Alex, with your intellect and your accomplishments so far you have such a great starting point for an extraordinary academic carreer. Follow your goals and don´t let the short-term success distract you from learning and moving forward. A student Alex with an interesting RU-vid channel is great, a Professor O´Connor with an interesting RU-vid channel would be terriffic! Take care!
You'll always have my support! I think you're making the right choice and I'm excited to see what the future holds for you. Go make us all proud to say, "I knew him when..."
He sent me an autographed bag (it was either the Earl Grey Blue Lady or the almond tea) when he still worked at Cardew's...don't think I'm not hanging on to that for when he's famous. I might have it framed at some point. ;-)
Congratulations on... Oxford I imagine! Can’t wait to see where you go, also it was great meeting you at ‘A celebration of science and reason’, I was the one with the moon boot on my leg.
I,m glad you responded to not uploading videos. My 4 year old grandson notice and responded that I havent watch you and wondered were "Alex Skep" went. No matter yor journey i am proud of young men like yourself and i am sure i will see you in the future in other platforms. Get your education boy and continue to be positive open minded toward gender, race,culture and all humanity. From your secret grandma I will be looking forward to your new adventures.
Smart thinking. The days are numbered where a significant number of people can make a reasonable living from RU-vid. Investing time in yourself is a far better than investing it in a video streaming website.
Thank you for this update. I agree that you focusing on school right now is very important. Don’t worry take your time we will be waiting for your videos with the same excitement 🔥❤️
Just wanted to say I started watching your videos last year and you quickly became one of my favorite athiest/skeptic channels. You're EXTREMELY talented, well-spoken, and well-informed and I only see bright things in your future. I wish you well in your studies and I know you can get the grades you need and I'm happy you get to have this opportunity. Can't wait for more videos but you take all the time you need studying, no hurry. Have a great day and good luck!
Congratulations! Although you will be missed, this is a great opportunity for you and I wish you the best. Don't know if you are considering it but I think you would be an AWESOME teacher/professor at any level. We certainly could use more educators like you in the United States.
Alex, you are amazingly fantastic. Your content is so refreshing. In a world of people of who only do things for views, you make people think and start important conversations. I used to be adverse to discussing these topics, but you helped me a lot with wording I can use to get my point across. I don’t always agree with everything you say, but you’re hardly ever malicious when you say it, so I always feel welcomed to listen to the whole thing. I think that’s important for everyone to see. Keep up the good work, take your time in school. You’re shaping up to be the most brilliant and intelligent person I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Hello Alex. Recently discovered your channel and I have now watched many of the contributions. It is indeed a rare pleasure to hear someone so intelligently and clearly explain their position. Your clarity of thought and presentation skills are a refreshing pleasure and give us all hope for the future (especially given your relatively young age). You have a formidable intellect that will only grow with time and experience. I'm only glad I'm on your side and, forgive the irony, but God help those who debate against you in the future - they will need it :-). I wish you every success with your studies; somehow I have little doubt that you will pass with flying colours!
I completely agree with you. There are some steps we just have to take to achieve our ultimate goal. I'm incredibly excited for you and I hope you enjoy your time at the university. This video right here is the exact reason why I'm subscribed to you. Logical, articulate, driven, having a clear goal, attentive and having a thirst for knowledge and truth. Thank you.
Oh, Hell, yeah! Absolutely! This is precisely the right, strategically-optimal thing to do! At 19 - albeit, admittedly, soon to be 20, just as I am soon to be 60, at the end of March - you're already _phenomenal._ Especially after you do your Uni thing, we may finally have someone who can - at least more-or-less - step into the shoes of Hitch, and even with a bit of aplomb, no less. Indeed, you'll be something like a composite of Hitch & Harris, but, of course, with a unique style all your own. Bravo!
Full support Alex !! Goodluck the upcoming 6 months and I'm looking forward to see your progression in the quality of your life, videos, speech and writing. Greetings from the Netherlands
Whatever makes Alex-O better I’m certain will do the world good. Do you, boo. I’m afraid we’ll need your voice even more over the next couple of decades so I’m willing to lose you a little now for the powerhouse you will become. If you speak in America’s Mid-Atlantic I’ll be there.
I check in on your channel every few weeks, have been for about a year I guess. I can't remember how I stumbled upon it, but it's become one of my favs for sure. I look forward to watching you progress though life in the years to come. You have a bright future ahead. Congratulations and good luck on your studies. Glad to be able to say, "I knew that guy when he only had a few dozen subscribers." LOL
Congratulations on the conference invitation Alex. Very impressed to hear that you'll be rubbing shoulders with such top-flight academic speakers! I look forward to hearing which university you end up attending!
That's not the question of course. The problem is how many much more highly intelligent individual will major the same course, as we know it, it's limited.
Congratulations, Alex!!! I will always check to see if there are any videos from you... I am always fascinated by your insight. Get your education and come back with wonderful endeavors! I'm with you all the way 😊
I hope you do what makes you happy and I appreciate you making this channel! I wish I lived in LA so I could see you speak, maybe once you become more famous we'll get an East Coast tour! :D
Alex, I've just realised that you're in the same academic year as me (I'm doing my A-Levels this year too)! I don't believe that I spend all my time shit posting, but you're literally speaking at an LA CONFERENCE next month! I FEEL SO BAD ABOUT MY LIFE DECISIONS NOW! In all seriousness, good luck in your exams; I hope you get into the uni you want! I'm personally not going to university (I'm doing an Art and Design Foundation year instead) but most of my friends are, so they're really stressed right now! I hope it all goes well for you, since you sure as hell deserve it!
