Hearted Youtube comments on Quinn Henry (@quinn_henry) channel.

  1. I dedicated the entirety of high school to getting into a "good college." And then I got to my good school, and hated most of my time there because I realized I never liked anything that I did or learned in high school. I now bake cookies for a living. Be a curious person, and you'll enjoy your life so much more no matter what freaking school you go to.
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  2. Another thing is the abhorrent mental health issues facing kids fighting for top colleges and kids who, in their eyes, "failed". I'm a freshman at a relatively prestigious public school with very prestigious engineering programs, and many of the kids I know are downright depressed because they did not get into better schools. My school is very popular among "Ivy rejects", so a lot of the student body thinks they deserve better and is very demotivated. I know a kid that's depressed because he got rejected from Berkeley, even though for his major our school is just one ranking lower on US News (not that that matters, but that seems to be the metric everyone uses to judge). It doesn't stop there, when I go home for break, my friends at my home state's state school tell me that they think their career is over.
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  3. I almost committed suicide when I was 18 and college selection pressure was the leading cause of it. I am the eldest son in an Asian-mother household and my white father played extremely hard into the academic exceptionalism above all in my childhood. Thankfully I made good friends and still participated in things I loved, and that saved my life. My parents still don’t know this because it’d make them angry. They’d call me lazy and all this other shit. I ended up getting into a wonderful dresam private school, but the damage was done. I failed my first year of college due to the fallout of my relationship with academics and my lack of care for the system, and hatred for my family who told me I’d still fail. Yes, they told me I was guaranteed to fail. So I failed out of hatred for them. Now I’m 21 and my life has changed significantly because I’m not in college. Almost everyone else I know is in college and if I just didn’t care so much about the little things and wasn’t told I my value was tied to letters on a card I’d be in a much better place. Yeah, my life is ok now but I’d much rather not be 3 years behind the cultural norm (even if I hate the cultural norm). It’s a hard pill to swallow. Fuck college, fuck College Board, fuck parents who pressure their kids to pursue college, fuck degrees. Do what you love.
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  4. I was rejected from my Dream school, UChicago not too long ago, and ever since then I’ve felt really bad about myself. My grades freshman year were bad (covid), but honestly I thought I had a chance with a 35 ACT and an incredible essay. The essay was about me learning about complex analysis on my own because I was so enthralled by its elegance. My college counselors and English teachers said that my essay was one of the most impressive they had read, capturing my curiosity and ambition in a way that they thought was very good. My U Chicago essay itself was also one of the most unique they had seen, it had a different approach and wasn’t necessarily just an essay, I put more on that page than just words. Yet, I was rejected. Watching this video made me realize that I’m not a failure because I didn’t get in. If I was capable of learning about hard field of mathematics on my own, then I don’t need UChicago to learn, I just need passion and ambition. Thank you.
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  5. As a student at Cornell (who despised that subreddit, didn't do the SAT, and told I "shouldnt've gotten in" on a similar subreddit) it's amazing to me just how much their fetish gets hyper focused on just HYPSM (similar point made around 12 mins in). A lot of them will flat out dismiss "bad ivies" or "useless majors" and think that there's 0 purpose to go to a high ranked college if you aren't doing a lucrative major at the best program possible (Look at how A2C only ever brings up Cornell when talking about CS). I've been told i was an affirmative action admit, that I only got in for doing a niche major, and that I should "give up my spot to someone more deserving". So unbelievably toxic
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  6. I'm an American who has lived in South Korea for the past 2.5 years. I will give some of my opinions that I've gathered while living here. The education system is very insane. You see kids starting those cram schools even in 1st and 2nd grade, and continuing with it until they graduate high school. Once students get into high school, they literally study almost every waking minute for their college entrance exam. This creates super unhappy children, which is why you see high school kids committing suicide regularly. But, it's necessary for kids to remain competitive. Unfortunately, that unhappiness continues on through adulthood. Once graduated from college, Koreans have to endure extreme competition in the job market. Often there will be hundreds of applicants for a single job, which pays barely more than minimum wage. As a result, Koreans don't really make enough money to move out on their own, so they live with their parents well into adulthood. (As you can imagine, this makes dating pretty difficult, further worsening the birth rate.) Even if an adult wants to move out of their parent's house, they will have to shell out huge deposits for an apartment. We're talking a few thousand dollars just to pay the deposit, not even including the rent itself. Having a job itself is quite difficult in Korea, as the hours are long. Recently, the government removed regulations on the number of hours a full-time employee works. So now jobs can have their employees work up to 69 hours per week, if requested to do so. (Though I have not heard of any companies actually taking advantage of this deregulation yet.) After working for years, Koreans are then forced to retire at the age of 65, to make room for the younger people who are desperate for a job. As a result, there are many people forced to retire who do not yet have enough money saved up to live without a job. So, you will see many old people in extreme poverty, digging through trash for cardboard boxes and aluminum cans to take to the recycling center for a little extra money. All of these reasons are why young people in Korea are so unhappy and they feel no reason to settle down and start a family. You see marriage rates fall every year, and the birth rate has completely collapsed. I don't know what the future holds for Korea, but a huge change is in the coming future. Despite all of the negativity I've talked about, Korea is an extremely beautiful country, the people can be very interesting, and I've extremely enjoyed my time here. I plan to stay here for a long time, and I'm looking forward to being a part of how Korea solves its many problems.
