gave during school easily
@@arthurcab Don't know about US, but In Europe, if you skip classes and fails on final exams multiple times (in my uni - 3 exams) - you are automatically kicked. Taxpayers pays for your education - it is your duty not to waste your time (=their money).
So around 3 months ago, I found this video and save it to my watch-later playlist while prepared for university entrance exam, and right now I'm watching this because finally I get accepted 😭😭😭
@@mayankkumar2866 people with depression sometimes find it hard to motivate themself to do everyday stuff like brushing teeth or washing hair because they don't have energy or motivation to do so
@@katarinakorlat8707 so that means I am depressed like I dont like showering brushing my teeth if I talk about depression to my family they are like kid its nothing like depression
@@mayankkumar2866 parents aren't usually good source of info for that stuff, if you think you have depression maybe try talking to someone more professional, I don't know if you have psychologists at school, or there might be free therapy programs so you could get properly diagnosed and find solution, if you do have depression, or something similar. Getting help shouldn't be a taboo. If you need someone to talk to, I use same name on other social media. I hope you get better soon
I can attest to the caffeine thing, the most productive I ever was was when I was 16, when I had drunk an entire tumbler of tea 3 times more concentrated than it should have been. I blasted through my entire 4-year Bio syllabus in one night. And aced the test. To this day, it's my biggest flex lmao.
@@Hytherious mood is like when ur in a mood with the mood of the mood in the video. Like if u mood with this mood definition that I made up based entirely on my mood writing this bs.
Amanecer Mood en inglés es como estado de ánimo. Cuando dicen mood, es como que ese es su estado de ánimo ahora mismo. Por lo tanto, que la chica al principio del vídeo es mood. Pues que ellos se sienten como ella, de estar tirado en la cama con el móvil...
"doesn't he go to stanford?" well yes, that's why he's giving tips bc even a slacker like himself got into a good college. The point of his youtube chanel isn't only to be "relatable" but it's also for his experience to serve as a guide/motivation for slackers.
Lol, he definitely didn't slack to get into Stanford, and he even says that in an interview. He just slacks now that he's in Stanford because there's no higher education goal to motivate him.
legit the only thing that made me change and want to be the "smart kid" was when people started undervaluing my opinion. That shiz really pissed me off.
This is one of my favorite videos of all RU-vid. I randomly come here from time to time when I feel down because of my grades or lack of motivation. It always helps, thanks.
I like the " make your life a routine tip". I usually forget/too lazy to do things, so making them a part of routine tells me to sit down and mf do it! Eg: I water my plants everytime, I brush my teeth at night.. so that way, I never forget!
this is in my watch later and i keep coming back to it each year of school. found this channel in hs. watching this video and finally being able to relate now.
"so here's some college advice for serotonin-deficient students who r bad at school" me: nice! finally someone i can relate to! "so i'm going into my sophomore year at stanford" me: 👁👄👁
