--- title: Kindergarten Reality Check Little Boy: Video description: Kindergartener gets a reality check after first day of school canonical: https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-11T14:35:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:07.747Z og:title: Kindergartener Reviews First Day, Discovers Real World og:description: Kindergartener gets a reality check after first day of school og:url: https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kindergartener Reviews First Day, Discovers Real World twitter:description: Kindergartener gets a reality check after first day of school twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Kid Reviewing His First Day of School Is All of Us Discovering What the Real World Is Like ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 11, 2015 2:35 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 11, 2015 2:35 PM UTC Growing up is hard to do. When questioned about what he thought of his first day of kindergarten, this little boy’s response couldn’t have been more perfect. This video was originally posted to YouTube by user [Tracy’s Videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGpPLUxsa8IxdjlghgZqJg) and features the person behind the camera asking the boy, “Why was your first day kind of medium and not good?” “Because there was only math, like learning, and it wasn’t that fun,” the newly-minted student replies. “I was expecting to like play and have fun… but it was only just learning.” Don’t worry kid, reality was a kick in the teeth for the rest of us too. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/"},"headline":"This Kid Reviewing His First Day of School Is All of Us Discovering What the Real World Is Like","datePublished":"2015-09-11T14:35:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:07.747Z","description":"Kindergartener gets a reality check after first day of school","url":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","School"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/","name":"This Kid Reviewing His First Day of School Is All of Us Discovering What the Real World Is Like"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4030993/kindergartener-reviews-first-day-of-school-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```