When I was just a little kid, my dad would look at me playing with all my legos and blocks 'n shit and say, "You're going to be a mechanical engineer when you grow up." But people also said I wrote interesting stories because of my overactive imagination. Sure, I liked writing, but I had a dream tucked in the back of my mind to become a film director.
I went through childhood with these three things juggling around in my head until high school, when I fell in love with physics (don't hurt me, please, I was just a kid). I wanted to know all there was about quantum mechanics in high school, because the classes were woefully inadequate. So, with that in mind I came here planning to go course 8.
So I got here. My high school advisor commented that watching me decide whether or not to go here was like watching someone pull out their own tooth with a pair of vise-grips. That's probably why I have two ulcers. But they're pretty well behaved at this point and don't take up too much room. Only now I can't drink half as much drain-opener as I used to. Actually, forget I said that.
I had actually wanted to go to Rice University at one point during high school, but I was rejected. That's okay, I'm happier here, and they're probably happier that I'm here too. Sure they had more trees and grass than MIT, but our school can blow up their school any day.
Wow, high school... brings back memories of all the things I should have done, like carry a lead pipe around at all times. Sheesh, I'm getting cynical.
Where was I?
Ah yes, I actually came here, traveled all five miles from my house in Cambridge. At least I made it out of my zip code. I was one of three people from my high school to come to MIT that year, the other two being Jessie Stickgold-Sarah and Maria Fabrikarakis.
Since I was thinking "Physics" when I came in, my freshman advisor suggested I take 8.022. *twitch twitch* I began thinking about Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics).
One of the people on Fith East was taking Unified when I was a freshman. I began thinking about Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering).
After freshman year was over I visited my old high
school to help out
with the Science Olympiad, which I am a veteran of. While working with
the Scrambler team, I realized that I wanted to be working with things
on a visible, physical level. Theory and atomic structure is all well
and good, and I find it interesting, but I knew at that point that I
wanted to major in mechanical engineering, and so I am. So here I am,
in the same place I was fifteen years ago. Kinda sad, isn't it?
Since I'm not dead yet, I'm still constructing this page.
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