Looking for Alaska at My High School

[@inkliizii]

This was pretty eloquent. You should write books or something.

[@karina24rd]

See what you did there 👏👏

[@Victor-hx6oy]

Thats john green @inkliizii 🤣🤣

[@rajeshbhutia5972]

And be a professor in english..... Or something

[@ChickenGeorgeClooney]

"Those trampolines are just close enough to invite bad decisions but just far enough to punish those bad decisions" One of the most unexpectedly funny things I've ever heard.

[@Joshhs2k]

facts

[@vara202]

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed. And when I’m writing there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. OMG, that is such a writer thing to say.

[@elianna838]

+vara vashtul i think john green would approve

[@disfordumboo4411]

I think he's got the write idea

[@evol-yu4mu]

sueycoo its what jg said?

[@KPopsicleSNSD]

bitten by a swan, stung by a bee, all in the buttcheek... coincidence? i think not

[@ozlem4923]

I like you :)

[@nickmuffin1722]

Illuminati.

[@LadyJaja2010]

I'm watching this as I sit in an Indian Springs dorm.

[@tashikamala6917]

Jahina Somo then please tell anyone you know who smokes to go and smoke in the smoking hole.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

Tashi Kamala pretty much no one here smokes at the smoking hole anymore. It's used for mostly photography now.

[@LucyPhillipsxlux]

That's so sad! I wish I hadn't read it :( I mean, it's good if it means less people are smoking, rather than relocating. But they could at least vape there or something.

[@jazthespaz837]

+

[@emmag938]

@@LucyPhillipsxlux "they could at least vape there or something" has to be the funniest thing I've read this week

[@wintermute0296]

If they ever do make a movie of Looking for Alaska, they'd better film the entire thing at this school. For authenticity's sake.

[@Bozewani]

let's hope he can sell movie rights like he did for the Fault in the Stars also why doesn't anybody buy my books May 7 Hengduan Mountains

[@meisawesome559]

Honestly, I hope they never make Looking for Alaska into a movie. I have such a perfect idea of it in my head that I don't want anything to ruin it. And sure, I could just not see the movie, but frankly, I'd feel pressured to if one came out. Maybe it should be a movie so other people can see it. I'm not sure. All I know is that I feel as drawn to that book as John feels drawn to his old high school; it provides a sense of nostalgia that nothing else does and nothing else ever could.

[@AnnieKonni]

I agree with that! The way I incision the book is absolutely perfect and I don't want it to turn out like paper towns where I find that they cut out a lot of the scenes. but at the same time so much time has passed I'm curious to see what it wold look like now.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

Elwood Nighthawk They might not be able to do that. Especially right now. I go to this school and they are remodeling it. Currently they're painting over it again, and yes we still have those octagonal tables. That and the swan. Plus if they were to film there they'd only have a few months to do it, and the smoking hole has graffiti in it. so yeah, there's that.

[@9_in_the_afternoon]

Trey Atkins So people still use the smoking hole, then?

[@yessopie]

Maybe The Eagle cultivated a colony of bees under the bridge to stop the students from smoking.

[@aparajitaprabhu]

TOTALLY

[@WhiteAsianGurl]

So not only is The Swan real, but it's STILL THERE? O.O

[@adhamelghannam4475]

it's a scientifically proven fact that Swans are immortals.but i'm surprised it didn't run after John

[@graceknowles1460]

adham elghannam It's still here

[@madisonmccay1024]

The swan is still in fact there. I work at Indian Springs and the swan’s name is Ron.

[@namenam3]

It died last year, but now there are 2 new ones, Serena and Venus

[@black_foresst]

@@namenam3 Its legacy still lives on! I hope students stay away from them...!! LOL

[@SarahCuda14]

Oh man. That was beautiful. I loved when you said, "For a minute I felt like I was walking through a ghost town, but then I realized that I was the ghost." Poetic, John. Thank you.

[@ginnydelorenzo3431]

I just finished reading Looking for Alaska a few days ago and this video is almost exactly how I imagined Culver Creek. Is it wrong that I was getting emotional while watching? It was like the book was coming to life right before my eyes.

