I Spent A Real Day With Harvard Students
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the host spends a day with Harvard students to experience life at the world-renowned university. They start with a campus tour, visit the dorm where Mark Zuckerberg lived, and explore traditions like the 'pee on the statue' lore. The day includes attending a business class, where the importance of customer mindset is discussed, and a philosophy class that delves into utilitarianism. The host meets various students, including a neuroscience major who entered Harvard at 16 and a premed student. They also attend an organic chemistry class, visit a library, hit the gym, and enjoy local food. The host's perspective shifts, realizing that despite the prestige, Harvard students are regular people with unique experiences and challenges.
Takeaways
- 🏫 The video provides a day-in-the-life perspective of Harvard students, showcasing their daily activities and classes.
- ☕ The host starts the day with a campus tour led by a student, Helen, and learns about famous alumni like Mark Zuckerberg.
- 🗿 There's a humorous mention of a statue that tourists mistakenly believe is George Washington, and a local tradition involving it.
- 🍽 The dining hall experience is highlighted, showing where Harvard students eat and socialize.
- 🎓 A business class is attended, emphasizing the importance of understanding the customer mindset in business strategies.
- 🤔 A philosophy class is also visited, where complex concepts like utilitarianism are discussed, leaving the host somewhat baffled.
- 🧠 The host meets a neuroscience major who entered Harvard at the age of 16, highlighting the academic rigor and talent at the university.
- 🧪 An organic chemistry class is described as extremely challenging, even for Harvard students.
- 🏋️♀️ There's a visit to the gym, showing that Harvard students also engage in physical activities and maintain a balance between academics and fitness.
- 📚 The quietness and seriousness of the Harvard library are emphasized, contrasting with the host's expectations.
- 🍽 The host and Helen dine at a local restaurant, indicating that students also enjoy social eating experiences off-campus.
Q & A
What was the first activity the host did with Helen at Harvard?
-The first activity the host did with Helen at Harvard was getting some coffee and she gave him a small campus tour.
Which dormitory did Mark Zuckerberg live in as a freshman at Harvard?
-Mark Zuckerberg lived in Strauss dormitory as a freshman at Harvard.
What is the significance of touching the toe of the statue mentioned in the script?
-Touching the toe of the statue is a tradition among tourists, although the host and Helen suggest it might be a myth or lore, and Helen's friend humorously warns against it.
What was the host's initial impression of the Harvard campus on a rainy day?
-The host's initial impression of the Harvard campus on a rainy day was underwhelming.
What did the host and Helen do after the campus tour?
-After the campus tour, the host and Helen went to eat breakfast in the dining hall where she was also working during office hours.
What was the topic of the first business class the host attended at Harvard?
-The topic of the first business class the host attended was about business and the customer mindset, emphasizing the importance of talking to potential customers before investing heavily in a product.
How did the host feel about the professors at Harvard after attending a class?
-The host was surprised to find the professors at Harvard to be super nice and caring about the students.
What major is Helen studying at Harvard?
-Helen is studying Neuroscience at Harvard.
What did the host think about the difficulty level of the organic chemistry class he attended with Vincent?
-The host found the organic chemistry class extremely hard and felt lost as the class progressed.
What tradition does the host mention about the Wier library at Harvard?
-The host mentions a tradition where some people do the deed, or engage in intimate activities, in the Wier library at Harvard.
What did the host learn about Vincent's experience as a Premed student at Harvard?
-The host learned that Vincent, as a Premed student, finds his classes challenging and that he has to work hard every day to understand the material.
Outlines
🎓 A Day in the Life of Harvard Students
The script follows a day with Harvard students, starting with a campus tour led by Helen. It humorously addresses misconceptions about Harvard, such as the statue of John Harvard being mistaken for George Washington and the tradition of peeing on the statue. The narrator experiences a typical student routine, including dining hall breakfast, attending a business class, and meeting a student who questions reality. The day continues with discussions about academic life, major choices like Neuroscience, and the pressures of attending a prestigious university.
🧪 Organic Chemistry and Dorm Life at Harvard
The script describes the experience of attending an organic chemistry class, which the narrator finds extremely challenging. It contrasts the academic intensity with the casual atmosphere in a student dorm, where one roommate plays video games while another studies. The narrator is given a tour of a Harvard dorm, revealing the students' living conditions and a light-hearted look at their daily life, including a visit to the library and a gym session.
