Hi everyone, Joe for jasmiescasebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 upper deck Marvel anime It's like upper deck presents a brand new Marvel trading cards that inspired by Japanese pop culture and art. That's pretty cool So let's check it out. This is a one box Random pack break number one. You can see by my excellent paint skills here That the next one is already in the store. So here's how we're gonna do it We only sold two spots. So each customer that buys and gets eight packs from the box that we've that we select So there's 16 packs per box or we're gonna select a box from a fresh case Number the packs randomize names randomize numbers and whatever Packs you get is what will open for you So let's let's figure out what's gonna happen here big. Thanks to These two people right here There's one two three four five six seven eight So there'll be 16 on this list one two three four five six seven eight nine ten one twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen Get the pack numbers right here One through sixteen and then we'll randomize names randomize pack number. Oh, I already had copied it there And then we'll uh, we'll match you up. We'll see what happened now first Let's uh, let's pop the box open and then we'll sticker the packs right here So there this says 2020 marvel anime. This must be it That the world series game one 2020 world series game went on in the background scoreless in the top of the fourth inning Both pitchers playing Both pitchers pitching pretty well Yeah, rick. I'm not yeah, I think this should be fun too So let's see it. Let's see what we got All right. All right, so there's eight boxes which I've numbered One two three four five six seven eight Let's just go to random.org. This will just be a little bit easier this way Let's just generate a number between one and eight All right, right there you can see and let's Two box two is what we're gonna do We'll save the rest for another another set is if you buy two spots there'd be a personal box There'd be no randomizing we'd have to do in case you want to get a whole box to yourself there we go Featuring all new original base set and thematic insert art That's pretty cool one premium insert or parallel per pack It's kind of what we're looking for Look for foil parallels and artist autographed cards Looks like we've got miniature cards and stuff too It's pretty cool. All right Pop this up So we're just going to label these really quick a bit of a process here If you're watching this on replay, you can always fast forward through this part If you're watching live you're stuck with me watch stuck with me Stickering packs right here. It's cleaner than if we use the sharpie then the sharpie smear Gets all over the place It's a lot nicer this way All right now. Let's get to the randomizing Let's roll in randomized names and num pack numbers Rick's here. You're stuck rick watching me do that three into five eight times for each list There you go one two three four five six seven and eighth and final time after eight Rick down a rig three and a five eight times for the pack numbers seven and eighth and final time After eight we've got packed 12 down to five All right, so there you go rick with 12 six Here, let's do it this way Right so rick with 12 Let's try this right here. All right rick with 12 6 16 7 2 8 10 and 5 Brent and you have the rest you have 15 3 14 1 4 11 9 and 13 So let's order these Numerically, let's order these by name by first name right here And since rick is live in the chat and you bought the spot first I'm going to do your packs first and then brenton will you will do your packs afterwards so rick 12 6 16 12 6 16 7 2 8 7 2 8 10 and 5 10 and 5 So from bottom to top 5 10 8 5 10 8 2 7 16 2 7 16 And then should be 6 and 12 There it is 6 and 12 And then brenton you have the rest right there All right rick Good luck. These packs are hard to rip. Oh, yeah, they're a little bit weird. Come on packs They're not my favorite here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 All right. Well, let's roll. Let's see how many of these characters I can I can get. Well, no hulk we know That's pretty cool and we've got This spider-man right here On a sort of canvas design, which is pretty cool I'm assuming these are just the the base cards There's the winter soldier It's pretty cool and quick silver and we've got I don't know who the oh moon. Is this moon night. Is that the name of the character right there? There you go that acetate design Yes vet commons will ship in this Rick These are kind of kind of cool designs here. All right. Let's see what we got here Let's go bellinger Whoo to run jack I guess bellinger shoulders. Okay, folks I kind of love these minis already. Look at that Rick, I want to collect like a whole set of these minis That's hawkeye I guess there's 65 of them you can collect Oh and an autograph 122 out of 120 gold ink auto On dr. Strange I'm assuming that's the the artist an autographed by peach momoko Who I think did the base set design? That's pretty cool. Got that cool pattern here Sentry Does not this one doesn't look like it's numbered, but Nice curry saying those autos are one per box. Nice I guess I'll just top load these while I'm at it too There's the spider man on the canvas, which is also another Cool-looking set That I would try to build and there's the acetate All right a couple more packs for you. Oh, this is oh capsule characters So there you go I guess I'll leave this to you To open this or not Rick Yeah, it's a rip card basically I guess one of these minis could be inside There's magneto We've got another insert here she-hulk And there's a gambit and she-hulk again All right.  They know who you are. All right. We're shipping team those. Okay, brenton young. Thanks for your patience Let's pop yours open. Let's see what we got. You're welcome, Rick I think that was a pretty decent haul the autograph some fun inserts I don't know what the values of these are on the second secondary market, but I know marvel usually does pretty well These packs are a nightmare though as crotis said What are they gonna do the uh What are they gonna do a gambit movie? I feel like he's a pretty popular character right from the x-men world. I feel like there's There's a standalone movie that they've attempted to do for Ages They just haven't Haven't done it yet. I thought they had something in production. I guess not there's Some thunderbolts here You don't think it'll happen. Curtis knows What disney won't happen There's dagger Kind of like that pattern there Say I haven't seen we haven't seen this pattern yet It's a cool captain marvel card right there There's another acetate here I ran out of top loaders brandon. I'm gonna top load all of those after I finished this video Sorry I'm the juggernaut. There he is the juggernaut That's pretty cool mechanized spider-man He'd be unstoppable Who's gonna beat this guy? Nobody There's wolverine There's colossus Black panther foil pattern is cool. Who I've never heard of piper He's just a piper in the marvel world R.i.p. Chadwick There's strong guy A couple other cards right here too. And there you go brenton Piper has a tv series coming I feel like I feel like I could just write a marvel series from some random character now Stay tuned for that. Joe jaspy writes marvel brenton and rick. Thank you very much for getting into the action Ladies and gentlemen, we've got more in the store. If you buy both the spots, you have a personal box Check it out on jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


