Thank you.
Okay, so the first thing that I really wanted to stress in this getting ready for back to school is my health.
I've been kind of on my health grind for like the last two weeks and I want to do consistent workouts not even workouts, but just like going for walks every day before I go back to school.
I want to be just like super healthy and I don't want my health to go the way it did last year.
I am trying to work out, get sleep, eat really well.
I've been doing that really well for the past like two weeks and I really want to stick with that all through August.
Actually, one thing that I also hated in university was I would probably be bloated like four times a week.
I wouldn't want to go to class.
I wouldn't want to go out.
Like I would just feel so gross and I would only want to wear sweatpants.
And I've been struggling with bloating for years now until I noticed the power of probiotics.
Bloom basically is the ultimate like gut health supplement.
Let me fill this with water.
You guys have definitely seen this on TikTok and I was like, does this stuff actually work?
Let me tell you, it actually does work.
So you basically just put a scoop in your little water in the morning.
I do this before I even eat anything.
I take my vitamins with this water.
This water has over 30 organic fruits and vegetables.
Also probiotics antioxidants that are really good for like, your gut, health.
I don't know why I put the straw in there before.
What?
I've been taking these every single day and I actually see a difference in.
First of all, this helps with your skin, your digestive health, your gut health and also your energy level.
So there's just so many benefits in this little drink.
And it's also best if you take it like every day consistently.
I think I'm like halfway done this.
And I have the mango flavor.
You guys can get Bloom down below.
I'm going to link them in the description.
And now I'm going to work out.
I need to get active today.
Ever since I got an Apple Watch, I've been wanting to close those rings every single day.
Yesterday I actually doubled my workout goal.
I'm going to do a little Pilates workout.
Everyone say hi to my Snapchat.
Everyone say hey.
I've literally just been like posting my entire day on Snapchat.
Every single minute detail of my day.
It's just so fun.
I don't know.
Ready, guys?
Are you ready?
You guys are in this.
Oh, ew.
The filter makes me look dead.
Oh, ew.
Oh, no.
Okay, never mind.
I'm on FaceTime right now with Liv.
She looks really good and I don't want to like show you guys.
I just feel like it's going to make you guys feel real.
No, it's like in the morning right now, and we just decided that we're going to pick our rooms because we're rooming together and Aaliyah
You guys have seen Aaliyah in the vlogs too, but we're going to be picking our rooms in our apartment.
Room number one is the one on the left.
Room number two is the one in the middle.
Room number three is the one opposite.
Awesome!
Awesome!
I'm stressed.
No, I'm stressed.
All of our least favorites is number one.
Yeah.
Okay, so basically whoever gets number one is like, you're getting whatever bathroom.
Yeah, you don't have to share a bathroom.
Yeah, should i get like a dice roller?
No wait, not dice roller.
Yeah you could.
No, not a dice roller, like a pick out of a hat.
It spins the wheel.
It's been the wheel streaming out.
I don't know why room number one seems like a different apartment.
Okay, stop talking bad about it, because i'm gonna get it.
Do you spin for alia first?
Sure okay, the funny thing is, all of our rooms are literally the same room, like we're.
I think they're so different.
Yeah, especially one and two, and you can always make a room look better with like decor and everything.
Alia, this one's for No freaking way.
Oh, she got two.
Do you want to go?
Okay, I'll spin for you.
You got three.
You're so sad.
Oh, wait, what?
You got two.
Oh, we both got two.
Bro, it says results two and two.
Oh.
Oh.
We're gonna spin again.
Okay, you got two again.
No, I want two.
Oh, you got one.
Okay, well let me spin again because first time we literally thought you got three.
So this is the tiebreaker.
Two.
Three.
Okay.
As much as I, like, never think it was my choice, I'm so much more casual than you.
I, like, won't care as much.
My f***ing choice was probably the middle one.
Oh, okay.
That actually might work out.
The fact that we still all ended up trading rooms and switching to a completely different room because we actually like that room better, like it was so useless.
Right now i'm going to be doing a pilates workout.
I normally split up my weeks like two days at the gym and then two days at home doing pilates and then from then on i'm like okay, i'm good, or if i feel like doing yoga or an ab workout in between, i'll just do whatever i kind of feel like.
Today i'm going to be doing a 20 minute express pilates workout from move with Nicole.
I feel like my two favorite Pilates people on YouTube are move with Nicole and boho beautiful.
I just love working out with my Apple watch because I can like play music and I can see my heart rate.
