And welcome back to Talking Nonsense. I'm your host Kyle and as usual I'm here with Christopher. And actually today's episode is pretty special because we have two special guests on this show today. If you guys want to introduce yourself.
Hi I'm Venus. Hi I'm Ariel. No, okay. No that's fine.
So yeah, these two people are, one of them is our cousin who was, what's your name again? Venus. And the other one's actually our niece Ariel. Yeah, the other girl.
Say hi Ariel. Hi I'm from San Diego. It's also really late at night so that's kind of, we're bringing that midnight oil. Yeah.
So what's our topic again? We're talking about college years because we're out actually. So go from young sister. Yeah.
Yeah. Nice here Ariel. She's still she's fresh. You just finished it.
I just finished it and now I'm going to be a sophomore. Watch how we got a sophomore. Whoa, whoa, whoa big time. And then Venus was the last one to graduate out of our group.
Yeah, right. She's the most recent graduate. Yeah. Hey you just graduated.
Yeah last December at Sac State. Yeah. Shout out for your singers up. Oh yes Stingers up because I graduated from Sac State too.
I didn't know Sac State at all. You weren't even, you're not even from here. Yeah, I was even in the country. No, you were out of the country.
Where were you? I was in the Philippines. Yeah, you went to the, like after Vegas. Oh, I never saw you again thought you died.
Yes. Sorry I died. No, we talked about you. Oh yeah, no, because I killed him off.
The writers killed the office. No, I went to the school in Philippines as soon as I graduated. How was it? I mean, it's all right.
It's different. It's real different. What made how would you know you've never been to college here in America? Because like over there is, it was so lax that like on presentations and stuff on the slides where on the source side where you have all your sources, right?
Or even throughout actual presentations, I've had classmates who left the Wikipedia link on like the hyperlink that they copied it from. Yeah. They never turned off. It was just still active.
But how's that? I actually was the different. I mean, I'm sure that would happen over here though. Like in college presentation where I was like literally copying from like Wikipedia and there's like just copying based it.
I'm sure you wouldn't see that over here. At least third-minute times make it look like they were doing their own work. Right. Over there, it's just it's so like it's just blatant.
Okay. Well, how about Ariel, why don't you tell us how your college, your first year of college went? How was it for you? So I entered thinking it was going to be like the greatest time of my life.
Like the movies, but like a little downscaled, but like I still like expected something. And then I got hit with some hard classes. And reality hit, right? And no sleep.
Lots of coffee. Lots of crying. Crying. Why?
Classes are hard. Did you not cry in college? I know, I didn't. I think I cried all this fall semester.
I mean, I really? Every night. Wait, sorry. I got to college just because I didn't have anyone.
I don't know where he lived though. He was like on Island by himself. Yeah, that sounds so nice. It wasn't his private island.
There were other people there. But like none of our family was near him. Yeah, and like definitely that wasn't here. It was just like those, it wasn't me bad, but those like greedy Filipino relatives.
I was already there. Like asking for money though. And they're only around whenever like someone from America comes. Yeah, it's like, I don't want to know.
Shade. We love the tea. We love the tea. What?
What? Wow, there's such a difference between younger people and older people. Wow. What's the tea?
What do you mean? What's the tea? You guys don't know like, like the same thing when you shade someone. You throw some salt.
Yeah, but what does this? What's the tea stand for? Like the gossip, the rumor like, and that's the tea. Like, you know, like that.
What's the tea? The tea, like Kermit, the frog, the meat, the tea, it's not my business, right? Okay. But then it went from sipping my tea to that's the tea.
You young people nowadays, who is coming up with this weird ass lingo, I'm acting like we're hell of fucking over. It's a massive age gap though. Like there's a huge generational gap, I think. There is, which is why people over the age of 22 cannot have a healthy relationship with anyone under 22.
Well, for one, it'd be illegal. No, okay. I mean over 18, like an 18 year old and a 23 year old, like it sounds great and all. That sounds like a horrible time for the 23 year old.
Exactly. Even if she's 18, right? I am 18 and I'm turning 19 and October. Oh, snap.
I'm 19. How old are you Venus? I'm turning 24. Oh, you're just turning 24?
Oh shit. We're totally going off topic. So how's your first year of college again? Oh yeah, that's great.
I witnessed. So what were you expecting? You said, because you said you had high expectations, but no, go ahead. I dormed.
So I was expecting like, dorm parties or like, I mean, you know, you did. I mean, she wanted to talk about my dorm party. Right, because you were in your room studying. Yeah, I got you.
Yeah, she just didn't get there. But oh, what a loaner. I was doing her. And I got to a very small school.
