And I'm Mitch.

And we are...

[both] AsapSCIENCE.

It's been a peculiar year.

Back in September, you probably pictured taking a prom photo.

Maybe something like this.

Standing cheek to cheek.

Maybe even you've effortlessly

picked up one of your close friends.

But now, with physical distancing measures,

that photo's gonna have to be

at least 72 feet wide,

so scratch that.

The fact that things are different now

and it might not be a traditional graduation

doesn't take away from the amazing years of school you had,

and we are here to prove that,

using statistics and science.

Let's begin.

Of the millions of people graduating

around the world today

40% are actually in China and India.

So, hello, international smart people.

[Mitch] Focusing on America,

we have 1,975,000 people

graduating with Bachelor's degrees,

989,000 with Associate's degrees,

820,000 Master's degrees,

and 184,000 Doctorate degrees.

That's a lot of smart people.

About 3.7 million students

are graduating from high school

this year, in America.

And did you know, over the last four years

your heart beat

1,460,000 times.

[Mitch] It also pumped

10,950,000 liters of blood throughout your body.

So from the bottom of your heart,

you should thank your heart.

[Mitch] Over the last four years,

you and all your classmates have travelled

3,760,000,000 kilometers through space

on this here planet Earth.

You produced at least

252 trillion red blood cells in the last four years.

[Mitch] Your skin sheds around

30 to 40,000 skin cells per minute.

So, over the last four years,

you shed 50.8 bodies worth of skin.

Your nails... [chuckles]

...grew 18.4 centimeters,

and your hair grew 60 centimeters.

Which might be something

that you've become acutely aware of in the last three months.

'Tis long.

You've blinked...

40 million times,

which means you've spent 10% of your waking hours

with you eyes closed.

[Greg] Some of these upcoming studies

only consider gender binaries.

Boys sleep an average of 496.4 minutes per night.

Whereas girls

sleep an average of 507.6 minutes.

That means, in the last four years,

boys, you slept around 725,000 minutes,

and, girls, you slept around 741,000 minutes.

Staying up late watching YouTube,

or, I mean, like, studying,

maybe would've decreased those hours of sleep by a little bit.

This sleep was essential to develop and take care of your brain

which produced 2,044,000 new neurons in the hippocampus

and burned 584,000 calories.

And did you know that while sitting quietly

your brains is actually churning through more information

than the Hubble Telescope has in the last 30 years?

So like, no shade, Hubble Telescope,

but, like, keep up.

On average, in the last four years,

we all cried emotional tears

about 116 times.

But, statistically, women cried 188 times

while men only cried 44.

Now, crying actually releases the hormone oxytocin,

endorphins and can ease pain.

So, boys, it's time to cry more, okay?

Right now, tonight, listen to Wonderwall,

watch the movie Up, or like...

We're all watching you graduate with the Obamas,

it's emotional, okay? Let if flow.

Also, did you know that the people

who are graduating high school this year

were likely born in 2002,

and therefore were three years old when YouTube was invented?

[both chuckle]

We're so old.

We're so old. I know, I know.

But we're also kind of like

the cool, old YouTube, gay science teachers, right?

Yeah, that's it.

We're the cool teachers, right? Yeah, I see you.

You right there.

On your phone. That's you. Tyler,

put down you phone, okay? Pay attention in class.

After school ended, we obviously panicked

that we weren't gonna learn anymore,

and so what we decided to do

was create a YouTube channel about science

out of our passion for science,

that was enriched within us by our teachers and schools.

So, our advice to you

is to figure out what it was

you were passionate about in the four years at school

and really pursue it.

Another reason we love science,

is that it can positively transform lives

and I think, right now, this moment,

we're all more viscerally aware of that than ever.

Scientific information and knowledge

is so important in keeping us safe.

So we all need to continue to listen to healthcare professionals

epidemiologists and scientific consensus

about how we move forward with this pandemic,

but also even after.

Because listening to scientists

means a brighter future for the human species.

Okay, so look at me, look at me.

Education is power,

so never stop learning.

[kisses] Peace. Bye.

Bye.