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Charla del estudiante Armando Meléndez del MIT como despedida tras tres semanas compartiendo sus conocimientos en el centro. MIT GLOBAL TEACHING LAB 2026
All right, I want to start by thanking you guys for the last couple weeks.
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I've been enjoying my time here and really teaching you all.
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It's been a great experience for me.
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I just thought to myself, I don't even know if I've told you guys, I am in my third year at MIT.
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I have three semesters left, one semester this year and two more next year, and then my undergrad.
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And yeah, I'm just going to talk to you guys a little bit about MIT through my eyes.
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Okay we're just going to start with some history. So founded in 1865, it's been around a while.
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Our saying is the mind that matters, which means mind and hand echoes a lot of like what we try to
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what they try to teach us. It's not just your brains being able to do it as well.
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Some notable alumni who went there, Ellen Fowler Richards and Robert Robinson Taylor.
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Ellen was the first woman in the U.S. to earn a degree in STEM and Robert was his son
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the first accredited black architect. MIT put an enrollment in World War I as a training
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ground, World War II as well as the Cold War, and the government provided funding to MIT.
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Okay, just talking about some admission statistics. This is for my year when I got in. I had a
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4.68 acceptance rate, 1,259 out of 26,914 people who applied, 15% were first generation,
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first generation, 10% were international, and 97% of those people were in the top 10% of their
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graduate high school class. So MIT, yes, the grades are important in order to get in, but
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other than grades, essays are extremely important, extracurriculars, and also your
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recommendations from your teachers, they're all very important. Once you have the grades,
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there are a lot of people applying who also have the grades, and your GPA doesn't matter so much.
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If you guys are on a 10.0 scale, some schools are on a 4.0, some schools are on a 5.0.
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It's more so, like, how well you do relative to your class.
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I'm going to just start talking about money.
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In the U.S., some of the averages are in-state school.
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In-state is always cheaper.
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It's about $30,000 a year.
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Out-of-state school is $50,000, and private school is $65,000 a year.
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MIT's full price is $89,000, Harvard's full price is $6,000, the US's full price is $9,000.
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So what MIT does is they don't actually give any scholarships for sports or if you're really
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smart they don't do that.
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It's purely lead based, meaning you give your parents income and then they give you how
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much they think you need.
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So in 2023, these stats are from the average annual cost was $19,000 a year, Harvard was
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$16,000, and Yale was $27,000.
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So obviously these are two schools as well, I guess Harvard's a little bit better, because
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they're worse, and Yale's like a little bit more, and then just more recent, the median
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The student price that people paid was only $10,000 a year in 2024, so it's $25, which is cool.
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If you get into MIT, they want you to come.
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The students are what make MIT what it is.
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Some important qualities that they're looking for, and a lot of our students are going to be collaborative, initiative, risk-taking,
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be able to adapt because there is a lot of adapting needed.
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it's a very hard to transition from high school a lot of creativity and
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curiosity and you just gotta be going to learn a lot of people do a lot of
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different things there's varsity sports, tub sports, intramurals, like basketball
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there's varsity basketball as well there's build teams, robotics, rockets,
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cultural clubs, music theater, you can volunteer and do stuff like that a lot of people are very involved in MIT
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So, all of our majors and classes in MIT are numbered by numbers, and so, like, people
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don't really go around saying, I'm majoring in computer science, they say, I'm in course
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six.
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So, course two, course one is civil and environmental engineering, course two is mechanical engineering,
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course six is my course, that's why it's stuck, electrical engineering and computer science,
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and course ten is mechanical engineering.
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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.
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There's a couple of cool research projects that I found.
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There's FutureU that lets you use GenAonics to talk to your cells at an older version.
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People said it reduced anxiety and stuff like that, so that's just cool, a good application
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of AI.
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Quantum computing, there's a lot of labs going on at MIT using quantum computing.
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It's very powerful, and some researchers at MIT were able to achieve a world record through
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that.
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robot perception, so they utilize deep learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence
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in order to improve a robot's ability to perceive the environment.
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Just a couple research projects.
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So what am I doing?
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My major is architecture, so yes, I have a course six, which is lecture on computer science,
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but specifically I have a course six four, again, that's how we number everything is
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by numbers, artificial intelligence, and decision making is the title of my major.
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Again, three semesters left.
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Every student actually has to have a concentration.
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That includes economics, Spanish is what I'm doing.
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That is a part of why I'm here.