This is going to be closing my workout goal for today.
So kind of rainy right now.
Oh, the audio is horrible I really don't know what to do.
I need to talk Okay, now it's only like slightly pouring and I'm pretty sure the audio is better.
That was literally crazy.
I thought I was driving an actual monsoon.
I actually don't really know what a monsoon is.
As you guys know, I tried using salicylic acid to clear up the breakouts that I was having on my skin.
And I realized that I think that was just a bit too aggressive for my skin.
I have super sensitive skin.
So now I'm taking the gentle route.
I'm just going to cleanse my face with a gentle oil cleanser.
Moisturize with gentle oils, not overbear it with too many products, and really take gentle care of my skin.
I feel like that could be the issue, not even that my skin is really bad.
Like i know, my skin is not bad at all.
I want to make sure that all my products are natural, chemical free.
So i did a little bit of research.
I did a little bit of research on skincare and natural oils and good actually good skincare brands, because a lot of skincare brands out there even the ones that claim that they're paraben free, fragrance free, all of the chemicals free.
I looked up so many that i was like oh, they're a clean brand.
They are not clean like.
They have still perfume.
Wow, How on earth would you need to put perfume in a moisturizer?
Can we talk about that?
I don't want my skincare to smell like daisies, you know?
I'm fine.
Like, I really don't care.
So I actually found a moisturizer, a sunscreen and a cleanser that are just going to be my three stable skincare products in university.
Skincare is one of my weaknesses when it comes to hoarding, so now I'm just gonna only bring the necessities.
I actually love Shoppers so much.
Shoppers is such a calming store to me.
I oh, I parked.
Oh, he's not gonna get, he's not gonna be able to get in.
Okay, the rain is fogging up my backup camera.
That's kind of scary.
I think you just parked really close to the line oh okay oh i'm, you know what, i don't care.
Okay, so that didn't work at all.
I went inside and I was looking for the mineral face sunscreen stick and they had the mineral sunscreen stick, but it's not for your face.
I just found it on Amazon.
It's Prime, so I could literally get it tomorrow.
Guess where i am?
I, for some reason, have been loving car hauls.
I've been watching so many vlogs on youtube lately that are just like watching someone go about their day and do their little hauls in the car, seeing all their favorite products and their errands and stuff.
I am so nosy and i want to see that, so i'm going to do that.
I actually did get the mad hippie cleansing oil and there is no perfume in this.
All the ingredients are just so good.
Oh, and I guess it comes in this little bottle and then you put this cap on it if you want a squeezy one.
If you have super sensitive skin, I'll link this down below for you.
I also have the Mad Hippie Antioxidant Facial Oil.
This has argan oil, goji, and hemp seed oil.
I also saw my dry shampoo that i've actually been running out of.
I find when your hair is done and your makeup's not done, It looks better than when your makeup's done and your hair's not done.
It's something that i've learned about how to look more put together without doing both.
I would choose hair now, even though none of mine are done right now.
This is one of my biggest essentials ever for universities And it's also really portable.
I love bringing this with me.
Like say I'm sleeping at someone else's house, I just bring my little dry shampoo.
They have one for darker and lighter hair.
This one's for all hair types.
I would definitely say that the next step is just picking out your courses.
My time ticket to pick out my courses was A couple weeks ago and I just find it so crazy how everyone has to pick courses during their time ticket.
Like it's not just like first come, first served.
I used the visual schedule builder to build my ideal course load and I was so prepared for course selection day and I had everything planned out.
I loved my schedule.
I had a really balanced class schedule.
And then I am on the third day of course selection is only when I can pick my courses.
So then I ended up getting like two out of the three that I wanted.
And then I picked three of like my six favorite courses.
So I'm really excited to take those.
But I did end up picking my courses and they're not that bad.
At least my schedule like where they are isn't that bad.
Like i don't have any classes on fridays, i have a couple morning classes, and i would rather have morning classes than afternoon classes.
I feel like i don't want to be inside in school when it's the sunniest part of the day.
I would prefer 8 30 am classes rather than 8 30 pm classes, because i fall asleep at literally 11 pm.
Now i'm going to get you to take your phone out and i'm going to get you to make a new note 2023 school year goals.
I really just want to write down like three main goals that i really want to accomplish this school year.
Not with grades or with anything like that.
I want it to be more being consistent with these three things taking care of my health, so like being able to say no to going out and staying out late when i really don't feel like it, because it's just not even worth it.
