started reading the fountain head. This is a good question. Difficult one. Thank you, Ross. Started reading the fountain head. I apologize for the banally of this question. It's not banal. It's a complicated question. Why is the sexual relationship between Walk and Dominique expressed this way? It seems a little peculiar. Thank you. Well, I assume, I don't know, well, I'm not sure which scene you're talking about because you could argue that all the sex scenes in the fountain head are peculiar in a modern sense. The two things that I enrand, I think, is trying to dramatize in the sex scenes. Both of you have masculinity and femininity, which is very non-PC, and which many objectivists, I think, disagree with. Her view of masculine femininity is more a statement in psychology than it is in philosophy. And in this case, the particular nature of the Walk, of the Howard Walk and Dominique relationship. So the so-called rape scene, which is not rape, but the so-called rape scene, is there to really dramatize the fact that Dominique is in a sense in... She's got this massive conflict inside of her of valuing and wanting to destroy the values she values. She's a very complex and difficult character, and not wanting to get too close, in a sense, not wanting to be intimate with her values because she believes they will be destroyed. She destroys them before she can get too intimate with them, because she feels like if other people destroy them, it will be worse for her. So here's this man who she clearly is attracted to, who she clearly wants, who she clearly wants to have sex with. He is the value, and she wants to play it both ways. She wants both to flirt with him, express her attraction with him, but not go all the way. And Walk won't let her get away with that in anything.  He gives her what she wants. And in the context of the novel, there's no doubt in what she wants. He won't let her get away with it with regard to his architecture. She wants him to stop building. And he says, no. He won't let her get away with it in regard to a relationship with him. He says, you will be my woman, but you will be my woman. You will be with me as a woman. But only on my terms, once you accept me as a value and stop wanting me to stop valuing, to stop, once you stop wanting to destroy me.  So it's a very, very complex juxtaposition of a valuer, a woman who loves him but can't embrace that love because of her attitude towards her values. And how she asked to learn, and since she just started reading The Found Head, there's still a lot more for you to read, so I'm not going to give it away. But first of all, it's literature. It's not philosophy. It's a story. It's a drama. Now, it also reflects her attitude towards femininity and masculinity. Ayn Rand was very much about femininity and masculinity, that masculine is, in the context of sex, the active, the penetrator, the female is in a sense more passive, the one that is penetrated, and the one that is looking up to the male. Not in the sense of what is it, hypergamy or whatever, because she has to be the equal of the male. Dominique has to be as strong and as able, and at the end of the day, as much of a valuer as Rourke. He is waiting for her to achieve that for him to fully embrace her. Dagny and Atlas Shrugged has to be John Galt's equal in many senses, but at the level of sex, at the level of attraction, at a level of femininity and masculinity, at that level, Dagny has to look up to Galt. That's Ayn Rand's theory. Now, agree with it, disagree with it. That's a theory. And that's what she's reflecting in her novels.  Absolutely. Absolutely. If you think about who Rourke is, he doesn't let you compromise. He doesn't let you, he refuses to compromise or to let you compromise. Think of his relationship with his friends, with the sculptor. I mean, you're only in the beginning of the book.   This is reality. And that's his character. That's who he is. That's his function. That's his function in the novel. Somebody said, somebody said it was raped by engraved invitation. But, you know, again, Ayn Rand has a very complex view of femininity and masculinity. She doesn't believe men and women are the same. She doesn't mean femininity and masculinity don't exist. She doesn't believe there is no, she believes that there are real differences and they manifest themselves in reality. And they were reflected in behavior, particularly vis-a-vis one another, and in particular with regard to sex. Now, again, this isn't the same as the attitude of all these hegemony or men going their own way or this maleness thing, whatever, towards women, which was looking down at them. Men, Ayn Rand's men never look down at women. Ayn Rand's men don't think of themselves as superior as better. Ayn Rand's men are looking for women and it's hard to find if you're a giant. Who is they equal is some meaningful in a moral sense, in a moral sense. Dagny is no less productive than gold. She's no less rational than gold. She's no less just than gold. She has no less self-esteem than gold. She's mistaken. She commits errors. But from a moral perspective, she is gold's equal. And that's what he's looking for. He's not looking to look down. And she's not looking to look up in that perspective. She's looking, they're both looking for the equals.  I apologize. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. 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Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Yesterday, EA did something that's got a lot of people upset, and it has to do with these cards right here, because some of them are down 40% or more in value, and that means coins are being lost. So we have to talk about that situation, because unfortunately, it's not going to be the last time that EA make people lose coins out of nowhere this year. It's going to happen again. And also, where's our icon upgrade pack, SBEA? They went the hero route yesterday instead of the icon. We got to talk about that, and also why I have like no coins. I've invested almost all of my coins into team of the group stage players. Yes, hoping for a market rise today. We'll talk more about that in today's video, and look forward to today's content on Monday throughout the rest this week, everything that we should see today to keep you up to speed. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's content first of all. It was kind of a busy day, honestly. There was a lot going on, evolutions, objectives, SBCs. We're going to start with that big SBC, the 86 plus base hero player pick. Guys, a hero player pick, yeah, it's cheap, right? They're always cheap with the icon SBCs, but that's for a good reason. A lot of them are very cheap, and it's not even like you're getting UEFA, UCL heroes out of this. These are just base heroes. Yes, you have the chance of getting Yaya. Yes, you have the chance of getting Ginola or Marquisio, one of those big ticket heroes, Ramirez, right? You could get one of those, and it's cheap. It is easy to craft, 84 and 85s are not that hard to come by, and of course, 84s are like 2,000 coins. So, I mean, the SBC doesn't look that cheap when you look at it this way, but in reality, it's pretty easy to get done. But it's very disliked, and I'm a part of that 92% downvote. I don't think I'm touching this SBC during the whole rest of the week. I'd rather do another upgrade pack that maybe is coming out today or tomorrow or during the week if we get an 83 times 10 again or an 85 double. I'd rather hit something along those lines than do an 86 plus base hero. That's just my take. And yeah, I guess guys, for the icon pack and where it is, it's just crazy that EA didn't do that. We've had icon packs almost every single Sunday for the last month, the last two months. But if you think back to last year, Sundays also were days that they would drop, they would go hero or icon, and they used to fluctuate off and on with a lot more of that. It's just been so consistently icon SBCs recently. I didn't even consider that for yesterday's content. But of course, EA always keeping us on their toes. That is what they dropped. Now I would say there's still probably a chance that we could get that icon SBC or some sort of icon pack this week, whether it's today, whether it's tomorrow, there's still an outside shot for that. So it wouldn't completely write it off. But obviously it didn't drop yesterday. So we are a little bit surprised by that. And what was also a reactionary to that news was fodder dropping. SBC fodder did drop yesterday on basically the middle to higher tier. 86s are now under 10,000 coins. They're 9.4K, 87s are 14, 88s are 22,000 coins and even 89s dropped off a fair. But yes, you can see that a lot of those drops happened after the content drop when we didn't have another icon pack with higher rated squads inside of it. Specifically the 89s. If I was to invest in fodder right now, I would look at the very top tier once again, man.  You can probably get 89s on bid for like 34K. That's probably a pretty safe investment throughout the rest this week. Still again, Yusebio and Bapé Zidane that is out. Another play of the month in Bapé could be released this week, the 93 rated, whatever that SBC is gonna look like, however expensive it's gonna be. Like that's another SBC that is upcoming. So I like the 89s. After all they dropped off a considerable amount yesterday, they could rise back up to 38, 39,000 coins during the week. Potentially, it depends on some other things too. But I think that's where I would look right now. And also, I think we're gonna get more upgrade packs this week, guys. So I like the 82s. I like the 82s at like 600 coins. And I like the 83s on bid for like 800 coins or 750, whatever you can get 83s at as lowest as possible on bid. I think those will be great to lazy list once again this week as we'll probably get some more upgrade packs. But that's probably the only place to survive invest and fodder. I don't love the team of the weeks. Again, if we get an 83 times 10, that would make me like team of the weeks. That would be like the only SBC with an informed requirement and multiple times repeatable, that would make me wanna invest in informs. Informs are down, they're below 30,000 coins now because yesterday there was an informed requirement in the 86 plus to hero pick, but there's just not a lot of demand as you can tell by the up vote and the down vote on foot bin for that SBC. So that's kind of what I'm looking at with that SBC. Again, a bit of a surprise yesterday if you got something good from it GGs, but I don't think I'm doing it, man. I'd rather do a player SBC right now. There's so many player SBCs that are out and you get some pretty nice ones. So that's where I'm gonna look instead of doing the 86 plus pick. We also had the showdown SBC yesterday. Best part about this is it's pretty cheap. Corbos versus Rosso for Madrid women's team versus Paris FC. This game is on Wednesday guys. The 20th is when this game is gonna take place. The cards aren't amazing. I mean, let's be honest. Rosso's got whipped pass plus four star week foot can play right wing, right mid and cam. The stats aren't that good. Corbos looks like a decent midfielder with ping pass plus four star week foot. The best thing about it is they're cheap. They could potentially get upgrades. So if you find interest in those SBCs, at least they are cheap. That is nice.  