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* [http://mafia.mit.edu/ Live-Action Mafia]. We play two to three live-action mafia games per semester. During a game, the commitment is roughly an hour a day while alive. Unlike usual mafia games, everyone has a power role and gets to do something. There's a lot of investigative roles; the emphasis is on deducing the mafia through actions rather than psychreading. It's fun to tap on people's shoulders and say "bang".
 
* [http://mafia.mit.edu/ Live-Action Mafia]. We play two to three live-action mafia games per semester. During a game, the commitment is roughly an hour a day while alive. Unlike usual mafia games, everyone has a power role and gets to do something. There's a lot of investigative roles; the emphasis is on deducing the mafia through actions rather than psychreading. It's fun to tap on people's shoulders and say "bang".
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* MIT Puzzle Club. We do puzzles every month or so. The executive board also helps run the yearly [Mystery Hunt].
  
 
* [https://assassin.mit.edu/ Assassin's Guild]. A live-action roleplaying group. There's a LARP every other weekend during the semester; I participate in a game around once a month or so.
 
* [https://assassin.mit.edu/ Assassin's Guild]. A live-action roleplaying group. There's a LARP every other weekend during the semester; I participate in a game around once a month or so.
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===Films===
 
===Films===

Revision as of 02:24, 22 January 2020

CJ Q.
Room W304
Year 2023
Course Undeclared
Pronouns he/him/his
Other info
Birthday September 1
Nationality Filipino
Classpect Seer of Mind
Alignment Chaotic Evil

Every time I talk to an upperclassman, I see a screenshot of what my life could be. I can see myself graduating Course 6-3 with two satisfying internships under my belt. Or double majoring in Course 18 and 24, taking five classes this fall, all from different departments. In one future, I stomached enough strength to take Course 21W, in spite of how bad I was at academic writing when I entered MIT. And in another, I'm in Course 2, and I see myself helping freshmen build lofts in their rooms.

It's easy to look back at the past and see history as this single strand, this ordained story we were meant to walk, fates set to us before we were born. It terrifies me how this strand is only one of the millions upon millions of strands that my life could have been. I could not imagine what it would be like had I not stayed that one afternoon in the math faculty in seventh grade, gotten into math and met the people that led me here; had I not clicked the right links while browsing when I was fourteen years old, and read words that would change my life forever; or had I decided to stay, that night, rather than leaving.

In front of me, I see myself blooming into a million beautiful futures. But beside me, I see strands of the future I am glad I had not ended up in. If I'm really fine with any other future, why would I not be fine with an alternate present? When I think about it, I can only think of one possible explanation. Maybe time is subjecting us to Stockholm syndrome. Maybe I don't really care that much about where I end up.

Maybe the only reason I like being here is because I can't imagine being anywhere else.

Classes

only because i have no other way to store which classes i take

IAP 2020

  • 6.148: Web Lab.
  • 6.S087: Mathematical Methods for Multidimensional Statistics.

Fall 2019

  • 6.036: Introduction to Machine Learning. I think I grok basic machine learning concepts after taking this class. It's given me enough confidence to pursue my own projects. The real mathematical prereqs are knowing the chain rule and how matrix multiplication works; the class is more code-intensive, with homework every week having a programming problem. Some psets are fun, others tedious. I came out of this class and could read OpenAI papers at least part of the way and I think that's cool.
  • 8.022: Physics II. I only took this class because my adviser forced me to take a GIR. I'm in a love-hate relationship with this class. On one hand, the physics is cool, and exciting, and seeing how things are derived fills me with ecstatic joy. The format was probably nicer for my schedule than TEAL, the lecture notes are great, and it actually feels like I solved problems. On the other hand, this was my most time-consuming class this semester. The correct move was to probably test out of the 8.02 requirement, take a different GIR, and shuffle other subjects around to get things to work.
  • 15.000: Explorations in Management. Decent food every Monday night. I found the lectures to be pretty hit or miss in terms of quality; it's probably a good idea to bring a pset to work on if it turns out to be on the bad end. But the good lectures are really good. Try not to miss the nights when you talk to current Course 15 students, alumni night, or the night you play the simulation. Has swayed me to consider taking more 15 classes, since some of them have some good math.
  • 18.701: Algebra I. I knew a lot of the material coming in, so I'm not sure if taking this class was the right decision. I pretty much just took the class because everyone I knew was taking it. I'd probably advise freshmen considering 18.701 to consider whether they really want to. At the least, it was a good excuse to spend more time with friends to work on psets, and it fulfills my 18.06 requirement.
  • 21W.022: Writing and Experience: Reading and Writing Autobiography. My favorite class this semester, because the essays were literally like writing blog posts, except I got graded for them. A CI-HW where you get to write about yourself, which was a good way to get rid of my CI-HW requirement without having to write philosophy essays. Be aware that different sections of the class do vastly different things.
  • 24.93: The Search for Meaning. Dropped. I think I went to the first two lectures, realized it was a class about semantics, and then lost interest in going. I often had better things to do with my Thursday nights. Semantics just isn't my cup of linguistic tea.