Ladies and gentlemen, this is module 158. For this time, we are trying to understand the entrepreneurship and sustainability or sustainable development. How can we get the sustainable development? How can we achieve the sustainable development? Or rather, because entrepreneurs are thought that they never go for the sustainability. They have a lot of ideas, they have taken risks, then they take up much money for some time. And the maximum results are the same. But they have come to our research as everlasting trends, that entrepreneurs have given us long results. But because they come as a fad fashion and leave. But how will our sustainability development come? The fact is that around the world, economic growth and entrepreneurial activity are inextricable link to global warming. Human well-being on the earth is quickly slipping away unless we act now. And then is a logical show of the entrepreneur can seize the opportunity to word the climate resilient pathway. Then is a kaashram has observed onto the implicit of the growth and recovery from recession in the business cycle. So, the reasons would be the explosion of the creativity impulse that lead to innovation, scarcity in the available options, lower operating costs and a severely hit by the behemth of the large corporation. Now, let's look at the four levels here. One is the scarcity of the available options and the low operating costs. They are not able to make lower costs. And then if they want to buy it, then some people will have to obsolete it and narrow down it. And then explosion of creative impulse that lead to innovation. It is a very impulsive innovation that is not gradual, it is not organic. Organic way to get the innovation is different. It takes time. Now, innovation is being used at a strange time. And its ontology has started to change. Its notion of the idea of innovation has become different now. So, what is it? Now, I would like to show you this space here. If you pay attention, this is all over the world opportunity space. If you look at it, where are the positive matures going? Where are the high-resilient going? Where is the low-risk space coming? Then, look at the seasonal points. There are different pathways. And you look at the climate of the resilient path carefully. Then, look at the multiple stress areas. Where have they come from? Then, what are the biophysical stressors? Then, what are your social stressors? Then, what are your resilient spaces? These are different ideas that are coming in front of you. Now, if you look at it, what entrepreneurs understand that other do not is the opportunity space. These are the decision points and the pathways and can lead to the positive futures and venture ideas that have different levels of risk and resilience. Then, it is an entrepreneur's take advantage of these pathways and routes to market where other people fail to act or they fail to manage risk related to the planet's evolution. So, different ideas. Let us take an example of all these specific path spaces and tell you where there are resilient ideas, where there is low-space, where there is high-space order. Now, look here. Eco-culture. Here, raising aquatic animals and plants for the food. Then, bio-banking has started. Carbon has started coming towards biomass. Now, there is a lot of space for biomass. I told you about bio-banking. There is a crop-genetic diversity insurance. There was no idea about ecotourism. Now, there is a lot of space for that. Now, look here. I have looked at the agriculture, bio-banking, biomass. Then, look at the crop-genetic diversity. Look at the ecotourism. And then, there is a reducing emission for the deforestation of the forest, degradation, REDD, creating financial value of the carbon stored in forest, offering incentive to reduce emission from the forested land and invest low-carbon path in sustainable development. So, these are the different adaptions. These are the different paths. Now, look here. When a lot of carbon is being thrown, then there are reverse ideas. They give money. It is called necrop or psychop. Psychop starts coming into your reverse. You can read it in Six Sigma as well. Copis or psychop. Copis or psychop. Copis or psychop. In this, reverse ideas start coming to you. When these reverse ideas come, then look at the amount of ideas you have on biomass.  You can produce energy. So, this is how the example of entrepreneur protecting the environment. You can take a lot of work on the climate of the environment and take a lot of profit. You need ideas on this side. Remember what I just told you. Work on this space. Try to understand the opportunity space. Try to trigger, try to analyze. Try to figure out that opportunity space and gap where you can earn, where you can invest, where you can take risk and must be mitigated risk, calamity or environmental, man or AI technology, whatsoever. So, you have space available. So, finding the opportunity on space and working on it, that will give you the benefit. Thank you very much.


Okay, hi everyone. I'm Steven Downs. I work with the National Research Council of Canada. And my presentation for you all today is open learning in the metaverse. And as I was commenting with a moderator beforehand, this is not one of the top 50 presentations at the conference. At the bottom, I don't know 100. I should have used Fediverse, maybe that would have made all the difference, or multiverse, whatever. I'm just kidding. I got a lot of stuff to talk about today. There will be room for questions. Moderator will be monitoring the chat. So if you have any urgent questions, she will jump in. Otherwise, we'll be holding them to the end, and I do intend to leave time for questions at the end, although I say that a lot and deliver a lot less frequently. But let's keep, let's get going. Here's the context. We've got a whole pile of new digital technologies, new terms, new concepts, the metaverse, Fediverse, blockchain, Web3, Activity Pub, and more. You know, that's the new world that we're in. What I want to do in this talk is show you the relation between them all.  But these slides will be available. The link is or will be posted in the chat. They're on my website now. And so you can refer back to them. There's a few main points to keep in mind. I'll flag those as we go along. But what I'm really trying to do is to give you the core pattern to look at to recognize what people are talking about when they're talking about these new technologies. That's it. This is a non-technical presentation. I'm not going to be talking about tech, but you know, I'm not going to start getting into the details of the tech because this isn't the conference for that. I understand most people here are educators and even more importantly, few people want the deep tech stuff. Although I do like to talk about the deep tech stuff, but not today. I'm going to consider all of these technologies, not just from what they are, but also thinking about the risks, the impacts, the ethical considerations to some degree. And again, my thinking here is I want you to be, as I'm going through, again, don't try to remember. Try to think of ideas. Try to think of how does this relate to what I know about open education? That's how to do it. Now, if I was in a different way of doing these things, I'd have another screen just as big. You can jot down your thoughts as I went along. But most of us don't have two screens and extra places where we can type stuff. So the technology is not quite ready for that sort of interaction yet. So let's begin. I'm going to look at, first of all, the two major concepts in the title of this presentation. First of all, what is open learning? Obviously, this is a conference about the subject. I assume most of you know what it is or has what areas it covers. But it's based on principles of learner centeredness, lifelong learning, removal of barriers to access learning, recognition perhaps of credit for prior learning experience, open pedagogies and learning support, etc. This is just one way of characterizing open learning. There are a variety of ways. They all kind of revolve around these themes. Open learning has different areas. Yeah, I remember back in the early to mid 2000s, we were thinking of open curricula, open content, open assessment. Well, here's a presentation that looks at 10 different dimensions, content, pedagogy, access, pedagogy, access, research, etc. Again, everybody has their own list and that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. There is no one received official list of what constitutes open learning in my mind. The other side of the presentation is what is the Fediverse. That's a tougher one. It's tough. I know to wrap your mind around the concept. This is an introductory picture only. It looks a bit messy. Let's summarize what the Fediverse is in a phrase. I would say it's a network of networks. And you might have heard people say, well, that's what the Internet is. And yes, that is what the Internet is. The Internet is a Fediverse in many important respects and you should see that pattern throughout. Well, it is a Fediverse in many important respects. So although the Fediverse is a new thing, it's also a very old thing. Now, how does this come into contact with open learning or open education? Well, with respect to what's called the re-decentralization of the web, open learning advocates and Fediverse advocates have a lot in common. And I'll actually read this out from the re-decentralized website. We've had enough of digital monopolies and surveillance capitalism. We want a world that works for everyone, just like the original intention of the web and net. We want a world of open platforms and protocols with real choices of applications and services for people. We care about privacy, transparency and autonomy. Our organizations and tools should be fun, should fundamentally be, should be fundamentally, it's probably a better way of saying it, accountable and resilient. You know, you think about the other sessions in this conference, all of that should kind of ring true, right?  