You get a mega pack from this untradable, but check your club because I believe it was Portuguese like left wings and right wings because you need a Portuguese player for this. You need some rares, you need 31 chemistry. So you need Portuguese players. Certain ones were selling for like two, 3,000 coins. So maybe after you get this SBC done, check and see if you have any tradable ones in your club because those were going for a lot yesterday after that SBC was dropped. Now let's go to objectives because we had some new objective content yesterday as well. We had a daily play boost and this is great if you're somebody who's still trying to catch up on XP. I've got my season completed hit level 26, but if you're not quite there yet, this is 500 XP every single day that you can get from playing two matches. That's awesome. So this is the last couple of days of the season. Once again guys, by the way, this season ends on Thursday. So if you're really struggling for XP, if you're a little behind, make sure you get involved here with this. Also, we had a cup that was dropped yesterday too, some more XP and some more packs. And guess what guys? They actually changed up the requirements for this. They're making it kind of interesting. They might be actually useful to put some evolution cards, maybe a little bit lower behind the power curve. Might be fun to build a cool team with some of your EVO cards because for the team of the group stage cup, it is max one loan and your entire starting 11 and subs have to be 86 and below or below 86 actually, because you have one 86 and higher. So I like that some differentiation with the cup requirements from EA. We asked for that the last time they had a cup and they came through. So that's at least nice. I know some people will complain because like, nah Nate, I want to use my main team. I grind for my main team. I want to use that. I like that they're mixing up that sort of requirements stuff a little bit. I am a fan. And now also we have got ourselves a couple packs really quick. They really released a lot of the store packs yesterday. As I pick up a cost, it's nothing insane there. But speaking of cards and packs, we're going to cover that in a second. That was really what caused a lot of the commotion yesterday on this game. They dropped a 450K pack that contains two untradable team of the group stage players as a part of it. As we pick up a, I thought that was Wendy, Renard, I get an 83 as my best player. Wow, that was a terrible 80 times 10. That was from the daily login. I'm just going to quick sell that card so that we can go into here. Look at this 450K pack. They dropped a 450K pack yesterday which contains two untradable, albeit untradable versions of cards that are in packs right now. You wait for team of the group stages. So there's that. A lot of these packs are going to come back today too. Like the deluxe 86 goes away. It's going to come back for sure. I don't know if they're going to do lightning rounds, but the story yesterday was a bit quieter because a lot of those packs we had seen before, except for that 450K guaranteed team of the group stage pack. Now, also yesterday, we had yet again another evolution. The evolutions part right now on this game, it is full in here. There are a lot of evos. And once again, EA did the same thing they did a couple of days ago. They dropped the evolution in double. So you can do it twice. Butting Starlet. We looked at this lead EVO, I think on Thursday. It was exactly or almost exactly as leaked max 77 overall. So it's basically taking somebody who's a bit lower rated and you're making them into a beast with a pretty sizable shooting, passing and dribbling upgrade. We're talking plus 10 shooting, plus 11 passing, plus eight dribbling and some nice physical and even a little bit of a pace boost as well with you get acrobatic and quick step play styles. It just can't be a center forward player. This EVO actually is coming in and it's pretty well liked. If you take a look at the evolutions on Fubin, the Butting Starlet, which these are both the same. I don't know why it says one and two, but they're both the same. They're more positively upvoted than downvoted. It's not that hard to do. There are some player prices that have moved up a lot. Madaweke is one with his Butting Starlet card. You can see him moving again from 90 pace to 93. You get that big shooting, passing boost, dribbling up to 90, four star, four star for that card. A couple of other random cards that there's some, there's some nuts actual, actually nuts, chain evolutions you can make. Mateus Franca here is one of those that is pretty crazy. Now I know a lot of these including or do include players that can't be involved to this nature anymore because, you know, an EVO has gone away. I think a tall actually looks pretty nuts after this Butting Starlet EVO. Yeah, you could do detail oriented into the Butting Starlet too and you get yourself in a tall with 91 pace, 88 passing, 91 dribble, of course, he's four star, five star. You get some of those play styles on there. He's gonna get a promo card at some point, but he hasn't yet. So this one kind of looks good. Like that's a nice looking at all. A bit more of an attacking upgrade for a tall, not as much in the defensive areas, but you know, that's a card that is, I think his Silver card is almost extinct. Yeah, it's extinct at 10,000 coins right now because of that. And then the Burnley player, he was extinct earlier in the year. I forget his name, search of the Z, but his card is extinct in the market right now too because he also fits this Butting Star's EVO or Butting Starlet EVO and he looks insane. So once again, we've got Silver cards, non-rare golds up big on the market because of a pretty solid EVO. So Gigi's EA and again, I like it because they're releasing it in double guys. I really do. I mean, what is EA's real reason for doing this? I think it's gotta be a little bit like they're trying to get people to at least play more games and giving you the opportunity to do two evolutions, which is nice. We love the opportunity, but is this motivated by EA trying to get people to play a few more games for their metrics? I don't know. Who knows. But I'm a fan that they're here. They're out for 27 days. Gigi's once again for another set of EVOs from EA. Now let's talk about the part that's really not making people as happy as those evolutions are. And it actually, guys, it's only talked about in one place on this game. It's not talked about anywhere else in the menus. And I'm gonna look for it again right now, flipping through all these little infographics on the side. You go to like the news tab. You go through here. It says nothing on this game in the menus right now about other cards being added to packs apart from the team of the week and the away from team of the group stage. But EA did it once again yesterday. Guys, they re-released old promo cards. This is the loading screen on this game right now. Now of course we know they dropped new Road to the Knockouts UWCL players. That's not a huge surprise. But what they also did was they re-released cards back into packs. And anytime that EA does this, people lose coins because people who had Usman Dembele, Osemin, Luis Diaz, these cards are in people's teams because they're good cards. Also EA, you tweeted a graphic with cards not upgraded. Osemin 90? Yeah, that was like so five, four days ago, man. Osemin is 92 now. Yeah, Luis Diaz is 89 rated and he was almost 900,000 coins yesterday. He was 868K, which is kind of where his price normally is and he gets re-released into packs all of a sudden. So if you had a tradable Luis Diaz yesterday, you are down 400,000 coins because he is now 400K. Or if you had a tradable Osemin, maybe you bought Osemin who was up in value because people had done Di Lorenzo. A lot of people lost coins in this card because of the links to Di Lorenzo. You can see he went from like 250 all the way to 300 and then all of a sudden EA says he's back in packs, have fun and his price goes down from 300K down to 130,000 coins where he is now. Of course the price drops happen on cards that get re-released into packs. They get supplied more and when people see that they get supplied and that they're in packs, they're gonna sell the card if they have in the club which again makes a bigger price drop happen. But it's just, it's frustrating and this is one of the things that frustrates us all the time and it's something that EA, they did last year around Christmas with Winter Wild cards, they re-released cards in packs and it's just annoying because they just don't give you a heads up, right? And they're never going to give us a heads up, right? And that's the disappointing part about it, especially the losing coins aspect of things. There's really no way that you can know that these cards were coming. For what I saw, no leaks about a re-release coming. This is not stuff that gets leaked. It's just kind of EA says, hey, we're gonna do this and then it just happens. Like it's one of those crazy phenomenons where there's really no heads up and just a lot of coins end up being lost because cards get re-released back into packs. But the problem I have with it fully is they're not even showing it on the menus of the game. They, we don't have a list. Remember last year, they're probably gonna do this again. That's why I said it also in the video, they're probably gonna do this again sometime this year, guys. They're gonna re-release random promo cards back into packs. They won't give us a list of who's entirely in packs. Although on the loading screen, we