1 00:00:04,589 --> 00:00:09,330 Okay. Hello, everyone. For those of you that don't know me, I'm Maria, and I'm a sophomore 2 00:00:09,330 --> 00:00:14,289 at MIT. And basically today, I'm just going to tell you guys a little bit about MIT and 3 00:00:14,289 --> 00:00:20,769 my life at MIT. Okay. So first, we're going to start with some history, kind of the background 4 00:00:20,769 --> 00:00:26,370 of MIT, how it started. So it was founded in 1865 with the mission to create a new education 5 00:00:26,370 --> 00:00:32,649 to unify mens et manus, which in Latin means mind and hand. And so this institution, MIT, 6 00:00:32,649 --> 00:00:37,609 was dedicated to technology and innovation, and it attracted some pretty cool alumni. 7 00:00:38,149 --> 00:00:42,909 One is the first woman in the U.S. ever to earn a degree in STEM, so that was pretty cool. 8 00:00:43,310 --> 00:00:47,409 And then also the son of a freed slave, who was America's first accredited Black architect, 9 00:00:47,649 --> 00:00:53,009 he also went to MIT. And so MIT played a pretty important role in the World Wars, 10 00:00:53,170 --> 00:00:58,710 World War I, World War II, and then also the Cold War. So the U.S. government provided funding so 11 00:00:58,710 --> 00:01:05,129 that MIT could conduct research to help the U.S. in these wars. And then now MIT's mission is to 12 00:01:05,129 --> 00:01:13,109 make the world better through education, research, and innovation. Okay, so what kind of students go 13 00:01:13,109 --> 00:01:18,790 to MIT? So the MIT admission says that while grades and scores are important, it's really the 14 00:01:18,790 --> 00:01:23,430 match between the applicant and the school that drives the selection process. So what does that 15 00:01:23,430 --> 00:01:28,849 mean? Like what is MIT looking for? They're looking for a collaborative spirit. So this is one of the 16 00:01:28,849 --> 00:01:33,670 most important things I think that MIT looks for in students. They want to know that you guys can 17 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:39,650 work in teams and that you like working with other people to solve problems because the homework and 18 00:01:39,650 --> 00:01:45,230 the problem sets at MIT are purposefully very hard so that you can't do them alone. Like you 19 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:50,069 need to work with other people in order to complete them. And then they also look for 20 00:01:50,069 --> 00:01:54,769 students with initiative because MIT has a lot of resources, but they don't mean anything unless 21 00:01:54,769 --> 00:02:01,030 you use them. And then risk-taking, hands-on creativity, curiosity, and the ability to 22 00:02:01,030 --> 00:02:06,450 prioritize balance. MIT doesn't want kids who like only focus on school. They want kids who 23 00:02:06,450 --> 00:02:12,409 have other interests and other hobbies. So university admissions in the U.S. is pretty 24 00:02:12,409 --> 00:02:17,710 different than in Spain. So in the U.S., like essays, activities, and recommendation letters 25 00:02:17,710 --> 00:02:23,830 matter a lot more. So the students at MIT, they have to have really good grades and test scores 26 00:02:23,830 --> 00:02:26,310 because the acceptance rate is so low, 4%, 27 00:02:26,310 --> 00:02:28,770 but they also have really cool activities 28 00:02:28,770 --> 00:02:31,810 like Olympiads, robotics, research, sailing, 29 00:02:31,990 --> 00:02:33,789 taekwondo, and lots of other things. 30 00:02:34,389 --> 00:02:37,389 And I think that's one of the coolest parts about MIT 31 00:02:37,389 --> 00:02:40,969 that every person I know has something like mind-boggling 32 00:02:40,969 --> 00:02:44,030 that they did in high school to get into MIT. 33 00:02:44,650 --> 00:02:47,469 So like one girl I know, she's world champion in karate. 34 00:02:47,629 --> 00:02:49,389 She's like number one in the entire world. 35 00:02:49,509 --> 00:02:50,210 She went to the Olympics. 36 00:02:50,210 --> 00:02:56,569 another girl like built her own sailing boat over the summer and now she sails it like every time 37 00:02:56,569 --> 00:03:02,789 she goes home I also met like the number one student from India and then another one of my 38 00:03:02,789 --> 00:03:08,210 best friends she served in the military and then she traveled the world for a whole year by herself 39 00:03:08,210 --> 00:03:14,009 so I think that's one of my favorite parts it's like finding what each person's thing is at MIT 40 00:03:14,009 --> 00:03:21,900 and so then mit has a bunch of different departments and majors and since mit is pretty 41 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:28,060 nerdy and like mathy they're all numbers so number one is civil and environmental engineering 42 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:33,759 number two is mechanical engineering and then six is electrical engineering and computer science 43 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:38,460 which is the most common one at mit so like chances are if you meet someone from mit they're 44 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:45,120 going to be core six and i'm core six so um and then the numbers go up to 21 which is humanities 45 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:51,280 And the cool thing about MIT is that students can participate in UROPs, which are Undergraduate 46 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:57,740 Research Opportunities Programs. And even if you're not majoring in like mechanical engineering, 47 00:03:57,740 --> 00:04:02,520 for example, you can just email one of the professors and you say like, hey, I really like 48 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,219 your research. Can I work with you? And then you start working in the lab with them doing a really 49 00:04:07,219 --> 00:04:14,620 cool project and you get paid. And it's like a really nice work experience. And so these are 50 00:04:14,620 --> 00:04:20,000 some projects that people have done at MIT. The first one is called Future You. And it's a 51 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 platform that uses genitor of AI to allow users to talk with themselves