[@Animenite97]

+Ginny DeLorenzo No its not. I felt a twinge of pain when he was driving; Alaska never made it that far. :(

[@kathyag.amador8146]

+Adam Collier (Animenite97) Ohhh God :'( My feelings

[@Wildfire.]

Me too! Well I finished it a while ago now but this is almost exactly how I visioned it.

[@anushkasharma1111]

You'll get emotional every time you come across even a lil thing that is related to Looking for Alaska. Impact of greatt books.

[@giacomo.1574]

The hulu adaptation got it spot on

[@lilianaaustin5285]

I am in love with the way John Green speaks.

[@incongruentinterrobangs924]

I went to a boarding school and I recently went back there to see what had changed and I found graffiti on a wall that said 'Okay? Okay' -John Green

[@sheaelliott942]

I love Looking for Alaska... Physically (through a laptop screen) being able to see the setting of the book is amazing. I have a sense of nostalgia even though I was never there, let alone in 1995 when there was not yet even a thought of my being. It's heartwarming in a way to see this, and to hear you talk your way through the school. I love it. DFTBA and Best Wishes Nerdfighters :)

[@rileytaylor3833]

9 years later we finally have an adaptation. A TV series. And it’s great.

[@Efflorescentey]

And it’s set here!!!

[@yuktika3901]

damn that bee part reminded me of Miles n the swan 😂

[@bookert5151]

Sameee 😂 it's weird how john and miles both got stung/bitten on their buttcheek 👌🏼😆

[@yuktika3901]

+RAY ikr xD

[@SK28th]

This has been eerily well replicated in the Looking for Alaska show

[@alannar.8701]

Exactly how I imagined Culver Creek.

[@cepuuher]

+Alanna R. Right? My imagination never matches the reality but this was spot on, especially the smoking pit.

[@eloiseway8978]

who's here after the incredible series? it was literally perfection

[@filipberes319]

It wasnt really perfection how can they announce that Alaska is death when we didnt see her dead body or full death scene i mean Han from Fast and Furious survived from car crash

[@Stephninichole]

This is literally exactly as I pictured it I want to cry

[@matthewgoodman7588]

I watched this video before I read looking for Alaska and it was not that great. Then after I read looking for Alaska this video became amazing.

[@equalcharlie158]

it hits you right feels...

[@Iamnemo1994]

Actually, I've never read the book, but quite like the video

[@jawadulkabir9120]

I am almost halfway through the book

[@saaargummm1868]

Matthew Goodman same here

[@umatrivedi3630]

not me crying about this literally ten years later why did this make me so emo

[@Graytune]

This is the first vlogbrothers video I ever saw. My love was instant.

[@ViridisArborem]

I really hope they film LfA there. It would be so awesome.

[@ADailyDoseOfEverythingDDE]

Viridis Arborem YES

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

Viridis Arborem yeah, but the school has been remodeled since then. it's possible that they may redesign the dining hall, but they've already remodeled classrooms 1-12. However they did keep classrooms 13-16 the same, but that because they connect to the town hall.

[@marcofox444]

Oh but they did young one, they did

[@isaacmcburney]

I find this really cool to see the real world setting for “Looking for Alaska”! It gives me a better idea of what the characters went through. Granted, this place has probably changed in the 13 years later I’m watching this. Lol. (Edit because I can’t do math correctly)

[@michaelxiong5986]

Wait... Stung in the left butt cheek? That's where pudge got bitten by the swan!! Coincidence?

[@lovejblovepink]

Looking for Alaska is one of the best books I've ever read, and now this video made it all seem so real.

[@T1J]

i didnt know you were in birminghammmm a couple of my friends went to Indian Springs they are four or five years younger than you i wonder if you were ever there at the same time and remember some of the things you do

[@Uberbabies]

This is exactly how I imagined it.

[@SerndipityMind]

same here !

[@thisisrnation]

Dylan Michael Me too, but it probably helps that I live five miles from Indian Springs and went to summer camps there.

[@britneylopez7170]

The fact that's it has been almost 10 years since this was uploaded and now finally Looking for Alaska became a TV show. Damn John, I'm so proud of you.