imagine it's just these. But in the future, just know that there's probably gonna be other cards that are in packs that they won't tell us about. And it's just frustrating, that lack of communication there because you can go to the, you can go to the store and check the pack odds and you can see that yeah, there are definitely a row to the knockout cards that are back in packs once again. But again, yeah, it's just frustrating, man. 125K pack, you see, row to the knockouts player, UEL, UCL. So those cards are definitely back in packs. But anytime you log on to the game and your card is down 30, 40%, you're gonna be upset, right? And I totally get it. Those cards are in packs until the end of the week with the team of the group stage. So they're probably gonna continue to drop at least a little bit. Some of them will have some fluctuations as they've dropped off so much. But yeah, just frustrating, bro. And yeah, I think the positive part about it is for those of you that didn't own those cards, which is where I'm at in this as well, is that, hey, you've now got an opportunity to pack more special cards this week. And apart from the coin loss, it is a W. I'm not gonna say you're gonna complain the entire time because it is a W to have more special cards in packs. I mean, shoot, what if you hit a row to the knockouts Usman Dembele? Nobody's gonna complain about that, right? Or even a row to the knockouts Osaman or Acunya or Henkapi, right? Nobody is gonna complain about that. So there's a positive side of thing as well. But it's just, it's frustrating from a losing coin standpoint if you own one of those tradable and they get re-released. Now speaking of packs and those cards being in packs with a promo team, with row to the knockouts, men's and women's players in packs. And of course, the team of the week and the UEFA Champions League men's and women's heroes in packs right now. I think EA is gonna drop a lot of upgrade packs this week. And I think that's one of the pieces of content that we can expect to see today. Of course, we've got the 82 plus player pick, but that is repeatable five times a day only. We don't have a unlimited repeatable player pick type of SPC like the 78 plus. We don't have one of those. Do we get one of those today? I think we do. I also think as I'm looking at a club of mine right now that is very in need of weak and weak rewards. Goodness gracious. Okay, let's see. Do I have any Liberty Royce here? Can I put some of these in? Give me some other rares. We might have, oh, I'm gonna be short. All right, I might have to turn in at like one or two 81s here. I might have to turn in two 81s to get this done. That is unfortunate. I don't like turning in 81s because, you know, they're 81 rated, but we'll do it for the lads so that we can hopefully get something good here. Almarone, Sia, Mario Rui, Sia. But yeah, I think we're gonna get upgrade packs like last week with all this stuff in packs if EA didn't put out some like some decent upgrade packs, that would be a bit anticlimactic. So whether it's an 83 times 10, whether it's an 85 double or, you know, like the 78 plus player pick unlimited repeatable as well. We've got the radioactive crafting upgrade still available. I think there's gonna be a decent amount of upgrade packs which is why it could be a decent week to buy those 82s and 83s like I mentioned, it's all gonna depend on, of course, what they put out. But those cards could be one that lazy sell really good throughout the week. 82 plus player pick, we're taking an 84 Raphinha that's pretty mid. That was not really worth it technically in terms of value, but we'll get our week in the rewards and hopefully do a few more of those this week. But hopefully more upgrade packs at least give us an opportunity to try to pack some of these cards. The team of the group stages, like once again, man, this team is a pretty sick team of cards and packs. A lot of people will want to open upgrade packs this week. I think E is gonna put them out. Albeit they'll be untradable, but I think there's some opportunities there. Other content that we could see today on a Monday, we've got a couple of leaked SBCs still that are out there for Griffo, I think was one of the names of a car that is still leaked, right? We could see a player SBC today. And guys, I mean, I still think there's an outside shot that we could actually have an icon upgrade SBC today or sometime during the week as well. Again, probably a slight chance, but I think there's opportunities for that too. And we're really keeping an eye on that EA tweet, right? That EA tweet about the content that's gonna be coming today. I would 100% expect to see some interesting things coming this week in Ultimate Team as well. One of the things I wanna shout is member of the Anthony Gordon Punnett picks SBC. It's about time that we had another one of these because EA said those will be once per month. This one will be from La Liga, however. So I don't know when we're gonna get this announced. I didn't watch much La Liga over the weekend, so I don't know if it was talked about on the zone. Maybe you guys remember hearing something about that, but I think we're gonna get one of those SBCs here pretty soon. And then of course, again, as I already mentioned, the news about Play of the Month in Bapé, his SBC could be a big thing that we look forward to on the upcoming live tweet from EA. So we're watching out for that today. That'll happen before content. Now let's talk markets. Something that'll happen before the content today as well. You see my coins are down. I already mentioned that, guys, we've invested. All right, we've invested a lot of coins into Team of the Group Stage cards and actually yesterday was a really good day to trade with some of these because they had some really good fluctuations. Guys, it's the rarity once again that gets me interested in these cards.  I picked up one Cancelo at 370. Picked up a Graven Burge at 216. That's more of a quick flip just because he's really rare. But the reason I went out and picked up some Borellas and a Cancelo was, again, guys, these cards were really low yesterday. The content was just kind of quiet, I guess you could say. And I saw how rare these cards were. I've been speaking about it all weekend. These cards are just rare. They're big name players. People want to try them out and use them. Yesterday as well, I could have picked some other players that were really good to trade with. Kyle Saka went from like 610K. Look at that Panic Cell from 750 down to 600. Back all the way to 700,000 coins. Right now he's 642. These cards, they have so much hype. I think they're gonna go up today. I think they will after rewards. I know last week, the Dynasty's team didn't, but I feel like this is just different. Also, people see cards like this and they just assume that they're live, right? So yesterday, these cards got bought up. It wasn't just Saka who had a bounce like that. Jude Bellingham had a really good fluctuation. He went from 785 all the way back to 850 around the content time. I picked up all those Borellas and he ended up going back to like 320 right here. And this is a card that with the DeLaRenzo SBC being out, I just think there's a lot of hype for him. He's got Tiki Taka Plus and he's really rare. When I look at his card in the market, I really like that. So I really like his card. I like a lot of this team, guys, for this week. Now, it is risky to be buying a promo team this early. I know that and I'm fully assuming a lot of risk. I'm not 100% invested in these cards, but I'm pretty fully invested. But I'm fine with the risk. I really am because I just think that a lot of these guys have so much hype. This can sell out as one of the best write backs in the game. And he went up yesterday, he was 360 something. I paid 370, he was 360's, went all the way back to 390. These cards show very good bounce potential and yes, I'm gambling right now by buying these cards early. But I think potentially if content this week goes the way that it could go and these cards don't get supplied that much during the week as we probably wouldn't expect them to, we could see some of these cards actually rising during the week. Just because again, I think there's a decent amount of gameplay demand and we'll see, right? It's a test of the market as well right now. We'll see how well the market's gonna do. But I'm in for it, man. I'm in for it, I'm gonna go for it. And again, I just love the rarity on these cards. I love how much I've been able to trade with them and watch their cards fluctuate all weekend already. They move a ton. And I just think it's gonna bring some really good trading opportunities as my game crashes. It's good for one crash per video basically. So yeah, that's why I've invested a lot of my coins there. But the rest of the out of packs market continue to watch fluctuations on these cards. Like the market seems way healthier this week and right now than it did last week. Now I know player prices like are downs and Chenco, we looked at him over the weekend, he's 143. He was 180 at one point. Dynasties players, how are they doing? Rich James is down a little bit. Hernandez down a little bit. But Oberdorf is up. Sane is still up. Verz is up, another like 10,000 coins. Taram, Timber is still rising. He have above 200,000 coins now. So these cards continue. It shows that the market has some life and I'm all for that. So that's why I'm super interested in those cards today. I think they'll be decent to trade with, whether it's a hold for the rest of the week or just today, I've got my fingers crossed for a market rise today. The only thing that would really kill that is probably some leaks and some supply via lightning rounds, which could then create some panic selling. But I'm gonna risk it for at least the next day or two because these cards just look really good to trade with for me. So that's why I invested yesterday. Again, hopefully today, I don't know. I mean, for my investment purposes, I hope today's kind of a quiet content day. But I'm down for some upgrade packs. Give me opportunities to try to pack some of these cards, especially with everything in packs right now, today on this game, EA Sports. I'm super down for that. If you guys are, drop a thumbs up on the video. Comment down below if you have any questions. And of course, subscribe if you're new. I'll see you guys hopefully in the Twitch stream today. It's been Nathan from The Countdown. See you guys there. Peace out.


