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If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a college student, you're in luck.
A new video series called "Ask Me Anything" reveals what it's like to be a student at one of the world's top universities, the New York Times reports.
In the video, four students from Denmark's Technical University of Denmark, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Stanford University, and the University of California-Santa Barbaraall of whom are in the top 10% of their respective fields of studyanswer questions about a current topic in research or teaching.
One of the questions, for instance, asks the students what it's like to be in the top 5% of your field of study, the Times notes.
One of the students says it's like being in the top 10% of your field of study, but the other three say it's more like being in the bottom 5% of your field of study, the Los Angeles Times reports.
One of the students says it's like being in the bottom 5% of your field of study, but the other three say it's more like being in the bottom 5% of your field of study.
The video was created by the Global University Network, a
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