when you're 60 years old. 52 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,680 So it generates like this picture of you when you're 60. And then you get to talk to yourself 53 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,459 and ask like, oh, what are you doing now? Do you like your life, etc. And so after using the 54 00:04:36,459 --> 00:04:40,639 platform, people reported decreased anxiety and felt a stronger sense of connection with their 55 00:04:40,639 --> 00:04:47,480 future selves. And then another cool one is quantum computing. So quantum computing can solve complex 56 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,420 problems faster than classical computers. And the building blocks of quantum, they're called 57 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:58,180 quibbets. The issue is that they're subject to error. So quantum computers haven't advanced as 58 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:04,019 much as they could. So what MIT researchers are doing is they use superconducting quibbets to 59 00:05:04,019 --> 00:05:11,879 achieve like a world record quibbit fidelity of 99.998%. So hopefully quantum computers will 60 00:05:11,879 --> 00:05:18,139 accelerate more quickly now that we have better quibbits. And then the last one is expanding robot 61 00:05:18,139 --> 00:05:24,000 perception. So perception, like being able to take in your surroundings, is crucial in making robots 62 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,639 useful in the real world. So what this team was doing is they utilized deep learning and large 63 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:34,639 language models, which is like AI stuff, to develop algorithms that enable robots to perceive 64 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:41,949 their environment better so that they can help humans perform certain tasks. Okay, so then what 65 00:05:41,949 --> 00:05:47,329 do I do at MIT? What's my major? What's my trajectory? So I'm course six, which is electrical 66 00:05:47,329 --> 00:05:52,810 engineering and computer science. And then within course six, you can take different routes. So 67 00:05:52,810 --> 00:05:58,870 there's like six one, six two, six three, all the way up to six fourteen. So I'm six nine, which is 68 00:05:58,870 --> 00:06:05,310 computation and cognition. So I study coding, circuits, the brain, and how circuits and AI can 69 00:06:05,310 --> 00:06:12,009 mimic the brain. And this is a little unusual, but I hope to attend law school after MIT so that I 70 00:06:12,009 --> 00:06:16,550 can practice patent law, where I'll work with inventors to protect and defend their inventions. 71 00:06:17,449 --> 00:06:22,870 And a cool thing about MIT is that it's really easy to switch majors. And I was shocked, but a 72 00:06:22,870 --> 00:06:27,410 lot of my friends the first year had no idea what they wanted to study. They just had like a bunch 73 00:06:27,410 --> 00:06:32,629 of different interests. So you can explore across all the departments and take a bunch of classes 74 00:06:32,629 --> 00:06:38,870 to find what you like. And then switching majors is also really easy. And fun fact, I switched from 75 00:06:38,870 --> 00:06:43,730 6.2 to 6.9 like a couple weeks ago, and you just have to press a button, and then you're done. 76 00:06:46,339 --> 00:06:53,100 Okay, so now I'm going to talk about some of my classes. My hardest class last semester was 6.101, 77 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:58,399 which is fundamentals of programming. And this is in Python, which is why I can teach you guys a 78 00:06:58,399 --> 00:07:03,639 little bit about Python and technology. And basically the layout of the class, we didn't 79 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:09,079 have any lectures. Like there wasn't a professor that talked to us about Python and programming. 80 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:14,259 We had to read about it by ourselves, like a textbook. And then every week there was this 81 00:07:14,259 --> 00:07:21,600 really long and difficult lab that took like 10, 12 hours to code. And so these are examples of 82 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,079 some of the labs. So the first one is image processing, where we learned how to represent 83 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:32,279 images in Python and how to manipulate them by applying filters like inversion, blur, sharpening, 84 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:39,339 and adding color. So here we just like applied a filter to a frog image. And then the next lab is 85 00:07:39,339 --> 00:07:44,560 bacon number. So we learned how to search like huge databases using an algorithm called breath 86 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:50,980 first search or BFS. And so basically what this does is it begins from the center searching around 87 00:07:50,980 --> 00:07:58,100 it. And then it expands outward until you find your goal. And then this lab was Snakeobon, 88 00:07:58,439 --> 00:08:04,279 which we coded like our own game from scratch. And basically the player moves around the snake 89 00:08:04,279 --> 00:08:08,800 in the middle to push the computers onto the yellow targets. And I liked this one because 90 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,980 we got to actually like play the game at the end when we were done coding it. And then Lisp was the 91 00:08:14,980 --> 00:08:20,279 final lab that we did. And so Lisp is a programming language, like how Python is a programming 92 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:27,920 language but the weird thing is we coded lisp inside python so we like created lisp in python 93 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,340 and it's one of the earliest high level programming languages and it was made at mit 94 00:08:32,340 --> 00:08:38,299 and when we were finished lisp was able to solve any possible computational problems so 95 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:46,149 that was a pretty cool lab okay and then my second hardest class was intro to quantum computing 