So like our Filipino club, which was my group of friends as expecting it like, wow, college people in one club, well, we felt just like high school. How many were in the club? Um, our total for our Filipino club is like, barely over 100. Really?
Because ours is huge. Hours as in me and Venus. Inside off toward the end. Yeah, it was huge in the beginning.
Yeah, there's like over 100. We know everyone. We know who's in each like, fam group or whatever. It's not small that we know everything.
So all. You were in every club. American club, though. Thank you.
Yeah, we did. Were you in that one? Only because I came from here. Yeah.
But I didn't talk to the people in that club also from America or were those Filipino's just trying to get into it. Yeah. But were they were they from America too? They're majority of them were from America who went there because whatever reason, there were the like some Filipino kids who wanted to like embrace American culture.
American culture? What did you guys do in the club? Yeah, because like Filipino clubs like we're saying like, yeah, we know national anthem or something like are you guys saying the Pledge of Allegiance? Like so officially it is more like a social club where you can meet other like North American students.
Unofficially like you should go to bars and drink because there's no like room. No, there's like no. This is what you need to get to the point. That's a good a lot of this out.
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
No, it's cool. Go ahead. No, I know. Okay.
Backtrack real quick. What did you do in the American club when you were in the Philippines? Like officially? Yeah.
Just what was it? In general. What was in like what did you do in the club? I mean during the day you would meet other kids who came from America and you just kind of show them on campus.
And it was just like a way for like everyone who came from America or at least abroad technically because you get to know each other and like you know hang out and have like an actual friend because a lot of the time if you came from a Broadway, you'd speak a local dialect. But like what everyone did after school hours was just go to bars and stuff and drink. You know, you played all the American like drinking games like Rage Cage and Beerthong. So yeah.
What are you doing in your Filipino club Ariel? There's a drinking club. I did not drink. What do I?
It was a drinking club. It's the mainly. No, Ariel is a good girl. She did not drink.
I trust her. I trust her. Oh yeah. We like did stuff like learn about Filipino history.
Like what? She can't remember that. It was in the meetings. I was on my phone.
That's how it was most of the time. That's how it was for our club too. Did they teach you any Filipino history like Al? Yeah, we did.
There was like we learned about like the westernized European like standard for how Filipino should look. Like how quick Alta doesn't like dark Filipinos when which one of us are dark? Yeah. There's some like skinned Filipino people.
Those are all European based. They're almost visas. They're almost visas. Does that mean again?
That's nice. That's what I want. Like caramel macchiatos. No, you know who makes really pretty babies?
Black people. No. Sorry. I mean, I'm not saying black.
I'm saying like black mixed with everything is the most beautiful thing. No, it's not. It's Latin and Filipino. Oh, like Hispanic.
Yeah, it's Hispanic and Filipino. Like the best. Oh, Latin. Not like Mexican.
Well, just Hispanic. Like, well, no, I've seen some girls like the like Salvadorian and Filipino. What? The lighter skin Latinos.
Just Latinos and Filipino in general. They make really pretty babies going real. Was there a topic in the? Oh, yeah.
It's about college. Yeah. So I'm talking about Filipino. I think Filipino and Swedish people make nice babies.
Okay. Now we're going. That was post grad Venus. Post grad.
It's your recent post grad depression is real as they say. Is that damn true? Yeah, I was in like people don't know what to do after grad reading. It's either, you know, you apply for a grad program, you know, your last semester college and then you're in school again the next fall or whatever.
But I didn't do that because I had a lot of homework, had a lot of finals to study for. So I'm kind of stuck right now with a part time job. But you know, I miss being in college. Sometimes I still wish I was in college instead of being.
Go visit. Yeah. You still have some friends. Yeah.
I visited a couple times. It's different. It's very nostalgic. I'm thinking of all the memories I had.
Yeah. It was definitely a journey from start to end. So how was your experience then? From like day one or like, yeah, just how was your freshman year compared to her freshman year?
My freshman year. So you said that you were like starting like dorm life and yeah, I was like dorm life and I got to meet new people because literally I was the only one in my school who was going to the college I'm going to right now. Got you. So I was like, oh, only one from your high school.
Yeah, from high school. I was going to that college. So I was like, oh, new people, dorm life, college. I was like, what do you think from those three with me though?
I mean, I'm at the sex day. I live in SAC. So you didn't dorm? I just committed every day, which was, you know, kind of like touching my toes.
Sorry. Boring, you know, going back home. Yeah. Yeah.
It was exciting. Like, I literally just went to college. I went to college thinking, okay, I'm just going to get through my classes or whatever. I didn't think about all the parties.
