I mean I guess he's not wrong.
This is my best friend Luca he goes to Harvard and
trust me I took the six hour bus ride for more than just this YouTube channel
I can't shake the feeling that I'm missing out on something at Cornell I
don't know if that's because of the campus the program I'm in are a great
group of friends but I really wanted to go to Harvard and see Luca just to check
it out and see what was up there okay so first impressions of Harvard Harvard is
tiny I have to walk a mile and a half to get to my first class where Luca walks
15 feet out of his front door it's insane how compact that campus is and
it's really convenient in that you can get off campus and be in the big city
really easily but there's not that sense of we're all here we have to interact
with each other so Harvard had a really intimate feeling and that they all kind
of seemed to know each other better than I know the rest of the freshman class
here which is to be expected these Harvard kids maybe the best of the
best but they're also out here wildin' the first night I got there Lucas
friends tried to steal a giant Harvard banner in case you're confused what this
footage is this is where the banner would have been and that was just Friday
night's activities I feel like their sense of camaraderie is best shown
through these three traditions they have I'll let Luca explain this one so there
are three things that you need to do before you graduate from Harvard also
you will not graduate if you do not complete these three items
the first thing is to piss on the John Harvard statue specifically on the foot
that John Harvard statue is the third most photographed statue in the United
States there's always all day long a line of tourists lined up photos
touching the foot if you come here don't touch them and if you look closely you
can see the streaks coming down the concrete you can get a chance it's good
that tell them a really good luck they should kiss the foot too
I wouldn't have expected the
amount of tourists at Harvard these kids go to school in a tourist attraction
which is really bizarre my perception of tourists here is like I've changed so
much it's completely different from Nebraska obviously as you can see like
there's just always people like taking pictures like wherever I walk so
honestly if I like if I walked around every single person who's taking a
picture I'd probably walk like an extra three
miles in a day like if you just look down like I have to walk this way with
classes there's just like people taking pictures everywhere so now I just like
walk straight through in front of the camera because like I can't go around
every single time sometimes tourists ask for pictures with
the students because they're like who we didn't picture with a real Harvard
student it's like really weird so they should be glad about getting their picture
the second thing that you have to do before you graduate is bang in the stacks
what is this you ask the stacks are the
part of the library where they have books as opposed to the part where they
don't have books which is surprisingly
Lilia: That's how you got into Harvard. Genius.
a large part of the library. Anyway the
stacks are very large and they go six floors underground but you just have to
be really quiet the third thing that you need to do is the primal scream this is
a fairly well-known event during finals week during reading period in December
when it's very cold and there's probably snow on the ground
thousands of Harvard students streak naked screaming through the yard so I'm
very excited for that one
overall I was pretty surprised by my experiences at Harvard the kids were
super chill and beyond the differences in the campuses it was actually a pretty
similar vibe to Cornell the school didn't have that air of elitism that
name-dropping Harvard and a conversation usually does and the students were
really chilled but that could be because Luca's really good at making cool
friends given my escapades at Harvard I returned to Cornell happier than ever
because I know I'm not missing out on anything
I love it here and I know that the struggles I'm facing here aren't unique
to Cornell or my major or me it's pretty standard for everyone in college and I
think knowing that makes me a lot more grateful because before the experiences
that I'm having as always I'll see you next time