96 00:08:46,149 --> 00:08:51,789 and i talked about this a little before but basically quantum computers what we learned about 97 00:08:51,789 --> 00:08:57,370 we learned like what they were what the future holds for them how they work and this was like a 98 00:08:57,370 --> 00:09:01,629 very technical class we had to learn about like the quantum physics and mechanics and then also 99 00:09:01,629 --> 00:09:08,129 like linear algebra differential equations so this was pretty hard but the cool thing about it 100 00:09:08,129 --> 00:09:14,789 was that I took it during IAP and at MIT that stands for independent activities period so 101 00:09:14,789 --> 00:09:19,929 basically during the entire month of January students can do whatever they want like we don't 102 00:09:19,929 --> 00:09:26,529 have any classes, which is why I'm able to be here with all of you guys. So this program is 103 00:09:26,529 --> 00:09:31,730 called Global Teaching Labs. And so you have to apply and then you get into a country and you can 104 00:09:31,730 --> 00:09:38,309 come and teach for a month. So that's what I'm doing right now. And then last IAP, I stayed at 105 00:09:38,309 --> 00:09:43,389 MIT and I just lived there with my friends and I got to take this class and another class called 106 00:09:43,389 --> 00:09:48,750 Patent Law. And so that was super fun. And then some people just go home and chill with their 107 00:09:48,750 --> 00:09:54,889 families and friends, or you can explore Boston, do whatever you want. So IEP is a really cool 108 00:09:54,889 --> 00:10:02,860 part about MIT. Okay. So then what do we actually do with everything that we learn at MIT? So lots 109 00:10:02,860 --> 00:10:07,740 of people have pretty cool internships and jobs like over the summer. And I talked about your 110 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:12,580 ops a little. So last year I did a political science year op because I do want to go to law 111 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:18,379 school. So I wanted to learn a little bit about that. And this project, we researched how AI is 112 00:10:18,379 --> 00:10:23,779 being used to spread misinformation on social media. So one way to combat the spread of the 113 00:10:23,779 --> 00:10:30,919 misinformation is to label posts as AI generated so that it warns people maybe not to believe that 114 00:10:30,919 --> 00:10:35,419 the post is true. So we showed users different types of labels, and then we asked them how 115 00:10:35,419 --> 00:10:41,860 effective they were. And then my other job was the technology licensing office. And so this office at 116 00:10:41,860 --> 00:10:47,240 MIT helps scientists and engineers patent their inventions and get them out into the world so that 117 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:52,179 people can use them. So I worked here for 11 months and I got to read patents and summarize 118 00:10:52,179 --> 00:10:57,860 and categorize them. And this was super cool because I want to be a patent attorney. And I 119 00:10:57,860 --> 00:11:03,200 learned about really cool research that MIT was doing. And now we're going to see a patent that I 120 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:08,320 worked on. So this is a patent about additive manufacturing, which is like 3D printing. 121 00:11:08,919 --> 00:11:13,320 And you guys have probably never seen like a US patent before, but this is what it looks like. 122 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,440 So, every patent has an abstract, which is like a short summary of the invention and 123 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:23,279 what it does, and then it also has like a picture of the invention at the bottom. 124 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:27,519 And so in the future, I want to help inventors protect these technologies to prevent other 125 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:29,820 people from stealing their ideas. 126 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:34,220 And so this way, the inventors can make money, and they can also get their technologies out 127 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:37,970 in the world and help people. 128 00:11:37,970 --> 00:11:43,309 Okay, so that was a lot about like the academics at MIT, and now I'm going to talk about what 129 00:11:43,309 --> 00:11:51,149 life is like outside school. So every person at MIT lives in a residential dorm. And each dorm 130 00:11:51,149 --> 00:11:57,370 has their own culture or vibe. So some of the most notable ones, the first one is East Campus. 131 00:11:57,830 --> 00:12:04,370 So people here are more edgy or goth, and they have dyed hair, and they like anime. And then 132 00:12:04,370 --> 00:12:10,389 every year, they throw a party with wooden roller coasters and these huge structures and rides that 133 00:12:10,389 --> 00:12:17,190 they build out of wood super cool and then another one is baker and new vassar these are for like the 134 00:12:17,190 --> 00:12:23,970 athletes at mit and then new house this is for like the really really smart people and it's very 135 00:12:23,970 --> 00:12:29,690 international so like all the kids that are from other countries not the united states most of them 136 00:12:29,690 --> 00:12:37,090 live here and basically to get into mit from being international that's incredibly difficult you have 137 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:42,090 to be like number one in your country for some subject. So everyone at Newhouse is very smart. 138 00:12:43,450 --> 00:12:49,570 And then life at MIT is also very work hard, play hard. So people will stay up all night Thursday 139 00:12:49,570 --> 00:12:54,090 to finish a problem set like homework. And then you stay up all night Friday partying or just 140 00:12:54,090 --> 00:12:59,509 hanging out with friends. And this goes hand in hand with MIT's unofficial motto among students, 141 00:12:59,649 --> 00:13:05,330 which is IHTFP. So this has two meanings. The first one is I have truly found paradise. 