So let's do a thought experiment. Think of Twitter. Now, if I was in a room, I'd say how many of you know about Twitter or how many of you use Twitter and everybody would raise their hands, right? How many of you would be, you know, establishing something in common? Now, Twitter is a single website. It's a silo, right? All the messages, all the users, everything that there is to Twitter all goes to that single site. Same with Facebook, same with Instagram, same with LinkedIn. That's that corporate siloizing surveillance capitalist kind of approach. And Twitter, like these other sites, contains a social network. It looks a bit like this only multiply it by 500 million. And Facebook looks like this only multiply it by a billion, right? It's got what we call a graph in it. There are users represented by the orange dot and may follow where they communicate with other users represented by the gray lines. So that's inside Twitter. One of the problems with Twitter is that it can't connect with other social networks. So if you don't like what Twitter's doing, or maybe if you don't like who owns Twitter, or who will own Twitter, if you jump to Facebook, and now you're blocked from all your Twitter friends.  You jumped from Facebook, or now you lose touch with all your Facebook friends and in fact I did. Super annoying. So, the problem is they have no common language or protocol, they have no way to speak to each other. So there actually isn't a way in Twitter for me to follow someone on Facebook and vice versa. So imagine a new protocol that could allow them to connect. That's not so hard to imagine right. If I was in Twitter I could just follow somebody's Facebook feed. If I was in Facebook I could just follow someone's Twitter feed, just like I follow other people inside Facebook or inside Twitter now. They could do this if they wanted. But they won't. It works against their business model their business model you know is basically where content goes to die. They draw you in they don't want you to leave. Instead, imagine an open source social network, kind of like Twitter that does connect with other services. That's what we have here. So here we have one social network we have another social network and we have a way to connect between them. The example I'm using here is a software called master them. This is the fediverse. The first picture of the fediverse in the fediverse individual social networks are called instances.  I'm being on technical and using the terms a little bit loosely forgive me if you're a technician forgive me. But that basically is what the fediverse is. So, why the fediverse. Well, one of the major reasons is my site, my rules. The fediverse here's another picture of the fediverse on the side we got individual master on instances individual WordPress instances and instances of other stuff I don't know what they are. Each one of them is owned by a different person or group of people, each one of them operates by its own rules, which means that you don't need to convince Elon Musk that a no Nazi rule should apply in your network. No Nazis in my network. And you don't have to deal with different perspectives on what should be allowed or not allowed. And we see that in actual practice. In the master on fediverse here this we've quoted Christina Hendricks here. But also a lot of people belong to an instance called scholar social which is pretty, pretty restrictive in terms of content. Other people belong to say truth dot social, which has its own content limitations and its own things that it allows everybody has your own rules. Now you notice they're all connected together here but it's the fediverse which means if you don't want to follow someone, if you don't want to follow another instance, or link to another instance, you don't have to. My network that I'm on master on social does not connect to truth dot social, which already makes it way better than Twitter for me. There are different ways of using this kind of system. And one of the best ways in my experience is experiencing the small and more intimate groups that you get in a federated social network. As compared to a mass social network like Twitter because you're not sharing with the entire world every time you share. We can explore, you know, we can explore narratives, we can explore how we form communities, alternate possibilities, we can accept the communities come and go and there's a flow, and all of that is, and more is documented in the paper called pedagogy of small, and I've put a link to it there. Also, there's just as an aside, if you get these slides forever you slide there's a notes page on every notes page there's a ton of links. Supporting what's on the slide. So, here's a, you know, and so this came about as a result of a couple of hashtags on mastodon, one of them is small poems, which, which I quite like another one is small stories. Again, we small ephemeral groups that form and disappear. OERU, Open Educational Resource University has created its own instance of mastodon so it's joined the Fediverse connecting people with hashtags here, using a scavenger hunt hashtag to have a worldwide scavenger hunt. Federated commenting. People have blog posts, or they might have static content on a website. Using an interface like this one described here allows for people to use their mastodon account, or their Fediverse account to comment on static content. It's still in trial, still being tested but again it's a learning application, just as an aside, and I probably should have mentioned this earlier. I did quite a bit of background reading for this and I'll actually link to some of it or show you some of it later on. I found very little in the way of resources on open education or open learning and the Fediverse and so a lot of these things, a lot of these areas there won't be a lot of resource solid federated commenting there isn't a whole lot of stuff that actually works yet. So, for those of you who are still looking for research projects there's tons of different research projects and things that you can try and evaluate. In broad scope here's here's what the lay of the land is prefer you know the empirical projects and the pilot programs. That's still like a blue ocean as they say there's there's almost nothing in the literature covering this. Oh, my headline format is wrong. Now Twitter is micro contents and by micro contents you know I mean to post 256 characters or whatever. Mass do the same sort of thing, but the Fediverse because linking is so free and easy. So here's a few of the limitations. There can be multiple kinds of content and therefore multiple kinds of instances. And so here's a few on this slide for things like micro blogging or personal networking there's plamora or friend to cut. If you're interested in link aggregating sharing links, there's lemmy. There's hosting and sharing in a federated social network as an alternative say to YouTube. There's peer tube. Similarly as an alternative to Instagram or or to flicker. There's pixel fed and similarly as an alternative to I don't know what these days because it seems like Spotify owns everything. There's a federated pub past podcasting platform. And what's neat is these because these are all part of the Fediverse. They all connect together so if you're on mastodon you can follow at least in theory and the count on pixel fed, or you can follow somebody's video feed on peer tube, etc. I was doing some testing for this and with the idea of maybe I'll show you some of the stuff but first of all the probabilities of time but secondly I found it's not always working remember this. A lot of this is still leading edge technology and has it been widely made solid yet, although it gets better and better by the month. So, some of the things you can do. Here's an article from Matthew Turner, Matthew Turner on teaching and learning with friendica friendica is another platform, another place where you can create an instance. So in that way it's very similar to mastodon.  