This is absolutely horrible.

Good grief.

Like this video, This video right here.

This video right here, it's just so in cohesive as it sits in my computer.

That's why I'm here to kind of give you guys a better, better understanding of what's going on today when I mean today, this video is like from two weeks old.

This is recorded a couple days after the Super Bowl, which I think was in the beginning of February, and now we're closer, closing in on the end of February.

So, uh, it's a good video.

I need to release the video.

It's just I'm gonna make sense of it for you guys to start off the day I had a phone call with a CEO of a local car.

So throw my degree.

I've learned to main language.

You know this you have a computer science degree, so I've learned to main languages Java and C plus plus.

But lately I've been doing oh, my own a lot of Io's development, and then in my courses, I've done Web development.

I'm doing android development and last semester actually had an artificial intelligence course where I worked a lot with Java and Python.

Oh, I'm definitely open to that.

I would really appreciate it, actually.

All right, I hope everything goes well with that client you mentioned.

Okay, You too.

But, well, that went well.

And for the record, that was a reenactment.

In case any of you could tell, I don't want to violate the privacy of a personal phone call by putting it online, so I just simply reconnected and that you may know it's not every day that you get a phone call from a founder or CEO of any sort of company.

So let me give you a bit of back story.

So as many of you know, I had a coop internship, whatever you wanna call it at Norfolk Southern.

I was there for about two semesters, and during that tenner, I worked very closely with a few different people.

And one of those people recommended me to the CEO of this company knowing I love software development.

That's what I want to get into.

And then I'm finishing up my computer science degree and keep in mind, I got along with basically everybody I worked with in this company, so they knew I would be a good fit in another company.

If you go into an internship, coop, job, school, whatever it may be, you don't get along with all these people.

Or at least you don't try to get along with all these people.

You're not gonna get these types of recommendations.

Their relationships in the workplace are very important.

Because if I didn't get along with these people than I would never have been recommended to the CEO of this company and then if I would have never gotten recommended to the CEO of this company, he never would have friend of me on LinkedIn messaged me on LinkedIn and then exchanged phone numbers so we could, you know, have this talk that we just had.

And as you saw, it was a very basic talk where kind of talked about my schooling, where my expertise lies.

I'm graduating in May and things of that nature just like a and get to know you type of phone call.

And actually, since I'm about two weeks in the future of that phone call, we've talked a bit more back and forth, and he offered me an internship with the company up until I graduate in May.

But I did turn down that internship offer and he understands why.

Because I need to focus on my schooling.

And then I also turned down an internship offer from Dominion Enterprises.

And since I mentioned that, I guess it's only right for me to kind of tell you guys how that came about.

So basically, I applied to solve for a development position at that company in hopes to kind of lock a job down.

So I have a job coming out of graduation in May because that's kind of how it goes.

A lot of people already have jobs locked down, where in May they essentially have a guarantee job.

I currently do not.

I'm not too worried about it, but, you know, might as well get the ball rolling.

They saw my application.

They called me up.

We communicated a bit.

They offered me essentially an internship, or at least the ability to go through the interview process the interview, process it for official reasons in order to get that internship.

But they also understand that I have a heavy course load.

I want to focus on school, so I graduate in May and my grades air not complete crap, because when I had a full course load in a full workload back, I've had that, like two different semesters, my grade's really suffered.

And since this semester's course load is a lot heavier than past semester's course loads, it really wouldn't make sense for me to pick up a job, whether it's part time or full time, considering how difficult it was in the past.

But now it's time to take you back to that day.

So after the phone call, well, I'll let pass for us, tell you, here's the rest of my class, and 30 minutes after that I need to finish up a project proposal presentation for tomorrow's class and tryingto we're trying to pitch our android app and my injured development class to my wealth class and the teacher mainly.

So today, my group and I are working on that proposal in order to convince the teacher to let us go through with this app idea.

Oh my goodness.

How naive passports was, uh, you guys will see later in this video what I'm talking about.

It was it was bad, but I'm sorry for interrupting I'll let you get back to the video.

And in that same class, we have small assignments alongside this big project that we have going on, one of which is due very soon.

I need to get it done today and or tomorrow because this weekend I'm going on my bachelor party.

We're going snowboarding.

But yeah, let's get on with the day.

And in case you forgot, getting on with the day starts off with class and to be more specific, online class.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention this next segment is me taking guys through one of my own line lectures because I know so many of you guys are computer science students or went to be computer science students.

And this is kind of an understanding of how online lectures are brought to you.

Using WebEx, I've figured out mentioned that because I know not everybody's interest computer, science, something I've noticed about myself is that when it comes to actually doing something, whether it's going to class online or in person, or actually coding whenever I'm recording, there's always like, half for at least part of my mind that is just focused on this and I really need to make sure all of my attention is focused on coding or class.

So that's why, instead of recording the live video, I'm gonna give you the basic gist of how this online course actually works.

So as you could see on the computer, this is the basic gist of the class.

This is a recording of last class, and we have our instructor up top right here.

He's always in the window so you can see him unless he cuts it off himself.

And then you have another screen either showing what he's writing down, which that's what's on the screen right now.

Or it shows a screen, whether it's code or requirements or presentations.

That's the idea.

There are people in class asking him questions and then on the live Web X, This is WebEx.