Like why would i want to wake up the next day feeling so tired when i didn't even want to go out in the first place?
And the only reason why i said yes is because i'm being convinced.
My second goal would actually be to document more things.
I know I still want to live in the moment and not let my phone take me out of the present moment, but this year I wish I had so many more videos and photos of not even like Instagrammable photos, but just photos of what I did.
Usually happens to me when it's like exam season or it's midterm season, i'm feeling really stressed and burned out.
I want to keep a positive attitude because i remember last year during exam season i got super stressed and i would just wake up and think of every single thing that i didn't want to do and it made doing the things so much harder than if i just had a positive attitude in the first place and it's basically all just waking up and going to bed every day, really grateful.
And i don't want this to come off as you always have to be happy, like always have to be positive and smiley and stuff, because i know that's not going to happen.
Like the amount of breakdowns that i had last year probably proved that wrong.
Like i feel like i just don't want to dwell on things because you can always be grateful for stuff that you do have, even in the lowest points of your life.
And i'm actually going to lock this.
I just lock all of my journal notes because i just don't want people reading those, even though i'm putting it literally out on the internet right now for literally anyone to see.
It just feels better.
Something that I have been so excited to do for this year is set up my planners.
So I have a semester planner that is available on the Etsy shop Actualizer Co.
I have a whole back to school planner drop which I'm going to show you, this planner which I wish I had last year.
Basically, it has the semester, the start date, the end date, what year it is, and then it has your class schedule.
So you're just going to input all of your classes.
So I'm going to put little blocks.
This is kind of what mine looked like when I was taking the marketing photos for it, but it's like really cute because you can do like a color coded sort of thing.
There's also a table down below for the course code, the prof's name.
We have TAs.
I don't know what people call those.
They're like assistant professors, kind of like the head of tutorials.
Their office hours and their contact information, which are all things that I never remember for my classes.
And you have to keep going back to the syllabus checking their contact info when their office hours are.
The The other planners that I have.
You can buy these individually, or I also have an assignment pack, and then I have an exam and study pack.
In the exam and study pack, you're going to get the exam planner.
This is basically listing all of your exams where they are, when they are, what you have to bring, what your grade was at the end, how much it weighs.
And then I have a study planner.
I created this planner and I was using it for my exam season.
I wanted to really know on what day, what lesson I was going to study and what the readings were.
And then I also wanted to keep track of my understanding.
You can see which ones you want to revisit closer to your exam.
Then I have two more planners an assignment planner planner.
I like to plan out my assignments and split them up into different tasks, so this basically like lists all the tasks that you have to do and what day I want to complete that by.
You can basically just check off everything.
The last planner is the assignment tracker.
You can list all of your assignments in all of your classes.
You can say their class, the due date, the waiting and the grade that you ended up getting.
If you want to buy any of these, I will link them down below.
I'm just so excited to actually be able to use these.
This is a digital planner that you can use on GoodNotes.
You can also use it on your phone and your laptop if you have the GoodNotes app.
You can also use this on any PDF editor.
But yeah, right now I am just going to fill out the semester planner because I do know my schedule.
We're at the point in the back to school video where I show you exactly what is in my school bag.
I really wanted to make it more minimal than last year.
I used to carry around a bunch of things that I never used.
So now I'm just going to give you the really realistic what's in my backpack and some college and also maybe some high school essentials that you need in your backpack.
The backpack that I'm using is the one that I've been using for years.
I'm still going strong with this Herschel gray backpack.
Also, I just love how it can go with any outfit.
Like if I'm wearing a bright green top, it will still go.
Herschel is a Canadian brand and they make such amazing quality bags.
First, I have my laptop.
This is the 15 inch MacBook Air.
It's either the thinnest or the lightest laptop.
That's 15 inch, but it's super light compared to my MacBook Pro that I used to have.
Then I have my iPad.
This is obviously where I do all of my digital planning.
And I also have the magic keyboard that can go with this.
So if I don't feel like bringing my laptop to school with me, I'll just bring my magic keyboard and use this as a laptop.
A white folder because you never know when you're gonna need a folder.
I don't think I ever got one piece of paper from any of my other classes, But somehow I feel like I need a folder.
Remember when I used to do these and I would have like five different notebooks in my bag, and now I only have tech in there.
It's crazy.
We do exercises on paper sometimes and you have to hand stuff in in class, So I do need a couple of pencils.