142 00:13:05,330 --> 00:13:11,250 it's like oh my gosh we love MIT sometimes but then also sometimes we really really hate this 143 00:13:11,250 --> 00:13:18,110 place so for a lot of people MIT is the hardest thing that students have ever done and will ever 144 00:13:18,110 --> 00:13:24,250 do so then after graduation like working at Google or Apple or going to law school or medical school 145 00:13:24,250 --> 00:13:30,429 is relatively easy so I talked to a lawyer who went to MIT and then went to law school and she 146 00:13:30,429 --> 00:13:38,029 told me that law school was very easy compared to MIT so I'm excited for that so then these are 147 00:13:38,029 --> 00:13:42,950 some of the dorms that I was talking about this is like one of the rides the roller coasters that 148 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:48,090 the east campus people made and then your freshman year you can go to this like huge party and you 149 00:13:48,090 --> 00:13:52,470 just go on the roller coasters and the different rides and then this is like the structure they 150 00:13:52,470 --> 00:13:57,090 built where you just you like climb the stairs and then you just dance like on the top of the 151 00:13:57,090 --> 00:14:02,909 structure like music is playing and when I went the music was so loud and so many people were 152 00:14:02,909 --> 00:14:07,429 there that like the structure was shaking and I was scared I was gonna fall but it's very fun 153 00:14:07,429 --> 00:14:15,250 and then this is called a water war where like all the dorms have a water balloon fight and it's 154 00:14:15,250 --> 00:14:20,230 pretty cool because some people will make like these huge structures and then they like put water 155 00:14:20,230 --> 00:14:27,070 balloons in them and like water guns it's really fun and then over here this was like MIT's 150th 156 00:14:27,070 --> 00:14:31,389 anniversary party so everyone was on the lawn there were like lights and music everywhere 157 00:14:31,389 --> 00:14:38,029 super fun and then this is the IHTFP like the unofficial motto and then over here this was 158 00:14:38,029 --> 00:14:43,470 my dorm freshman year it's called Massey Hall we call this like the castle and a lot of freshmen 159 00:14:43,470 --> 00:14:51,250 live here so it was pretty fun okay and then there are also lots of cool clubs at MIT and these are 160 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:56,049 some like clubs that I found that I think are pretty funny and cool so the first one is 161 00:14:56,049 --> 00:15:00,929 Laboratory for Chocolate Science. This is dedicated to the appreciation and scientific 162 00:15:00,929 --> 00:15:06,230 investigation of chocolate. And they order more than 500 pounds of chocolate every year, 163 00:15:06,429 --> 00:15:11,230 which is insane. And then we also have the Spinning Arts Club where students learn to 164 00:15:11,230 --> 00:15:17,049 perform with and like spin and do tricks with fire and LEDs. And that was really cool. I went 165 00:15:17,049 --> 00:15:23,110 to their performance and they're like firebenders, like from Avatar the Last Airbender. And then we 166 00:15:23,110 --> 00:15:28,629 also have combat robotics club this is the premier destination for robot combat at MIT 167 00:15:28,629 --> 00:15:35,029 and so basically what they do is they build quote high energy fighting machines that wreak havoc in 168 00:15:35,029 --> 00:15:41,950 the arena so they're really passionate about this and it's pretty cool and then poker club poker is 169 00:15:41,950 --> 00:15:47,990 huge at MIT because it's very like mathematical and everyone there finds it super fun so I was 170 00:15:47,990 --> 00:15:52,769 a part of poker club for a bit and I still go sometimes just to play but the cool thing about 171 00:15:52,769 --> 00:15:57,850 the poker club at MIT is that they focus on the analytical and mathematical skills involved in 172 00:15:57,850 --> 00:16:03,929 poker and they also have really strong ties with like trading firms basically trading firms like 173 00:16:03,929 --> 00:16:09,990 trade stocks and then also quant companies so then winners of the poker competitions they'll get 174 00:16:09,990 --> 00:16:15,289 internships over the summer and then they'll get super high paying jobs after graduation they'll 175 00:16:15,289 --> 00:16:24,929 make like $500,000. It's insane when they're like 22 years old. But yeah. And then one of my favorite 176 00:16:24,929 --> 00:16:30,110 clubs is hacking. And this is like more of an underground club. It's not really official. It's 177 00:16:30,110 --> 00:16:38,029 kind of secretive. Because a lot of what they do is illegal. But MIT, but MIT allows it because 178 00:16:38,029 --> 00:16:42,710 it's kind of a really cool part of the culture. So there are like two different components of 179 00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:48,210 hacking. The first one is like finding the different nooks and crannies of MIT, kind of like 180 00:16:48,210 --> 00:16:53,750 finding rooms that people have never been to. And so I've been to some of these rooms and you have 181 00:16:53,750 --> 00:16:59,029 to like go through tunnels and go underground and like climb different buildings and structures to 182 00:16:59,029 --> 00:17:05,690 get there. So it's pretty cool. And then the second part of hacking are like these pranks. 183 00:17:05,930 --> 00:17:11,769 So over here, like the hacking club decorated the dome like Star Wars. And then here's Captain 184 00:17:11,769 --> 00:17:17,990 America, Pac-Man, they put like a spacecraft on top of the dome. And then the craziest ones to me, 185 00:17:18,289 --> 00:17:24,609 they put a fire department truck and a police car on top of the dome. And I have no idea how they 186 00:17:24,609 --> 00:17:31,430 did that because the dome is like super tall. But so that was crazy. And then also my first night at 187 00:17:31,430 --> 00:17:37,849 MIT, the Hacking Club takes a bunch of freshmen on what they call an orange tour, where at midnight, 188 00:17:37,849 --> 00:17:42,509 you get to go on top of the dome and you just sit there and you like watch the stars and you 189 00:17:42,509 --> 00:17:47,450 talk with your friends and you get to see like a really nice view of Boston. So that was pretty 190 00:17:47,450 --> 00:17:56,319 