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“0 on there there's a hdmi port and a ethernet port so with this one dongle i can basically turn it into a regular um desktop computer so i've got all the usbs i'd need and i've also got a hdmi port for another monitor and an ethernet cable for faster internet i also carry charging cables for some of my other devices not really too interesting and i also carry with me my seagate four terabyte hard drive i bought this probably four years ago so it's a pretty old one by now it's got a bunch of stickers on there which i um put on when i get a new tech product um and it's coming really handy it's probably half full night by now so in the past four years i've basically filled it up halfway um is you know i've dropped her a couple of times which is probably not the best thing but it's held up pretty well it's not padded or anything and uh all of the storage on there is all intact so it's a really nice hard drive it's probably not the fastest by today's standards but it's definitely good enough for the files that i like to use with it so next up is my files and i carry these little folders um for each of my modules and on a day-to-day basis i probably take two of these in sometimes three sometimes just one depending on my schedule but i always like to carry my work in paper form just because i find it easier to read and i like to section everything off with the little you know colored tabs as well um but that's not too interesting but i thought i'd show it anyway this was from my mechanics uh module from the first semester and um yeah i just carry one of these for each of my modules it's just easier to be able to organize all the stuff than when i'm in my room and going along with that i guess i'll show you my notepad this is the oxford campus refill pad um i always opt to do my notes on paper and in like an analog form rather than digital and there's one main reason behind that is because i actually do a lot of maths and a lot of sort of scribbling and quick workings out which would be almost impossible to do on word or on a laptop so i do all of my maths work on paper it's just a lot easier and a lot quicker to write and then when i get back to my room then or if i go to the library or something i'll usually type out the work that i did um in word or something like that just so it's easier for me to see and read later on but you know oftentimes i go through really long derivations or we'll go through long integrations and stuff like that and it's just really hard to be able to do that quickly on a macbook or any laptop for that fact so i do it all on paper and then later on i'll go and transfer the most important parts of that note to that lecture onto a digital form as well so it's just easier to revise later on and i guess i'll show my last notepad um this is my livestream or livestream 1917 i probably messed up the name there but this is just like a general notepad which i use and by the way the stickers here these are ula rocket stickers um this is the vulcan centaur the one on my macbook is the atlas 5 i believe um i got these off the ula shop which was uh pretty cool but anyway the notepad itself is just this little one with um like dots on the inside i don't know if you can see um but i use this just for general notes and i basically chuck anything in here um i've used it as a bullet journal um quite a lot i haven't done that recently because i haven't had anything on um but i've used it to plan out programming projects or i've used it to write down some of the stuff i did from a recent internship online um i've also planned youtube videos on here so it's just one of those like general notepads which sort of contain everything i'm thinking about just so i don't have to store it in my mind and it's all in this notepad which i carry with me basically every day and for the days i do forget that i use that little notepad i showed earlier on um but this is a really nice little notepad as well it's uh like soft covered so it's not um it can sort of bend around things if i brought those in my bag and it's just a little nice little part which i use i then have my water bottle this is the black chilis bottle nothing too exciting here but it's a quick pretty nice bottle um it keeps cold drinks really cold and hot drinks really hot i usually just use this for water but i have used it for tea and coffee before and you know i'll go into university two hours later and the tea is still boiling hot but i usually use it just for cold water which is really good for um and i like to drink a lot of water during the day so that's what this is for really nice bottle next up is my headphones these are the beats studio3 wireless noise cancelling headphones i picked these up for free actually with the apple promotional offer that they give for students during the summer so if you buy a macbook from apple in the summer you i don't know if they actually still do it now but last year anyway they gave a free pair of beats headphones for anybody who bought a macbook as well as five or ten percent off the macbook so i picked up the black uh beats studio three wireless headphones they've been absolutely amazing i've never had noise cancelling headphones before but this comes super handy um you know when i'm walking into university i listen to a podcast or listen to some music and basically cut off any traffic noise any talking and it just lets me relax in the morning a bit i also really like using these when i go to the library to do work um even though i don't like listening to music when i'm studying i'll just check on the noise cancelling and i'll just cut off all the noise from people talking in the library or any just general background noise or get cut off because i like to work in complete silence so this is really useful for that situation um and i basically you wear these every day just to listen to music anyway so i'm pretty happy to get these for free i probably would have bought them anyway if i didn't get it for free and last up i actually have the case for the headphones i don't actually carry the headphones in the case instead i carry my mouse which is the um logitech mx master this is a wireless mouse and it's designed for productivity it's really really um ergonomic so your hand fits in it really nicely and i never thought i'd say this but having this mouse has probably boosted my productivity more than anything just because i can get so much work done quicker on my macbook using a mouse than i can with the trackpad and it's going really handy for things like uh programming just because i can scroll through any of the resources that i like to use online to help me with that a lot faster i can just navigate my macbook a lot better um the customizable buttons so there's a one two three four five six seven buttons on this um and you can customize all of those to whichever sort of thing that you want them to do so there's a little button here which i usually click if i click with my thumb and then swipe left or right that will go between different desktops on my mac so that's probably the thing that i use the most um but it's also got a really nice little side scroll wheel for going across documents and it's just over a really nice mouse and this is only the first generation of i believe there's three different versions of this mouse but i got the first one and i think it was something like 40 pounds 30 pounds so it's not super expensive but it's still pretty nice um and the battery life on it again is really long i probably charged this twice in the past year or past eight months so again it's been an amazing mouse and um boosting my productivity loads and that's it that's everything that i carry with me on a day-to-day basis there are of course other things that i carry with me uh for instance i carry with me sometimes my textbooks um this is my principle to physics textbook but obviously this is really impractical to be able to carry around every single day um i also sometimes carry with me um like a little thermos cap and which is like a chili's bowl but it's a bit thicker and it just lets me carry like food in it so sometimes i carry rice or um soup or stew or something like that just because university food can get pretty expensive and it's just cheaper to cook food on your own in your house and then take that in with you and sometimes i'll take with me like snacks like protein bars or breakfast biscuits breakfast bars whatever you want to call them and it's just a lot cheaper to do it like that than to actually um buy the food at university or um in like takeaway places or anything so i usually take food in with me i don't have that with me now obviously because i'm not planning on going anyway and sometimes well i'll take a reading book uh if i know that i've got a big block of time between different lectures sometimes i had like one lecture then two hours later i'd have another lecture and i didn't really want to walk back home and then come back in again so i just sit in the cafeteria area and just read or watch youtube so sometimes i take a book in but it was never like an everyday sort of thing the things i've showed today are basically what i take into university every single day um and so hopefully you found this useful again there'll be links in the description where you can um pick up these products for yourself if you want to get any of them as well as that i'll put a link to my blog which is a productivity blog for students if any of you are wondering um as well as that i'll put my twitter and instagram in the description as well but other than all that i want to just say a big thank you for watching if you enjoyed the video leave a like and if you want to see more make sure to subscribe but with that being said i'll see you in the next video [Music] bye”