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Hi, this is Helena Hart from commitmentconnection.com and in this video, I'm going to be sharing eight qualities of a really high value masculine energy man. So if a man has these eight qualities, or at least most of these qualities, I would never let him go because they're big signs that he's a really high value man who's going to be a fantastic relationship partner to you. But before I get started, if this is your first time to our channel, be sure to click the button to subscribe to get all of our videos on how to attract the man and the relationship you've always wanted. So let's get started. I'm going to be giving you these eight qualities backwards, countdown style, and the last three qualities are the most important, in my opinion, when it comes to building a long-term relationship with someone. So make sure to stay till the end. So quality number eight is that he's kind and compassionate, but he's not a pushover. So when a man knows what he wants and he's comfortable going after it, that's the sign of a masculine energy man. And if he has that in combination with being kind and generous and compassionate in the way he treats others, that's a sign of a really, really high quality man who's going to be treating you really well throughout the course of your whole relationship. So quality number seven is that he's patient with you specifically. So in relationships, especially long-term relationships, you're not always going to say everything perfectly or do everything in the perfect way. And you want to make sure you have a man who's really patient with you and who's not going to punish you if you disappoint him or if something you do bothers him. So that's really important. Patience is such an important thing when it comes to relationships. I have a hard time with patience myself. So something I'm continually working on. Quality number six is that he's down to earth. He doesn't make these huge promises that he can't deliver on.  Quality number five is that he's reliable and dependable. Kind of goes along with the last one. He follows through on what he says he's going to do. If he makes a promise, it's important to him that he keeps it. He's a man of his word and he's reliable and dependable. That's a sign of a really high value man who's going to be a great partner in a relationship. So quality number four is that his energy is coming towards you pretty consistently. So in the early stages of dating or when you're first getting into a relationship, this could look like a man pursuing you, showing you that he's interested, you know, making sure that you know where you stand with him because he just makes it known that he's interested in you and that he wants a relationship with you. Later on, you know, throughout the course of your relationship, this could look like a man who prioritizes you, who wants to work on the relationship rather than always retreating and backing away from you. So quality number three is that he shows you he loves you.  You know, what you see a man do is sort of an indication of how they feel. So if he, of course, if he tells you that he loves you, that's fantastic. I know how incredible that feels to hear those words. But a man who shows you that he loves you is a sign of a really masculine energy man who it's, you know, it's important to him that you are happy and that you feel safe and secure in the relationship. So quality number two is that your feelings are important to him. This is such a crucial one, you know, he takes your feelings into account when he's doing things like planning for the two of you or making decisions in the relationship. He really cares about how you feel and your happiness and well-being are important to him. So if he shows you that your feelings are important to him, that's a sign of a really high value man. And I would not let a man like that go if you have one. And the number one quality of a high value masculine energy man is that he chooses you and the relationship and the connection over being right. You've probably heard that phrase before, like you can either be right or you can be happy or you can either be right or you can have a great relationship. And a lot of men, you know, just want to be right. Just like we can get into that sometimes, you know? So if a man really chooses you and the connection and the relationship over getting his way every single time or over, you know, making you feel wrong and winning every single argument and proving his point just constantly, that's a sign of a really, really high quality man who is prioritizing the relationship over his own ego. So you want to look for that. A man who puts the connection and the relationship over getting his way or over proving that he's right all the time. Very, very important. So those are the eight qualities of a high value, high quality masculine energy man. I would love to hear if your man has any of these qualities. I love hearing your thoughts and experiences with all of these videos. I hope this was helpful for you and I will see you next time. Thank you for watching this video to visit our website and I will talk to you soon.


Over now to AQT State, resident doctors at the AQT State University Hospital have started an indefinite strike. They are complaining about the reduction in the subvention to the institution and the non-payment of two months' salaries to doctors. The chairman of the Association of Resident Doctors in the hospital, Dr. Lee Olaoye, also discloses that the doctors are yet to receive a full salary since 2018. The hospital was no longer able to pay complete salaries of workers in the hospital and this is because the subvention being paid to the hospital was not enough to offset the full salary. So instead of getting the gross salary, we get the net salary. We've been engaging the government in all four hours to help us find the solution to this because unlike other workers in the state, it's like we work every month fully but we get a fraction of our salary. In the meantime, the chief managing director of AQT State University Teaching Hospital, Kayo De Olabanje says the institution is meeting with relevant stakeholders to find the lasting solution to the industrial dispute. We're so fortunate that one of the unions in the hospital have declared industrial disputes. However, we have been talking with them and the discussion continues.


Welcome to Rehab of the internet. We're all news as old news. We bring you the best and worst of what's happening today Hello ladies and gents. I'm Phil boss from the brothers in gaming channel on YouTube and let me kindly introduce you to another awesome show by these two dudes Welcome to the ring. Thank you so much to Phil boss from brothers in gaming for providing our intro If you'd like to do the same there's a link in the description where you can also be a boss Maybe not a Phil boss, but a boss nonetheless, and you can provide our intro So you had music type things. Yeah, I wouldn't talk to you guys about a flying cats fly cats can fly flies Well, actually my thing has to do with flying to the US government has decided that they're going to learn from people who make Drones and actually provide the flying hoverbikes from Star Wars for the soldiers I'm sure cats could you think we can train look if cats can be in the cradle with the silver spoon with little boy blue And the man in the moon.  Yeah, like one of those old like, you know the things that it's like a D. I like Yeah, and essentially these two people. I don't know if it's a couple. There's really no back story I tried to search a little bit more about it, but they're about the same age and they were just flying through the air And then I don't know where you look up on the wing. There's a cat.  That's like the most amazing. It's cat ever. That's like the coolest kind of the world Amazing. Yes. It's a flying cat word. Would you like to have a flying cat forget about It's just a flying cat that's amazing I'll tell you what I will get a flying cat the day cats fly. He was flying I mean actually but it's my wings maybe okay mine is actually dealing with okay So before I get into the meat of the story, I want to point something out It used to be that if you had an interesting product a product that you brought to the market You used to have to find a military application and get the government to fund You know development so that you could bring a consumer-grade thing to the market That's just the way things worked and that's one of the reasons why Dow Chemical has a military wing like a defense contracting wing and all these companies That's because that's how they figured out how to pay the bills Well, it seems that the government is flipping this on its ear and going to someone who crowd funded You're making faces. I don't make faces ever They've decided that they are going to a company who was crowd funded to make hover bikes But they want to make hover bikes for soldiers not just like little drones. They actually want Star Wars grade like what they actually like how high after they're like that high or that high they like fly Adjustable like like turn the little fan propellers higher. You go higher. It's just a propeller. What if something it's like four propellers and like And right now they know more about it than you do because we're showing it as we speak Right, but it's basically like it's basically like four helicopter blades So it's like it's like four fans, right?  All right So now comes the part of the show where we randomly show you the evolution of Microsoft controllers. Yeah, Microsoft controllers if you guys are Xbox gaming fans such as myself you get to see the evolution of the controllers Yeah, so just pause the screen right about now somewhere and you know, okay now moving on We don't know why we included that but we thought it was cool and interesting to somebody send us the image And so yeah Also, I wanted to talk about comment type change. Yeah, there's not many comments Yeah, so the very first comment that we want to talk to you about today is this from the average Gamer he's a right. Yeah, it looks pretty good. It looks like average rage gamer Let's go with average. No, I think they're supposed to be a play on words there Ever rage gamer. Okay. This is what we'll go with. All right He says keep it up guys love the content.  So here's the thing Okay, this is how I talk Maybe I'm projecting a little bit more to make it to the microphone, which is hanging somewhere above your head in a microphone space This is honestly how Zach talks like there's no no extra like Post-processing know you think Are you having a seizure?   Oh People say that I sound all kinds of crazy things. I don't know. It's me This this is just who I am so I wanted to show you guys a comment from Sony named Anthony Smith You guys don't know he is he's all over the freedom channel that guy's a scrub really yeah Did you did you know that he once told me that he was gonna try to bring a Minecraft server to freedom? And he still hasn't done it.  I know what a thief Let him know All right anyway, no, no, no, let's get on topic. I said topic He says this show is so much fun to film. Tell me is it as fun to watch as it is to make Is it okay? I don't watch that guy's stuff because he's a total tool are you don't watch his videos? I want you on of his videos. He does pretty good stuff. He does a lot of fun.  