cool. Okay. So my clubs aren't as cool as that, but I'll still tell you guys anyway. So I'm in 191 00:17:56,319 --> 00:18:01,119 Code It, which is where we teach middle school girls to code in Scratch. And fun fact, Scratch 192 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:08,180 was actually made at MIT. So if you guys use that, yeah. And then I was also in Sport Taekwondo 193 00:18:08,180 --> 00:18:13,440 though because I got my black belt when I was 11 and I wanted to continue in college so like these 194 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:19,519 are some pictures of me competing at competitions and then I'm also a part of the writers group 195 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:24,019 where professors and students share their writing and they provide comments to each other so that 196 00:18:24,019 --> 00:18:29,140 you can publish your work and then science policy initiative this is pretty cool we learn about 197 00:18:29,140 --> 00:18:35,460 different policy issues like climate change and AI so I got to go to DC last semester for free 198 00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:40,039 to meet government officials from different departments so I got to go to NASA and the 199 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:46,380 White House so that was pretty cool and then the last club that I'm in is AFI and this is like a 200 00:18:46,380 --> 00:18:50,980 more social club for girls it's called like a sorority I don't think you guys have that in Spain 201 00:18:50,980 --> 00:18:58,940 um but I live with like 60 other AFIs in a big big house in Boston and so you guys will see 202 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:06,279 so these are like my best friends from MIT I met them through AFI um and then like this is our 203 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:13,079 house in Boston and basically every semester we hold like a formal like a social event where you 204 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:19,319 get to celebrate the end of classes so it's really fun it's a nice time and then like I said we live 205 00:19:19,319 --> 00:19:25,200 in like a mansion in Boston and Boston is the best I think Boston and New York City best cities 206 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,799 in the US. So if you ever go, definitely check them out. But the house that we live in is like 207 00:19:30,799 --> 00:19:35,839 a 10 minute walk from different concerts and baseball games, hockey games, basketball, 208 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:43,140 super cool. And then also every day I get to cross like this bridge across the river to get to MIT. 209 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:49,440 And when it's nice out, I'll walk, I'll watch the sunset. And then also they have like a shuttle 210 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:57,539 that can take us across so yeah Boston is really awesome and that's about it I'm very grateful to 211 00:19:57,539 --> 00:20:02,859 go to MIT and I hope that you guys learn something new and I'm really thankful to have had this 212 00:20:02,859 --> 00:20:07,960 opportunity to be with all of you guys teaching you you're the best I loved working with all of 213 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:13,140 you um good luck in the future and now I'm going to open the floor up for any questions if you guys 214 00:20:13,140 --> 00:20:42,960 Did you apply for a scholarship and if you did, did you have to go through a lot of hard 215 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:50,799 work to get in the mit so okay so college in the u.s is a lot more expensive than college in spain 216 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:58,279 so mit like their ticket price is like seventy thousand dollars a year but most people don't 217 00:20:58,279 --> 00:21:05,180 pay that like i don't pay that because they give really good financial aid so um based on like the 218 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:10,799 income of your parents and how many siblings you have in college the like mit will give you 219 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:15,240 financial aid so that you don't have to pay so much so I didn't have to apply to scholarships 220 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:30,880 because I got a lot of financial aid did you have to go through a lot of hard work to get in the MIT 221 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:45,160 or was it just okay I'm good uh what I am doing I'm good I'm going to apply for for MIT 222 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:51,619 um i had to work like very hard in high school like high school kind of my whole life was like 223 00:21:51,619 --> 00:21:57,079 studying studying studying um and so like you need to have really good grades and you have to have 224 00:21:57,079 --> 00:22:04,160 like you guys know the sat yeah like you have to have a really good sat score um and then also like 225 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:09,599 i did a bunch of clubs like i did robotics and i think that was the big one because my team and i 226 00:22:09,599 --> 00:22:16,799 like made it to the world championship so i think mit really liked that are the marks of what here 227 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:23,579 in spain is secondary school and but is that though important to to get in or is it more 228 00:22:23,579 --> 00:22:31,359 to get a good mark a good score at sat so i don't know really how it works for like international 229 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,819 students but i do know that to get in as an international student like from spain would be 230 00:22:35,819 --> 00:22:40,539 very difficult like i think they would only accept maybe one or two people from spain 231 00:22:40,539 --> 00:22:46,940 like all of spain um but yeah you would have to have really good grades good activities good essays 232 00:22:46,940 --> 00:22:49,339 yeah thank you 233 00:22:50,079 --> 00:23:02,400 how many job uh how many applications did