1 00:00:07,089 --> 00:00:10,589 All right, I want to start by thanking you guys for the last couple weeks. 2 00:00:11,529 --> 00:00:13,990 I've been enjoying my time here and really teaching you all. 3 00:00:14,490 --> 00:00:16,769 It's been a great experience for me. 4 00:00:18,390 --> 00:00:24,350 I just thought to myself, I don't even know if I've told you guys, I am in my third year at MIT. 5 00:00:24,690 --> 00:00:29,949 I have three semesters left, one semester this year and two more next year, and then my undergrad. 6 00:00:31,089 --> 00:00:35,829 And yeah, I'm just going to talk to you guys a little bit about MIT through my eyes. 7 00:00:37,090 --> 00:00:49,179 Okay we're just going to start with some history. So founded in 1865, it's been around a while. 8 00:00:49,179 --> 00:00:56,700 Our saying is the mind that matters, which means mind and hand echoes a lot of like what we try to 9 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:01,179 what they try to teach us. It's not just your brains being able to do it as well. 10 00:01:01,179 --> 00:01:05,659 Some notable alumni who went there, Ellen Fowler Richards and Robert Robinson Taylor. 11 00:01:06,299 --> 00:01:11,099 Ellen was the first woman in the U.S. to earn a degree in STEM and Robert was his son 12 00:01:11,099 --> 00:01:18,099 the first accredited black architect. MIT put an enrollment in World War I as a training 13 00:01:18,099 --> 00:01:28,170 ground, World War II as well as the Cold War, and the government provided funding to MIT. 14 00:01:28,170 --> 00:01:35,170 Okay, just talking about some admission statistics. This is for my year when I got in. I had a 15 00:01:35,170 --> 00:01:44,170 4.68 acceptance rate, 1,259 out of 26,914 people who applied, 15% were first generation, 16 00:01:44,170 --> 00:01:49,530 first generation, 10% were international, and 97% of those people were in the top 10% of their 17 00:01:49,530 --> 00:01:54,969 graduate high school class. So MIT, yes, the grades are important in order to get in, but 18 00:01:56,010 --> 00:02:01,769 other than grades, essays are extremely important, extracurriculars, and also your 19 00:02:01,769 --> 00:02:07,849 recommendations from your teachers, they're all very important. Once you have the grades, 20 00:02:07,849 --> 00:02:12,729 there are a lot of people applying who also have the grades, and your GPA doesn't matter so much. 21 00:02:12,729 --> 00:02:18,009 If you guys are on a 10.0 scale, some schools are on a 4.0, some schools are on a 5.0. 22 00:02:18,110 --> 00:02:21,469 It's more so, like, how well you do relative to your class. 23 00:02:26,330 --> 00:02:28,389 I'm going to just start talking about money. 24 00:02:29,389 --> 00:02:34,770 In the U.S., some of the averages are in-state school. 25 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:35,810 In-state is always cheaper. 26 00:02:36,189 --> 00:02:37,469 It's about $30,000 a year. 27 00:02:37,469 --> 00:02:43,189 Out-of-state school is $50,000, and private school is $65,000 a year. 28 00:02:44,490 --> 00:02:51,849 MIT's full price is $89,000, Harvard's full price is $6,000, the US's full price is $9,000. 29 00:02:51,849 --> 00:02:58,050 So what MIT does is they don't actually give any scholarships for sports or if you're really 30 00:02:58,050 --> 00:02:59,050 smart they don't do that. 31 00:02:59,050 --> 00:03:05,250 It's purely lead based, meaning you give your parents income and then they give you how 32 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:07,710 much they think you need. 33 00:03:07,710 --> 00:03:14,469 So in 2023, these stats are from the average annual cost was $19,000 a year, Harvard was 34 00:03:14,469 --> 00:03:16,310 $16,000, and Yale was $27,000. 35 00:03:16,310 --> 00:03:22,949 So obviously these are two schools as well, I guess Harvard's a little bit better, because 36 00:03:22,949 --> 00:03:30,990 they're worse, and Yale's like a little bit more, and then just more recent, the median 37 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:37,990 The student price that people paid was only $10,000 a year in 2024, so it's $25, which is cool. 38 00:03:37,990 --> 00:03:41,490 If you get into MIT, they want you to come. 39 00:03:41,490 --> 00:03:46,490 The students are what make MIT what it is. 40 00:03:46,490 --> 00:03:53,490 Some important qualities that they're looking for, and a lot of our students are going to be collaborative, initiative, risk-taking, 41 00:03:53,490 --> 00:03:56,490 be able to adapt because there is a lot of adapting needed. 