Uncertainty Asians. Yeah, you're really 9.599. You're pretty high. But I mean for the most part No, he does a lot of vlogging continuity. It's really good. He's like freedom Hey, this is what I'm doing in my day like he goes to get pizza and just late night run to get food I mean, he does a lot of stuff. You guys go check him out. It's Anthony spend the link will be down below up until today He had a roommate called Zach's Not anymore week. Okay, so before we end today's episode and before we spotlight our partner I do have to introduce our brand new guy who has just come over and show Hey, we got a new recruit here. He is right beside me to go and introduce yourself Well, it's a freedom fail here. Oh, you might know me as Syla and I'm gonna be working on a lot of MGM based projects Building up communities. Hopefully gameplaces for you guys to upload your content and quarry your channels get that gaming content out So you guys are the NGN the one and only network for gaming you guys to go forward with it If you guys are gaming related and that's what he does So we are looking forward to a lot of bright projects We don't want to get into the specifics right now Just because a lot of people have kind of given freedom some flak lately about saying things and not delivering even though We would be talking in the In the hypothetical at this point Yeah, we don't want people holding us to things that you know, we say Might happen as if we promised it So yeah, but this dog that he came here to work specifically on MGM Other really cool projects that we can involve you guys hopefully on in the future So I have a question What's your favorite pizza? No, no, no, no your favorite pizza topping see I'm a bit of a weird one I have bacon pepper in it and garlic what's actually that sounds really good You never asked me what my favorite pizza topping was. You're not a special guest. Okay. I see. Oh, it is It's like they all still pretty good So yesterday when we recorded rehash you guys asked an awesome question saying if you could change about anything about any game ever What would it be and I thought you know what let's go and ask our new recruiter Yes, would you change? It is a tough one But I'd probably go with World of Warcraft and I'd say more of an open world that PGA aspect to it It's much structured. It's not as Which of three for example that is really great Oh, well that PGA feel so I'd go for that. They have a World of Warcraft. Oh, very nice So filiboss from brothers in gaming Provided our intro that means that he gets an extra special spotlight at the end of the show I personally looked at his channel The only well the main thing that I took away from this channel is that if he were to render in 720 by her sorry 1280 by 720 And remove those black bars from his videos He would his quality just in general would go up so far And the only issue I had is is with his thumbnails He'd like a lot of thumbnails in the videos that he had made this suggestion as a YouTube content creator It's ever so important that you make thumbnails that are very you know bright poppy that would attract an average person's eye to make them Want to click your video? I mean you gotta take in mind a lot of what you're making in today's industry a lot of other people have already made So you got to find things that set yourself, you know yourself aside from the community So you know make really unique thumbnails like you said earlier render in 720 or 20 by 720 I mean the guy has a lot of potential so make sure to go check him out He made an awesome introduction. There will be a link down below view description Let's go check him out and a comment rehash everywhere Yes, please go spam his channel with hashtag rehash and make him beg for mercy I mean just make him wish he would have never made this intro In reality though go spread some love and yeah till next time Don't forget to like subscribe and do all those things that make us love our jobs Also be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other. See you guys later. Bye family


Okay, salamu alaikum everyone. Insha'Allah this is the second part for seniors mostly, insha'Allah, finally your students. You're underway sort of thinking about colleges already in the application process. So we thought we would first start out giving our takes on the personal statements and the essays because insha'Allah that can be helpful. I'll go first on this one. So my personal statement, the main one for the common application I did. So you know the UC application you choose for essays to do out of eight. And the common application, there's sort of a general essay that you can do. I think it's around 650 words. For my common app personal statement essay I wrote about my interests in human rights work and sort of my experiences in high school working for like a volunteer organization on campus that does human rights issues. And it was just a way for me to sort of present a side of myself that I didn't feel like other aspects of my application kind of brought across. So for the human rights organization I was a part of we did like a fundraiser for the box on floods. We also did a few events on campus where we brought in outside speakers and sort of we were quite involved. So it was like a really important part of my high school experience that I think I was able to use a personal statement to showcase. I really do think you should make sure you spend the time you have now even though I think for common app it's not due until December 31st. Spend time now sort of editing your essays, wrapping them up, finalizing them because you will be sort of asked for the same sort of generic questions like speak about an extracurricular activity you really liked being a part of or sort of those sorts of questions will appear no matter which platform you're using to apply. Why don't I give it a go to you guys? One thing we have as the fourth point there I know for me personally when I was like and I imagine a lot of you at this stage you know if you're a senior you've gotten a good chunk through the writing process you know especially for the UCs you know to do end of the month and then after other schools you know to some extent you've been able to kind of get through a lot of it. At this point you know some of it is just the editing, the finalizing the final touches you know maybe rephrasing things I know for me some of it it was just it's sometimes a little difficult and maybe just be a personal thing why don't at least a few friends I've talked to had the same issue where it was it's difficult to have like oh like give it to your dad give it to your sister like oh can you read my essay and edit it like so there's some things that have gone through the process it might be a little more useful but still sometimes it's nice to have like a outside, I don't say third party but essentially you know I completely like you know a person that's never it doesn't know your life experience that you know hasn't you know seen what you've gone through like firsthand read it helps because then it's like okay I know I have no previous information I can I can see what I know we'll talk about in a second and you know we've been doing this little program in the last few weeks and the shot will make sure you all are have access to it as well we've been pairing up students with like current Berkeley students like that are and will help with the application specifically so you know if someone and what we try to like pair it up as close as we can in terms of majors like oh interests like oh if you want to go to computer science we try to compare you up with someone computer science just so if you have any questions after as well it's helpful but I think that's been something really helpful that works for me having like people that weren't my direct family read my essays and you know look at them like okay this doesn't make sense or you know this maybe you explained a little too much or I guess that different perspective really helped and the last thing I just want to reiterate come around and talk about but just telling a story you know the essays if you look at the application generally you have you know your numbers your stats you know the test scores you have them or GPA you have your activities you know there's actually sections most of the applications to describe your activities so that's another portion but then really like your essays are the essays in like your description of your activities are really where like the college admissions committee is able to like see who you are you know what kind of person you are I get to know you a little bit other than that it's just like numbers on a page and so really telling a story you haven't already shown making sure you are like don't I don't feel like oh I've got to like tell my whole life story but giving them like a glimpse of like okay these are some of the things I'm involved in this is what you know like this is what piques my interest this is a little bit of who I am it's important it's like a it's avenues away for them to kind of get to know you and in like a way that's not really like accessible in the rest of the application especially because most schools don't have interviews either no I know some do so you know interviews school even better and I face to face is really a good way but you know at least for the UC's you know for most programs there's no interview process or anything so the essays are like where you you know where you get to show who you are a little bit so that I think is important to to realize and to note and something to think about too when you're writing your essays like okay this is kind of the only personal touch that they get of me I think something to like really keep in mind is that when you're writing these essays it's really not about what you write about but it's really about how you tell your story and that's what it really comes down to and like how you can narrate what they're looking to answer how can you narrate to answer their questions in the best way possible I can share like one of the one of the you know questions I had to answer it was I forgot which question it was but essentially at my I was talking about how it was like years ago I went to Amra like with by myself technically but I went with like a message like my group so my family didn't come with me and on this trip they had asked me to like kind of just help with like logistics and getting people around everybody else was like old uncles and aunties from our masjid and then there was me and what happened is during this trip there was there was I would say probably like 70% of the people got really sick and I'm like everybody was fine and dandy afterwards but you know you traveling and you go to third world country almost and I talked about how at that time like I was then I went from just like you know traveling by myself to being on this group so now like being the person who was in charge of logistically making sure everybody was okay and safe and well and doing all these random things and being there for so many different people in my community and I explained this as like a form of leadership and it seems like a very untraditional form of leadership usually when people explain leadership it's like oh I was the president of this club or I helped organize this that and the other but in that moment I explained and I tried to like narrate how how this was was was like a very on demand like necessity of leadership that I had to apply and how I did it and keep in mind like the person reading my application doesn't know what the Omra is they don't know what like much about spam in that sense but it's very important to kind of add that flavor into it as well and I felt like that was a very like strong essay I had so again it doesn't matter what you write about I remember there was one person like who they wrote about like Costco hot dogs and their relationship with Costco hot dogs or whatever they were like Jewish and it was like kosher and whatever and you can you can write about whatever but you want to make it interesting but it's really about your storytelling at the end of the day. So general application strategies so right now we're kind of in the moment where students are really working on the personal statements and their essays like you know you have your letters of rec you know by senior fall you have them basically confirmed that you're done with your standardized testing you're now sort of in full swing with your classes and now it's just your time to kind of get your personal statements and essays together I would really advise you know apply for the UC like through the UC applications to the UC that you're interested in and I