No, you weren't like, oh, I'm going to join a sorority. I'm going to do this. No, I got my freedom now. No, I didn't even think all that.
Yeah. I was like, never. Yeah. Or like, going to end college.
That's when I started like, you know, getting out there, you know, like, I did join the fluke club as well. But like, I had to get pushed into it. You know, I wasn't like, Oh, I'm willing to do it on my own. You're more focused on on studies, basically.
Yeah. Yeah. Should be. So why is that not you, Ariel?
I'm socialized more than I study. I'm still passing with what I mean, these do still get degrees. These are seas. You cannot fail the class at day.
I've been out of school for three years now. Okay. See my class. I got three years ago.
Yeah, I got to tell you like my grades, but at least you're passing to. That's not bad. That's good. What an Asian that's racist.
It's a forest thing. It's a forest thing. It's a forest thing. Not that well, in our history.
Yeah. Yeah. That's some racist shit. Yeah.
How was yours? How was it? Three years after college? Three years after college.
Same thing. Like when I graduated, my time spent was mostly just trying to find a job, because I didn't do what most smart college students do and apply during school. I was just like, Oh, graduate, get a job easily. That should actually, you know, I did get a job pretty quickly though.
I'm not going to lie. I know. Well, because like, it was hard at first, but then I just kept applying, you know, that's what you got to do. You just got to keep applying.
And then eventually one of them called me back and I got it pretty quickly. So I got that job in September and I graduated in May. So we had pretty quick. That is pretty quick.
Yeah. Brandt You're paying it off as your in school? Yeah. I'm paying $50 a month.
Yeah, because it's only $2,500. Okay, let me ask you this. Do you know how much your school costs? Yes.
Are you how much? In total, like with dorming or without dorming with dorming with dorming? Okay. So, oh, sorry.
Hold on. Okay. Is yours a quarter system or semester? We are semester system.
Okay. So once the semester, we'll like, okay, so our tuition costs just under 5,000. Okay. It was like 4,800 rough estimate.
And then the dorming was 1,100 a month. And you were there for? 1,100 a month. Yes.
But we paid for So 6,000 for the semester pretty much. Because a semester is 4. Yes. It was over.
We know. Yeah. Semester six months, right? In a whole year.
Oh, yeah. Semester six months. Yeah. No.
4. Is it 4 months? Yeah. That's 6 is 12.
So I've been school the whole year. What? If the semester was 6 months. The next semester is 6 months.
Oh, then yes. So I'm in school all year. Yeah. That's all right.
You're right. Um, now yeah. So like rough estimate for the dorming was about 10,000. For the whole year?
Okay. So 5,000 per semester. Alright. It wasn't like per semester for dorming.
It's just per month, like normal rent. Yeah. It was 1,100 flat rate. But then that included electricity, water, laundry.
But it's still super expensive for sharing apartment like dorm with 5 of 4 other people. So each of you were paying 1,100? Yes. Each of us were paying.
Yeah. So it was like 5,000 for a dorm. That's what was making there. Right?
Yeah. That's what was making there. So total then is what? That's like 15 for the whole year.
For the whole year? Yeah. With dorming though. So for four years.
Oh, and then parking. Right. How much is your parking permit? Uh, a year under 700.
So like 600. Well, for the whole year. The whole year. That's the last 300 days.
The exact state. They do it per semester. 100 something. 100?
Per semester. For the part. Per semester? Yeah.
Our semester was $338. Yeah. And ours is pretty cheap. Where do you go again?
For Cal State San Marcos. Oh, down south. Boring Cal State. Yeah.
Cool. The exact state was like, the exact state was more fair. Our prices. For what?
For like everything? Yeah. Yeah. Well, because at least for me, the dorms were around that much too.
I think it was going to be like 1,200 per month. But I didn't dorm. We got an apartment instead because our parents, well, I went to sex aid with my friend out of high school. We wanted to get an apartment and then our parents wanted us to dorm first.
So then we went to check the prices and it was like 1,200 a month. And they're like, fuck that. Like you might as well just get an apartment because it was cheaper. And it was.
We got an apartment and we only paid like 300 each a month. Yeah. So it's like four times less. Was an apartment or was it like a apartment for two people?
Well, we got a house later. There's three of us. So we only paid 300 each. Under a thousand?
Yeah. It was Sacramento. It wasn't that expensive. Oh, yeah.
Well, I'm in my like San Marcos is like the middle of nowhere. Like that's not like San Diego. Like from like downtown San Diego and like where everything is. That's like a 40-35, 40 minute drive away from it.
So we're like in the middle of nowhere. But our apartment, each of us has to pay 550. And that's without utilities. How many are there?