I’m also cutting back on RU-vid viewing because I’m keeping my grades up to get into engineering at a Canadian university so even if there is a change I won’t notice😂
Congratulations! Best of luck with your grades, we know you can do it! We all support you and will savor what videos you manage to squeeze in even more.
Its ok Alex. The skeptic community on youtube is strong (for now) and even if you cant upload as often, i will be greatly intrigued to see how your increased education/intelligence may effect the content on this channel. Here's to 2018 and beyond! Keep up the good fight for rational reasoned and thought provoking ideas and debates.
How dare you attempt to become an even more articulate, well informed, creative individual!! Terrible jokes aside, I feel I can speak for the majority of your fans when I say, we saw this coming and couldn’t be more pleased and dare I say proud of you. It’s been a blast to come across your channel, subscribe and enjoy fantastic content that has truly made me think and feel in entirely new ways and that has and will have lasting effects on myself and with those I engage with intellectually. Thank you Alex, we’ll be waiting! Oh and speaking as a mum, I’ll probably go so far as to send you some survival snacks at uni via the P.O box, can’t have you being a starving student! 😜
Such a brilliant mind should always pursue higher learning. You will be unstoppable Alex and I'm sure you will have full support from all of your subscribers. Good luck with all your future endeavours, we will be here for you through it all.
It's good of you to let us know what is going on in your life... I for one have missed you. But I imagined it would be something along these lines as you are at a critical age and I think it's a good idea you concentrate on those studies and put them before your RU-vid channel, as some people take the other route and I wonder about their future sometimes. As I said, your studies take priority of course, and I for one will be waiting here patiently for your return. Good luck, and congratulations on being accepted!! I'm really happy for you!! P.S. Don't think when you make a video it has to be a thought out and elaborated production on skeptisim... a simple 2 minute update on how your studies are going is also fine if you feel you would like to tell us!!
Hahahaha i hope you know that a bible app is the ad in your channel! Btw Good on you going to university for the right reasons instead of just for the sake of a piece of paper
He had to redo his A levels not that long ago as he took the wrong classes. He's mentioned it a couple of times but I think they were all on Swish videos....
I subbed to you at less than 10,000 subscribers, and I'm so happy you got accepted into this university. I wish you the best of luck in both your academics and the future of your channel.
Alex, you are a talented communicator and your passion for what you do is creditable. You are very wise to choose your focus carefully to achieve your long term aims. If your channel suffers in the short term to get where you want to be, then so be it. You will have my full support and doubtless that of your wider audience.
Alex, I've followed you for about a year now and I excited to see where this new path takes you in terms of your contribution to your pursuit of truth. Congratulations and good luck on your studies! I will be on the lookout for any new material you produce! Always impressive! Cheers!
they're both equals i'd say but a few more famous names (scientists and politicians) have come out of Oxford. EDIT: cambridge has produced far more nobel prize winners it seems
Good luck! Crazy that I was here in your early days right at the beginning when the Facebook Atheist page shared one of your videos. Then suddenly you boomed from there. Watching the subscribed numbers rise was always interesting. Good luck in college. At least give updates once in a great while!
No, he's extremely reserved, calm and collected in debates and maintains a very neutral face. Frankly, I don't see him getting as emotional or infuriated with irrationality as R.Dawkins or C.Hitchens. But intellectually, he is at least as powerful as them.
For the benefit of an English person, is the university of Florida particularly bad? It certainly isn't one of the ones I have heard of people going abroad to study at.
Madscientist jr it's a really good school, I hear a lot about it(although I live in the state right above Florida so that's obvious lol). I know they have a really nice music program and I'm considering transferring there
Alex! That is so incredible! You are so smart and I cannot wait to follow your career. You are part of the next generation of logical thinkers and I am so excited for you to grow and learn more.
Wishing you all the very best in your studies, Alex. As a retired UCAS adviser I'm sure that you've made the right decision on where your focus should lie over the next few months and I look forward to hearing more from you when you have the time. Good luck until then. Your fans could not be more proud of your achievements so far, but we understand that your university place is, as it should be, your current priority.
Good luck, Alex! Take all the time you need. We'll all be here, even if you don't do weekly or even monthly videos. You're an awesome speaker, and I love to watch your videos whenever you do upload. :)
Take your time, Alex! Education is very important! As someone who's studying in a university (Biology major) it can get stressful, but always keep your head up. Can't wait to see more of your videos. Good luck on your endeavors!
Good for you! Education is one of the most vital things we can continue to strive for throughout our lives. I would still be doing this if my mind weren't beginning to collapse. But one of my mottos in life, since my 20's, has been that education is never a waste. Go for it! Get everything out of it that you can and bring it back with you on a stick!! *giggle* Also.... you now haz a new subbie! =) Tis very nice to make your acquaintance. *bow*
Alex, this is fantastic. I'll be honest, I had started to worry about the channel, but now I'm so glad to have heard from you. I think most of your viewers will agree: we're behind you. We've been behind you from the start, I think, mostly because you were always willing to learn and to grow, and you've inspired so many of us to do the same. No one who truly cares about truth and knowledge would begrudge another human their opportunity for greater education. You have my support. I know I'm not alone in that.