[@josh_miguel]

Don't worry guys, I'm from the future. Looking for Alaska in fact did get an adaption (a series, actually). And it was awesome; the series did justice to its source material and added some flavorful twists of their own.

[@apexlegends6727]

i switched on the filter for newest comments first and to my surprise not one but multiple people have viewed this video in the past year

[@josh_miguel]

@@apexlegends6727glad to be part of the crowd.

[@VloggerWill]

This is so chilling. I can envision Miles, Alaska, the Colonel, Takumi and Lara walking along where John was. It's depressing how the barn was torn down and the dorms were replaced. It's really eerie how I felt a weird sense of nostalgia as John was telling about his experiences at Indian Springs.

[@clownsupreme]

Oh my God John I read the book, thought I got over the, ahem, incident, AND NOW ALL THE SADNESS IS BACK

[@noorm.1515]

This is literally exactly how I pictured everything to look. My book is highlighted and written in and i always find something new every time i read the book. Definitely the best book i have ever read.

[@chinkie1992]

I bought, started, and finished reading "Looking for Alaska" today. No book has touched me as deeply as this one has since "Catcher in the Rye". I cried. I bawled. I clung to my pillows like a child. And through it all, i thank you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this narrative with us. Thank you for publishing this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@feliciaheath2139]

I'm from Birmingham, Alabama but I am currently living in Australia and I have been sorely missing Sweet Home Alabama for a while now and seeing this video and getting to see how absolutely beautiful home is brought a smile to my face and a warm feeling to my heart. Thank you, John.

[@mariah013]

Film it there. I love this video.

[@JBDazen]

KZbin presented this video right after I watched the one where you were here with Charlie and Kristine. You were talking so much faster in 2010! Also, on a nostalgic note, I can't believe it's been 12 years since I first saw you on video and 11 years since I met you on the Amsterdam Nerdfighter gathering. Time flies!

[@BamaFanEdge]

Did it ever occur to you that when you write a bestseller documenting the smoking hole in such detail, it can't stay a secret. The legacy of the smoking hole didn't just die; you killed it, John Green. Just like you killed...

[@BamaFanEdge]

Why are you missing a semi colon? Also, is the irony intentional?

[@nickfeiner9672]

That was the most beautiful thin I have ever heard! Not only because I thoroughly enjoyed looking for Alaska with every being of my soul but also because of the clear romanticism in your voice john. Simply beautiful!

[@nanomartinez4362]

Hey Soo I'm new to the channel lol and I'm going to your Alma mater in August and when I found out that my fav books were actually written by the same person I was dumbfounded but when I found out that you actually went to Indian springs I was so happy bc I have had heard so many good things about the school alone and how the curriculum and teaching methods are so, well to be frank awesome I was extremely glad to be given the chance to go the school that produced such a great writer and also to be lucky enough to get a scholarship. I already knew that most that go to Springs don't need a scholarship and having immigrant parents it felt like it was a gift from God to be able to go to this school. So I came to your channel to see if you had talked about your experiences there so ik what I'm getting into and yeah. Ur cool

[@nanomartinez4362]

Yea it's been cool so far

[@nanomartinez4362]

9.18.18 it's been n really fun a have a small group of friends but everything else is awesome and I hope the next time I come to the video

[@JustAPeachyt]

Coming back to this video after watching the Hulu series Looking for Alaska and I just... I am so nostalgic for a past that never happened.

[@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD]

i swear to god the view from the classroom windows is almost exactly the same as i imagined various scenes

[@emilymicah1150]

I love all thoughts from places videos but this one might be my favorite. At least it's in my top five.

[@cauthoncrazy]

Hands down, one of my all time favorite vlogbrothers videos. Looking for Alaska is my favorite book of yours John and as I spent a lot (a LOT) of time feeling nostalgic some days you so excellently captured how it makes you feel. Big fan of this new series too.

[@CloveForay]

I feel that when I'm watching your videos, it's like I'm sucked into a favorite novel without a coherent timeline. As I come and go different titles pop up and where I was once set upon watching the sequel video, my mind diverges onto a new path of your lives. And the absolute best part is, while I'm learning your past, I already know your futures. I know that what you become and what you make are good. And you spread this goodness to others. And I guess I just wanted to say: Thank you.

