(oooh look at that nice aesthetic pour)

ooOW that's hoT *cough*

Hello friends! and welcome to my last week of college ~ever~

um yES that's fucking crazy to say

but I am graduating a year and a quarter early

I'm graduating total in like around two and a half years

and this week is my last week

sO I thought I would vlog it for you guys because it's my last chance ever to be a #relatable 20 year old, I guess

*sips tea* mmMM

i always feel like i forget to introduce myself cause i assume that like evERYBODY has watched my entire

life history on the internet

bUT my name is Ashley, i go to UCLA and i'm a film student

i am a screenwriting concentration so one of the big things i'm doing this quarter is

finishing up my firST EVER ~screenplay~

my other courses are history of European cinema, which is a requirement for my major

and symposium, which i don't have this week but it's like this personalized capstone course

to wrap up my studies at UCLA

it's with a digital media professor who's like 60 years old

but he's sO nice about my youtube channel

so steve, if you're watching this, you're a homie

my main goals are to film and edit a youtube video that i post on thursday

and to study for my European cinema final, which is also thursday morning

i also later have a finished screenplay, an adaption report on 12 angry men

a 7 page research paper, and a presentation on the social media industry due

bUT!

those are due next week so we're just not going to think about them right now

so hopefully i'll be able to show you guys a little bit of

~time management~, organization, UCLA stuff, film school stuff

and just being a ~youtuber~

*insert cute ashley content here*

god that's gross

yEAH!! let's get started!

*cute birdy tweet sound*

hey guys! it's sunday and this is probably gonna be

one of the most boring days of my entire life

i'm literally just sitting at this desk studying for my final the entire day

so if you want like exciting-ish college things, like skip to the later days in this vlog

but today is the reality of what college is :')

i feel like college vloggers are always going to parties and game days and fun shit like that

but like, bro you gotta get those ~grades~ too

yoU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, C's get degrees but A's get to die early from stress-related complications

so today, i'm studying for my history of European cinema class

honestly dudes, i hate this class it is a required course for my major though

you like when you graduate high school and you think that you're never going to have to

take a class that you don't like again

and then you get to college and you realize that's like 90% of what college is

yeAH

sO i thought i would show you guys a little bit of my ~study method~

so we have a study guide for the class

which contains about 40 terms

and like 20 study questions

so i'm writing those all out on a notebook

now, i like to write things out on physical paper because for me there's something

about the physical sensation of writing out the words and the extra time that it takes

and like that muscle to brain connection?? i don't really know

that just helps me remember stuff so much better than if i typed it out

then with those terms in mind, i'm going through all of the course readings

i have an ipad to do all of my handwritten titles for this channel

but obviously, like not everybody has that

so if you don't have this, i would actually reccomend printing out your readings

as ecologically horrible as that is

there's something about physically highlighting your work that makes it

so much easier to remember

as i read through, i'm looking for those key terms and answers to my study guide questions

and i'm also highlighting each article or each main concept in a different color

since there are about 12 different academic papers for this class

it's a lot of information to keep track, so having those different colors

helps me keep straight in my mind

which concepts come from which author

um and yeAH! that'll be my entire Sunday :')

so i'll just see you guys tomorrow

*adorable finger guns pew pew*

Monday is pretty much one of my lightest class days

so that makes it also my youtube filming day

so right now it's around 8 AM

i meant to wake up a little bit earlier but y'know

you know how it be sometimes

is that still a meme??? i don't know

*some more spicy music*

so for my video, i had to go and buy a lot of cereal from the grocery store

so here's just some footage of me being a fucking awkward bean trying to avoid eye contact with grocery store employees

hey guys, i just finished filming my video

it is just past 3 right now, so i'm gonna spend about half an hour editing my footage

and then head off to class

for those of you who don't know, i actually moved into my lovely new aparment

a little bit before i graduated college so i've been commuting for the past like

week/week and a half, but overall it's not been too long and

it's been really nice to live by myself and without roommates and pay a reasonable price for rent ("resonable")

because rent in my college town is super super fucking expensive

alright so i changed for class

normally, i don't dress up that much for class but i think i'm gonna take photos

after class to get that ~insta pic~

so here is my outfit

my dress if from Motel Rocks

my blazer is from Amanda Steel's "Steel" collection

and my boots are from Urban Outfitters

and then i'm also gonna bring these big, chunky unif boots

'cause i feel like they might look a little better with the outfit

but these are much more walkable for my way to class

so i'm already really late so i'm just gonna drive to class now! see you guys soon bye

♪ my life is just a giant pile of boxes ♪

*you guessed it, spicy music*

10 minutes late as always

i didn't film my class because that would be rude and weird

but here are the notes that i took, i actually took quite thorough notes today

normally i doze off at least a little bit in lecture

but i try to pay attention in section because it's like a really distilled version of what we learned in lecture anyway

and the final is this week so it's like about time that i got caught up on class

*nice lil mix of music and audiobook*

so i ended up coming back to around Fairfax to take photos

*cute little foot kick*

i got my chunky boots on

and i loaded my new flash onto my camera

my camera doesn't come in with a built-in flash

but i put this red filter attachment on it so hopefully it's going to give me like a

really cool red glow to the photos that will match my dress

i don't know, we'll see

right now i'm in this like random alley there really isn't any through traffic

so hopefully i'm not going to blind anybody with my flash

and i can shoot safely

this is the glamor of being an influencer, guys

i got my camera set up on a trash bin on my bendy tripod with my colorful flash :)