42 00:03:56,490 --> 00:04:03,449 it's a very hard to transition from high school a lot of creativity and 43 00:04:03,449 --> 00:04:07,409 curiosity and you just gotta be going to learn a lot of people do a lot of 44 00:04:07,409 --> 00:04:11,569 different things there's varsity sports, tub sports, intramurals, like basketball 45 00:04:11,569 --> 00:04:16,810 there's varsity basketball as well there's build teams, robotics, rockets, 46 00:04:16,810 --> 00:04:23,610 cultural clubs, music theater, you can volunteer and do stuff like that a lot of people are very involved in MIT 47 00:04:23,610 --> 00:04:34,279 So, all of our majors and classes in MIT are numbered by numbers, and so, like, people 48 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,480 don't really go around saying, I'm majoring in computer science, they say, I'm in course 49 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,480 six. 50 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,779 So, course two, course one is civil and environmental engineering, course two is mechanical engineering, 51 00:04:44,779 --> 00:04:50,079 course six is my course, that's why it's stuck, electrical engineering and computer science, 52 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:53,079 and course ten is mechanical engineering. 53 00:04:53,079 --> 00:05:11,480 There's also something called UROPS, and those are called Undergraduate Research Opportunities and you can do those in any department and get experience with professors or anyone, or master's students, graduate students, anyone that's doing research. 54 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:16,480 There's a couple of cool research projects that I found. 55 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:23,680 There's FutureU that lets you use GenAonics to talk to your cells at an older version. 56 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:29,899 People said it reduced anxiety and stuff like that, so that's just cool, a good application 57 00:05:29,899 --> 00:05:30,899 of AI. 58 00:05:30,899 --> 00:05:35,240 Quantum computing, there's a lot of labs going on at MIT using quantum computing. 59 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:43,660 It's very powerful, and some researchers at MIT were able to achieve a world record through 60 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:44,660 that. 61 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:49,980 robot perception, so they utilize deep learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence 62 00:05:49,980 --> 00:05:54,980 in order to improve a robot's ability to perceive the environment. 63 00:05:54,980 --> 00:06:00,970 Just a couple research projects. 64 00:06:00,970 --> 00:06:01,970 So what am I doing? 65 00:06:01,970 --> 00:06:07,689 My major is architecture, so yes, I have a course six, which is lecture on computer science, 66 00:06:07,689 --> 00:06:10,829 but specifically I have a course six four, again, that's how we number everything is 67 00:06:10,829 --> 00:06:15,769 by numbers, artificial intelligence, and decision making is the title of my major. 68 00:06:15,769 --> 00:06:17,149 Again, three semesters left. 69 00:06:17,750 --> 00:06:19,490 Every student actually has to have a concentration. 70 00:06:20,290 --> 00:06:26,509 That includes economics, Spanish is what I'm doing. 71 00:06:27,009 --> 00:06:28,269 That is a part of why I'm here. 72 00:06:30,069 --> 00:06:34,899 Also, there is theater as well. 73 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:38,720 And so my focus is on machine learning and AI. 74 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,139 I haven't taken so many AI classes yet. 75 00:06:43,139 --> 00:06:48,740 But I've taken a lot of more standard computer science classes, like programming and algorithms. 76 00:06:48,740 --> 00:06:53,120 And so that's the main stuff that I've gotten through so far. 77 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,259 And after graduation, I plan to do something called the MNs, which is a program that you 78 00:06:57,259 --> 00:06:59,399 can get your master's in one year. 79 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:04,639 So I plan to be there for five years instead of four, and I need like six extra classes 80 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:10,379 and I need to write a massive research paper called a thesis. 81 00:07:10,379 --> 00:07:15,139 Okay, this is one of my hardest classes. 82 00:07:15,139 --> 00:07:19,819 I can confirm it was one of my hardest classes because I had to take it twice. 83 00:07:19,819 --> 00:07:24,500 It's called Fundamentals of Programming, kind of similar to what you're doing with Python 84 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:26,500 except a lot harder. 85 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:30,339 Yeah, that class kicked my butt. 86 00:07:30,339 --> 00:07:38,660 So every week we had an assignment or a lab and every week was completely different. 87 00:07:38,660 --> 00:07:42,319 The first one we have is image processing, where you're able to take an image and put 88 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:44,420 it into Python and do different things with it. 89 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:50,240 You can make it blurred, you can invert it like it is there, and things like that. 90 00:07:50,399 --> 00:07:54,800 And then after that, we made a game called Snecobon, which is similar to another game 91 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:55,439 called Sokobon. 92 00:07:55,500 --> 00:08:00,220 I don't know if you know it, but basically the objective is to have this snake that the 93 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:05,199 player controls and move these computers that are movable onto the yellow flags. 