Clubs

ditto with classes. sorted roughly by how much commitment i (currently) have with them.

  • Educational Studies Program (ESP). We run learning programs for middle school and high school students. The flagship program is Splash, where over two thousand students from around the country come to MIT's campus to learn from classes taught by the MIT community. I've co-taught classes on Esperanto, flirting, improv, and the law. My advice is to keep careful track of how much commitment you give to ESP; it's easy to give too much.
  • Tech Squares. MIT's square dancing club. We dance every Tuesday night; it's one of the only ways I get exercise. Ixa dragged me into it, and I'm grateful they did so. It's surprisingly mentally taxing. I think the only way to get an idea of what it's like is watching a video, or seeing a dance live.
  • Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT). A high school math contest. I've submitted problems, helped testsolve, and volunteer day-of. I have many feelings about it, which are probably easier to talk about IRL than on a wiki.
  • Sum of Differences (SD). An east side culture club. We meet every two Fridays or so.
  • Live-Action Mafia. We play two to three live-action mafia games per semester. During a game, the commitment is roughly an hour a day while alive. Unlike usual mafia games, everyone has a power role and gets to do something. There's a lot of investigative roles; the emphasis is on deducing the mafia through actions rather than psychreading. It's fun to tap on people's shoulders and say "bang".
  • MIT Puzzle Club. We do puzzles every month or so. The executive board also helps run the yearly [Mystery Hunt].
  • Assassin's Guild. A live-action roleplaying group. There's a LARP every other weekend during the semester; I participate in a game around once a month or so.
  • Filipino Students Association (FSA). We run events celebrating Filipino culture. We've only recently started doing things, after a four-year hiatus when the club was inactive. We're aiming to run events once or twice a semester; for Fall 2019 we did karaoke.

Some favorite media

ditto with classes, because i constantly wish i had an easy-to-access somewhat-public list of these. loose definition of media. might expand with descriptions later on

Fiction

  • Homestuck
  • Worm
  • Unsong
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  • Ra
  • The SCP Foundation (There Is No Antimemetics Division, SCP-3999, Operation OverMeta, SCP-3171, Pedantique's Proposal, Ouroboros)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Non-Fiction

  • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  • Universal Principles of Design
  • The Art of Calligraphy
  • The Design of Everyday Things
  • Made to Stick
  • Primary Surgery
  • How to Teach Mathematics
  • Educated
  • The Mathematical Experience
  • Human Accomplishment
  • Reality is Plastic
  • The Empathy Exams

Films

  • Short Term 12 (2013)
  • Boyhood (2014)
  • Mommy (2014)
  • X+Y (2014)
  • 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016)
  • I'm Drunk, I Love You (2017)
  • Love, Simon (2018)

Shows

  • The End of the F***ing World
  • Person of Interest
  • The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra
  • Rupaul's Drag Race

Games

  • Undertale / Deltarune
  • Ace Attorney
  • Zero Escape

Music

  • Fun.
  • Coldplay
  • Imagine Dragons
  • LANY
  • Ed Sheeran
  • Sleeping at Last
  • Christopher Tin
  • Ang Bandang Shirley
  • Autotelic
  • Ben&Ben
  • Munimuni
  • The Ransom Collective
  • Reese Lansangan
  • Rusty Machines

Other

  • The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness
  • Hamilton
  • Dear Evan Hansen
  • MIT Confessions
  • anime, which is in my MyAnimeList
  • and most likely a bunch more im forgetting about right now

External Links