Are you? There's four of us. Oh, well, I mean 550 compared to 1,100. Yeah.
That's why I'm a part in the apartment. Yeah. Did you switch Midway? Your freshman year or you just switched now?
Yes, because there was a like a leafy, like five dollars. Damn. Oh, so yeah, so the dorms were 1200. My tuition per semester was like I think 3500 or whatever per semester.
Yeah. It was very cheap. But then that's not including books. Books I spent like each not each month each semester at least over 200 for books.
That's not that bad either though. That's like cheaper. Yeah. Like four classes or five.
I don't have any books. Yeah that and then or they had the books online. So well, I'm in debt though because of school loans. But I think total wise then I spent what?
It's a three grand per semester. So six grand for one year. Well, that's just tuition. I can't do the math right now.
That's it. Yeah. Is that what I mean? That's it.
That's a lot. That's a lot. But I mean compared to like other people. That's not a lot.
That's because like they were only offered loans probably so that's not the case. Right, because you only did the federal right? You didn't go to any private loans? I think I had a few.
I did I did do something else. You better check here. You didn't even know if you did. No, I did because I needed it.
Like private loans. Like Sally Mae. No, no, no, no. Sorry.
Sorry. I thought not federal. Yeah. Yeah.
You did it. Unsubsidized. Wow. I know.
I had to. I can't have anybody. I had grants like the first few years and it stopped. Yeah.
But even then the grants didn't publicly. Dude, sex day fucked me over with the stupid grant because I got a Cal Grant too. Yeah. Freshman year because I got an email from them and they were going to give me I think like $800.
It wasn't much but it was free money. That's a lot. Yeah. So I was like stoked.
I was like sweet. Like they called or I called them. I called Cal Grant. Yeah.
And I was like I got this email saying I have money. Is this true? They looked into my account like yeah we're giving like you have $800. Like that's yours.
Yeah. Like all you have to do is just go to your school, talk to the financial or financial aid office, tell them to give it to you. Right. So like okay, don't.
Like go to the office, tell them I got a Cal Grant like $800. The girl looks it up and she goes sorry. You know you don't. I'm like why?
Like I just talked to them. Yeah. I have it. That's like she was like no.
She was like yeah but we just changed like you missed it by like a date or some shit because they changed their like no not the acceptance date. No, not even that. It was the the annual or not the annual income earning of your parents. Like they changed the cap for Cal Grants.
Like I think they went yeah they went lower. So my parents made too much. Like you don't need it. Yeah.
I was so pissed. Like that's bullshit. Like Cal Grants giving me it. Like that's my money.
Yeah. You're like sorry. You know your your parents made too much. I'm like that's fucking bullshit.
Yeah. Yeah. I was pissed. I was like I was so upset because that was like free money.
I was like yes. Less less to pay and loans after that. But I never got it. I think I got 13,000 or 13,000 or 13,000.
You got 13,000 grants a Cal Grant and it's just like regular federal aid and then the loan was only 2,500. Because I think it's because I dormed. Oh it's higher if you're dorm so because they know you were money. Yeah.
So it's a lot higher. But I mean the Cal Grant though like because that's free money. Yeah. My Cal Grant was 6,000.
Oh okay. Yeah. That's a little bit. I don't think I hate it.
800 or supposedly. I mean I never got it. Since I'm not dorming anymore. It's like the estimate for like all the financial aid I'll get plus the loans would be like 7,000.
No. Oh how many loans? Yeah. How much is it over there in the Philippines?
Yeah. It's like I think we did the math in like a previous episode. We did the math for how much you get paid for. Oh yeah.
I can't remember how much my tuition and stuff was but. Is it sounding around like that price? If you were to convert it. Or is it less?
It's way less. Way less right. Like so I went to school and my dad's like retirement check. Like I paid for tuition and like food and stuff.
Did you dorm at all? I did my first year but I moved out after that because I didn't feel like living with like 200 plus needs because like every Friday night and I don't know what it is about Filipino guys. They love playing that note of bullshit. It's like a Friday night.
It's like which college guys playing Dota and screaming and like fucking Filipino. Let's note it again. Somebody games that like some shit. Yeah it's a computer game.
I've told so many people on there. No that's fine. Yeah it was it. I didn't have to take out any loans or anything like that.
So you don't remember the price though? How much tuition was there anything? I can do probably around 4,000 pesos or something like that. Really?
For the whole for one year or for your whole college career? For one year. Okay. Yeah so how much is that?
That's only about a thousand. Oh yeah it's about a thousand bucks. Oh right because if they were 40 you're about damn. Six times less than a dollars for a year.
