Name: A Day in the Life of a Harvard Computer Science Student
Uploaded: 2018-07-06T23:55:58.000Z
Duration: 12 min 24 s
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Hi there my name is John fish, and I'm a Harvard student

And this video is going to be a day in my life and the first thing we're doing today. It's about 7:30 a.m.

So Annenberg is Harvard's freshman dining hall, and honestly, it's like something out of Harry Potter. It's pretty cool.

Okay, it's now 8:15 a.m.. And my first class begins at 9:00, so I have like 45 minutes.

I do have homework for that class that I haven't done yet, just like a little bit like a page.

And then, the other thing that I like to do with my mornings is just plan out my day

so I have a growth book, it's what I call it's like a little daily planner agenda where I write over my

schedule for the day my goals my motivation stuff like that, so I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna do my homework.

All right, so just walking you through kind of what my scheduling might look like for a day.

You know, wake up, do some homework, go to Swedish, go to math, have some lunch, go to lecture for my CS course today

It's a guest lecture which should be cool. Then I work out, eat some dinner, go to work and then go to bed

hopefully like 10:00 p.m ..um..That's the goal that's one of my goals for today is to hit nine hours of sleep.

I want to read around 50 pages of my book throughout the day and then of course

I want to film this video, so this is a daily planner that

I have personally designed and that I'm actually making, I actually just

Had a company produce a bunch of them and they're going to be shipped to Amazon. Hopefully within the next month

and they'll be available on Amazon Prime and stuff like that and so if you want to buy one I

Definitely recommend signing up for my newsletter

the link for that is in my description and you'll be able to

Pick up one of these when they come out. Oh, and check out the cover on that bad boy look at that

Embossed logo, okay. I should do homework

But I'm gonna be on time because one of the interesting things about how

Harvard classes work is that they all start on Harvard time, which is seven minutes past the hour

Or seven minutes past when the class is supposed to start, so I'll be there on time even though

I'll probably get there like 9:06. There's Widener Library by the way. It's a pretty cool library

Alright, so that was an hour of Swedish. It is now 10:00 a.m, so I'm headed off to linear algebra. It's across campus

I'm gonna kinda have to rush to get there in seven minutes, but usually I'm able to do it in like six or seven

I've got an hour for my class which is a guest lecture at the computer science course

Which is what the title of this video is a computer science student. That's me and so

Yeah, I'm gonna kill some time. Maybe start an essay, maybe work on a problem set, maybe edit a video

So the lecture today is for my functional programming class it's called CS51

And it's a guest lecture which is kind of cool. He's from Jane Street. Which is like an investment firm

I believe they use OCaml, which is like one of the only actual firms in the world or companies that

Uses the language which is the language that we use - it's a functional programming language, so I'm really interested to hear

I don't even know what the lecture is gonna be on

But I've heard that it's supposed to be one of the best lectures of the year for the course

So I'll actually go to this one in person. Just gonna head over there in like 50 minutes and in the meantime

Very very cool lecture and not just because they gave us free shirts although that was cool, too

Thanks, Jane Street. But just a cool lecture

Yeah, I thought it was actually pretty insightful in terms of just like cool like programming practices that he gave us

Things like how to write code that literally you can't express errors

which I thought was a very interesting concept the idea being like you need to design your

And when you're designing your custom types

Doing so in a way that is literally impossible to write

In the examples that he gave with that were really interesting so

Now the next thing that I have to do I have to go work out

And I'm not allowed to talk about that on camera on my youtube channel, so instead, here's just some cinematic shots that I took of

Alright, I'm back from working out. Time to go grab a bite to eat for dinner and then attempt to grind for a little bit

I've got a bunch of work to do so what I'm going to be working on right now is

I've got an essay that I need to be writing for tomorrow. Just like a little rough draft

I don't even think it's due until tomorrow at midnight, and I'm gonna be starting at psets

I have nothing really due tomorrow which is great

But I'm just gonna be be working on a bunch of different things. Okay, so the essay that I'm writing

It's a literature review that is based off of this book flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think that's how you say his last name, but correct me if I'm wrong. The fundamental premise of the book is

How do you find happiness in a world where we really struggle to do that? It seems like everyone wants to be happy

Right, but over the thousands of years that we've progressed

We haven't really become that much happier as people and so the question is well, what does make you happy and

In flow that question is answered with the idea of meaningful work

That is if you have a task that fulfills...

Csik Mihaly breaks it down into eight different things eight different

Categories that have task fits and then it's a flow activity and semion flow

So you can apply this to anything and Csik Mihaly applied that to an entire life

Saying that if you create one goal for your entire life

And then you structure your life around that it with

Goals and with sub goals and so on then you can have one life that is just a flow experience and therefore it will be

an enjoyable experience and a happy experience

Now what I'm looking at in my essay is how do you apply that to the student - to the education system?

Because I believe that the education system is... well, it's pretty messed up to be honest

I feel like a lot of students are miserable and

That shouldn't be the case like school should be an enjoyable experience

It should be fun and I think that you can make it fun, and I think that there's a way to do that with flow

I'm gonna go write my essay and then once I've written my essay there will be a video as a component to it

That's actually part of the course which is really cool

We go to one of the studios on campus, and we fillm a mini TED talk. So if you're interested

I'll upload that video to this channel, so if you're not subscribed definitely subscribe because well

Hopefully it'll be a useful video essay for you, and if not I upload video essays every week

So I'm sure there will be something in there that you find useful. Anyways. I'm gonna go write this essay

Okay, the essay, it's going pretty well. I have been writing for about an hour

I am I'm getting a little tired though, so I'm gonna change gears