[@sillystrings]

This is wonderful, seeing Looking for Alaska come to life (or revived? What?). Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@amberwilliams819]

I'm not sure how anyone else may have taken this video, but 2:40 showed me that no matter what age, you still call for the person that you called for when you were younger and hurt. I specifically said "MOMMY" but apparently John said, "AH DADDY!"

[@mustardsfire22]

Wild coming back to this video after watching the show and seeing just how close to real life the show rendered this place. I know it wasn't shot here, but they might have fooled me.

[@rebecca-bf5ux]

Lol I live in Birmingham. All my friends go to school here, and it's so cool knowing you were here

[@musiclove10810]

This man is a genius. I just finished his book "The Fault In Our Stars", and it was beautifully written. The best book I have ever read, and as a self proclaimed book worm, I have read hundreds. You sir, are my favorite author and I very much look forward to reading your other novels. Keep up the great work.

[@johnny-yz4mq]

Having just read looking for alaska its pretty beautiful to see that the world exists within imagination and outside it too

[@chansherly212]

wow, it's just like i imagined it! all those places

[@SnigdhaKucharlapati]

Deep. John. Real deep.

[@Zerepzerreitug]

wow, you did possibly the most awesome description of life I've ever heard :D "These trampolines are just close enough to each other to invite bad decisions, and just far apart to punish those poor decisions" Mr. Green, I take my hat off to you

[@Lyra557]

As a Venezuelan nerdfighter who just started to read "Looking for Alaska"... I love this video!! Also, I really liked what you said about nostalgia :)

[@WITFLITAAD]

Watching this video before and then after reading the book is so different

[@ackamazing]

So you're telling me the same who guy who helped me through almost every class my entire college career is the same guy who wrote the Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska???

[@gib803]

There is a kind of desperation in these early videos that is no there in 2016

[@WhaleManMan]

gib803 Well to be fair, he was in a nostalgic place.

[@theghostintheattic]

I wanted to read Looking for Alaska ever since I first discovered vlogbrothers,and last week,my best friend managed to find it and it is hands down,the best present anyone ever gave me.I read it in a day,and I cannot tell you how much I adored it.I laughed,and I cried,I just loved it. And it is amazing to me how I have been freely wondering around the channel and the ning for almost a year now,and I never came across any spoilers.That just makes me love Nerdfighteria all the more.

[@akrivigriva8451]

There are times I say that modern literature is dead and then I watch videos like this and remember that amazing writers still exist. So thank you.

[@VivianJade]

"Motherfucker" at 2:44 ?

[@heroesfreak1994]

Deckerlink hahahah

[@Efflorescentey]

Hahahaha it totally was!!

[@blake.henderson]

This is funny because this is virtually how i imagined the school and the surroundings would look like, right down to the aesthetics, a tribute to you as a writer sir. Eerily similar to what i had in my mind infact :0

[@nekoalysssama]

This video was beautiful

[@margotwiehagen4986]

This is possibly my favorite vlogbrothers video of all time. Thanks John.

[@mermaidlady2]

I just graduated from indian springs in May, and it is honestly the most amazing school ever. John spoke to us when I was in 8th grade, it was awesome! Everyone at Springs has basically memorized LFA

[@namenam3]

Well geez, I'm still a student there and this video made me feel nostalgic for that place

[@shahilkp4502]

Does anyone use the smoking hole to smoke these days?

[@sunnisezhiya]

john green writes/says the loveliest things.

[@Lily-dv3qf]

I go to that school. I'm on a walk around the like where he showed miles and Alaska walking away. The old swans died but they have new ones. One of which is puffing out his neck feathers at me. He's just mad that I'm looking at him. I'm about to visit the smoking hole. At least before it rains. I got a sudden inspiration to go on a walk and compare the changes over the years.

[@azeemquraishi5669]

thats great

[@davidk6522]

How do you go to the school? Do u have to take a test or can you just attend? This is just for curiosity sake

[@Lily-dv3qf]

@@davidk6522 you do. You can look at the website for more details.

