Launching: What You Need to Know About Freshman Year at College

Hold Me Back: Son and Father Change the Conversation

Aidan and Ash ElDifrawi

Parenting, Generationaldivide, Aidaneldifrawi, Asheldifrawi, Kids & Family, Holdmeback, Genxgenz, Education, Self-improvement

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

“Never take a class before 9:30…always have peanut butter and pretzels in your room…get your flu shot…you’ll need more ramen than condoms…you fail in silence…call your parents…90% of bad decisions will happen during O-week…anchor your day in routines...don’t piss off your roommate.” These are just a few of the observations Aidan shares with his dad, Ash, from his first year in college in order to separate “myth” from “reality” of what to expect during freshman year. Meanwhile, Ash tries to hold on tight while Aidan gives him a whole new perspective on what it means to “launch.” Season 5 kicks off with a bang, because the boys really don’t hold anything back in this episode. Who was more convincing: Aidan or Ash? Vote at HoldMeBack.com

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0:00.0	Never take a class before 930.
0:05.3	I don't care who you are.
0:07.6	I really don't, like, if you would be the biggest morning person in the world,
0:10.8	unless you have, like, a sport that is getting you out of bed every day that you are committed to the school for at, like, 5 a.m., like, you should not be taking class.
0:17.2	Do you have a choice, though, in some STEM majors and stuff?
0:19.4	Yeah, STEM majors, like, hate themselves for a reason.
0:21.2	So, like, they have to go take their 8 a.m.
0:23.9	Bio courses and take their labs, like, our 5 p.m. at night.
0:27.1	And so their day is full of school.
0:28.3	And this is why I was saying, like, your going to be waking up early for STEM classes and, I guess, at least at the University of Chicago, I don't know how it is at other schools.
0:40.4	But like, you're never like, like, you're not going to be able to consistently make this class or at least consistently make it comfortably.
0:58.9	Welcome back to Hold Me Back.
1:00.2	It's been quite a while.
1:01.3	It has been a while.
1:04.0	Yeah, I think seven or eight months since our last episode.
1:06.9	It has been a rather hectic year.
1:07.8	A great year, though.
1:08.7	Yeah, yeah, indeed.
1:14.3	I just finished my first year at University of Chicago in late May, and then I think kind of working here and there.
1:16.3	Oh, come on.
1:16.8	You had a couple of really great kids.
1:18.2	Yeah, well, I had an internship.
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