I think this is a makeup bag that I got so long ago I also have a whole Amazon storefront category for all of my school supplies and work and office stuff So if you want to shop from there go right ahead some highlighters These are really pastel II ones that I got on Amazon mechanical pencils.
Oh my god.
I have earrings in here.
Oh white out, an eraser, a black pen.
I got a new insulin pen case.
Mine was a little bit beat up and I also wanted a lighter one.
Mine was black and I got this one on Amazon.
It is a really small pencil case holder and I just use it for both of my insulin pens.
Just says modern on it.
It has a gold zipper and it came in a pack of two with a black one too.
I obviously have my laptop and also my iPad charger.
I love how they have the same port to charge both of them.
With my laptop and all these chargers.
I really wanted to get a laptop sleeve that also has an added on little pouch so that I could put all of my chargers and my tech things in that pouch.
I did order one, but it came and it was really pink, so i ordered a different one, which is coming.
It should be here tomorrow, so i will show you guys that tomorrow.
Okay, this is future sadie.
Here i actually got the laptop case.
I really like the like sheen that it has to it.
I'm also trying to buy more things that i'm not gonna wanna sorry, there's like a hair sticking out of my head.
I wanna buy more things that I'm not gonna wanna replace when I'm older, if I ever get sick of the pink.
So I'm trying to buy more neutral stuff.
And it also came with this little pouch.
Obviously my big laptop charger won't fit in here, but I could put my extra phone charger in here, my portable chargers.
If I'm ever using an SD card, I will put it in here.
A phone charger and this one can plug into my laptop iwalk link pod.
This is a lifesaver.
It holds so much charge.
Plug this into your phone and then it shows you the charge.
I've used this like three times oh, and it's at 10, so i still have charge in it.
My little emergency kit.
This is just all the necessities that i actually needed at school.
A deodorant i was going to get the mini native deodorant, which maybe i will put that one in, because this one's a little bit clunky.
That smells divine actually.
Glucose.
Tampons.
I have like 80 tampons in here.
These little that's it bars.
These are really good for lows and also just for a snack in between classes, because the only ingredients in this one are apple and strawberries.
Contacts and contact solution because sometimes my contacts really bother me in class.
Don't look at the hair on it, but I have a mini hairbrush.
Ooh, I have to clean that.
This Pacifica complex lip balm.
Actually, this is not the only lip product I have in here.
Liv got me this for my birthday this year.
It's the ILIA Lip Wrap Reviving Balm.
Whoa, ILIA Lip Wrap Reviving Balm.
This is so glossy.
This is my lips before, and these are my lips after.
It's basically a gloss, but it's actually a lip balm.
It's so hydrating, but it just looks like a gloss because it's so shiny.
Sometimes I'll only wear lip liner and then this gloss.
And also the tip is really cooling.
My AirPod and keyboard cleaner, just like to keep things fresh.
I have some gum, pure gum.
Chocolate mint is my second favorite flavor.
Hand sanitizer, hair ties, a screen cleaner.
This you basically just spray like that on the screen and then you wipe it down with this.
A few of these lens wipes.
I'm pretty sure this came in a package that was PR from Casetify or something.
Oh, I have some juice.
Diabetic things.
This is 100 apple juice my water bottle and it comes in so many colors, keeps your water So cold and it holds so much in the front pocket here.
I have some fun things.
Okay first I have my air pods.
I could not walk to classes on my air pod.
This is an essential that I would suggest literally every university student to get.
You need a wallet keychain.
This I actually got on Amazon.
It is so cute.
First of all, front pocket, all these card slots this would probably fit like eight cards in here and then it has all these rings for keys and if you have big keys, like car keys, you can hang it on the keychain that's at the top.
I think I'm also going to get a little wrist strap, and so whenever I run errands or literally go anywhere, all I need to bring is this and then my insulin.
So it's literally just these two things and they also really cute together.
That's all that's in my bag, and also this is just a random other thing, but my Apple watch strap, Like that's crazy.
I just ordered this on Amazon.
It was like $20.
Double gold chain.
I think I'm gonna make a TikTok all about my favorite things to use my Apple Watch for.
This is the little watch face I have on it right now.
I also have this one, which is a little analog clock.
And then I have that one.
But I like to keep it on this one because I can see my blood sugar and the time and the weather.
The next thing that is a little bit more fun that I have kind of been waiting to do for my new apartment, because obviously I'm going to be living with roommates.
We're moving into a completely separate apartment to get inspiration for what i want to do with my room, but i think i'm going to go for more like a neutral, minimal style and maybe a little pop of color in there.