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  7. You should do a video on Hurricane Katrina and the bureaucratic mismanagement that led to it and how it ensued in the chaos that proceeded after.
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  8. Went to a “T10” college, can confirm it’s all bullshit. Thanks for making this.
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  9. I think a lot of this might be due to Korea having grown too quickly. Japan’s economy crashed after the bubble burst, and they had a lot longer of a time to adapt to their new westernised way of life, so it’s worrying to imagine what might happen to Korea who had an even more rapid evolution of its economy
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  10. I love your style of videos— the music and pacing and your narration style is really perfect and makes it entertaining.
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  11. That Hotline Miami music weirdly fits very well
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  12. u might wanna pin this comment, just in case
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  13. 1:04:05 for most research, it's the exact same as being an amazon worker. Junior lab assistants churn out the data, which in some cases can take literal years (with low pay), while the head researchers put their name on the paper and calls it a day. And then are expected to be grateful for the opportunity to do the research because of the prestige of the person they’re working for.
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  14. I think part of the problem you mentioned at the end of the video is that we have an extremely high productivity and there's potentially too many people for the amount of work that generally needs to be done, but we live in an economic system that doesn't accommodate for that reality. This is a problem I like to regularly discuss with my friends especially after the advent of AI because it'll accelerate the problem of "not enough work for the population." Maybe UBI will help address this problem, or maybe we need to restructure our understanding of the economy from the ground-up.
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  15. chaebols are both posotive and negative to the lives of the average korean. even though now they're not abusing the power if someone evil in charge takes control it could ruin us potentioally you can thank Park Chung-Hee for letting chaebols exist to the power they do now.
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  16. So I'm an independent college counselor with a company that provides counseling support. I've taught in private schools. I also quit Reddit because of A2C. This is literally the most accurate thing I have ever seen on this platform about the entire college admissions experience. I have a channel dedicated to college admissions and I feel like even if I tried to express all this, I just couldn't nail it like you did. Like most things in the US, we're convinced that more selective, more expensive, more "elite" equals more better. It's a shame because what should be one of the best times of your life is now being turned into a prestige-chasing competition where it doesn't matter what kind of university is actually the right fit for you, as long as it's got a high rank. And the rankings themselves are broken AF. It blows my mind that people would rather slave away for 4 years to get into a school just because someone else said it was T20, than create their own opinion. News flash for all those people: If you're chasing prestige and you don't get in, you didn't get in cause you were chasing prestige. Sheep don't get to lead.
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  17. Glad to see you upload! 🔥💯
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  18. Welcome back, i think you're right in some way
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  19. video so good he had to upload it twice
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  20. Emplemon vibes
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  21. this video was so eye opening. It's changed the way I'm thinking about applying to college (as a junior right now) and it's motivated me to address this topic in my next video just boiled down. Thank you quinn 🙏
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  22. I don't want much! I just want the person reading this to be healthy, happy, and loved! Wishing you a good day full of nothing but positivity, my friend 💕
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  23. One of the biggest signs that this is all a rigged game is that with many (I hesitate to say all because I've not looked) of these same elite schools put recordings of their lectures up on the internet for free. You can read all the same books and attend the same lectures as enrolled students, and thereby get the same education; just without the piece of paper at the end. Because that's ultimately what they're selling: a piece of paper which is valuable only because of artifical scarcity.
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  24. god i loveyoyr video essays, and how you edit them
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