really say like don't be shy about UCs and SoCal as well like you know I think there's a lot of great schools in the UC system that are really awesome I would also say you know try and submit if you can a day before the deadline you know a lot of people you know think that their best work is going to happen on November 29th on it's due November 30th but I say honestly give yourself some peaceful time the people who are reading these statements just want to answer the questions like who are you as a person what can you contribute to our incoming class like you know do you have you taken your studies sort of SoCal have you enjoyed your curriculum have you made a good impression on your teachers so don't feel like you have to be working on it until December 31st or until November 30th for the UC system it's a general application for all the UCs there are four essays you can choose so it's really sort of in your best interest to start you know if you can start you know this week or next week and for everyone here who's a senior will be pairing you up with UC Berkeley students who can inshallah help you so we'll be getting your emails afterwards to connect you in that way in terms of school list I think having around you know anywhere from 10 to 15 schools including like and maybe when you can talk about like the school is maybe a little more and I'll just say writing about activities really write about activities that you really love so I was telling when he's in the car ride over here part of the and rights committee I was involved in my high school we did a really cool thing where we got the school administration to like work with us so for lunch one day as part of a theme on economic inequality we had 90% of students having like rice and beans and then 10% of students who are just chosen from their last name they got to have like turkey and mashed potatoes and like apple cider and they had like a really nice lunch and my school one of my statements talked about this because there were like some students who were protesting like the inequality they felt and they're like why do we have to eat rice and beans like we have to do sports activities after this and it was part of this commentary we were trying to make in the human rights committee that like wow this is actually what most people have on the day to day and so that was like part of my personal statement so writing about activities in a way that sort of speaks to your interest that can be unique that can be different I know one of my friends she wrote about growing up in the muskets like you know growing up in Ramadan during tarawi and like hanging out at iftars and just so you can really write about so many experiences that are meaningful to you but the main point like Shum said and also like Wendy said is like writing about things you may not have had a chance to sort of showcase things that can give a different depth of character to you and things you really like and finally majors I think I wrote biology going in and I ended up majoring in social science so you can definitely write majors you're interested in but I don't know should they not write like STEM majors or is that an urban myth I guess and we had a few people kind of ask this like during our little question thing in the last section but like one thing with the majors before we talk about anything else too is and it's something it's very school specific sometimes but like a lot of schools have like a you know there's different colleges within the school just confusing when you're not in the school but like you know there's a college of letters and sciences is a college of engineering usually is a college you know like for example at Berkeley there's like a college of national resources which is all like the environmental stuff goes there's a bunch of different colleges within the schools and like the great majority of schools like changing majors within a college is usually pretty streamlined it's like very simple the most part there are I guess some case you know like we had someone talk I was giving some example of like engineering as well like you know if you're in the college of engineering it's considerably easier to kind of switch between other engineers but like there's still like and something that's very competitive is still going to be a little bit of a difficulty for example at Berkeley the easiest example is EECS which is like Electrical Engineering and Computer Science like the most competitive major at the school really hard to get into it's great and a great program and the people I get into you know they're good at work and they're able to do a lot of good work it's hard to if you're like a non-engineering major it's like nearly impossible to like switch into that if you're an engineering major then it's like okay you're footing the door like I know many friends that were bioengineering as a freshman applicant coming in and they accepted bioengineering and then after a year or so they switched to you know electrical engineering so that's possible but I think so if you're not fully certain on what exactly you want to do it's not like a debt sentence I know we talked about going in this undecided to that's definitely like you know as the undeclared or undecided major definitely like an option as well but if you know if it's something that you're like oh this is something that I could do you know for example if you're interested again in like some version of engineering for example you don't have to be fully like completely set on what exactly you want to do you know you have some flexibility there and so there is some but you know I think it's always like don't it you know if you're outside of like the very if you want to get into a very competitive major and you're unwilling to want to do anything else it's a little risky to like go in as something completely unrelated and try to expect to switch in but for most majors you know if you're biology switching to chemistry you know not very easy within most engineering's very easy and so yeah most majors you know it's still very feasible like very competitive things it's a little bit difficult and before that Shums maybe elaborate on that as well you know on the transfer side if you want to as well one thing with the activities I guess school is we talked about like having the three you know having your reach having your target having your safety schools you know having that like the hierarchy making sure you're applying to like a variety of schools like I think of it as your goal is to not get into every single school you know if you get into every single school like oh I could have gotten into like an even better school I didn't try for because I was scared you know like oh what's the point and so you know finding those schools that oh man my shots my shots are tiny but you know it's like try my luck I think it's definitely very important at the same time applying to a lot of schools that are kind of right in your zone and then applying to a few that you feel okay my at least the numbers and of course numbers not everything but like are should be solid and then over the activities and a lot of the UC's and other applications have a little section where you write out like activity descriptions like not even in an essay just like oh these are certain things today I think like activities awards or whatever it's the most people like I don't have any awards we're just talking about your activities and that's actually it's a very small section to write about it I imagine a lot of you if you're applying you've already filled it out or you already have like draft like it's kind of what you're writing about and that is nothing too fancy you know you're really describing what the activity is one thing that I got some advice on which is good was like using like powerful words it sounds weird but like instead of just like I can't give you an example right now but like strong like words that show like what you did instead of just oh I you know I made a club of 15 people and we did this oh I you know I even just simple oh I led and organized and facilitated discussion between you know sometimes using these like more like because you have a limited like work in those descriptions using a little more like strong language instead of just like oh let it's sometimes easy as going into like using a word oh this is very I've used this a lot it's not that cool you finding some synonyms for that and like okay pasting that in 90% of the time that works so that's one thing that helped for me makes your activities it just makes you feel a little more official and like who knows and if you really make a massive difference but it makes you feel a little more official and that helped me maybe like feel like I was putting together like the description of what I was actually doing a lot better yeah so I can't really talk much about senior years since I grad I graduated high school like a year earlier took the Chesape so I didn't really have a senior year and then I went to community college for three years actually for transferring to Berkeley but I think where I can really kind of hone in is in terms of like majors there's a few things to consider so as like Juan Eason had mentioned like the major you apply as if that will make it over thinking like so there's this idea of like does the major you apply as like determine your admissions and that really depends on the school so like I know for example like Stanford like they don't care what you apply as you don't like you like you just a recommendation of what you want to end up doing and that's how they do their admission system at Berkeley it's a lot different because not only do we have so many different schools but we also are admissions so when you submit your application to Berkeley they don't send it to like the admissions department they have people from each school reviewing applications through the admissions department so they have someone from the school of engineering with all the pile of engineering applicants and that's the way they do their admissions so your application is determined based on the school at least and I know for transfers it goes all the way down to the major right so like you if you're applying as a computer science major it's you versus everybody else you know applying as computer science and that's how they allocate their admissions officers there's like this whole tree I found online on how they do that but ultimately something to keep in mind what you apply as just do the best you can to finding what you feel like you might want to do they all like these admissions officers also understand there's a very high chance you're going to switch and that's like this percentage I don't know what it is off top of my head but it's very high that people switch majors but keep in mind that like what you study in college does not directly connect to what you end up doing as a job unless you end up going into academia and getting a PhD most people for example who study electrical engineering computer science at Berkeley and also most people who study cognitive science at Berkeley end up with the exact same software engineering jobs at the end of the day and the same thing goes for other majors that I've seen so people who study business which is a very competitive major that you have to like apply into like after your sophomore year at Berkeley people who study business and also people who study economics and also people who study political economy and environmental economics all end up with the exact same jobs they end up with the same company same place at times so just keep that in mind that your college major does matter to some extent of what you learn and how what like category of information you're going to be thrown into but generally speaking there's so many similarities within universities with different majors for example our computer science major which is in the school of letters and science is facilitated by the electrical engineering and computer science department within the school of engineering