After all, there is a chat box right here with all the online students who can talk and if they have a mic or chat in.

Otherwise, it's not the best example, because now, in hindsight, I see that the recording isn't exactly the same as being in it live because, like I said, we have the chat box over here.

His face is right over here, and then the screen of whatever he's doing on the computer or writing down is right in the center.

But that's the basic gist of it.

And as you can see, we have video archives of all the classes.

So if you can't make it, you can do it whenever you want.

That's the beauty of online classes.

I figured you guys could use that knowledge, considering so many of you are or plan to be computer science and now we're back to the future.

So this next segment is I'm completely thrown by the wayside.

I'm going to repeat essentially what I said in the video inm or cohesive terms, because I just you could literally see.

We'll watch.

Sorry, guys, I'm just brainstorming here.

You're seeing the gears turning the wood burning, Probably smoke come out of my years of trying to figure this out.

So instead of y'all sitting there watching me racking my brain, I am going to kind of put it in Maur cohesive terms.

I've been requested time and time again, more so on this day that any other day to create a community slack channel.

So anybody who's on my YouTube channel will come over and we can talk about whatever my thoughts were.

You know, if you know how slack work's you essentially, I'll create a work space.

And then within that work space, there are different channels.

You can have access to all of the channels unless I make someone, some of them private for some reason.

But the public channels Computer science I was development android development.

A lot of people have been asking me about math with in computer science, not specific problems, but kind of like, How do you go about doing this?

Or did you struggle?

Because it's in all, honestly, it's It's helpful to know that other people are struggling in the same areas that you're struggling to know that you're not alone.

So I'll just be making channels within the workspace that relate to my YouTube channel.

And I want to see how many of you guys would like this type of thing.

I know other people have recommended discord.

I've always used slack as more of like a work space, and then discord.

Maura's like a gaming platform or gaming communication platform, rather, so I'm going to hold a pole.

I know that my bias is slack Just for those reasons.

There.

I'm gonna hold a pole up here.

I think, Yeah, that's the right corner with Click The little I'll see a pole Slack discord either Because many of you may not care whether it's like you're discord.

But you want something like a community slacker community scored or neither.

So some of y'all are like, No, I won't.

I won't use it.

I mean, you could make it whatever, but I'm not gonna use it.

Simple is that maybe you you may use it.

So second, just before you say neither.

Consider that you may end up wanting to use it.

Uh, my brain is turning again because I don't know if I want to include this in the video or not, but I think I should I think I should, because I was going to include it in that one.

I just wasn't very cohesive in how I said it.

But I know a lot of people YouTubers and people like that.

Use patri on Patron is essentially a platform for the community to support the creator.

So if you've ever going on somewhere like twitch.

They have it all built in where if someone is streaming on twitch, viewers of that twitch stream can subscribe for $5 a month or donate whatever they want because they get value and entertainment out of the twitch.

Streamer, so patriotic essentially serves as that middleman for the community, for the viewers to donate and help support creators because they believe in what they're doing.

And they want toe help.

Those creators and in return, a lot of YouTubers will offer early access to videos or access to videos that don't live on their YouTube channel or access to something like a slack community.

Or, you know, whatever other creative ways that creators can can help out their community because their community is helping them.

Does that make sense?

So I just explain what Patron Waas.

But I don't know if I want to do patron.

I think I just want to create like a free, slack channel for everybody to use.

And then maybe sometime in the future, I will set up a Patriot account and figure out what benefits patrons can get.

I may also include, like a patron part up there in the poll.

You know, forget that.

Forget that.

I'm not going to include the page on up there.

If you're interested in helping to support the channel, then I will just leave or just leave a comment or something like that.

I'm sorry.

This is what I wanted to avoid.

This is what I wanted to avoid from that video to this video is just having my my brain turning because I wanted to be cohesive.

But I hope that made sense.

It probably did it, but I do.

Oh, my gosh.

I can't believe I haven't even mentioned this in the video yet.

We absolutely blew through.

5000 subscribers like y'all are amazing.

And I know this sounds cheesy, but I like to give appreciation where appreciation is D'oh.

So I appreciate every single last one of you for subscribing to the channel watching videos.

I'm glad we have this connection.

And that's like channel could extend that connection in order to help each other out even more.

Because as much as you may learn for me, or I may entertain you your comments I learned from those.

I mean, those help me out immensely.

So everything you're doing in this community.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Next stop is 10,000.

I mean, you remember my 1st 100 then I even made a video about my 1st 500 subscribers.

And then it's just one of those milestones that 5000.

Wow.

And the next one is 10,000.

So I just want to say I appreciate you guys, and thank you so much for helping me achieve this milestone in my life into my YouTube career.

And I mean, this is just beginning.

I can't wait to see where this goes.

What's even crazier than that is now, just about two weeks later, we have already, like we're already at, like, 6000 subscribers.

Excuse me.

6400 subscribers.

I mean, y'all are absolutely amazing.

But now it's time to go from something so positive, like me thinking all of y'all for supporting me in this channel to something so in negative to Ah, well, take it.

Take a look.

What days?

I swear I have been working non stop forever.

That that was me last night.

I really felt a bit brain dead.

All I want to do at that point was watched.

People play video games because I couldn't even play video games myself because I don't think my brain would follow what was going on on the screen.