So that's one benefit another benefit. It's not subject to surveillance data mining profiling. You can control who accesses your social network. That's a really important thing. If you wanted, you can set up a social network and not linked to any of the other instances in the Fediverse, or maybe just one or two. You also can sort of create your own private subnet sub Fediverse net, whatever I don't know if there's a name for it, which isn't connected to the rest of it. And this creates a safe space for people to try out social networking without ruining their job prospects 20 years from now. I think that has to be a good thing. There's another application, a learning application right now. If we want to do live content streaming we typically turn to something like YouTube or Twitch, which is what I do, I do quite a bit of streaming on YouTube but there is an alternative, something I still need to learn to play with. And that's streaming jitzy through peer to live. So jitzy is a conferencing program. It's a lot like zoom, very similar to zoom. And we could have a conference in jitzy and using the Fediverse stream it through peer to so people could watch the content stream, just the way they could watch a constant content stream on YouTube if they want it. Another one which maybe is a bit of a controversial one but I want to mention, mention it here because it's important is the original conception of moodle net. Now this was created by Doug Belshaw and others originally, eventually moodle decided they didn't want to do it this way. And so they terminated that projecting dead moodle net as I've looked at it a very ordinary within a single LMS constant content sharing sort of thing wasn't open at all. That's open a little bit but but nothing like the Fediverse but the original version of moodle net. Invasion federated content sharing, you know, images, open educational resources, whatever, within a learning management system. I have no idea what the moodle politics were behind that and I don't even want to know, honestly. But I always thought the idea of having a federated open educational resource content sharing service attached to and usable by learning management systems and not just one brands like moodle, but all brands so that people can share no information they were necessarily using. I always thought that was a good idea. And as Doug Belshaw wrote in one of his posts, this would encourage participation, efficiency and privacy, all all told together in this resource sharing network. Also, a next generation digital learning ecosystem now you're I know you're probably thinking edgy cause when I come up with a mouthful like that. But this is what was created for only are you by Dave Lane and Claire good and other colleagues to federated infrastructure with different kinds of open linked technologies, being able to communicate with each other. It's a good chance to have Dave Lane give a talk and explain what he's done. Jump at the chance. The work is really good. The stuff behind the tech stuff behind the scenes is a bit daunting. But once you have it and you can have it on your own server or on the cloud installation. And the actual using of these kinds of systems is pretty easy it's no more complicated than using Twitter, or using a blogging software, etc.  I'm giving you some educational applications. The important part is now, and these are the elements of a Fediverse or federated software that they have in common. Sorry about the manual grammar there. So, I'm just going to take you all step by step through this. So first of all, we begin with instances and instance, sometimes called a hub sometimes called a server, sometimes called a pod. If you're Tim Berners-Lee. There are web servers that sit somewhere, maybe in the institutional infrastructure, maybe in the cloud somewhere that are accessible by the Internet. And there are different types of instances, as I've already mentioned, mastered on Frendica, etc. I can sit here, I could do an entire talk just on the different instances that there are there's many, many different kinds of instances. And loosely though, we'll focus on a few specific types of instance. Now, connecting these instances are what we will loosely call protocols. A protocol, we can think of it as just a language that these different instances use to talk to each other. We, the users of these instances, don't need to worry about the protocols at all, or hardly at all. We certainly don't know how to need to know how to speak that language. The whole point of the Fediverse is the software knows how to speak that language. So there are different protocols. One of them is called activity pub. I've already mentioned that that's used to connect to instances. Some others are diaspora, which is very old now. Oh, there you have 10 years. Zot, which I know almost nothing about. Adam, which is very old. And I just threw in SMTP, which stands for simple mail transport protocol. That's the protocol used to send email from one email server to another email server. And the new web is just like the old web, right? It's the weird centralized sites like Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn that are the aberrations. It's important to remember that. So, also, all of these federated social network systems will have users of some sort. Sometimes they're called subscribers. Sometimes they're called members. Sometimes they're called accounts in grasshopper, my own software. I call them persons, which seems nicer. So and what happens is each user subscribes to an individual instance. So a person can subscribe to Master Don, a person can subscribe to peer tube, etc. And that's how you set up your individual network. So this is one network. And this is another network and then they're connected through our protocol. Users have their own addresses. That's how we identify individual users. Typically, what we do is we combine the name of the user with the name or the address of the instance to form our username. So the name of the user, the name of the instance, put them together. And that's the full username. So we have, for example, you one, which is user one, whoops. I shouldn't have done that. There we go. You one at instance two. So that's this user you one at instance to you to add instance one. So there's you to an instance one, etc. You may be asking, I certainly would ask nobody could stop me really. Can you have accounts on multiple instance. And the answer is yes. I have downs at master. I'm not social downs at pure tube dot org downs at pixel fed dot org, etc. So okay yeah you can. How do you know you one on one instance is the same as you one on another instance or downs at this is the same as downs at that you don't. That's one of the conundrums facing the Fediverse. So you one at instance one could be one person here in Canada, you one at instance to could be a completely different person, maybe in Germany. So that's an important thing to keep in mind. Another question people might have is suppose I'm you one at instance. I should say instance one. Oh how terrible. You wanted instance one. Would I just move my account to instance to yes you can. That's one of the great advantages of the Fediverse. You can move your entire account including your content and all of your followers all the people you're following from one instance over to another. And you simply cannot do with Twitter you simply cannot do with Facebook, even Google plus made it hard to do, you would have to use the Google plus take out application which is anyone who's used it knows that that's a nightmare. This is much easier. So there's some fluidity and some mobility here, but there are still some questions lingering in our mind right. Another common element that Fediverse software has is what we'll call client a client stands in between you and the instance. So think of it, you might recall the client tweet deck for Twitter. It was a time when tweet deck wasn't told by Twitter it was a separate standalone company, and you'd use tweet deck in order to access your Twitter account. Now of course Twitter owns everything, because that's what they do. Here we have clients that do the same sort of thing. It allows me to access the network from different devices so for example, I access the master on my master on account on my phone using something called tusky to access it on the web. I could use an application but I just use the plain old default website because I have no imagination at all. If I got an iPhone that I would ever get an iPhone, but if I got an iPhone, I could use a different application to connect to mess it on on the iPhone. I can even have a standalone desktop client that is not a web browser. I can use to access my master on account. Another way of accessing your Fediverse account is through plugins. A plugin is an extension to some other software that allows you to connect with the Fediverse, usually for publishing but not exclusively for publishing. Some more well known plugins exist for WordPress or Drupal, but as time goes by I can imagine Fediverse plugins beginning to be developed for even things like Microsoft Word or Excel or PowerPoint or whatever. Or Google Doc, Google would never let you do