it's kind of weird but when you study computer science all your classes and the buildings you go for all your paperwork is going to be in the school of engineering we also have another major it's called industrial engineering and then within a school of letters and science we have it's literally the exact same major just in the school of letters and science called operations research and management science it's a weird name but essentially it's the same major retranslated into something else within a different school at the same university and people end up with the exact same jobs at the end of the day so keep that in mind like it's not the end all be all if you have to end up I know people who like you know just because of the way they're you know they did in a certain class you know a lot different than what they anticipated but again they're able to you know get into the career goals and academic goals that they wanted to achieve from the beginning so it's not as like hardcore as it may seem in some situations it might be so if you study chemical engineering the only job you can really the most direct job you can get with that is to become a chemical engineer and if you don't study chemical engineering you probably cannot become a chemical engineer that's just for that particular like subset so everything with like electrical engineering like you're going to become a electrical engineer but for other jobs like if you're going to law, you're going to medicine, you're going to other jobs in tech and software engineering as well it's pretty much like you prove yourself in those careers in other means other than your major so some just like this side now one last thing there we had a few people come with like questions about like grad school looking ahead which is great getting those questions and for those absolutely like if you want to apply to law school, medical school, PA school and any like most of your four year or three year you know your post grad, post undergraduate things like your major does not matter at all so which is you know you have to take certain classes that they require but your major can be anything so even more to the fact that you know because I know sometimes you get like I get into this school but not in the major that I want like don't let that be a deterrent to like going to that school that you really like we had this little slide here but inshallah we'll get through any stuff that we want to present and at the end you know we'll like we'll like do questions and everything but like definitely think about any questions that you guys might have about like high school and versus college and like something that we want to talk about if you have any questions about like I guess we talked about this in the first session but just like you know your first time away from home for most people and okay that's it you know we had this I guess think about those two you know like both questions about high school versus college if you have any or like even about the these last few weeks about the application process and about like I guess you know like practicing Islam and you know university being on your own having to kind of take the initiative on your own if there's any questions or I know personally that was you know a big thing that I had like okay is this school I'm going to have like a strong Muslim community that can kind of give me support and still make me feel like part of a community so to talk about that I guess the one thing we wanted to mention before we do that and notice the open questions like we did similarly before we mentioned it a few times but we we've got like this program going through the last few weeks that we've been pairing up current students that are applying to college with UC Berkeley like current undergrads or current students and just really helping like essay editing helping I guess like posts like planning like with majors with this that and so we're just trying to pair students up with help and I know you guys are you know just as the UC is just two weeks away but for after that it's still the end of December and so there's only you know there's not much time I know left but if anyone that's like an opportunity that anyone wants to be paired up with someone just like okay you know maybe some help these last couple of weeks we can definitely inshallah you know like provide that and pair you up with someone that's in a similar field or wants to do something similar that you're trying to do and we're going to use the same inshallah will be the same link but we'll put up the link again just so everyone has it have your emails if you already put your email there like fantastic but you know so this is a little list just keep track of anyone that wants to be paired up with a student and inshallah you know after this we'll be sending our slides with all the resources as well and so when we send that email out you'll have our email as well so feel free to reply to that email and let us know hey I want to be paired up with the students or I have a question or even maybe not help with like college apps like oh I have some questions about the certain major that I want to do is there a current student there that I can I can be paired up with to ask any questions you know if you want to do econ and you have some questions about how the major is in college or how you know someone's experiences we can definitely pair you up with someone in that aspect as well other than that inshallah we just will be the same thing as last time if there's any questions that anyone had obviously details of like okay college essay help anything we can like in the reading essays you know inshallah we'll get two of these next few weeks and we'll be pairing you up with somebody but like even if there's like more of a general question on the application process on the transition from like high school to college or anything in between we'd be happy to inshallah for the next 10-15 minutes to be able to hopefully answer them. Yeah so the question was what's the difference between the UC application essays and the common application essays so basically the UC system has its own separate application kind of portal so they have I think they have eight essays and you choose four to answer and the kind of themes are quite similar like you know what are important life experiences that you've had or what's an activity that you do outside of school you'd want to talk about but it's sort of like a separate thing the common application it has also a list of sort of questions that you can answer similarly like you know what's a life experience you want to share or what's unique about your story or tell us about a time when you kind of overcame challenge or something like that so the essays are actually quite similar but it's just two different platforms common apps go to public and private universities like across the nation and the UCs are just for the California UC system and the one question I think we can have while we're waiting for more questions in university I think that's the why don't I keep this one up the prompt you had asked was sort of like how do you navigate that right yeah like when he was saying I think a really important thing to think about too is like especially at UC Berkeley and I know at UC Davis as well and I think really across the UCs there's really strong Muslim students associations and I know that like we're all involved in those associations so you know as you're still in high school and you're looking forward to college like this is like joining this email list can be one way that you can stay in touch with us we also want to be like mentors for you guys but I guess from the undergrad perspective how was it like sort of your high school MSA versus Berkeley yeah so I think it's really it's drastically different right so when I was in community college in Sacramento I spent you know a little bit of time exploring other universities in their Muslim life so I was a part of the thing called MSA West and I got to like travel to like UC Irvine, UC LA, UC San Diego and UC Davis and I got to really be a part of like their communities for a little bit from time to time just with the work I was doing with them and I think the biggest difference is when you're in high school you're kind of just thrown into a school you know you might have 100 Muslims at your high school or you might be one of like you your sister and like some random person would be the only Muslim that you're at your high school which is like the situation was for me and you kind of in order to really be involved in high school obviously you have to just kind of make friends with like random people but the biggest difference when you go to college especially when you go to like a big UC is that like you have thousands tens of thousands of people at the school and you can very easily find a solid group of people just from within you know the university that you go to that have you know the common interest that you're like that you also have so it's a lot easier to make friends to hold you accountable in your faith however on the contrast everybody is coming in as like new you know just left their parents house everybody's coming in at the same time and it's at the same time very hard for you to like get used to keeping yourself accountable when you're not around those people so it's this balancing act and it's a very big learning curve of like understanding that like hey it's also time I need to pray but all and like you know maybe your flatmates at your dorm are not Muslim so you're just like not really held accountable to that extent at the same time you have you know times when you're around your Muslim friends and it's like everybody's just going to go pray so it is this contrast where it's some ways better in some ways just I wouldn't say it's worse but it's just a challenge or it's a struggle that you have to kind of like figure out throughout your life and you have to really hold that discipline towards another thing is like you can be around when you're in college I mean you can be around whoever you want right so you don't necessarily you might not necessarily initially choose to be around Muslims and that becomes difficult when you have to kind of isolate yourself to go pray or it becomes harder to do so so it's really a matter of recognizing that at the end of the day the Muslim community is there for you and they're a community that really hones your faith in your values and when you when you go to college unfortunately a lot of times the culture doesn't necessarily hone into the same values that you believe in as a Muslim and that can be very you know dangerous and a lot of parents are very concerned about those about those harms as well so I would say personally I moved in I came in as a transfer so I moved in with just a bunch of Muslims so it's very easy for me to just always stay around Muslims and just kind of you know protect myself in that community but I can see that you know coming in as a freshman sometimes or you know coming in even as a transfer you putting yourself in these in like non-Muslim environments where you're living there not just seeing them from time to time you definitely have to build that resilience and that discipline to kind of holding yourself true to your faith and values because that's what's ultimately going to last even when you leave that company I might sound like an uncle in that sense but yeah that's essentially like my two cents Anyone had any quick question I have sorry so I have a niece who's applying I have my son who will be in Inshallah applying soon so what advice would you give should I be giving them in terms of how to select a college because we all everybody wants to go to the Harvard's and Stanford's and all of that but when they're preparing that list of 15 like you guys were talking about what criteria should you keep in mind and be realistic from that perspective I mean I think you know if you know yeah it's a great question it's a great question I think definitely if you're