🏠 Harvard Dorm Tour and Reflections
The final paragraph covers a dorm tour by Vincent, a Harvard student, showcasing his living space and personal touches. The script includes a humorous anecdote about stealing a piece of furniture from a rival school and a reflection on the day's experiences. The narrator concludes with a changed perspective on Harvard, realizing that despite its reputation, students are regular people with their own unique experiences and personalities.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Harvard
💡Freshman
💡Business Class
💡Neuroscience
💡Philosophy
💡Organic Chemistry
💡Dorm
💡Tradition
💡Gym
💡Library
💡Premed
Highlights
Attending Harvard University, considered the number one university in the world.
Meeting up with Helen, a Harvard student, for a campus tour.
Visiting Strauss Hall, where Mark Zuckerberg lived as a freshman.
A humorous encounter with a statue, mistaken for George Washington.
The tradition of peeing on a statue, a quirky campus lore.
Experiencing the Harvard dining hall culture.
Attending a business class, discussing customer mindset and business strategies.
Surprised by the approachable nature of Harvard professors.
Meeting a student who graduated high school early and got into Harvard at 16.
Discussing the major in Neuroscience and its academic rigor.
Attending a philosophy class, exploring utilitarianism and ethical dilemmas.
A candid conversation about life at Harvard and the pressures students face.
Visiting a photo shoot for Helen's YouTube channel.
Attending an organic chemistry class, noted for its difficulty.
A light-hearted moment with a student studying brains and the humor in academic life.
A dorm tour revealing the personal spaces of Harvard students.
A surprise revelation about living in the same dorm room as Mark Zuckerberg.
Reflections on the day's experiences and a change in perspective about Harvard students.
Transcripts
this is one of the hardest Harvard
classes and these are Harvard students
and I'm going to be spending the day
with them to see what it's really like
attending the number one University in
the world starting off today I met up
with Helen got some coffee and she
decided to give me a small campus tour
what is this place I have no idea where
I am where all the Freshman live where
did Mark Zuckerberg live he lived in
Strauss which is behind that my friend
lived in Mark Zuckerberg storm freshman
here that's pretty cool I'm not going to
lie you got to touch his toe you know
about that he actually knows nothing
yeah I I I've never been here man is
this George Washington can I can I say
something this is not George Washington
it's not George Washington the tourists
who come here touch the foot just don't
touch the foot wait wait why is this
lore is this like inside or
lore have they peed on or something yeah
it's a tradition to pee on it ew don't
pull tricks on me lady confused though
it's very tall statue how do they pee on
it you you climb up okay so right now
we're we're she's giving you a quick
tour and so far pretty underwhelming I'm
not going to lie oh my God you came here
on a rainy day next we went to eat
breakfast where all the Harvard students
eat all right guys right now we're in
the dining hall so right now we're
eating breakfast she was really kind
enough to like let me thank you so much
she's literally like working right now I
think I don't know like office hours
she's also eating breakfast at the same
time and now we went to the first
Harvard class of the day which was a
business class which we took a bus to
get there and once we got there it was
at a really nice building I'm like a
little kid right now like sing sing the
world for the first time we're glad to
welcome a guest today Manny is joining
uh it's great to have you everyone
please welcome
manie this class they basically talked
about business and the customer mindset
arguably you should be talking to
potential customers you know before you
spend a ton of money before you build
the thing which was actually interesting
but to be honest something surprised me
the professors were actually super nice
and they seemed like they actually cared
about the students I'm glad you came
it's fun to have guests so honestly it
felt pretty cool being in an actual
Harvard class and to think the day just
getting started as I'm spending the day
with Harvard students it's pretty
exciting then afterwards we met up with
Helen's friend and let's just say he's
been going through it it's all fake
nothing about life is real let this be
so clear you're not seeing me you're
seeing pixels on screen through
simulated pixels who's to say that any
of this is real who used to say that
life is a performance who used to say
I'm not performing this for you guys
right now it's all fake life is fake bro
are you
good bro this is what Harvard does to
students in reality so we just got out
of the entrepreneurship class yeah
wasn't it so cool it was actually pretty
cool I'll be honest also I never asked
what's your major it's neuro neuro what
though neuro Neuroscience Neuroscience
one neuro oh there is I did a little bit
of research on your YouTube channel you
got into Harvard at 16 and that's crazy
by the way that's like honestly that's
