("Celeb" by Syndicate Sound Labs)
- I'm Sam Clark with Crimson Education and we're here
at Harvard University, to ask some big questions.
What is the best thing about Harvard?
- The people, I know that's very cliche.
- The people are really nice.
- Ooooh, I'd say it'd have to be the people.
- The people. - The people.
- Just different people from all walks of life.
I mean, you somebody from anywhere, and it's amazing.
- The best thing about Harvard, I would say, is Kevin Clein.
- You're the best thing about Harvard?
- I guess so. - Congrats.
- Thank you. - That's huge.
Why is he the best thing about Harvard?
- Just look at him. - Just look at him,
he's bleeding, but he's still smiling.
That's good.
Why are you bleeding?
Same question.
- The weather. - The weather.
Is it always like this?
Perfectly and sunny.
- No, but, I don't know, it's been nice this year.
- Okay.
What's the worse thing about Harvard?
- Worst thing about Harvard is,
the people, not all of them, but some of them.
- (laughs) Okay.
- Definitely, I don't know, sometimes can be
competitive and stressful.
- The worst thing besides the food at Annenberg.
- The Annenberg, it's terrible.
- Annenberg, that's the second time we've gotten that answer
- I'd say Annenberg.
- That's the third time we've gotten that answer.
- Oh, okay.
- The food.
I've gotta say, hands down, the food.
- So Annenberg is - Awful (bleep)
- Awful (bleep), I was mostly going for like, what is it?
Freshman dining hall?
- Oh yeah, freshman dining hall.
- Okay, what's so bad about it?
- The food, it's so bad.
- Annenberg Dining Hall, yeah
- We've heard some things about it.
- Yeah, no its notorious.
Notoriously bad.
- Got it.
Elaborate, what's so bad about Annenberg?
- The food is (bleep) (laughs)
- So what is a typical Saturday night
look like for you at Harvard?
- In our rooms. - (laughs) Yeah.
- Say that one more time.
- Drinking alone in our rooms.
- (laughs) Drinking alone in your room?
What does a typical Saturday night
look like for you at Harvard?
- Oh that's sad, for (laughs)
- That's sad?
- For me, it's
not Netflix, not a lot of sitting
in my room watching Netflix.
- I like to drink and party.
- So a typical Saturday night, so there's like
a bunch of dorm parties going on on Saturday nights.
A lot of parties out on the quad, like, for like,
school wide events.
- Last Saturday night, all my friends and I
went to one of the parties at the quad.
But we ended up not being able to get in,
so we had a piano party instead.
- Hey love that. - Yeah, I know, karaoke.
- So for people who might not know what is the quad?
- So the quad, they're three dorms up north,
that are further away from campus.
And there's a lot of social life there on the weekends,
especially because it's kind of secluded
from the Harvard campus. - Uh-huh.
- So it's sort of a favorite, for Saturday night.
- (laughing) The quad shuttle.
- [Sam] Okay, go on.
- So you get on the quad shuttle, early in the night.
With high hopes and then most of the times,
back on the quad shuttle involve, like tears
she broke her toe last week.
- On the shuttle?
- Not on the shuttle, getting off.
- Okay, can we get a pan down to this.
(laughing) Okay, so was it worth it?
- You drink in your room for like two hours,
while people are figuring out what's going on.
Then you go to Spee for like 20 minutes and then
it closes down and then, you go home and cry. (laughs)
- That it is the most comprehensive and accurate sum up
of a Saturday night, I've heard.
- Start at like a smaller party, with people that I like.
And then decide to go to a bigger party,
at like a fascist institution.
Like, just a larger place.
Where there's like people in suits control who the building.
And then, get in a fight with someone.
Cry. - Cry.
- Get food and then go to sleep.
- That's a solid ark of the night.
- Yeah. - Yeah okay, great, great.
- And if you remember, what did you write your
college application essay about?
- I wrote about magic. - About magic.
- About magic. - Go on.
- I wrote about doing magic tricks for the lunch ladies
in high school. - Great.
- I wrote mine about a summer internship that I had.
In a lab and what I liked and what I didn't like about that.
- What kind of lab?
- It was a like, biotechnology start up.
Working on like, pharmaceutical drug development.
- What did you write your college application essay about?
- I actually wrote it about, how like
the Carter Mountains.
I would always like, make up stories about how
there were like dragons and elves living in them.
(laughs) And then I tied that into like,
my interest in neuroscience, how I wanna explore
imagination growing up, but that's a joke now.
Because I'm a history major. (laughing)
- Okay, so did you?
What changed, what changed?
- I took LS only for three weeks.
- Oh, I see, I see.
- (laughing) I dropped out of that.
- Oh, this is what neuroscience is like in here.
- (laughing) There's a lot of memorization involved.
So, I'm not about that. - Got it, got it.
- I wrote about all the coaches that had an impact on me,
like growing up, through like football and basketball
and how I attributed
all my success, to like pretty much them and my parents
to get me here.
- I wrote about my grandmother.
- Alright, what about her?
- So the prompt was, describe a place where you're
perfectly content and I wrote about,
the kitchen, that was in home of my grandmother,
I was very close to her.
And she made me really happy.
I think I still really enjoy food and I really,
she was a nurse and so I want to be a doctor,
and like still work in the healthcare field,
because of my relationship with her.
And so, even though she's not with us anymore,
I still remain connected to her in those ways.
- Amazing, that's so great.
Well thank you so much, have a good one.
And enjoy your cake.
Alright, let's do it.
What advice would you give high school students who are
currently going through the college application process?
- Good luck, don't get stressed out
and it'll all work out fine in the end.
- Yeah, I'd say the same thing.
And also, don't worry too much if you don't make it
in to the college that you want to get into.
I didn't make it, I wanted to go to University of Chicago
really badly and I didn't make it in.
And now I'm so happy here.
So, yeah.
- Alright.
Anything else to add for people
who might be applying to college?
- Make yourself as well rounded as possible.
Because it's not all about grades.
- Okay, amazing, thank you so much.
- No problem.
("Celeb" by Syndicate Sound Labs)
- Alright, anything else, any final words?
- No, just check out @johnstyvers226 on twitter.
- We're gonna quickly pan to this group
of people over here. (laughing)
Alright no?
Alright, fine fine.
Got spooked. (laughs)
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