[@TactownGirl]

I'm still reading Looking for Alaska,( I got it on my kindle yesterday) and watching this video dramaticly changed how I will forever picture clover creek in my mind, and I like the new image. THANK YOU!

[@Tigermond1]

In this video are just all the reasons why I admire and appreciate John Green so much...

[@ARTISTFUNNUGGET]

Oh my god im dying they have THE SWAN

[@NickGreyden]

Don't. That swan is evil and will attack people. Not sure if it is the same swan, but the headmaster of the school told us when we went to the TFiOS book tour it is just as aggressive lol.

[@IncomitatusExcelsior]

NickGreyden Swans in general are pretty aggressive. We had a mating pair of them on a large pond a couple hundred yards from my college dorm. I watched one of them break both arms on a guy who taunted it. I had had prior experience of swans and knew better, and told him so, but he did not listen.

[@cRaZyGiRlGoNeMaD]

NickGreyden wait... there is a tfios book tour

[@mariam19554]

John Green? More like John Deep.

[@9_in_the_afternoon]

I read that as 'John Derp', and wondered what he'd done so terribly wrong in this video that I hadn't noticed

[@jliller]

John Deep > John Depp.

[@lilmisconduct]

If I feel this much nostalgia for LfA after 3 minutes of seeing the campus... THINK about how much nostalgia ALL nerdfighters will feel when watching the TFIOS movie?!

[@m1jime]

I know this is super old and maybe somewhat irrelevant (in regards to present day) but I just finished reading the book and it was definitely one of the best I've ever encountered. Unique, to say the least. I can't believe it was your first novel. 0: Anyways, I loved this video for this reason. Much love, John Green

[@hannahwunder7739]

this is one of the best videos i have ever watched. the beauty of John's words never cease to amaze me.

[@notgotanamesorry]

Exactly as I imagined it especially the smoking hole

[@maderawood2149]

John Green, I shall day this one and only once, I hate you. But at the same time, I freaking love you. Why, you ask? "Looking For Alaska" is my answer, you gave me a book that I can completely relate to, the only problem is, is that I've read your book 3 times now, and I've cried all 3 times, sag pay is is that I don't normally cru in books or movies, I just seemed up getting that attached to you're characters. There are 2 major quotes that still stick in my head just because of their that artificiality in my mind. First one is: "I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane." This quote describes my life perfectly. And second is, "To be continued?" JOHN GREEN! WHY'D YOU HAVE TO GET OUR HOPES UP AND THEN JUST SHOVE US BACK DOWN THE STAIRS?!?! This quote, just UGH! It gives me nightmares now, due to the fact that this quote embodies disappointment, regret, love, hate, patience, etc... All in 3 little words. I'll never be able to look at those 3 words the same way because of you, and while I hate you for it, at the same time I love you for it. And that's how I shall conclude my rant. Sincerely, Your fellow nerd fighter, Stefan Wood

[@bobblehobbit3931]

My favorite quote is "For she had embodied the Great Perhaps," It summarizes me and it will be my epitaph.

[@skylarbelden146]

I'm applying to go to this school for next year!!!

[@nanomartinez4362]

Sup I'm going in august

[@LuluShanaher]

The ending to this video is so unassumingly poetic and hopefully nostalgic, it's beautiful. Thank you John Green for sharing your gift of words with us!

[@billyfred42]

Wow, John, you never cease to impress and somewhat move me with your words. "Fiction is the only way I can at least begin to twist my lying memories into something true." Well said.

[@laceyfrieden6896]

I really want to enroll in this school...

[@riveravalon448]

im starting school there this faLL AND I HOPE IT'S RAD.

[@laceyfrieden6896]

+River Avalon JELOUS IF I CAN GO I CANT UNTIL 2017 IF I AM SEE U

[@riveravalon448]

YESS

[@nanomartinez4362]

I'm going nxt yr

[@nanomartinez4362]

Well August 2018

[@vmgx]

It wasn't as beautiful in my head :)

[@RileyLockeYT]

OMG I go by Indian springs every day

[@JustCuzIGuess]

Looking for Alaska is the first book that ever made me so emotional that I actually had to set it down and cry in the fetal postion for a little over an hour. When you sat on the swing and said what you said... I felt that a pang of emotion. I really do love you, John.