that, would they? I don't know about Microsoft. And basically so the WordPress plugin, for example, I have a WordPress account called leftish.media and I write posts on that and I've set it up so that if I write a post on leftish it automatically sends the post to my master on account. I could, in theory, also set it up so that if somebody unmasked it on, commented on my post, and it wouldn't matter if they could be on my instance or some other instance or they could be using, I don't know, a peer tube. Make a video comment, I suppose. That could show up on my original WordPress post. Now, again, you're asking, well, doesn't that create a whole possibility of spam? Yeah, but less so than the traditional web. Because, again, we have the Federation which intermediates for us. So somebody on Truth Social who comments on my post, I'm never going to see it. And thank goodness, because I don't want to see it. Now there are different types of protocols. There's not just activity pub, there's a range of different protocols. And to give you a sense, you know, the web's full of protocols, but to give you a sense for that. And some of the other protocols that you know, like the content protocols, the ways we organize content, HTML, which is how we make web pages or XML or PDF or DocX or whatever. There are various data protocols that could have put SQL in there, JSON, etc. There are linking protocols. The href is how we link on the web. That is how we link in another system I'll talk about later. We have transit or transport protocols, HTTP, which is how we transmit data on the World Wide Web, Activity Pub, which I've talked about, is how we transmit data on the, in the Fediverse. Even syndication protocols, which are ways of providing information about how you can follow a person, how you can follow content, etc. So, again, protocols, it's an alphabet soup, but the main way to think about it is different languages for different purposes. Now I didn't make a slide here, but I thought about it. And because I thought about it, I share. It would be a fun exercise to have students create their own protocol. Back in the early days of the web, somebody once created PTP, the Pigeon Transport Protocol. It was the protocol for sending messages using carrier pigeons. Can you imagine the sorts of protocols that people would come up with, you know, just as an exercise, maybe a collaboration exercise or a team exercise. It's a great way of getting them thinking about, you know, what the mechanics are, what the issues are in the whole realm of sharing content. Anybody can create a protocol. That's one of the beautiful things about it. And because master done, and other Fediverse applications are open source, you could actually create a protocol from scratch, and edit it on so that it supports that protocol. Now, you need some good programming chops to do that, but you can imagine doing it. Another way of another set, another, how do I want to put this, another version of the Fediverse is what's called the indie web. I talked about using master done to publish your in your WordPress post right so you write a post on WordPress, and you publish it on master done and comments can show right up on WordPress. What if we changed a couple things what if we removed the middleman, which is master done. And just had our blogs communicate directly with each other. Now, my blog becomes an instance in a Fediverse.  Now, they're not really network, it's not really a network of networks anymore, or it is, but each network only has one person in it. And that's what characterizes the indie web. And also we're a related initiative from Jim Green called domain of one zone, where instead of having a bunch of people joined together to create an instance. You create an instance all by yourself now you could do that with master done. And that would probably be what I would do if I created a master done instance it would be just for me. Because if I opened it up I'd have about three people join and what's the point of that right. And, but most people do it with their blog. But if you use a protocol called web mentioned, and a syndication protocol called H card, then you can create a federated social network with your blocks. Detailed and technical, and it's not ready for prime time yet. But we can certainly imagine, which is the state where we're at right now. Imagine that anytime you created a blog, you could connect with a network of other blogs. So you can have a set of class blogs all interacting together, etc. You can get all the benefits of blogging, but without many of the problems of blogging and probably the big problem of blogging. I think for especially for newer bloggers is you write a blog post nobody reads it. Nobody likes that. This is being trialed in various places and here's an article from Mozilla, where they're using the indie web as I've just described to help students and educators create open educational resources so the way they do that as they create, or provide free websites to the students and the educators, then, and then they use these websites. Probably WordPress, although honestly I didn't chat. And indie web protocols to create this network. And, you know, now you have people creating learning resources, learning with learning resources and of course interacting with each other to my mind, a very empowering experience. One of the questions that comes up. And this is an important question is going to change, not just the Fediverse, but a lot of what we do generally in the world of open education is the question of persistence. And the question of persistence is essentially, how do you know one thing is the same as another thing, or over time, how do you know one thing now is the same as that thing later. Or if you're searching for a resource. How do you know the resource that you're getting is the resource that you asked for. Now, this, this is on the one hand a technical problem. And on the other hand, the social problem. And there have been all kinds of ways of trying to solve this and you're probably familiar with digital object identifier or the hand up protocol or Pearl, the urn which is the actual way that we use to address resources on the worldwide web. What they all have in common is they don't work. The web sort of works DOI sort of works, but I can't tell you how many times I've clicked on a DOI or a handle and gotten something like this resource is no longer available. And I'm sure other people have had that experience too. And persistence becomes even more of a problem. Once we get into a distributed or decentralized network on Twitter. I'm going to add downs because I have the little blue Twitter thing right and so yeah okay Twitter verifies my identity. But on a distributed network, it's hard to do. So what's happening in education you've probably all seen this to some degree or another is an identity Federation, which is another kind of Fediverse is set up the same way it has instances and protocols and all the rest. But I just described, but it's used for identity in common for example which many of you would use at your own universities mostly in the US is is used to login using your university account it uses an identity registration system called chivalrous, which is the master on a federated identity and chivalrous uses something called security assertion markup language or SAML, which is the activity pub of distributed identity seems it's all the same right. Well, we can have a single sign on kind of system but there's, to my mind, a big huge problem with that. And that is, what if you don't go to university or you don't work for university. I had I experienced that with edgy realm I experienced that with all of these federated systems, because I worked for the federal government and I don't belong to any of them. And similarly people outside the federal government can't connect or sign into our systems either isn't a big mess. So, that's where Federation sits with respect to identity right now. And then down the pipe is decentralized identity sometimes also called self sovereign identity which is really a bad name for it. This is a worldwide web consortium. Protocol, basically. You can name a method and then the actual identifier. Now, there can be all kinds of different methods and all kinds of different identifiers. But this basically is the name of the protocol that you're using. This basically is your username in that protocol. That's one way around this and that way everybody would get their own unique identifier. Now there's questions of privacy with this. There's questions of, you know, who controls it a big part of decentralized identity is that it should be standalone such that nobody controls