COLLEGE FRESHMAN ADVICE ft. HARVARD FRESHMAN

What's up guys? My name's Arlan. This is Riley. I go to BU even though I'm wearing an army lacrosse shirt. And Riley is going to be a freshman at Harvard. So today, we're hitting you with a Q&A. Advice for college freshmen. I asked you guys questions on Snapchat. If you don't have me on Snapchat, add me right here. And I got some Instagram DMs. Follow me on Instagram right here. You can follow me on Instagram. Follow this guy too because he's a beauty. Let's get into it. I actually have some very good advice for this. Someone gave me this piece of advice before I went into my freshman orientation. And I actually followed it. And it changed my life incredibly. The number one advice I can give to anyone in social situations in college or beyond is to say hi to people before they say hi to you. Let's say you're at orientation and you get into one of those awkward meet and greet ideas. Don't wait for people to say hi to you. Be the person who goes up and says hi to everyone. Because everyone else, especially at college, is feeling super awkward. They don't know anyone. And everyone's trying to make friends. So if you're outgoing and you're nice, you're going to make a ton of friends. Is college lit? Ponytail. Um, yeah. College is pretty lit. I'd say so. Craziest party story? That's a good question. One time my friend brought his dad to a party. That was pretty weird. Like, actually really weird. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, there's been a lot of crazy things. Like, I could throw up some Snapchats from freshman year. A kid brought a snake to a party. Can I just touch it? What's his name? Yo, what's his name? His name's Rambo. Rambo. Wow. Two. I do. The person. The snake on our hands. Okay, ceiling fans. Best part about college and do a lot of people change their major? Yeah. College. Best part about college is probably like living on your own. Branching out. New opportunities. New friends. Do a lot of people change their major? Yes. I changed mine at the beginning of freshman year. I probably wouldn't do it too late because then you're just like spreading yourself thin on classes. Alright. Next question. Sup, Elise. Add me on Snap. What's college like? What does alcohol taste like? How are the girls at BU? Where can I buy a drone? How old are you when you got your first? How do you get over a hangover? Are you in a frat? I'm not in a frat. I'm really good friends with a lot of guys in frats. But I play club hockey and at BU club hockey is a little bit like a frat. At our away games we would get a keg for the bus ride home. One. Two. Three. Four. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. We have a house. We have parties. It's a little bit less exclusive and you don't have to like pledge. So club sports are cool. I recommend club sports. But frats are also really cool because they're frats and they have sick parties. Um. Mask. Dog. Face. Classes. Said. Okay so this is more towards BU but how intense are the classes and is it a cool campus? Thank you. Smiley face. Is BU intense? Are the classes intense? Depends on your major. I've had some intense classes. Like I took a calc class and it was super intense because it was physics based and I hated it. But at the same time I also took like some pretty cool film classes that were very low key. Is it a cool campus? Yes. I think it's cool. It's right. You can see Boston. Yeah. It's like right on Comm Ave. It's like the whole. No. It's like the whole Comm Ave. Oh it is. Oh. This person. College question. What do you do if you go to college in the same city as your ex? That's definitely a question for Adam. For sure. Hey Rachel. How do you have fun in college when you don't actually like the taste of alcohol and don't want to be a loser at the party? Good question. My man. I like this guy. So my freshman year I may have done a bit of partying. And then I kind of like realized that when I drink alcohol I feel really bad the next day and I also don't even like how I feel when I'm drunk. So this year I didn't really drink at all. One thing I would recommend is if you're really nervous about what people will think of you, just always have a cup in your hand. Like that's pretty much the go to if you don't want to drink but you don't want people harassing you. But what I do now is I literally just tell people like I don't drink and then if they say why not or they give me a weird look you can either just be like yeah like sorry like I don't drink. I would give some input too you know. I would just say you do you. Be yourself man. Actually like that's actually such good advice. Like people will respect you more if you don't give in to peer pressure. Like if you give in to peer pressure for drinking people can be like oh this kid's an easy target like can't stand up for himself. But if you say no and then people kind of know you as like a guy who just doesn't drink. There are actually so many people that don't drink at college. I would say more so girls than guys but it's not hard to say no once you say no for a while. Application advice? I would like try to include something different in your application. For example I am a film major so I put in a bunch of videos that I had made and sent them in links and I think I also put them on my resume. I was like you can watch my YouTube video here. If you have something you do outside of school that you're like passionate about and you're doing it like as a hobby or something talk about that a lot because everyone these days has really high test scores and really high GPA. So like if you can think of any way to stick out. Another thing like my college essay was very different than most. My advice for writing a college essay is picture yourself reading like hundreds of essays per day or per week as a college admissions person and think like how can I spice this person's day up. Like how can I get them laughing or like feeling something after they're reading probably a ton of shitty essays. It's harder than high school and does people really doing drugs in college? So I don't speak Hebrew. If anyone knows what this says maybe like leave it in English in the comments. Is college harder than high school? I've taken some really easy classes. I've taken some very hard classes and it really just depends on like the professor, class itself. Do people do drugs in college? Yeah. If you're like from a small town or you haven't like been to a lot of parties not only will you see people affected by drugs but there's a very high chance that you're going to see drugs like at parties, out in the open. You'll hear people talk about drugs. The most common ones I would say are like obviously Adderall is like a study drug. A lot of people do Molly. Cocaine is a lot more popular than you think nowadays. Yeah everyone smokes like everyone smokes in college. I don't smoke. Let's call her Emily. Yes you should definitely get a fake ID and like do illegal things. No I don't want to advocate doing anything illegal on this channel. Yeah we don't recommend it because it's illegal. Everyone at college has a fake ID. Everyone goes to bars underage. However the one key thing about fake IDs is don't spend money on like a fake fake. What I highly recommend is just finding someone who's two or three years older than you. Just ask them if you can use their ID. If they look anything like you it works so much better than any fake ID. Bouncers it's their job to pick out fake IDs and they know what's fake. However I've found that like they're much more receptive to a real ID even if it doesn't look like you that much. Like I said I don't really drink. If you go to a bar and like you're ordering a drink and you've never ordered a drink before just say Vodka Red Bull because it sounds like you've ordered something before. A phone chain. Read it. What's the easiest way to get dick? Let me think. Sean Mazin said if I'm from another country. No that's funny. Wait that's funny. Said if I'm from another country what do I need to do to get into college? Well if you want to get into college I would highly recommend going first to high school. Only advice I can ask is if you or someone else can edit my transfer essays because they got rid of. Uh actually I'm not really sure how to answer that. ThePatrickCoyne17 said hi my name is Patrick Coyne. Huge fan. I'm going to be a freshman in college next year. My question is if one of your professors makes a move on you what should you do? I would say I would maybe open up some terms of negotiation like if there's a like a grade that you really need. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you guys like this video let us know in the comments if we should do more Q&As. We're gonna go to the beach. Yep.