that's very do you think that helped
your admission or was it yes because I
did I did do my admissions file so you
you graduated early is that yes I
graduated high school in 3 years both my
admissions officers and my interviewer
really like high push myself that I like
had done all my extra curricul by the
age of 16 did you feel like your peers
were like smarter than you or was it
like all equal if that makes sense
technically below average I think you
yeah really all right guys next up we
went to her second class which was
philosophy we're starting class right
now and like what to minut 1 minute
minute is this a philosophy class
yeah I know something about philosophy
why am I scared I will say the professor
was using a lot more big words seems
like utilitarianism could chire doing
categorically so to speak horrible
things uh in in the name of the greater
good for those of you who think that
there's a path forward for these guys
but afterwards I started talking to this
random guy trying to be in the video yes
what's your major bro I'm a biomedical
engineering oh sh damn bro these are
smart [ __ ] oh my God are you
happy yeah in life you happy in life is
crazy I think I'm happy you know I'm I'm
actually transferring to Harvard yep
glad to have you thank you man all right
guys we just finished up our second
class my IQ is actually leveling up the
more I Jo classes Helen was done with
her classes and we headed to a merch
photo shoot for her YouTube channel
which was pretty cool and while she's
doing that I met up with another Harvard
students named Vincent for a organic
chemistry class this is uh my new friend
Vincent you are a third-year Premed
major right I a neuroscience major I'm
doing Premed but yeah yeah Neuroscience
major Neuroscience interesting you're a
smart dude
bro humble humble beginnings I like that
I like that as we enter the organic
chemistry class I didn't quite realize
how hard this class was it's so hard to
the point where there's an entire Ted
Talk dedicated towards organic chemistry
and as a class started you can see my
face being lost little by little until
I'm just like what the [ __ ] is this but
Vincent over here I don't know if he was
fooling me or something but it seemed
like he was completely understanding
everything they were saying which makes
sense cuz since they're Harvard students
IM we have like two arbitrary example
happs right let's say we have in this
case X would be like
eh and we just got out of the the
organic chemistry and you know I'm I'm a
smart guy and all but I've never been so
confused in my life bro I'm so cooked in
that class every day dude that's crazy
bro it's a tough life out here it's a
tough life yeah my brain hurts every day
and I study brains so have you touched
the brain have I touched the brain yeah
like have you operated on brain or no I
don't know I I was just asking I just
know how they work wa so you're you're a
neuroscience major is that like one of
the harder Majors I don't know that's
actually a good question I think
anything you do here is like pretty hard
anyway was it that hard to to get into
into Harvard when you first was it that
hard it was hard it was hard of course
it was hard all right but like I wasn't
sure I don't know like I'm extremely
blessed and lucky to be a be able to go
so I I like your attitude man yeah you
got to treat every day as like as a
blessing you know and then Vincent took
me to his dorm and his roommate was
playing Madden while he did his orgo
homework that actually gave me like what
is this 1 plus one is two 2+ 2 four -
one three quick math that took me a
second to be honest I'm not going to lie
you know that's a song 2 + 2 is 4- 1
that's three quick 2 + 2 is 4 - 1 that's
three quick M yeah uh I wasn't aware
that Premed students were chill like
that and at the end of the video there's
going to be an exclusive Harvard dorm
tour and a surprise and after this I met
up with Helen I don't know why but I
expected like Harvard students to like
the ins suits there are definitely some
inits oh really
well like why would we like walk in
suits like class on a regular basis I
don't know I was like oh you guys go to
Harvard this Library called Wier library
right endless stacks of books and it's a
tradition for some people to do the deed
in there really can I see it afterwards
I'm not bringing you just stack no I
just want
to
what oh it makes sense all right
apparently this is where like the is
done if you want to do it in Harvard
University this out loud I don't know
who's here no one's here no no one's
here right now yeah no one's here okay
so this is this is she's showing me this
CU it's like part of the tradition the
thing is like the lights turn on so like
I don't know where to hide if I were to
do this right really I feel like in
there no I mean probably like on the
desk
e these Harvard Scholars be acting up a
little bit too much ew sorry I'm like
and then afterwards we went to the
library to study since she's a Harvard
student and by far it's the quietest
Library I've ever been
to all right guys she's working right
now I can't talk right now this is like
[Music]
my I can't even cough okay she's doing
stuff for her school which is Harvard as