it. There are people trying to move distributed identity into the fediverse so that you remember I asked you know how do I know that downs at scholar social is the same person as downs at Bastadon social right now you don't. But if I could connect both of those to a distributed identity, then I, you could know that it's one in the same person. Or more to the point I as that person could prove it other people might not know necessarily. And again it's one of these ethical questions you asked right what's the right answer here. The main point of this is to enable follow it. I encourage you to look at this is Clint LaLonde's link here. Open educators on Macedon it's a whole list of open educators on Macedon. There's a site out there called trunk, which does the same sort of thing but with different communities and users. This is one of the future learning applications right, you can get collections of people, different interest groups, different lists of people similar to Twitter lists. There are people who are in many different fediverse instances on they maybe in pixel fan hubzilla diaspora whatever they can all be on the list, and you can subscribe to or follow them all. And trunk actually kind of almost allows a mass following so that you're not constantly entering every single name into a form. There are many other types of decentralization. And I knew ahead of time I wouldn't have a whole lot of time to talk about them, but I want to tweak them in your mind so you realize. Oh yeah, same thing different place so you have HTML pages soccer that's where is messaging content and data ledgers and finance and virtual world briefly decentralized content and data. There's a federated system called interplanetary file system. There's also the dat protocol for decentralized content. So whole mechanism here for decentralized content. I've written about it and tested it to create something I called content addressable resources for education. In this case instead of creating an identifier for a person, I created an identifier for each individual piece of content, and then I link those identifiers together. And the trick here is to create a unique identifier for each piece of content, based on the content of that content. There's also distributed ledgers. You've heard of them is blockchain Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the rest. Again, it's just a federation. Each person in the federation takes care of recording financial transactions. A digital coin like Bitcoin is a protocol for how you record and track these transactions and how you come to agreement on what transactions has happened. It's all it is all the rest of it is fluff. Decentralized credentials can use something like a blockchain network in order to ensure that this credential actually does belong to this person and was guaranteed by that institution because you have identifiers for all three of them. And that way you can have a distributed network of credentials. Tons of open learning applications here, some of them are already talked about under the heading of badges, and even some talk about using blockchain for credentials at this conference and other conferences. But the question for educators is, what happens when anybody can produce a credential. That's what this allows. That is open education, though, isn't it? Decentralized worlds.  I play No Man's Sky, which is almost like a VR game. And, you know, I can't go from No Man's Sky to Minecraft. But imagine I could. All of these questions about persistence come up again, like for example, suppose I have a sword in No Man's Sky. I don't have a, I have a phase or multi tool. I have a multi tool in No Man's Sky. I go to Minecraft. Do I still have my multi tool? Suppose I had money units in No Man's Sky. I go to Minecraft. Do I still have money? Am I the same person in No Man's Sky or Minecraft? Is the person who's hosting it the same person, etc. All these questions come up. These are all addressed under the heading of persistence. Steven, I'm sorry to interrupt. You know, we have five minutes left. Keep going on. Or if you want to take questions. I've got one minute left. Got it. I admit there will be time for questions. So, and two things I want to say. First, Web three, you've heard it. You didn't know what it was. Now you know what it is. Web three is everything I've talked about so far up to and including persistence up to and including blockchain and distributed identity and all of the rest. All of that together is Web three. Different people will emphasize different aspects of it. Like, for example, here in digital, they talk about based on proof cryptographic proof of who you are your distributed identity, but doesn't matter. All of it is Web three. And the metaverse, you've heard a lot about the metaverse. Well, that's our decentralized virtual worlds, either virtual reality, augmented reality or mixed reality. They're combined with persistence. So that may mean digital currencies. That may mean digital identities, or that may mean digital objects such as non fungible tokens. And all that means when I talk about persistent digital objects is they each have a unique and verifiable digital ID. But the issues and the questions. That's the presentation. Oh, I accidentally hit on the link instead of changing the page. Sorry about that. I'm Steven Downs, www.downs.ca comments questions I certainly welcome them. I have a question in the chat. I think we all thought it was very interesting I'm sure a lot of us have no idea about any of this. I didn't. But Lorraine asked if this is basically like social media or would repositories be a part of it. So repositories would definitely be a part of it, I think. Yeah, you can build a standalone silo repository using d space or whatever. But, you know, that's part of what mood on that the original version, not the current version was intended to be was an OER repository using activity pub which made it part of the Fediverse. So definitely. And if you think about it. Yeah, you can have persistent identifiers. And you can have persistent identity for that for the authors persistent identifiers for the objects. And that makes it much more flexible and much easier to share content than what we currently do. Especially to ensure that the content you've shared is the content that was originally requested. If anyone has any other questions feel free to put those in the chat or you can raise your hand or feel free to unmute yourself as well. So I'm looking at Emma Woods comment so enjoying this tremendously thank you Emma. This is a completely new concept. Yeah, I know that. And that's why I thought it was important to do this presentation at this conference. Open education and open educational resources are in some important ways, still in the world of the late 1990s and early 2000s and we ours come out of the concept called learning objects and now these these were. And that could be said about learning objects with this idea of being able to create and share and rebuild and reuse digital contents. And the rest of the world moved on. First of all, it moved into silos. And so, you know, we got real usability problems with shared digital objects. And now it's moving away from the silos. And it's, you know, the way we move away from the silos creates new kinds of openness for us. I mean, sometimes I pose this as a challenge, but I also pose this as an opportunity, you know, how can we be open in different ways like I mentioned the identity Federation, the in common. It's used by say edgy cause and other organizations. Is it part of open education to have identity federations that support, not just people who've paid tuition and can access the university, but the general public as a whole. It seems to me that it is. I mentioned earlier. The, the idea of not simply the idea of open credentials people have talked about that before but if you mix open credentials into something like a Fediverse kind of environment, then anyone can create credentials. I have created, you know, I have created my own badges I've awarded badges for participation in a mood. And these can be shared in the Fediverse as part of your personal portfolio or whatever. So, how do we talk about good badges versus bad badges is the capacity to create and earn badges part of open education or not. These are important questions to my mind, but there are also opportunities. Stephen we are at time so I'm going to stop the recording but there is another question in there as well from Emma about do you anticipate federated social networks were replaced the silo type at some point or coexist and I'm just going to stop the recording but people can still keep talking. Yeah, they, they will coexist.