you make like to different universities okay so 234 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:09,339 okay i'll answer like the first question first so mit was my dream school so i applied like early 235 00:23:09,339 --> 00:23:15,660 we have something called early action and early decision so for mit i applied early and then i 236 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:21,039 got in early so i didn't have to apply to like many other schools so i only applied to eight 237 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:30,980 in total okay and what was your your gpa um my school i did it a little differently like grades 238 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:36,380 in the u.s i think are different than grades in spain we do it like out of a hundred so i had 239 00:23:36,380 --> 00:23:45,819 like a 99 out of a hundred and then like a 1550 on the sat what uh 1550 on the sat like out of 240 00:23:45,819 --> 00:23:58,180 1600 how do you get your work organized how what how do you get your work organized oh like my 241 00:23:58,180 --> 00:24:06,799 work at school yeah um okay so last semester I took five classes so basically every day I like 242 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:11,900 make a schedule of what I need to do and like I have a calendar of all my assignments and everything 243 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:17,339 so that's kind of how I go like day to day and then I'll also like look at what tests I have 244 00:24:17,339 --> 00:24:23,799 and like make sure I study for them a couple days in advance hopefully um but yeah and then you also 245 00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:29,039 have like different activities and like social events that you want to do so I like to plan a lot 246 00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:43,640 um you said you live with other 60 people like in a house apart from the MIT so there are other 247 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:50,019 possibilities of living in like a house different from the MIT or the normal is living in dorms 248 00:24:50,019 --> 00:24:57,339 so the sororities and like frats the fraternities they all have their own houses so if you're in 249 00:24:57,339 --> 00:25:02,480 like a sorority or fraternity you can live in the house with like all your friends um but then if 250 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:09,519 you don't do that you can live on campus in one of the dorms and otherwise you can just like live 251 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:15,140 off campus like not affiliated with mit at all you can just like get an apartment by yourself 252 00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:34,509 which board will you like to to do instead of taekwondo oh okay i want to try kickboxing 253 00:25:34,509 --> 00:25:38,049 because it's similar to taekwondo 254 00:25:38,049 --> 00:25:40,349 but I think it'll be more my vibe 255 00:25:40,349 --> 00:25:41,549 like more fighty 256 00:25:41,549 --> 00:25:55,029 what was the hardest project 257 00:25:55,029 --> 00:25:55,789 you have made? 258 00:25:56,690 --> 00:25:58,150 the hardest what? project 259 00:25:58,150 --> 00:25:59,049 oh project 260 00:25:59,049 --> 00:26:01,650 okay 261 00:26:01,650 --> 00:26:04,950 I mean I feel like it's gotta be the 61010 262 00:26:04,950 --> 00:26:06,509 like the fundamentals of programming 263 00:26:06,509 --> 00:26:08,210 that class took me out 264 00:26:08,210 --> 00:26:14,650 because it was a lot of work and it's like you can't really this is the one class at MIT that 265 00:26:14,650 --> 00:26:20,190 you can't really work with other people because MIT takes very seriously like academic violations 266 00:26:20,190 --> 00:26:26,650 so if you copy someone's code you're done like you'll get a zero on the assignment you might 267 00:26:26,650 --> 00:26:31,769 like get knocked down a letter grade in the class so like you have to do it all by yourself and you 268 00:26:31,769 --> 00:26:47,460 just have to like sit there and code so that was pretty hard what do you like about coding 269 00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:57,359 okay I I think that coding is like it's a really cool tool I think it's good to learn it's good to 270 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:04,319 learn like the fundamentals but now that AI has gotten really good at coding I think it's like 271 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:09,940 coding as a skill is going to be less and less useful so honestly a lot of people are moving to 272 00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:16,619 AI instead of just computer science so that's kind of what I'm doing and how can you use coding 273 00:27:16,619 --> 00:27:23,339 in the law in law in the law okay so to be like a patent attorney you need a technical background 274 00:27:23,339 --> 00:27:28,119 so that's why I'm at MIT that's why I'm doing like course six computer science and electrical 275 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:33,440 engineering and basically if you know coding and if you know things about like AI and machines 276 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:39,440 then you can help the inventors explain what they did to other attorneys and like judges so that 277 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:56,920 they can get their patents. As you said you have to work a lot on the MIT but do you have like 278 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:04,900 free time for doing a job or for any money? Yeah okay so the jobs that I showed you guys like my 279 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:10,440 my research and then also the one with the patents I had those jobs like during class so you 280 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:16,000 definitely I think at MIT I have more free time than I did in high school like high school I had 281 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:23,160 no free time MIT you're taking less classes and I also wasn't doing a sport at MIT so I did have 282 