was my covid gap year worth it? // answering YOUR questions

after that last kind of dramatic video about my feelings during my gap year, here's a more concrete video answering your questions!! The big one I left out details on was how I funded my gap year, but I'm going to make a whole in-depth explanation about it in my next video, so stay tuned for that :)

#gapyear #uchicago #itschloetan

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0:25 why did you take a gap year disregarding covid?
1:00 how did you fill up your time? bucket list items?
2:18 how to deal with boredom?
2:47 staying motivated for (non-school) online courses?
3:39 what was the most difficult or stressful part about your gap year?
4:19 favourite part of your gap year?
5:00 what are your personal and academic goals for the year?
5:53 financial plans? money strategy? student status?
6:43 when did you start redrawing?
7:21 are you worried about adjusting to uchicago's workload?
7:42 was it easy for you to stay productive during the gap year?
8:32 is there anything you would have done differently?
9:26 how have your relationships with UC ppl & family changed?
10:35 how did you fund your gap year?
10:58 how did you find resources or projects to work on during?

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*some coursera courses I took:
stanford machine learning - https://www.coursera.org/learn/machin...
yale financial markets - https://www.coursera.org/learn/financ...
princeton cryptocurrency - https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto...
IBM data analytics certificate - https://www.coursera.org/professional...

*other than coursera, also check out edx (and udemy, if your school offers free subscription)
*also check out coding bootcamps, UI/UX design bootcamps, web development
*useful skills to learn for data science / finance:
tableau, SQL, Python, R, Stata
Excel (like advanced excel), Python, potentially a course like Invest on Wall Street, pseudo market portfolios like wallstreetsurvivors (which a Booth professor at UC uses for his classes)

*pro tip: always look out for government, country, school scholarships, or NGOs!!

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20 years old
Singapore-Indonesian, grew up in Shanghai
Currently at the University of Chicago
Economics major, Data Science minor

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