alright let's take some photos

the rest of the night will probably be some studying for my upcoming final

which i really really need to grind on

and edit the video that i filmed today

*more bird tweets*

good morning! it is Tuesday and i am still living inside a pile of cereal

have not cleaned up a thing since yesterday

here is the outfit today! i was feeling fucking extra as you can tell

i just like woke up feeling girly so i rolled with it

this dress is from Urban Outfitters

i dressed it down with some Doctor Martins

and then I'm wearing these hairclips that i haven't been able to stop wearing

i am all about the hairclip trend

*casually picks up Kanken backpack*

i also wanted to talk about how i've been thinking about how to continue my education and like

brain development after i graduate

i don't want all the time that i used to spend in class just turning into like Netflix brain mush time

and i think i kind of have it figured out 'cause in the past two weeks

i have started listening to a lot of audio books like 1 to 2 per week

which makes me feel really good because i have not read a physical book

in a very very long time

i promise this section is not sponsored by audible so you can unclench your butthole now

but recently i've been listening to a lot of books by college professors

and by sociologists and psychologists

2 recommendations that i have are "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport

and the book i'm reading right now is called "Irresistible" and it's about

how technology is designed to be addictive

i've realized this past Winter break when i didn't have school for a month

that i do really get sad when i'm not exposed to like new ideas and have any type of mental stimulation

outside of youtube and the internet that's just like not a good way for me to live

especially because i work on social media, i don't want to be consumed by social media thoughts 24/7

um anyways i'm about to park now thanks for coming to my TED talk

*aesthetic footage and good music plays*

hey guys so we're on break from class right now

i just ran to the student's store and got my last fucking blue book ever

it's literally just an empty notebook of paper

but you need it to take all of your written final and midterm exams (*shudders*)

for my midterm for this class, i filled up this entire notebook

which i think is like 20 pages worth of paper

hopefully my hand won't die on the final, but we'll see

anyways, it feels good that this is the last one i'm so over these fucking exams

also can we just talk about how beautiful the campus is right now??

like this is honestly the prettiest i've ever seen UCLA

college in the Winter gets a little bit depressing because by the time i get out of class, it's dark

so i like never see the sunlight

it's so gorgeous today :D

*some nice music*

that was honestly one of the best movies that we've watched all quarter

i thought it was quite good, cinematography on poiNT, acting on poINT

there was like a 10 minutes scene halfway through that was just .......

~anal sex~

which was not what i expected from my education today exactly

but i'm all for the destigmatization of gay and anal sex

sooooo

:))))

ya learn something everyday kids!

aNYWAYS, on a related note, i'm going to the dentist right now to get my Invisalign checked up on

so um, see you guys in a bit

my afternoon was a bunch of miscellaneous errands

after the dentist, i went to meet with my manager

about this exciting little project which i get to be purposefully vague about ;)

like all youtubers

and then i went grocery shopping because it's about this point in the week

where i realize that i've eaten cereal for 4 days in a row

and i should probably try something else except in this case i just bought more fucking bread

which is the same food group but,,, oh well

oh nUT that looks soooo good

the rest of the day i hopped on some calls

finished cleaning up my apartment and started editing my video for the week

this is where it gets kinda boring like i literally just sit here for hours and hours on end soo

let's just skip to the next day

*yeeees birb tweets :]*

oh, what's that?? it's just aNOTHER time lapse of me working on Wednesday too???

Wednesday i have like 16 to 24 hours of work sooo i'm just grinding away

i'm gonna explain what i'm working on in just a second though

this is when you know the work is getting intense

it's time... to clip back the bangs for maximum concentration

oh god i look like a boiled egg

@[email protected]

but right now i am working on what is due at 2 pm today for my screenwriting class

which is a treatment basically a summary of my next project

which is basically like wolf of Wallstreet but for influencers

which sounds kind of cheesy but i wanted it to be this like

extravagant, kind of ironic commentary on how there are girls who are like

14/15 years old getting sucked into being an Instagram star

being a youtuber, moving away from their home and just like chasing

what feels like a very empty dream

i won't have anymore screenwriting class after this but hopefully i will keep screenwriting

because screenwriting takes a goddamn long time to get good at

but i want to keep grinding away at it so eventually i have something that is worth making

keep an eye out i'll probably finish this screenplay in like two years

and then maybe it'll be a movie one day

*chill music while ashley is hard at work*

alright, it is 1:30 and i am about to run to class

i didn't have time to change so here is my super underwhelming outfit today

just a sweatshirt, leggings, and some socks and sneakers

i'm already 10 minutes late so let's get going

*proceeds to yeet away*

hi ashley

bye forever

see ya later

see ya on youtube byeee byeeee

*dAB!!1!1*

woAH * anoTHER DAB!!1!1*

*dAAAAB!!!* *everyone watches*

yeeeAAAAAAH!!!1!1 *claps*

*insert hard work and really cool music here*

alrigHT a couple hours later my forehead is out and about

which is how you know i've been working hard

i'm doing a couple pick-ups for my edit basically just doing little title slates

of each of the types of cereal

is this the best use of my time the day before my final?? probably fucking not but i'm gonna do it anyway

oh boy! anoTHER time lapse

this is me editing for like 5 hours until around 11 PM

at which point my brain was just one giant pile of editing mush

so i decided to take a break by studying- well i guess a break from editing

not a break from work- it's just more work

not pictured here is a mini mental breakdown that i had but y'know

what's a finals week without 1 or 2