[@jessekieve885]

As a Nerdfighter and an Indian Springs School student, this is my second favorite Vlogbrothers video. Besides sick Hank, of course.

[@mariawalker8442]

hey! I’m going to that school!

[@Dronebertios_World]

Saying it's not the heat it's the humidity is a quick way to identify yourself as someone who has spent time in the south ha ha.

[@horsegalri]

Or New England.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

Don't worry John... we still use the smoking hole, just for recreational activities (like photography) and not for smoking.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

@Steven Firoze Francis We don't. We all Juul there now! *Dabs* I'm joking. Most of us don't smoke. Some people do Juul, but we don't acknowledge them.

[@95GrBr]

I just got the book "Looking for Alaska" from the library today. It is driving me crazy that I have to finish my homework before I can read it. I've heard you and Hank talk about it and read alot of great reviews here and on your website. Can't wait!! DFTBA

[@maggiebookworm]

This has to be one of my top 10 favourite videos from John. It's just chock full of amazing-ass-awesome quotes. So much so that my mind can barely take it.

[@Jeanjellybean13]

I recently found out that I used to live 8 minutes from John's old school

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

Jeannie Weasly I found out 2 years ago that I go to the same school he did.

[@Jeanjellybean13]

OMG that's ironic

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

***** I'm currently in 9th grade there. In fact, I'm going back on Monday. I have a few pictures of me there. _lh3.googleusercontent.com/4TZy3oKy1xlEwOaBMAKUfQQFvn8T0poDO_bu0wf9uk7IjqNOp5ON6ihrE2bp5wl4b83GKXqzeQ_

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

And I also have me on top of the hut; a triangular building at which parties are held, across the lake from the smoking hole. _lh3.googleusercontent.com/B8-b-iPknMcrWgwEnWZL27HeOSRkD3SZickKeaQ2-pQrp36nOtZYod_p_SyMsaMPl1qqY8cayw_

[@scarlettrosewilson]

IM FROM ALABAMA TOO!!!!!

[@chloeleerowlands]

I love love love this video, it brings Looking For Alaska to life and adds an entirely new dimension to its existence. As a reader, I often forget the reality of fiction, that many aspects of a "fictional" story are in fact not fictional at all.

[@guysimchony309]

This is awesome to see! The shot of the swing actually got me a bit emotional. I'm almost finished reading the book, absolutely loving it is far

[@Momin_Azam]

Damn, this was 12 years ago 🤯?! Time sure does fly . . . I was not subscribed at this time, but seeing these videos make me feel a certain nostalgia 🥰!

[@chanseyxcx]

I remember watching this video and falling in love with John's words at the end; I actually quoted him in an English paper (A). This was around the time I discovered the vlogbrothers and Nerfighteria. And almost two years later here I am, a better person, no doubt, than I would have been otherwise. Thank you guys. DFTBA.

[@NioonYouTube]

I screamed the entire time he was at the school because when you read a book or just have to image the setting to a place and you do your best, based on the details, and there's this part of you that is just dying to see it to 1. See if you were anywhere near what the actual setting looks like and; 2. Just see it and have it in your brain so you don't have to think about what it MAY look like anymore because you now know. Well that is how I felt about Culver Creek while reading LFA because I had a hard time imagining it in some places, especially when it came to the smoke pit, so to now see it makes me just SO HAPPY!

[@VineRose199]

John Green, you wonderful man, I have such respect for you and the hours of joy you have brought to me. You, like the rest of us, are trapped within the labyrinth, but you, unlike me, lessen the suffering with almost every word, at least for a moment. So for that, I thank you. DFTBA.

[@Sandstorm1029]

Ah, the way you were walking around your old boarding school while it was absent of people and how you had two places that you needed to see, reminded me of the opening of A Separate Peace. And then being able to see the school you based Culver Creek on was truly amazing. Now I want to go reread Looking For Alaska....

[@SuperSammyRae]

Seeing the setting of this book that changed my life, I was a bit sad that the barn was not there, but was jump-up-and-down happy about seeing everything else!