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Also, there is theater as well.
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And so my focus is on machine learning and AI.
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I haven't taken so many AI classes yet.
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But I've taken a lot of more standard computer science classes, like programming and algorithms.
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And so that's the main stuff that I've gotten through so far.
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And after graduation, I plan to do something called the MNs, which is a program that you
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can get your master's in one year.
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So I plan to be there for five years instead of four, and I need like six extra classes
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and I need to write a massive research paper called a thesis.
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Okay, this is one of my hardest classes.
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I can confirm it was one of my hardest classes because I had to take it twice.
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It's called Fundamentals of Programming, kind of similar to what you're doing with Python
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except a lot harder.
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Yeah, that class kicked my butt.
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So every week we had an assignment or a lab and every week was completely different.
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The first one we have is image processing, where you're able to take an image and put
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it into Python and do different things with it.
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You can make it blurred, you can invert it like it is there, and things like that.
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And then after that, we made a game called Snecobon, which is similar to another game
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called Sokobon.
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I don't know if you know it, but basically the objective is to have this snake that the
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player controls and move these computers that are movable onto the yellow flags.
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It's a great game.
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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.
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And so if you want to ask, like, is Kevin Bacon connected to Anne Hathaway, for example, using an algorithm called Red First Search,
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You can search that database and check how connected every actor is, or see what movies
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two actors have been in together, really cool, but a pain in the butt to do.
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And we lastly created a whole new programming language in Python called Lisp, which is one
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of the earliest high-level programming languages, and it's able to solve any computational problem.
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So that was the support, we have one every week, so there's like ten of these.
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cool class but yeah I failed the first time. Now a class called Poker Box. So this class during MIT we have
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something called IEP which is independent activities period meaning the entire
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January is off that's why I'm here right now I'm not doing school you can do
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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
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competition kind of class where there's actually a prize of $40,000 for the
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winner and there's a ton of teams involved a ton of you can take it
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multiple times people will have to come back after taking it the previous year
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this is my bot called remondobot it did pretty poorly because I was invested
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elsewhere and my teammates didn't really care so it didn't come out that well however something
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really cool. A few years ago there was a, do you guys know poker?
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That's just playing cards. So basically in poker you can
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choose how much you want to bet per round. And a few years ago someone made a robot that
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goes all in every single round. And that
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actually did it very, very well. Nowadays it won't do as well because
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people are aware of it. But different ideas like that, when you think of something that's
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completely different, they're in there. It usually does pretty well.
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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.
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and basically when in cryptography you encrypt something with a key and so like
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you need the key, not a literal key, to decrypt it like information and a message
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something like that and using artificial intelligence you can discover the key
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using some different techniques which is pretty scary so I was proving that like
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data sets are not secure because you are able to use machine learning to break
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them. Upcoming this summer I am going to a company called Northrop Grumman that
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that is a United States defense, government defense company.
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They do aerospace engineering mainly.
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I will not be doing that because that's not my major,
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but that's the kind of thing the company does.
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They've made the jets.
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And I'm going to be working in the space systems group,
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which works with satellites and things like that.
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And that will be in Maryland.
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Okay, living at MIT.
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So there is a lot of dorms and different living spaces
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and a lot of different people at MIT.
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And so each living space kind of has its own flavor.
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This is where I lived freshman year.
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I lived at New Vassar.
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This is a picture of my dorm,
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Puerto Rican flag and Puerto Rican.
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That is a part of why I wanted to get my Spanish better.
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A lot of athletes live here,
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basketball players, football players,
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volleyball, stuff like that.
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I don't know if you guys have seen the movie
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Black Panther 2,
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but that is a scene from Black Panther 2,
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and I was filmed in an MIT building, which is that dorm.
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It's very weirdly, pretty ugly, a lot of people say.
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She had like 12 windows in her room.
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I honestly kind of like it.
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I actually wanted to live there freshman year,
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but all my football teammates did not, so I did not.
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East Campus is kind of known as the weird area on campus.
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A lot of really interesting characters live there,
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But they do do something cool every year.
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They have a party, and they build some type of wooden structure, including, like, roller coasters.
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Like, this is, like, a castle kind of thing.
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And it's, like, kind of cool.
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Like, I went freshman year, and I didn't go again.
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But it's cool.
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And lastly, this is called Baker.
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A lot of athletes live there as well, like soccer players.
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A lot of my friends, freshman year, were soccer players, and then they lived in Baker.
