Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome to my channel if you're new here. My name is zoe
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You should definitely subscribe down below. I post tons of college videos college vlogs morning routines night routines day in my life
In my apartment on campus what I eat in a week all that type of stuff
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You should definitely subscribe so I only start school in a bit more than a week. I start school on september 8th
And if you didn't know i'm going into my third year at queen's university and i'm majoring in film and media
So i'm very excited i'm taking like some really fun classes this year, but they are all online at least for the fall semester
I'm taking five online courses and as of right now in the winter i'm taking two online and two in person
But the in-person ones will probably be changed online
we'll see so that is why today i'm gonna show you guys what i'm doing to prepare for school because not
Only do I have to prepare
Like my planner and my notebooks and all that, but I also have to prepare my computer to be a good like digital classroom
So I have to organize a ton of stuff get a ton of stuff ready and i'm just gonna show you guys what I do
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The first thing i'm going to be doing to prepare for back to school is organize my computer because i'm going to spend
So much time on my computer and I want it to be super organized super clean and nice to look at
You know, your computer is gonna be very very important this year if you have online classes
Which i'm assuming most people do so, this is what my computer looks like. It's the macbook pro 15 inch with the touch bar
So the first thing i'm going to do is make folders for each one of my classes
So if we go into queens I have first year second year third year muse which is the club
I'm in at school and random, which is honestly just random stuff
so I used to have just folders for each one of my school years and I would put all my documents in there whether
It was actual assignments or notes that I was taking or screenshots from classes. Like I put every single thing in that one folder
but at the end of last year actually when we transferred to online, I figured out that that was just
too chaotic
Like I had too many documents and I had to like scroll through all of them to find what I was looking for
So I found that what I actually prefer doing is having that folder for the school year
But making individual folders for each class because then you don't have to scroll through so many things to find what you're looking for
I just think it's so much easier. So that's what i'm gonna do right now
So if we go into the third year folder, I already have one folder here because I took a summer course
It's my first time taking a summer course
So I actually have a few videos on my channel that you can go watch if you're curious to see like what?
Having a summer course is like so this class was called
digital media theory and practice, but I prefer to put the little course code there because it's shorter and I know
what all the course codes are like I know the actual titles of them even though someone else may not so i'm taking
One class that's called disney pixar and dreamworks
Then the other one i'm taking is called gender and media, then we have culture and technology
Then studies in alternative
Media and the last one is called post production, which is essentially a class about editing
Which i'm so excited about like I love editing the most out of any part of making a video or film
So yeah, i'm super super excited for this class and you guys will see all about it in my future vlogs
So I have my five courses here and actually while i'm doing this i'm gonna put the winter courses
So the first course i'm taking in the winter is called studies in mass media and then the next one is called
television and seriality which is literally I think about the history of television from like soap operas to netflix, and then I have
Two electives. So the first elective is a writing class called
Fundamentals of writing so it's literally how to write and then the other one
Is such a random one that I had no idea they offered at my school. Like I don't know if it's new this year
I've never heard of it, but it's called paris through literature
Photography and like writing or poetry something like that
But it's basically studying paris through different art forms, and I love paris. Like I just redid my room
But before this I had posters everywhere of the eiffel tower and I even have some I think in my apartment
So i'm really excited for this class
I have no idea what to expect when you're learning about paris like learning about a city, but i'm so excited
so the folders are done and the next thing i'm going to do is
Set up all of my notes documents because I take my notes in google docs and I want to just like have them ready
There's not really like any rush to have them ready, but I just want to do it because i'm preparing for school right now
So why not? And I also don't have any information from my professors yet
Which is kind of annoying because like I just want to get prepared. I want to know what i'm going to have to do but
I am starting school in like over a week
So it kind of makes sense that they haven't released any information yet