If anybody's watching this with a low GPA and like withdraws, I just want you to know, yes, you can still get it. What's up, YouTube? So today we're gonna talk to Erin and discuss how she got into medical school. I was fortunate enough to work with her on her personal statement. So she's gonna share all of her kind of tips and tricks throughout her journey. And, but before that, please make sure to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss a video on personal statements and secondaries, which is my expertise. Okay, so let's get started.  But yeah, so talk to us about who you are, your major, did you take gap years, re-applicant, all that good stuff. Sure, okay. So like you said, my name is Erin. I just got accepted to medical school. So I'm an incoming MS-1. I'm gonna be starting in around July of this year. So I went to UC Berkeley and I graduated in 2017. So it's definitely been a while and I had several gap years at Berkeley. I majored in nutrition, metabolism, and physiology. And while I was there, I really struggled. So at my high school, I had graduated as valedictorian and I really thought going into college that I knew how to study and that I knew what I needed to do to be a successful pre-med. Totally did not, real world hit me. So I was definitely a low GPA applicant, but honestly, struggling at Berkeley is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.  Yeah, so both times around, I turned it in, like as soon as it opened, it might not have been the first day, it might have been the second day, just because somebody had told me like don't turn it in on the first day because there might be like errors because so many people are trying to submit. I don't know if that's true, but I just decided to submit it on the second day. So yeah, it was definitely as early as possible thing. So talk to us about your kind of experience, writing your personal statement and all that good stuff. Yeah, so when I wrote my personal statement the first time I applied, I was like, I have my GPA, I had done a post-bac, so things got a little better there. I had a great MCAT score, I had great activities and I was like, okay, I'm good to go. And I really thought the personal statement was just like, hello, yes, I'm interested in medicine and I want to help people. Again, for me, this really went back to not talking to enough people. And also in your personal statement, you're usually sharing some kind of vulnerable things and it can be scary to have other people read that. So I really struggled with that as well and I definitely didn't have enough people read my personal statement because I didn't realize how important it was. So then now you have even higher stakes because now you're reapplying, how did you approach the personal statement differently this time? Right, okay. So obviously I applied back to back and when you apply back to back, there's not much else that can change about your application. The activities, you probably already projected the hours. If you were starting an activity, you might've sent that as an update. So there's really not much else that changed besides my writing. And going into that, I just realized I needed a lot more feedback. I had to get over my fear of other people reading this. I had to get over like a fear of judgment and I just sent it to a ton of people that I trusted. So this was a couple of students in medical school who I trusted with their writing skills. Also you, who helped me a lot, definitely recommend using you as a resource. But I think what I realized is that a couple of things. One, it mattered more than I thought. So it really couldn't just be something generic. This might be the first thing that people see when they grab your application. So it really needs to stand out. And I always tell people now that I think they have two jobs with their personal statement. Number one is to explain your why medicine. And number two is to keep the reader's interest. Because I think people go into this thinking this is a pre-med application for medical school. It needs to be X, Y, Z way. And it doesn't because at the end of the day it's not robots on the other side. It's humans who are just as interested in stories and things like that as you are. And that's how they connect to you. So I didn't realize the importance of that before. I actually shout out to Shown, the pre-med because that's actually how I found you was, I noticed you're doing that again. That's how I found you last time. And so when I watched your Zoom session with her I realized everything that I had done wrong is everything that I needed to do going forward. But it was really just telling stories and especially sharing emotions because even if somebody can't connect to your personal experience they can probably connect to the things that you were feeling. So just realizing all of that and realizing that a personal statement is really the bow over your whole application because I had my activities. They can see the things I've done and now they wanna know why. Did you just do this to check off a box? No, so you need to show them why you did these things and really have that huge Y.  But what is going to get you up is your Y. And I think that's why it's so important to them. They need to know that this is bigger than you that you have this huge reason that you need to go through this and that you can be someone's biggest advocate because your Y is so unique and that's the population of people you're gonna be able to help. Yeah, no, I love that, I love that. What are tips that you could share regarding MCAT studying? You know, I needed to do super well on it because of my low GPA. So I took that super seriously even though I procrastinated on it for a while I was really scared to take it because the stakes were so high. So I didn't take it until after I had graduated. I did take a Kaplan course just because I had purchased it my freshman year of college and got a super good deal because I had purchased it so early. I don't recommend taking a course just because for the most part I thought it was a waste of time. It's a lot of passive learning and you wanna be doing more active learning. What I did love was the access to all the practice tests and practice questions. Just something I learned while I was studying and why I also don't recommend taking a course is that for the MCAT, there's so much content and you're so tempted to spend all your time just studying content. But I feel like content is like 20% of the test and knowing the MCAT is the other 80% because I saw such a huge improvement in my test scores when I stopped focusing on just learning the material and I started focusing on, okay, what does the MCAT want from me and taking as many, many practice tests as possible. So my biggest thing would be to take as many practice tests as possible. Also, when you schedule your test date make sure you're not putting yourself in a tough position by scheduling it. Sure that you're giving yourself room to push back that date because you will not be unique if you push back your date. Many students push back their date. The MCAT is crazy. So it takes a while to figure out what it is and how you need to study for it and then you figure it out and you're like, oh, and usually once you figure it out you need like two or three months more to study and that's if you're going for a really high score. Yeah, let's say I'm a pre-med, I'm a sophomore and undergrad right now. I don't know even where to begin with volunteering, clinical exposure. How did you find the opportunities that you found and the activities that you kind of engaged with and what were they? Yeah, so probably the best way I found activities was by joining a pre-med sorority. I actually in college worked as a medical assistant for two years at a primary care office and I got that position through somebody I knew in that organization. So if you haven't learned this yet, I'm sure you'll continue to learn it but your network is your net worth. Like that's where you're gonna get everything, your advice, your positions, it's honestly so helpful. So that's where I got the majority of my clinical experiences from is just knowing those people.  