you may not know right you you go to
Harvard all right guys after studying we
went to one of the Harvard gyms we're
working out and she's strugging right
now it's really funny to see her
makes me look weak I can't it's fine
it's not bro want the good rep oh yeah
you're right I'll just edit the the part
where it's good psych and after the gym
we went to go get some food at one of
the local restaurants around Harvard and
the food was looking pretty good gym is
done that was good to workout and right
now we're eating it's called dip di oh
di not di sorry this is like a typical
so like if you're you know trying to go
out this is typically like word where
they eat yeah if you like we didn't we
did not want to go to the dehaul it's
like price given how much they give you
so all right I'm going to start mching
on it as the day was ending we went back
to Vincent storm and he gave me a very
special tour of the place a lot of water
man I'm noticing we like to stay
hydrated just just a friendly reminder
to live laugh and love I agree man you
know I'm debating if you actually said
that but I'm going to go with the float
you I think you can quote anyone in
history probably said it one time or
another if you ain't a a a word get get
up out get up out my trap house yeah get
up out my trap house G said that I think
one one moment or this is definitely the
most like college kitchen I've ever seen
in my life we stole it we stole it from
Yale freshman year oh [ __ ] we literally
one of our friends was like oh yo yo
look we got to get that we grabbed it we
ran for it with 2 miles to make the
shuttle back to hard what crazy you ran
with that I I literally ran with it back
like this oh my God and there was a
second half that we broke while while
sledding with it that's how you guys
stole that actually uh uh allegedly it
was just lying around on our campus and
we just said oh we're just we're just
going to give it a home Vincent give me
the tour bro this is the tour the tour
what's up guys I live in cabin house in
Briggs Hall I sadly have the smallest
room in my Suite oh my gosh that's okay
it's the most cozy thing I've ever
procured or cultivated in my life is
this the the regular dorm size of like
Harvard like yes but like even though we
don't want to be in the quad the rooms
are bigger right the rooms are bigger is
that Kanye yeah got to respect it I just
like his music and plastered what I do
every weekend just
kidding let's go we have fun that's it
we have yeah you have a lot of fun these
are like different types of waters right
they Prem this is this is Premium Water
the water that I like the most is uh
Basil Hayden also I have a question why
are you repping Ohio State when you go
to Harvard like that's my question bro
that's my place that's your place that's
my place are you from there oh you're
okay you're from there got you this is
it this is where I sleep so this is this
is what you've been like the the magic
happens there's no magic here's my
biggest Flex I got a purple pillow oh I
know what you talking about actually
pill oh dang you you be slipping oh so
extra extra comfort for the magic I see
what magic so magic here take a take a
whiff oh interesting yeah I know so if I
wore that m is going to
happen it's it's it's a step in the
process to sleeping soundly
alone thanks for the tour man this is
really makes me think differently of
Harvard University you didn't think uh
Magic happened at Harvard but no there's
no
magic as a college drop out you know
it's kind of hard to imagine college now
it's very popular here oh really at
Harvard with uh you know Mark Zuckerberg
oh I told you my friend lived in Mark
Zuckerberg's dorm too yeah I'm the
friend no way yeah I lived in
my very good okay damn that's crazy
really you actually lived in the in the
same uh like building as it same room
same room really you know I've actually
watched The Social Network he was in
Kirkland in The Social Network he was
already a softw this is his freshman
dorm oh I don't know why it's not
popular to track like not it's popular
to track the house but not the room in
the house when I got my housing
assignment for freshman year they did
like a room tour the guys were like yeah
like Mark Zuckerberg lived in this dorm
I'm like oh really that's crazy and I'm
like wait let me rewind what dorm are
they actually and it was D1 I was like
that's my room I was like that's my
actual room that's crazy all right guys
I'll be honest throughout the day my
perspective on Harvard 100% changed the
more I hung out with Helen and Vincent
and even his roommates making me realize
I thought you guys were literally be
wearing like actual suits to class bro
I've shown up class literally looking
like this my pajama pants on I don't
mean to make it cheesy for you guys but
it's just like I don't know why I'm
surprised it's like you guys are just
humans like normal honestly this this is
me being serious it's like just because
you go to the number one right the the
number one school Ohio state is number
one no it's not number one there just
humans like you know it's pretty cool
Helen's a robot actually oh wait what
yeah EXA oh she's a robot
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