But that's why I can't print any syllabi. I can't write down my schedule
I actually don't even have a schedule because all of my classes as of right now say they're happening from 12 a.m
To 12 p.m
I don't know if they're gonna do zooms and we just attend if we want because if two
Classes decide to have zooms at the same time like there are no time blocks right now like all the classes that we enrolled in
Are from 12 a.m. To 12 p.m
So I can't write down my schedule and I can't write down any my assignments because I don't have that information yet for now
I'm going to make the notes and documents
All right, so all of the notes documents are made on google docs
it's kind of satisfying right now because there are five like documents per row so they just
Fill up the top row i'm only doing fall right now because like winter would get lost at the bottom
The next thing that i'm going to do is change my desktop background. I love this background very very much
I made it. I want to say in like may maybe april but by now i'm
So used to it that I don't even look at it
Which is kind of sad because like I love it so much but like when I go onto my computer like I don't even glance
At it so I want to make a new one so that it's like a refreshing start
So in canva, you can create a design and choose custom dimensions. So that's what I will put in
Okay, i'm back it took me such a long time to make my background because I just really wanted to do it
well
Like I didn't want to just rush it through and like not make it
Actually images that I love like I didn't want to do it just for the sake of the video
So this is my old one. I still really really love it. I just never appreciate it anymore
That's why I want to make a new one. Okay, I like that one way more than the other one at least for now
So happy that I did that. I really recommend if you are doing online classes like switch up something with your computer
So it feels like a fresh start a new school year
I did not know. I was still recording. I thought I had stopped it
So this is my planner
if you didn't see my school supplies shopping vlog haul you wouldn't know that I got this planner this year from
Anthropology, I get a planner from there every single year because this style is my absolute favorite
First thing i'm gonna do because I was watching
Other youtubers do prep with me videos and I think it was hannah elise who wrote her contact info
In her planner, and I never thought to do that because odds that I lose
My planner are very slim, but I realize that if I ever randomly do lose it, I would be so upset
So i'm gonna write my contact info right at the beginning here
There's like a little spot to do so, so I think i'll write my name my phone number and my school
Email so I wrote my contact info at the beginning here
It is not my best handwriting. I was really stressed about messing up with the sharpie
So at the back of my planner here
There's a full page that says notes and that's the page i'm going to be using for this
Okay, so I wrote out all of their information I wrote their names and their emails, but I was thinking as I was writing
I'm also going to update this list when the syllabus comes out because some professors have a preference of how they want you to address
Them i'm mainly talking about college because like I know high school is more like chill, at least it was for my high school
But for university like some teachers want you to sing like, mr. Or mrs. Or some like I had one last year
That was very very strict
Like they would not answer your email if you didn't say professor
But then some teachers literally like sign off with like a nickname so i'm going to just like keep track of that
And now the last thing i'm going to do that. I actually haven't seen anyone else do in like a prep for me video
is i'm going to declutter my pencil case because I don't know about you but i've had my pencil case for like
I don't really remember what pencil cases I used in high school
but I want to say that I might have had this in high school and I just never empty it like I
Just keep putting stuff in but I never take stuff out
so I want to empty it all out test to see what actually works see what I actually use and then
Refill it with only the necessities because I do not need to be carrying around something. So heavy if it's useless
This is my pile that i'm going to throw out first i'm going to like ask anyone in my family if they want
But the pens like most of the pens don't work anymore the highlighters gone bad
Like my other highlighters are better and these sharpies are pretty dull
But for now, this is what i'm keeping
So I did keep one old pen because it's my only red pen
But these are like the new pens I have and these are my new highlighters
They're the ones with like the special cap. I only have like one pencil
Which is concerning and then I also got like even newer highlighters this year. These are like pastel ones
These are the new neon ones that I got and then I have the sharp sharpies and one little white out
This is so old but it's my only white out. So i'm gonna put this back into my pencil case now
And then since I only have one mechanical pencil i'll take two more and I think that's it it is like
Insanely light right now, so that feels really good
Like I haven't done a cleanse with my pencil case since I want to say high school
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