Yeah for books. You kind of get an official copy of your book unless you pay like a 200% premium pretty much like double whatever the actual price of the book was. I mean were the books cheap though? Like could you just pay that off easily or?
I mean I could just because I had American money but like for kids just grew up there. No how much was it? It was probably like a legitimate copy. It's probably like four or five thousand pesos.
How much is that? $100? Is it $100? I like your good.
Because it's like $1.50. Right now it's like 50 something but I obviously do it off of 40 just because that's what it was before. Yeah so like for a student who like grew up there it was near possible so what they did was they were really photocopied entire book for like 400, 500 pesos. Oh yeah.
And it's like that's how people did that shit. Are you excited for your sophomore year? Yeah. What are you excited about?
What am I excited about? I'm excited to start so that I can finish it. Do you have like do you already have a plan of what you're going to do? No.
You have to college in the next like five years. You just said no bro. How do I keep going? I'm sorry.
I do not. I don't know. I feel like it's a very interesting question. Give me a hug.
Keep grabbing it. For those of you who will because if we're not recording this video she keeps touching stuff on my desk. It's not touching stuff. Anyway I know.
I mean I get it like second year like that's almost halfway. Yeah that is halfway. Well I'm starting to get. You're right.
But they're like oh you should know what you're doing. I'm like oh I really don't. There's still like a teen in my name or my name my age. Yeah.
So I feel like I shouldn't really know. Yeah. Because I mean I could accidentally fail one day. Are you trying to be done in four years?
No I know I'm done in five years. All the STEM majors. Yeah for sure. Yeah for sure.
Our school five years. Five and a half for me. Or that. That would be good.
I mean it's not like at first I thought it was bad because like I didn't understand because I knew it's always like four-year college. Yeah. But I saw like the plan that I had for my major and I would be taking like six of the same classes in one sort of like six of the same subject but different like parts of the subject in one semester if I didn't spread it out and I didn't want to like overwork myself in one semester like that. Sounds like all right let's accept the five years.
Yeah I took five years. You took five and a half years. I think you finished in four right? Oh my first two years I took 30 units.
They take a lot. Yes. So he said 30 but I had a cousin who came and she was like. They as in those in the Philippines.
Yeah they came from the Philippines to visit us for a Christmas didn't like thing. And I was talking to a girl I guess we were cousins I don't know. But we started talking about college and she's gonna be a third year and I was like she asked me how many units I was taking at house like oh I'm taking like 15. I was like that's like a little over like what I yeah because for full-time students it's like 12-12-15 yeah so I was like yeah 15 and she was like 15 and I was like yeah and I was like what about you she's like I'm taking 21 and I was like that was for her just one semester.
One semester. Yeah. Damn. They just go to school eight in the morning until like eight at night and I was like that sounds horrendous.
Yeah. That's how it was for you. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Oh yeah. That was your first two years though you said right? Yeah first year and then because I kept doing that and I took classes over summer as well. That's how you were able to graduate so yeah so by the time I got so I think my third and fourth year I only had a handful of classes left and like yeah by the time I got to my final year my final semester had like four classes.
Yeah. It was just different because I was so used to being like in class from 7 a.m. 7 p.m. having four classes it was just cozy.
It was cozy. That's cozy. Sounds like hell to me. Four classes.
Why how many classes are you taking? I'm taking four. Oh okay. I'm like yeah.
I wish I could take two. All right. Yeah I know but he has a point that when you go from 7 a.m. to like four classes.
Yeah that's real cozy. That's super cozy. That's all like unheard of. No I mean that's the same for like high school.
I had we had like six class. School about 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Okay I was I had like practice after school.
Oh oh yeah. So I came home late so that was like my whole workload so I was like oh look I have a class at 11 a.m. and then like it ends at or like I have three classes so I took 11 ends at like three like I was like oh that's like a half day every day. Yeah.
Nah I couldn't even get up at 11 a.m. I can't even wake up for my nap for my next class. But that's what high school prepares you for. In part three.
It's not periods. Just waking up early. Oh yeah it didn't work. Really.
How many classes did you take? First semester. Yeah I took like 12 to 15 units so that's four to four to five. Oh yeah four to five classes.
I didn't go over five. How are your schedules? Oh yeah I had some like. Wait sorry.
Were you the one that always kept your schedule on your phone? Yes. As your screensaver. Oh that's not remembering your four classes.
I remember it. Because my schedules were so sporadic. Like you know Monday would be like you know eight so like four Tuesday would be like blah blah blah it's at eight yeah or whatever. It was just all mixed up.
I remember. I did. I didn't want it because I knew like I like to do my own time Now I know what you mean. Yeah you want to have your you time at night.