I had no idea. I don't know if this was like it back then but at least now it's fairly easy to find opportunities just by doing a quick Google search. How many hours of shadowing did you do? I was kind of low on the shadowing and if I could go back in time, I think I would have done more shadowing just because I see people's experiences now and it just looks so cool and so fun. But I had probably like 200 or 300 hours and this was, I think even if it stood out for me probably or what made up for the fact that I feel like my hours were kind of low is that I had started this in high school just because I went to a really weird high school. I went to a medical high school. So I had some shadowing opportunities then and because of the sorority I was in, I was also able to make connections and get shadowing early. So it wasn't just like crammed into the last year or last two years of my journey. It was, you know, this person is clearly interested in being a physician. How did you strategize your secondary's application? Like how did you manage all those essays? Did you pre-write? It's so funny I was creeping in my room and preparing to move yesterday and I actually found one of my to-do list of secondaries and basically every day I had like different categories of, okay, I need to, today I'm turning these ones in. Today I'm editing these ones and sending it to this person and today I'm starting to write these ones. So in ideal world, you would pre-write a lot of them. I think if you Google most common secondaries you can get some good answers drafted. But the thing is even for the schools that have really similar questions, it's just enough different that you kind of have to rewrite the whole thing. So it's really inconvenient and frustrating. And I think the best piece of advice I can give with this is to take your time because I know it seems like you're in such a rush and you know, you wanna get these back early and I'm not saying to take like a month but for the school, my top choice school that I got into, I took two weeks to turn in that secondary because I was so scared and I had so many people editing it and you know, you never really feel done. You just have to like pull the plug at some point and turn it in and I was like, well, this is it. I waited two weeks, it's over for me. And then I got it. So, you know, I think timing does matter but you also wanna be putting your best foot forward. So don't turn something in that you don't feel good about because the odds of somebody feeling good about something that you don't feel good about, they're kind of low. And how did you prepare for interviews? I watched a lot of YouTube videos, first of all. I also used Dr. Gray's med school book and then a BMO book on the multiple mini interview. I'm actually doing a giveaway for those books on my Instagram. So, check that out. So, and it is MD downloading. Yes. Yes. So, rush over to Instagram right now, grab your phone. Really, we wanna be a part of your support system. That is awesome. Karen's constantly giving away kind of materials and paying it forward to the pre-med community. So you definitely wanna be following her. And if it's not this giveaway, you're gonna have another one. Yeah, I have tons of giveaways. So definitely check them out. But anyways, I also did tons of mock interviews. And of course I got really, well, you know, lucky last cycle and that the interviews were all over Zoom. And what's nice about that is when I was doing the mock interviews through Zoom, I was preparing for the exact situation I was going into. So a ton of mock interviews. And then the best advice I can give for interviews is that you wanna be prepared, but not over-prepared.  And really they're just looking to have a conversation. Again, I know it's surprising to hear, but it's not robots on the other side. They're just people that, you know, maybe have already interviewed 20, 30 other people. And they just wanna have a conversation. They wanna be entertained to some extent. And you're never gonna be able to prepare for every question. So just know that and just as nervous as you are, just try to feel confident. Yeah. What was the weirdest question you got? Do you remember? I think two of them, one was like asking me what kind of fruit I wanted to be. And it's just, if one of those questions where you're not exactly sure how to answer it because you're not sure what they're looking for. And sometimes they're not looking for anything, you know? And that's what you have to realize. They're just looking for a conversation. The other one that caught me off guard for some reason is they were asking if I had siblings and I was talking about that. And they asked me what my siblings would say about me. For some reason, I had never thought about that in my life. That was a question I really struggled with. So one thing to prepare for is some version of what would so and so say about you? Along with the giveaways, Erin's gonna do a quick reveal eventually of the substances, weight list, right? So you definitely wanna kind of go on to her Instagram so that you can learn everything. But basically it was a back-to-back, right? It was a back-to-back application, not very different except the way you crafted your storytelling, right? Cause your story basically stayed the same. So I mean, biggest takeaway I think is just how you tell your story is so, so impactful to kind of how it's received and to how it can move the needle for you. Any last tips that you wanna share? So pre-med, anything you loved, hated about, pre-med, anything you wouldn't do? Yeah, okay. So I'll just say real fast that that's why I love your Instagram name, write your acceptance because I felt like that's literally what I did is I wrote my acceptance. Cause like I said, my writing is the only thing that changed. The one other thing I wanna say before I go into the love hate about pre-med world is that I didn't just have a low GPA. I had multiple withdrawals and like repeats in classes, multiple. And I remember around this time when I was applying I was trying to find somebody on YouTube or Reddit or anywhere who had a similar experience that was like me to give me some semblance of hope that I could still get in. So if anybody's watching this with a low GPA and like withdrawals, I just want you to know, yes, you can still get it. Oh, love it. So anyways, pre-med world. So what I don't like about the pre-med world is the glorifying of the overworking. And I don't like that there can be gunners and that can kind of shape your experience. So if you are around those people or if you see those people, just know it's not everyone. And honestly, that's why Instagram has been so great for me because you just meet so many supportive people. I had no idea this existed. I wish that I had had this as a pre-med. So I'm really grateful for the community I have right now and how they're gonna be able to help me get through med school also. And at the end of the day, just the application cycle and being pre-med in general is super stressful. There's a lot of anxiety involved. And my own personal journey through mental health has told me that a lot of this is mind over matter. So I just hope that people remember that everything happens for a reason. And I truly believe that you're gonna be exactly where you need to be, when you need to be there. So however you think about that, whether that's a faith in like something spiritual or religious or just the universe or whatever it is, like hold on to that because I believe it's so much and it's going to help you relax and you need to relax.  If this is what you want, you are going to get in eventually. It might not be the first cycle you pie. It might not be the second cycle, but you're gonna get in. So just don't waste your time worrying and stressing. Live your life, have fun and do your best. Yeah, and I love that. Find joy and this is what you wanna do. It's scary to think, but med school is not the end goal. It's just the beginning of an entire kind of calling and a profession that's a lifestyle. So yeah, you need to find that joy in kind of every moment, right? Thank you so much, Erin. Thank you for jumping on our channel and just kind of dropping some major, major wisdom. Definitely check her out on Instagram. I will link her kind of like handle in the description so you can have that there. And yeah, give us a like, subscribe, and we'll see you soon. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for watching. And if you want more guidance on your personal statement, please make sure you check out the free personal statement guide in the description below. And you can always schedule a call with me to chat about how I work with students. I'll see you soon. Thank you.