94 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:06,720 It's a great game. 95 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:21,720 Bacon number is a lab. There's an actor called Kevin Bacon, I don't know if you've heard of him, and basically you have a gigantic database of actors and they're all connected to one another based on if they've been in the same movie or not. 96 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:32,720 And so if you want to ask, like, is Kevin Bacon connected to Anne Hathaway, for example, using an algorithm called Red First Search, 97 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:39,220 You can search that database and check how connected every actor is, or see what movies 98 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:43,919 two actors have been in together, really cool, but a pain in the butt to do. 99 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:49,360 And we lastly created a whole new programming language in Python called Lisp, which is one 100 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,539 of the earliest high-level programming languages, and it's able to solve any computational problem. 101 00:08:56,539 --> 00:09:01,019 So that was the support, we have one every week, so there's like ten of these. 102 00:09:01,019 --> 00:09:09,419 cool class but yeah I failed the first time. Now a class called Poker Box. So this class during MIT we have 103 00:09:09,419 --> 00:09:14,759 something called IEP which is independent activities period meaning the entire 104 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:19,120 January is off that's why I'm here right now I'm not doing school you can do 105 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:30,299 programs like PTL you can take classes that are only a month long or you can just go and relax which I did freshman year. Poker Box is a big 106 00:09:30,299 --> 00:09:34,919 competition kind of class where there's actually a prize of $40,000 for the 107 00:09:34,919 --> 00:09:39,919 winner and there's a ton of teams involved a ton of you can take it 108 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,519 multiple times people will have to come back after taking it the previous year 109 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:51,360 this is my bot called remondobot it did pretty poorly because I was invested 110 00:09:51,360 --> 00:10:00,000 elsewhere and my teammates didn't really care so it didn't come out that well however something 111 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 really cool. A few years ago there was a, do you guys know poker? 112 00:10:04,019 --> 00:10:08,019 That's just playing cards. So basically in poker you can 113 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:12,039 choose how much you want to bet per round. And a few years ago someone made a robot that 114 00:10:12,059 --> 00:10:16,059 goes all in every single round. And that 115 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,080 actually did it very, very well. Nowadays it won't do as well because 116 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:24,100 people are aware of it. But different ideas like that, when you think of something that's 117 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,120 completely different, they're in there. It usually does pretty well. 118 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:50,259 Okay, so more stuff that I've done. So I haven't done a year at MIT. I do plan to, but this last summer I was in Mexico City at IPN, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, and I was doing cybersecurity research with artificial intelligence. 119 00:10:50,259 --> 00:10:56,679 and basically when in cryptography you encrypt something with a key and so like 120 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:01,120 you need the key, not a literal key, to decrypt it like information and a message 121 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,080 something like that and using artificial intelligence you can discover the key 122 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:10,240 using some different techniques which is pretty scary so I was proving that like 123 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,320 data sets are not secure because you are able to use machine learning to break 124 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:19,179 them. Upcoming this summer I am going to a company called Northrop Grumman that 125 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:22,759 that is a United States defense, government defense company. 126 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:27,620 They do aerospace engineering mainly. 127 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:29,480 I will not be doing that because that's not my major, 128 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,419 but that's the kind of thing the company does. 129 00:11:31,419 --> 00:11:32,580 They've made the jets. 130 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,899 And I'm going to be working in the space systems group, 131 00:11:36,899 --> 00:11:40,360 which works with satellites and things like that. 132 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,509 And that will be in Maryland. 