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:31,259 more time and like I definitely hang out with my friends more and it's more fun so it's like a good 283 00:28:31,259 --> 00:28:47,109 balance I'd say you talk about quantum computer like what have you advanced like in that field 284 00:28:47,109 --> 00:28:53,569 or that so like quantum computing isn't my fields like that's not my major I don't really study it 285 00:28:53,569 --> 00:28:58,269 I just took like one class because I thought it was interesting and I wanted to learn more about 286 00:28:58,269 --> 00:29:04,170 it. Um, but it was pretty cool because I met researchers who are doing quantum computing, 287 00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:09,490 who like want to do startups. Um, and they were saying that we're still, we're still pretty far 288 00:29:09,490 --> 00:29:14,490 out from like quantum computers actually being useful to us because right now with like the 289 00:29:14,490 --> 00:29:19,450 quibbets and also like quantum computers need to be really, really cold and they have to be really 290 00:29:19,450 --> 00:29:26,390 big so they're clunky right now and they're not the best but maybe in 15 20 years if we get them 291 00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:31,029 to work they're gonna be very useful to humans and they're gonna be exponentially better than 292 00:29:31,029 --> 00:29:49,220 the computers that we have now is there any aeronautical engineering um i don't know how is 293 00:29:49,220 --> 00:30:01,400 it how did you culture your degree or or major yeah so at mit course 16 is like aero astro so 294 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:14,920 like aerospace and also like astrophysics stuff like that so yeah okay thank you um do you think 295 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:23,400 school was useful to learn or did you learn everything uh when you started college like 296 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:31,319 high school yeah okay I think for me high school was more about like getting good grades kind of 297 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:35,980 than learning because in the U.S. there's very there's like a big culture about like getting 298 00:30:35,980 --> 00:30:40,779 into the best college that you possibly can so high school is stressful for a lot of people 299 00:30:40,779 --> 00:30:44,940 because you just have to like get good grades you have to get through it do well on the SAT 300 00:30:44,940 --> 00:30:50,279 and then you apply to college and that's where you actually like learn things that you want to learn 301 00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:54,619 and you learn cooler things because also in Spain I think it's different than in the U.S. 302 00:30:54,940 --> 00:31:01,259 like you guys chose like technology and engineering right like in the U.S. we don't do that so in high 303 00:31:01,259 --> 00:31:06,420 school you can take whatever classes you want you can take like maybe one or two engineering classes 304 00:31:06,420 --> 00:31:11,259 but other than that you're just taking like very general and then in college is when you 305 00:31:11,259 --> 00:31:25,009 like become more specific or narrow. Have you thought about creating a startup or something 306 00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:31,329 related to entrepreneurship so startups are really big at mit a lot of people want to do startups 307 00:31:31,329 --> 00:31:38,410 um and most people they'll research like they'll do the urops and then maybe they'll get like a 308 00:31:38,410 --> 00:31:44,329 master's or a phd and then afterwards they use their research to begin a startup and there's 309 00:31:44,329 --> 00:31:50,029 like a lot of resources at mit for startups there's like a venture capital and entrepreneurship club 310 00:31:50,029 --> 00:31:55,509 and basically you can apply and then these people these are like experts in the field in the startup 311 00:31:55,509 --> 00:32:01,069 fields you have like lawyers businessmen a bunch of people who know how to get startups off the 312 00:32:01,069 --> 00:32:17,039 ground and they'll help you like get money and start your startup oh so you said that um you 313 00:32:17,039 --> 00:32:22,420 have to choose the classes like in college like in the MIT but do you have like if you choose one 314 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:28,000 class then you have to choose some others or you just choose all the classes you have you choose 315 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,539 all the classes like you have a lot of freedom to pick whatever you want but in your first year 316 00:32:33,539 --> 00:32:39,440 everyone has to take like very general classes so every student at MIT has to take like chemistry 317 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:48,259 biology physics multivariable calculus calculus and then also we have like humanities requirements 318 00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:54,279 so everyone has to take at least eight humanities classes so like English or language or like 319 00:32:54,279 --> 00:33:09,329 philosophy stuff like that um um a what what sports do they're using in the mit there's like 320 00:33:09,329 --> 00:33:17,109 everything um i don't know do you guys know like what d1 or d2 is okay okay so mit is d3 so that's 321 00:33:17,109 --> 00:33:24,630 like the like the lowest one um but they have like pretty much every sport that you can imagine 322 00:33:24,630 --> 00:33:30,150 like soccer basketball everything i don't know if they have like kayaking or like yeah 323 00:33:30,150 --> 00:33:38,089 i don't think they have water polo yeah water polo but okay yeah yeah my sports school is cool 324 00:33:38,089 --> 00:33:55,819 um how many how many years does it take to finish college 325 00:33:56,519 --> 00:34:04,279 Um, MIT is four years. Um, but then most, not most, but a lot of people will do an extra year, 326 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:10,179 which is called like a master's in engineering. We call it MN. Um, and so a lot of people do this 327 00:34:10,179 --> 00:34:15,239 if they don't find internships or like jobs, full-time jobs right after college, 328 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,000 they'll do a master's and you do research. And then after that, you get a full-time job. 329 00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:33,699 Would you like to come back to Spain? 