Understanding The STEM Major’s Guide to the University
In this lesson, Jonathan David explains how the STEM Major’s Guide to the University is organized inside P.L.E.M. Academy and how the research position, certificate system, textbook development, and lesson library all work together.
The lesson explains that active problems first appear inside the research position where students can participate by reviewing lessons and leaving comments for publication credit in future books. After the lessons are edited and refined, they are categorized into the appropriate textbook sections throughout the website.
Students are shown how the accordion system works, how lesson previews appear for non members, and how membership restricted material becomes available after logging in.
Jonathan also explains that the project is being built gradually over time and that the long term goal is to create a massive organized library of advanced STEM examples, textbook walkthroughs, and professional academic demonstrations for college students.
The lesson emphasizes that the goal is not simply to solve homework problems, but rather to teach students how to think and work professionally using real textbook style examples from mathematics, physics, engineering, and related STEM subjects.
“I’m not here to do your homework for you. I’m trying to show you guys how to be professional and how to use your textbook correctly by doing real examples that you guys see in college.”
— Jonathan David
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Original Transcript
All right, kids. Welcome to Plem Academy. I want to show you guys I’ve got multiple parts on Plem Academy. I’ve got the research position up here, these books. I’ve got the certificate instructions. This is the first edition of uh the Ultimate Crash Course series. There’s about a thousand podcasts and lessons of me writing that book at the stem.com website. I would like to get those videos off and put them on here, but they they don’t won’t let me. I can’t get them off. Uh then but in this video I want to talk about the STEM majors guide to the university. So at the bottom at the bottom of the website you’ll see me organizing all these different individual deals here. How the how the STEM major’s guide to the university works is as I’m making lessons for the for the research position. Just for example, you come here to the physics spot here and there is a I redoing my videos on here cuz um I was just having let me get that out of there show you guys here. All right. So so if you come here you see how this is speed of transverse wave under the waves and acoustics section which is chapter 15. Right. So this is an active research problem where students who are STEM uh who are PL on the PLM or on the research position or whatever they leave comments down here to get credit in the book so that when I publish the book you’ll get the copy of the book and you’ll get credit in it for helping with the research position. So the question first goes into the research position here. Once I edit it, then it goes down here. It’ll be categorized under the appropriate book down here. So, these books here are going to take a long time to fill in is what I’m saying. They’re just they’re there to for me to organize one piece at a time. And again, the video I got to replace I got to go through and replace all the videos on here because I was just I was switching my videos around because I don’t want ads on them. And uh I I don’t want you guys to have any ads on here. But ju just you understand how the so because this video I got to put this video on the front page of uh when you click on these as a preview because you have to be you have to be signed into to look at these. Um but what you’re going to do is I’m I’m building if you’re if you’re watching this right now you’re watching this because it’s summer 2026 and I’m currently putting all of this together and I just need to have some videos explaining what I’m doing so that you can see. Here’s one of the here’s a video. This is what it looks like with the video. And so, let me show you. So, you’re watching me type it out. And then here’s the lesson that I typed out right here. Okay, that’s what it that’s what it will look like and see for the most part. Sometimes there’ll be videos, sometimes there won’t be videos. It’s different. But the STEM major’s guide to the university is something I’m I’m slowly adding to. So, those of you when you sign up, just keep in mind that I’m building this. I’m still adding all the instructions and like for the for the modern web development, here’s the in this is what it looks like with the instructions. I’m just slowly adding them one piece at a time. There’s going to be multiple months for you guys to do these things. But, uh, just just, you know, the STEM majors guide to the university here, this this playlist here, these down here, I’m just as as I complete one lesson at a time after it’s finished and put in the book, then I then I itemize it with a review. I do a review on it and add it into all of these. And over the years, these will accumulate into basically step-by-step guides of um all the most important solutions you need to know for by junior, senior year, for grad school. Keep in mind, I am not here to do your homework for you. I’m not trying to teach you how to do math. I’m trying to show you guys how to be professional and how to use your textbook correctly by doing real examples that you guys see in college and difficult ones. I’m just showing you how to be a professional. So, keep that in mind. uh the STEM the STEM majors guide to the university. So, if those of you who are research position students, just so you understand what I’m what this where this video is, when I click on here and I’m logged in, I get to see this accordion here and I see the lessons. Okay? When I’m logged in, this is what I’m seeing. When I’m not logged in right now, oops. Right now, what you’re seeing, you click on this. What you’ll see right now is, let me go to the physics one. Is Oh, that one’s not restricted. Hold on. Let me find one that’s restricted. This one’s restricted. So, right now, you see this and membership required. What you’re going to see now is this video. It will be right there with an explanation of um what I’m talking about. And that will be added when you add that. I’ll show you how that works. So, right now you’re seeing this when you log in. But over here, I’m going to restrict this to people that are registered to the website. And then under under here, it’s uh right up here. Where is it? It’s uh where’ they put that? There is a featured or excerpt right here. Right here, I’m going to put all the HTML code for the video that you’re watching right now with the explanation. And that will all be right here. So this information right here is a snippet of this accordion, but the excer the excerpt excerpt is going to override that and put that on the front. And then on the bottom it will say membership required. So that’ll be this video that you’re watching right now will be on on the front landing spot of all those all those um STEM majors guide to the university playlists or accordians or whatever. Uh so anyways that’s uh that is what the STEM major’s guide. So this is the not logged in side incognito. These are the instructions for the certificates. This is where I’m putting the active unedited problems in different different categories. And then when the book’s finished and published it will be down here. And then down here I’m just categorizing each lesson individually. And over time these will fill up. If you’re looking for the how to study book, that is also right in these two books here. And I I will be at I’ll be doing the audio book for this one right here. And then I’m just categorizing all the lessons in all these as all. It just takes a long time to do this. So I’m just a little bit at a time here and there. So if you’re watching this in summer, this is summer 2026. If you’re watching this 5 years from now, if you’re watching it today, it’d be cool to see what this how many lessons are on here five years from now. Anyways, all right. Thanks for listening and please join Plem Academy. You do not have to be a STEM major to join. The research position stuff here is geared for anybody that wants to have a stellar resume. The math and physics stuff is just a bonus part for the PLU majors. And um it’s how I write books. One of one of my versions of books at least. So, all right. All right, I’ll see you guys in the next one.