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And they have a tradition of dropping an entire can off the roof to destroy it.
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Some pictures. These are from East Campus. They're pretty talented. They're just a little bit different.
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They made rides. There was one time they made a swimming ride.
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They did it during CPW, which is our campus preview weekend when the pre-freshmen come to visit.
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We do a lot of fun stuff sometimes.
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Another motto of ours is I-H-T-F-P. One saying is I hate this frickin' place, and another
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saying is I have truly found paradise. Two different flavors. This is another one, Massey,
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and they probably have the best down the hall.
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And some clubs at MIT.
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So yeah, the poker club, talking about poker.
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I am technically a part of the poker club.
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Anyone can be a part of it.
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You just have to be on the email list.
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But there's a group of executives
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that are really, really smart.
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And they kind of took out the love for poker for me
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because it got really complicated.
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And there's a ton of game theory and poker theory
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and probabilities and a lot of statistics that they know.
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they will destroy you in poker, and I did not learn that, so, you know, you have combat
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robotics, sounds like it is, you know, robots have light, pretty cool, MIT logarithms, like
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acapella, they do show, but I know someone in there, spinning art clubs, students are
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just performed with fire and light, laboratory for chocolate science, you know, it's a laboratory
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Hacking. There's another club called Hacking. And so in MIT, it's called the Hack. And some
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of the hacks are putting a fire truck on top of the dome, putting packing on top of the
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dome, putting Captain America's shield on top of the dome, turning into R2-D2. A lot
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of cool stuff like that. Not all of it is legal. However, that's okay. So they also
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like, they take students up onto the dome. So like freshman year there was a lot of
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people I know that I have not got a chance to do it. People that know, they
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know it's like a way to get up on top of the dome. It's a beautiful view of Boston.
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What I do in terms of activities, I'm on the football team. That takes up a lot of my
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time at MIT, so I don't do too much else. I'm in a Bible study group called InterVarsity,
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and I go to the nearby church called Hilltop Church. I'm in a club for fraternity called
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Phi Beta Epsilon, or PBE. That is our house. And also, currently, I'm a treasurer in the
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Latino Cultural Center. My freshman year, I was a publicity chair, and that's just a
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club for Latinos, and we do some events, like a big dance called Gala Sorosa, and it's dancing.
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We have food, a lot of free food, a lot of pretty good food, so it's one thing I love
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about it.
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And these are just some pictures of my favorite club, or where I live, where I've lived.
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I moved out for the first year, this is where I've lived the last two years.
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A lot of my closest friends at MIT are here.
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This picture of us in front of the top is really cool.
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We like to dress up, do cool things.
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This was actually ring delivery at MIT.
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We all get a ring after sophomore year.
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And that's like a big event.
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And so that was the event.
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Just some highlights of my time.
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And then Boston. Boston is a beautiful city. It's not my favorite city. I like New York. It's a lot better.
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But it is very nice. There's a couple sunsets. You always can go to a basketball game or a football game.
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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.
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Celtics game basketball. Baseball game Red Sox. I was there last year. The New York Knicks beat the Celtics.
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playoffs. Fantastic. The game I went to, they lost though. This is actually, they did like
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a Boston Tea Party, if you guys ever heard of that. Basically, in American history, a
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bunch of angry colonists dumped a crap ton of tea into the river because they were protesting
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against the British. And so they were celebrating that for some reason when I was over there
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and there was fireworks and a lot of cool stuff. Yeah, and I also ride an electric scooter.
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I don't know if some of you maybe ride electric scooters around here. I've seen some people.
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So yeah, I'll be on my scooter all the time, especially at night with my little
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scooter light. And that is it.
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That's my presentation. So again, I want to thank y'all so much for
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having me here. I've really appreciated my time with all of you.
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And my email will be right here.
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If anyone wants to send me an email, you can.
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I'll open it up to any questions.
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- Idioma/s:
- Materias:
- Tecnología, Tecnología Industrial, Tecnologías de la Información
- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Bachillerato
- Primer Curso
- Segundo Curso
- Autor/es:
- Rafael M
- Subido por:
- Rafael M.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial
- Visualizaciones:
- 5
- Fecha:
- 27 de enero de 2026 - 20:03
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- https://frdelpino.edu.es/courses/global-teaching-labs/
- Centro:
- IES GRAN CAPITAN
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- https://frdelpino.edu.es/courses/global-teaching-labs/
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- 19′ 13″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
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