330 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:35,920 I would love to come back to Spain. 331 00:34:36,980 --> 00:34:37,800 Spain's the best. 332 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,199 So, like, in your major, like, in computer science, 333 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,099 like, what are the subjects or, like, things you study? 334 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,840 Okay, so the reason I switched from, like, my first major, 335 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,599 which was just, like, computer science and electrical engineering 336 00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:56,480 to the major that I do now 337 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,000 is because the first one was very specific. 338 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:01,739 Like, you needed to take a bunch of classes 339 00:35:01,739 --> 00:35:08,920 related to like circuits and systems and like electronics and computer science but then six 340 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,860 nine which is computation and cognition you have a lot more freedom so I can take like a bunch 341 00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:19,000 different classes I can take coding if I want or I can take circuit classes like electronics 342 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:26,119 or I can also take AI I can take like neuroscience classes so my the major that I am now is much more 343 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:42,070 flexible in sports like you have to train every day or like in a schedule or how is the schedule 344 00:35:42,070 --> 00:35:49,090 of stream so i really really admire the athletes because they have the same course load as us like 345 00:35:49,090 --> 00:35:55,250 they have like mit is very hard and you have to do all of the work while also being an athlete 346 00:35:55,250 --> 00:36:00,590 so the athletes have practice i think every single day most of them are from like 5 to 7 p.m 347 00:36:00,590 --> 00:36:06,670 um and then they also have like games over the weekends so the athletes have like a lot less 348 00:36:06,670 --> 00:36:17,550 free time what have you learned from like the month you are you you were here that you are 349 00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:25,130 gonna use in the future that's a good question um i think the reason i came here was because 350 00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:30,230 like my family is from spain like my grandparents are from spain so i really wanted to like come 351 00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:34,989 and experience the culture and then i've also always liked teaching like when i was younger 352 00:36:34,989 --> 00:36:39,969 i wanted to be a teacher so i think this has been a great experience i think teaching is a great way 353 00:36:39,969 --> 00:36:44,250 to make sure that you really know what you're talking about you know like i can't teach you 354 00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:49,449 python unless i really know it um and then i think it's also a great way to like public 355 00:36:49,449 --> 00:37:04,039 practice public speaking and then also to practice my spanish so what was your favorite thing about 356 00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:12,300 MIT I think my favorite thing about MIT is the people because everyone at MIT is like really 357 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:16,980 cool in some way it's like when I was talking about everyone has their thing like everyone is 358 00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:21,940 very passionate they're very hard working and they're some of my best friends like I love 359 00:37:21,940 --> 00:37:36,429 hanging out with them and it's just been it's been a great experience um how much time do you spend 360 00:37:36,429 --> 00:37:44,769 like on classes and studying um okay so everyone's schedule is a little different because some people 361 00:37:44,769 --> 00:37:51,730 will take four classes some people take five six seven which is insane um most people take around 362 00:37:51,730 --> 00:37:58,469 four or five so every day I might have like two to three hours of classes and then the rest of 363 00:37:58,469 --> 00:38:03,590 the day you can kind of do whatever a lot of the times I'll just like I'll work like I'll do my 364 00:38:03,590 --> 00:38:10,269 p sets i'll go for runs i'll like chill back at a few like the house um or i'll just like hang with 365 00:38:10,269 --> 00:38:16,190 my friends so really it's like like i was saying before it's like a good balance between like 366 00:38:16,190 --> 00:38:31,820 social and like relaxation and then working hard what law school would you like to apply it into 367 00:38:31,820 --> 00:38:40,480 what law school oh okay so i thought that i wanted to go to law school like directly after college 368 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:45,420 like right after I graduated, but I've heard about some deferral programs where you can 369 00:38:45,420 --> 00:38:50,300 take like one to two gap years so that you don't have to go directly after and you can 370 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:56,960 either like travel the world, do whatever you want, maybe come back to Spain and teach, 371 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,219 maybe. 372 00:38:58,219 --> 00:39:01,679 And then you can also work, like you could work a real job if you wanted. 373 00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:06,300 So I think Harvard Law School has that program and then also Columbia. 374 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:07,980 So I'll probably apply to those.