So what i'm going to do is just scroll on pinterest and i made a whole apartment like room decor inspiration board and i'm just going to get some ideas, some color palettes and just what i want my bedding to be like, what i want on the walls, how i want to like arrange the room, And I'm just going to make a list of stuff that I already have that I'm going to bring with me to university.
And then I'm going to make a list if I need to go get anything or order anything.
I'm gonna make a list of stuff that I have to get.
And this also is really good if you start early and you can just work off of these lists and you don't have to do everything like a week before you leave.
And I'll make this apartment board public so you can see it.
I don't really delete any of this stuff that I have in my Google Drive, like any of my assignments or my lecture notes.
Like I'm just gonna make a new folder for each year and just make completely new folders for each class.
I already know all of my classes for first semester.
So I basically just put like the class code and then the class name.
I also just make every folder pink.
The last step is go through my clothes.
Last year, I basically just brought my whole entire wardrobe.
I'm only going to bring like my basics, clothes I'm going to wear to class.
What's going to make that easier is going through my closet first.
I feel like my closet is like 90% hoodies.
Do I get a vote?
Yeah.
Do you want to tell?
Okay, yeah.
And also my mom is here.
So it's really good to have a second opinion.
So you guys can vote on what you want to get rid of.
I say no.
No, I knew you were going to say that.
The ground will be maybe.
Already on the first thing, I'm like, no, I don't want to get rid of it.
You failed already.
This, no.
That's a no.
This, I never wore this.
It just hits me at the wrong spot and it's really pilly.
Tip that I've been paying attention to is the material that the clothes are made out of, because I get super hot really easily.
So if I buy 100% polyester things, I'm going to be sweating in class.
You're sweating everywhere.
I'm going to be sweating everywhere.
This is a no.
This I'm getting rid of because I don't look good in this color.
Next is hat.
Dap.
This is way too small for my head.
It's like a child's hat.
It is a kid's hat.
This says what the slut.
Definitely no.
This one I like.
Yeah.
No, it just, I would look, and I have more hats.
This one, no.
I thrifted this.
It's a Golden Hawks hat, like my school.
Oh, it's cute.
This one just doesn't fit my head.
Like it's so short.
And I like this one too.
Oh, I like that shirt.
Do you?
Like the flat on sleeves?
This was tight on me last year.
You have had that for a long time.
Maybe Victoria would want that.
Yeah, true.
This is humongous.
I actually really like this.
I've had this for like 12 years.
It's yucky.
No, get rid of that.
Yucky.
But you have to be more careful with your laundry too.
I think I've got to give you another laundry lesson.
Step five, get a laundry lesson.
Okay, this one is so stingy.
You mean grungy?
Stingy.
Stingy means like your cheeks, like you wait.
Really, i bought like last okay, last last year during school, i realized that i had no going out tops.
I ordered just a bunch of them cheap ones yeah, and this one i can't wear because it's like there's no, there's nothing.
Okay, this is a shirt that i met evan in.
It actually is the worst shirt ever.
Like it's so thin okay, so i also got this.
I was like this is It's so cute.
I'm gonna wear it to Dallas, which is the country club that we have.
I go with Evan.
This is like two weeks after we met.
And we're like, oh my gosh, we're both going to Dallas tonight.
Like I told him that I was planning to wear this new pink top.
That was kind of country and it's like a corset.
And then I go and the zipper breaks when I get there.
This whole thing comes undone.
I'm not wearing a bra because there's no space for it.
I couldn't breathe.
And this one is so pretty, but it's just too small.
Okay, these.
No.
No.
I'm saying.
You hate those.
Yeah, give me those.
Look.
There's a period stain.
Yes yes no, these are fabletics, but they're just too tight on me.
Okay, this is the worst pair of sweatpants i literally own, and these are way too small.
And these are walmart sweatpants.
I mean they fit.
So if you had something over top of them, if you wore them, that didn't show like with a hoodie.
Oh, they're really stretchy too yeah so yeah, i think they fit, so they wouldn't be there.
No, it's just like the waist.
I know you're supposed to wear them low, but they still don't fit me properly.
Yeah okay, so that's it.
That is going to be the end of my prep for school with me video.
I am actually really excited to go back to school.
Like I am not dreading September at all.
You can get my back to school planners.
They're launching today.
So they're available right now.
I will link them down below.
I am so, so excited.
I love you guys so much and I will see you in my next video.
Bye.