133 00:11:44,509 --> 00:11:45,690 Okay, living at MIT. 134 00:11:45,690 --> 00:11:49,629 So there is a lot of dorms and different living spaces 135 00:11:49,629 --> 00:11:52,629 and a lot of different people at MIT. 136 00:11:52,629 --> 00:11:56,129 And so each living space kind of has its own flavor. 137 00:11:57,070 --> 00:11:58,450 This is where I lived freshman year. 138 00:11:58,450 --> 00:12:00,029 I lived at New Vassar. 139 00:12:00,029 --> 00:12:02,629 This is a picture of my dorm, 140 00:12:02,629 --> 00:12:03,970 Puerto Rican flag and Puerto Rican. 141 00:12:03,970 --> 00:12:07,629 That is a part of why I wanted to get my Spanish better. 142 00:12:07,629 --> 00:12:08,730 A lot of athletes live here, 143 00:12:08,730 --> 00:12:10,909 basketball players, football players, 144 00:12:10,909 --> 00:12:13,330 volleyball, stuff like that. 145 00:12:13,330 --> 00:12:14,490 I don't know if you guys have seen the movie 146 00:12:14,490 --> 00:12:15,450 Black Panther 2, 147 00:12:16,690 --> 00:12:19,169 but that is a scene from Black Panther 2, 148 00:12:19,169 --> 00:12:23,769 and I was filmed in an MIT building, which is that dorm. 149 00:12:23,769 --> 00:12:27,509 It's very weirdly, pretty ugly, a lot of people say. 150 00:12:27,509 --> 00:12:32,029 She had like 12 windows in her room. 151 00:12:32,029 --> 00:12:33,830 I honestly kind of like it. 152 00:12:33,830 --> 00:12:35,750 I actually wanted to live there freshman year, 153 00:12:35,750 --> 00:12:39,409 but all my football teammates did not, so I did not. 154 00:12:39,409 --> 00:12:44,509 East Campus is kind of known as the weird area on campus. 155 00:12:44,509 --> 00:12:47,970 A lot of really interesting characters live there, 156 00:12:47,970 --> 00:12:50,450 But they do do something cool every year. 157 00:12:50,629 --> 00:12:56,289 They have a party, and they build some type of wooden structure, including, like, roller coasters. 158 00:12:57,129 --> 00:13:00,090 Like, this is, like, a castle kind of thing. 159 00:13:00,389 --> 00:13:01,789 And it's, like, kind of cool. 160 00:13:01,909 --> 00:13:03,570 Like, I went freshman year, and I didn't go again. 161 00:13:03,649 --> 00:13:04,789 But it's cool. 162 00:13:05,429 --> 00:13:08,090 And lastly, this is called Baker. 163 00:13:08,690 --> 00:13:10,990 A lot of athletes live there as well, like soccer players. 164 00:13:10,990 --> 00:13:15,009 A lot of my friends, freshman year, were soccer players, and then they lived in Baker. 165 00:13:15,009 --> 00:13:18,809 And they have a tradition of dropping an entire can off the roof to destroy it. 166 00:13:24,190 --> 00:13:30,169 Some pictures. These are from East Campus. They're pretty talented. They're just a little bit different. 167 00:13:32,330 --> 00:13:34,929 They made rides. There was one time they made a swimming ride. 168 00:13:36,929 --> 00:13:41,850 They did it during CPW, which is our campus preview weekend when the pre-freshmen come to visit. 169 00:13:43,870 --> 00:13:45,870 We do a lot of fun stuff sometimes. 170 00:13:51,090 --> 00:14:06,009 Another motto of ours is I-H-T-F-P. One saying is I hate this frickin' place, and another 171 00:14:06,009 --> 00:14:14,850 saying is I have truly found paradise. Two different flavors. This is another one, Massey, 172 00:14:14,850 --> 00:14:20,299 and they probably have the best down the hall. 173 00:14:20,299 --> 00:14:24,700 And some clubs at MIT. 174 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:28,259 So yeah, the poker club, talking about poker. 175 00:14:28,259 --> 00:14:31,299 I am technically a part of the poker club. 176 00:14:31,299 --> 00:14:32,340 Anyone can be a part of it. 177 00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:33,879 You just have to be on the email list. 178 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:35,879 But there's a group of executives 179 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:37,740 that are really, really smart. 180 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:41,860 And they kind of took out the love for poker for me 181 00:14:41,860 --> 00:14:43,419 because it got really complicated. 