interested in California schools trying to apply to like many of the UC's and sort of the great California schools in Southern California I know there's like the Pomona and there's like the is it the McKenna schools the Claremont McKenna yeah the Claremont schools they're really excellent schools in Southern California and then you have Stanford and you have I think like six UC's so I mean you're already looking at like 15 colleges just in California that I think are excellent I think just like what when you just said earlier you know choose five or six colleges that are your reach schools you know like the schools that maybe have you know really high GPAs for entry or sort of like you know are everyone's reach school then choose sort of like seven that you know you're comfortably in sort of in your GPA and your scores and sort of like your classes and then choose you know five or six that you're comfortably you know you feel like you have a really good shot at getting into and have that kind of spread I think you know some students are really interested in going out to the East Coast for school and I think that could be a really cool experience you know I really think so but it's it's it's sort of like it's a decision that sort of you guys all have to kind of I guess come together because like we've said before there's also like the financial aspects of going out of state for example that we can you know think about but I think that's my general advice I think another thing is that like understand like like obviously you know a student in high school might have an idea of what they want to do but they might want to change it but you know some students will be like I want to do something in engineering I don't know what but something in that like realm I'm not too good with like you know medicine or I'm not really interested in law or something else or the student might be like hey I'm interested in something in politics or or law and so based on those things certain schools have their strengths right there's there's schools that have way more resources or research opportunities and and just certain subsets of academics and that can be one way understanding like what you want to where you want to go another thing like for me big determinant was like if I want to work in tech like going to school in the Bay Area even though like you know a program somewhere else might be just as good but going to school in the Bay Area gives me a lot more opportunities around you know being around startups and other types of like tech related things so I think I think there's a lot of like aspects and factors another thing for me was like being I mean my family lives in Sacramento going to Berkeley was like you know a two hour drive home and it's not like a flight home so I can I can come back you know relatively whenever whenever I want so that was a very that was very like big determinant as well so I didn't want to be too close and I didn't want to be too far either so it was a nice sweet spot in terms of location and then you know some some kids are just like you know I hate the weather here I want to go somewhere else or I love the weather there or whatever and there's there's a lot of different factors but ultimately I think I think it really comes down to just like academically someone wants to wants to pursue and how feasible is that just considering just life situations so so your question is like in terms of like workload shift between high school and college okay okay I would I would just make a side note so when I was in high school we had this like IB program in my high school and we had a few AP classes but the IB program was like the most like like like the big one and I would say that program was probably had more work than college in general and that's like unanimously amongst all the alumni people graduate from that high school and went into college, went to Berkeley, went to Stanford or whatever they realized that that program just worked them a lot harder and I and so like as an exception to that like that like there are those situations where you will work a lot harder in your AP classes for your AP exams than you ever will for college class that's just something to like keep in mind I think it's a lot less of like a workload difference than like a strategy like the courses are just built different than they are in high school like the way it's structured and the way your exams work and the way you take your classes are a lot different and I think that's where the transition really comes into play more so than just like the time it takes to do it and that that's just like your first semester is going to be brutal it's just like known you want to kind of take that first semester or quarter like really like light relatively speaking just so that you can get used to the groove of like how things work I think that's a lot of a better, like gives you a better understanding for like what to like look forward to I don't know if you guys agree or disagree with that Yeah I think you know if you can take a few AP or IB classes before graduating I think those can be a great indication of what like intra-college courses will be like. Yeah I think same thing just like how you have to, how you have to end up studying for the classes end up being a little bit different so just a little bit of an adjustment period also like you know in high school you come in and the teacher is going to be talking at you and then you're also going to be talking, sorry, you're going to be talking to people next to you and talking in groups and colleges like that is more like in most classes especially your first few years are a lot more separate you're going to have one class and it's a lecture you have your professor sitting in the front and he's going to be talking at you for an hour in front of 500 people you're at a concert hall basically 500 people 400 depending on what classes you're taking of course and then you also will have like a smaller like maybe once a week or something like a smaller group discussion where you're having a class and a little like a TA teaching it and so it changed a little of the schedule I guess class like in terms of your class hour you spend less time in class in college than high school which is great it gives you a little more flexibility there like I'll tell you for the last few semesters I've had classes maybe three days a week usually I haven't had class on Friday since my sophomore year of college so which is great you know drama is free always and of course you spend you know you have to spend a lot of time outside of class studying or working on things but like your time in class is you're not spending seven hours a day five days a week in class like that doesn't happen which is great and that's why you know in college you're able to some people are able to work you're able to kind of spend a little more time on extra curriculars in that and all that so sometimes that becomes a balancing act I know personally for me this last year that's what it's been balancing classes make sure I'm focused on that but also all the other responsibilities and clubs and research and all this that you're doing so it becomes like a fun thing to try to balance but that sometimes that that kind of becomes the challenge after you get like acclimated you had mentioned about the community pathway to get into you got into Berkeley can you just highlight like what point you make the decision okay do I want to do this and what are the chances of getting into the Berkeley or the other Ivy League schools yeah so actually like I mentioned earlier my college journey was like around it was actually around my sophomore year high school when I decided like hey maybe I want to graduate high school early go straight to college and then you know do college you know at a young age and then just transfer and then and then it was actually after during my junior year when I actually ended up like pulling the trigger on that you can actually take that exam to Chesapeake like as soon as your sophomore year it's a very easy exam for like high school students to take I will also mention that like personally I didn't do very well in high school I had like a two point something GPA I wasn't really like very academically driven at all and that played a role in so I was like I'm going to go to community college anyway but I have a lot of friends I learned about this from my friends who were very academically driven and they were like I'm wasting my time in high school I'd rather just spend this time in college instead of taking AP and IB classes I should rather just take real college classes and get full college credit for those classes and that was the angle that they that they took with it for me was like well I'm not really learning anything here might as well just progress and for me that jump to going from high school and failing my classes in high school to going to college and being like listen this is all on me now it was enough for me to be like okay now I can it was enough for me to draw be driven enough to do well in community college now I've done a lot of research on admission statistics specifically from California community colleges to the University of California so the UC system and essentially the UC system and the California community college system have like a contract where they have to admit as many community college students from California as possible and it is significantly easier to getting into UC Berkeley specifically from a community college than it is through any other route if you're coming from international, out of state, in state from high school anywhere transferring from community college it has the highest probability of getting in and that was a big thing for me so I think and that goes across the board for like other UCs as well so the UCs that don't accept TAG that don't accept a guaranteed transfer program is UCLA UC Berkeley and UC San Diego however all three of them still do accept like over 90 something percent of their transfers from community colleges and it's I think it's about 25 to 30 percent of their incoming class every year of transfers for each of these schools and all these schools are very competitive and very rigorous institutions so at the end of the day I think going into community college actually puts you at such an advantage in terms of admissions that you also have multiple tries like let's say a student doesn't do well and they apply after their second year at community college they can just apply again the next year and they'll get in the next year and that's totally fine there's no timeline associated with these things you go through college, you graduate, you get a job and you're good inshallah so like I said I think community college is very underrated and you know there's a whole stigma of like people will be stuck there forever and the sandy other I usually I do this thing like I'll like sit down with a student and I'll like run them through a two-year plan so I make sure they transfer in two years and Alhamdulillah like this past year I worked with six different students and all six of them got into UC Berkeley so like it's like maybe if you have somebody like me I'm more willing to help anybody out with that to kind of go through that process and what have you I think it makes this a lot more seamless overall so yeah if there's any other questions maybe from the online community or anyone here basically inshallah if you fill out this 10 year old form I know it says 10th and 11th graders on the form but it's also for 12th graders too and we'll make sure that we have two lists separate for we'll send you out the slides we use for today we'll get you the information for the seniors who are attending to get paired with UC Berkeley or get some more targeted feedback as we sort of enter the last last few stages of the application process but thank you all so much for coming and inshallah may Allah bless you all and what's great for your destinies and thank you all for your time thank you so much for joining me