The reality is that she probably felt bad because while she was a big fish in her small school, she is nothing at Cambridge. At Cambridge, these kids are privileged, come from wealthy and high profile families, have all the resources available to them, and/or made top notch grades. About half of them are probably the privileged kind. It strikes me as strange that Elena got depressed in her very first year (probably missed home and couldnt hack the competition), took a semester off, and then resumed studies but at a lesser known school in Germany and in her native German language. Come on. Girl couldnt hack it. It is a lot easier to get good grades at an average school than it is to get grades at a more presitigious school. If she wanted to study abroad, she could have gone to China or one of the other interesting places in the world to expand her horizons, but no she went back to her home town to live with mommy and daddy as a college student. Meh.
And sorry but she reads YA fiction. You would think that a Cambridge student in law who was "gifted" would have moved on to other books besides Harry Potter and Sarah Maas. Her "elena tries to figure out law" channel videos are also very telling. Sometimes people reveal who they are without realizing it... if you watch the video she made on the #metoo movement and how it "hurts men" you can tell that she has no practical experience of the real world and has never experienced having a disadvantage because of something she could not control (i.e. gender, race, etc). In those videos, she repeats several conservative talking points that make her sound like a 65 year old...and they honestly probably came from who parented her. It doesnt sound like she is very self-aware or mature. It is one thing to know how to get good grades in school and know what teachers want for exams, but having actual insight and intellectual curiosity is a completely separate thing and she does not have it as far as what I can tell.
You would also think that she would be networking more, involved in on-campus extracurriculars, and making the most of the breadth of her university's immense resources....but she just stays at home with her mom and sits in her room vlogging study sessions that 100 people join. It's sad because she is afraid to actually challenge herself and seems to want to remain a child forever.
As for her claims about being from a "middle class" family...I don't think that this is true. Clearly, she has travelled around the world from an early age. She went to boarding school in China, did expensive summer programs in the United States at very prestigious schools, applied to 19 colleges, all of which were reach schools and importantly, outside of her home country. I also think that if she is going by the UK class system, middle class is really upper middle-class...and that is probably what she actually is. She actually disappoints me. I think she just uses Youtube as a way to motivate herself to study and probably because she is very lonely.
Ah ok. So I am not allowed to have a different opinion and criticise a YouTuber's interests?
Am i on a fan site? I thought this was a gossip forum? That is why i am here anyway. If i wanted to praise her, I would just do so on her youtube channel.
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) and it seems like this was a special type of class with a test and oral exam, so not a typical German law exam. Very curious to see how she‘ll do in those!