182 00:14:43,419 --> 00:14:45,519 And there's a ton of game theory and poker theory 183 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:47,679 and probabilities and a lot of statistics that they know. 184 00:14:47,679 --> 00:14:53,080 they will destroy you in poker, and I did not learn that, so, you know, you have combat 185 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:59,980 robotics, sounds like it is, you know, robots have light, pretty cool, MIT logarithms, like 186 00:14:59,980 --> 00:15:05,980 acapella, they do show, but I know someone in there, spinning art clubs, students are 187 00:15:05,980 --> 00:15:12,279 just performed with fire and light, laboratory for chocolate science, you know, it's a laboratory 188 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:24,320 Hacking. There's another club called Hacking. And so in MIT, it's called the Hack. And some 189 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:32,259 of the hacks are putting a fire truck on top of the dome, putting packing on top of the 190 00:15:32,259 --> 00:15:39,039 dome, putting Captain America's shield on top of the dome, turning into R2-D2. A lot 191 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:46,399 of cool stuff like that. Not all of it is legal. However, that's okay. So they also 192 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:51,100 like, they take students up onto the dome. So like freshman year there was a lot of 193 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:55,039 people I know that I have not got a chance to do it. People that know, they 194 00:15:55,039 --> 00:16:00,840 know it's like a way to get up on top of the dome. It's a beautiful view of Boston. 195 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:08,860 What I do in terms of activities, I'm on the football team. That takes up a lot of my 196 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:14,960 time at MIT, so I don't do too much else. I'm in a Bible study group called InterVarsity, 197 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:23,580 and I go to the nearby church called Hilltop Church. I'm in a club for fraternity called 198 00:16:23,580 --> 00:16:30,799 Phi Beta Epsilon, or PBE. That is our house. And also, currently, I'm a treasurer in the 199 00:16:30,799 --> 00:16:35,879 Latino Cultural Center. My freshman year, I was a publicity chair, and that's just a 200 00:16:35,879 --> 00:16:46,200 club for Latinos, and we do some events, like a big dance called Gala Sorosa, and it's dancing. 201 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,500 We have food, a lot of free food, a lot of pretty good food, so it's one thing I love 202 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:53,200 about it. 203 00:16:53,200 --> 00:17:00,700 And these are just some pictures of my favorite club, or where I live, where I've lived. 204 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:05,059 I moved out for the first year, this is where I've lived the last two years. 205 00:17:05,059 --> 00:17:09,859 A lot of my closest friends at MIT are here. 206 00:17:09,859 --> 00:17:15,059 This picture of us in front of the top is really cool. 207 00:17:15,059 --> 00:17:18,079 We like to dress up, do cool things. 208 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:21,380 This was actually ring delivery at MIT. 209 00:17:21,380 --> 00:17:24,980 We all get a ring after sophomore year. 210 00:17:24,980 --> 00:17:26,299 And that's like a big event. 211 00:17:26,299 --> 00:17:27,700 And so that was the event. 212 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,019 Just some highlights of my time. 213 00:17:34,019 --> 00:17:39,259 And then Boston. Boston is a beautiful city. It's not my favorite city. I like New York. It's a lot better. 214 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:48,940 But it is very nice. There's a couple sunsets. You always can go to a basketball game or a football game. 215 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:55,099 I despise the Patriots. Don't go to the Patriots game. They're in the Super Bowl now. It's not good, but that's okay. 216 00:17:56,460 --> 00:18:03,759 Celtics game basketball. Baseball game Red Sox. I was there last year. The New York Knicks beat the Celtics. 217 00:18:04,019 --> 00:18:12,119 playoffs. Fantastic. The game I went to, they lost though. This is actually, they did like 218 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:17,019 a Boston Tea Party, if you guys ever heard of that. Basically, in American history, a 219 00:18:17,019 --> 00:18:22,140 bunch of angry colonists dumped a crap ton of tea into the river because they were protesting 220 00:18:22,140 --> 00:18:25,960 against the British. And so they were celebrating that for some reason when I was over there 221 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:31,960 and there was fireworks and a lot of cool stuff. Yeah, and I also ride an electric scooter. 222 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,960 I don't know if some of you maybe ride electric scooters around here. I've seen some people. 223 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,960 So yeah, I'll be on my scooter all the time, especially at night with my little 224 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,960 scooter light. And that is it. 225 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,960 That's my presentation. So again, I want to thank y'all so much for 226 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,960 having me here. I've really appreciated my time with all of you. 227 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,960 And my email will be right here. 228 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,960 If anyone wants to send me an email, you can. 229 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:04,160 I'll open it up to any questions.