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00:0-1	Hey welcome to M I . T . I'm Quentin
00:01	Macarthur , the associate director of admissions uh but I
00:05	actually prefer the title Director of overall inspiration . Are
00:10	you ready for this , my love . Yeah ,
00:20	no . Yeah , yeah , I'm here with Frankie
00:39	pena from Mcallen texas Frankie is a dancer and he
00:44	is a graduating senior in brain and cognitive sciences .
00:49	Good to see you , likewise was mighty . Always
00:52	the dream or did it come about a little bit
00:56	later on in your thinking ? Until I got to
00:59	ninth grade , I didn't even know about mitt .
01:01	I come from a family where my parents didn't even
01:03	go to college . My father worked from a very
01:06	young age but he's always been very hardworking and how
01:08	he , he opened up his own business and my
01:10	older sisters did go to college and they went to
01:12	University of texas pan american so they could still live
01:14	from home . And so it seemed like that's what
01:17	I was going to do , I was just gonna
01:18	follow in their footsteps and then I got to the
01:22	ivy school and it's basically a concentration of all the
01:26	nerds and um . Sound familiar . I saw this
01:33	one student that I just related to a lot ,
01:36	he was from a low income background and he was
01:38	mexican , he's so relatable and his name is jesus
01:41	zuniga . Um yes right here is quite 16 .
01:49	Yeah I told him about this , he told me
01:52	he was taking all the card math classes and he
01:55	got into MIT that year he was a senior but
01:58	then I found out what it was and it was
01:59	just awesome school for people interested in math and science
02:02	and I thought if he could do it probably try
02:09	. Yeah there there's there's just a switch that year
02:13	um and I just got really focused , I was
02:15	like this is not an easy place to get into
02:17	, I've got to really focus , I'm gonna have
02:19	a set plan , we're gonna take all the math
02:21	classes I'm going to do um as much as I
02:24	can and I'm gonna make it happen . So that
02:26	must have been really exciting for you getting into M
02:29	. I . T . Now , you said your
02:31	parents hadn't graduated from college and uh you know ,
02:37	may not have known all that much about mitt .
02:40	Did they have any reservations about allowing you to come
02:42	out here to the East Coast in their mindset and
02:45	their culture was you stay at home until you get
02:48	married and then you go off and do your job
02:51	, but you stay at home with your family because
02:53	that's that's so central to what's important in life And
02:58	to them this idea that I would go 2000 miles
03:01	away . They almost took it personally at first because
03:03	I didn't even know about it . And and so
03:05	I had to tell them how I just I have
03:07	this dream and I want to pursue it . Um
03:10	And that helped them realize well it's not about leaving
03:13	us it's about you pursuing your dream and we're more
03:18	than happy to support you and doing that . But
03:20	it was a talk at first and now they were
03:22	obviously still super proud and stuff so that they brag
03:25	about it to their friends and things . But uh
03:27	at first tell me about you know your major at
03:32	M . I . T . Because it sounds like
03:33	you started out in physics and then you transition .
03:36	When I was in high school a friend introduced me
03:38	to this book called The Fabric of the Cosmos .
03:41	It's physics for a popular readers . So I didn't
03:44	go to technical details but to the extent that he
03:47	could he explained huge steps the whole history of physics
03:51	today , like how Newton came up with classical mechanics
03:55	and then how people totally flipped the story with quantum
03:59	mechanics and then how at the same time , people
04:01	like Albert Einstein flips that story as well about general
04:05	relativity and so what they hope to get to is
04:09	a theory of everything . Um so something that explains
04:12	not just what's happening out in the Galaxies and how
04:15	they rotate or have they gravitate , but also how
04:17	things going on at the levels smaller than an electron
04:21	, how those events also occur . But marrying those
04:27	two huge levels , there's been a huge struggle of
04:31	physics for the last decades . And so that's where
04:35	they were going . And I thought I thought maybe
04:38	I could be a part of this . So I
04:40	came into my t thinking , you know what ,
04:41	I'm gonna do physics and I'm going to help with
04:44	the theory of everything um or something , some part
04:48	of this huge story of physics and then I took
04:53	the classes and there are a lot more difficult than
04:56	the high school classes . Uh but but is it
05:01	okay ? And in particular , I got involved in
05:04	a research group led by Alan Booth who basically put
05:09	the bang in the big bang theory . And so
05:12	I was like , wait God , this is gonna
05:15	be so cool . It turned out that what what
05:17	what brian Greene writes about is all the cool parts
05:21	, after all the hard work has been done and
05:23	after people have done all the technical details and for
05:26	me getting into the nitty gritty of the of the
05:29	equations and the math lab programming or whatever programming use
05:33	, they ended up not being my cup of tea
05:35	I suppose . I realized that there's still so much
05:38	more to explore it at my team that summer .
05:41	I read another book this time by steven Pinker called
05:45	how the mind works . He didn't talk about the
05:48	biology of the brain . He talked about for example
05:50	, why do we love and how to , how
05:52	does that work or why do we have emotions at
05:55	all ? A lot of interesting things . And I
05:58	thought , but that's that assumes that the brain is
06:02	a black box and I want to know what's in
06:03	that black box and there's some pretty interesting researchers here
06:07	at MIT doing that . So , um , I
06:10	started going in that path and I have loved it
06:13	ever since . I know you're affiliated with a fraternity
06:16	here on campus . Could you tell me a little
06:18	bit about your fraternity community ? So I'm part of
06:21	the New Delta opportunity . It is mitt exclusive .
06:25	There's no other chapter . I got to know the
06:28	brothers of New Delta and it just seemed like the
06:32	kind of people I don't want to hang out with
06:33	. We were comfortable with each other . I ,
06:35	I immediately felt like I could tell a few friends
06:37	with all these people so that got me interested .
06:39	And then I think the real reason that I joined
06:42	was also because I like being in a home .
06:45	That's how I always felt in Mcallen . And The
06:49	dorm life didn't seem too much like that . At
06:52	least in my perspective , it seemed like this building
06:55	with 400 strangers and I wanted to be a part
06:58	of a home with everyone knows me and I know
07:01	them and we hang out often . Delta is good
07:05	. I like New Delta Cody . Coleman is an
07:07	alumni of New Delta . That's episode one . Yeah
07:10	. Do your history so Frankie . Have any of
07:14	the MIT faculty members been particularly helpful or supportive of
07:18	you ? You know , since you've been here ?
07:20	Yes , I could not have gotten into graduate school
07:24	without waving . Sushi's the professor whose lab I've joined
07:29	two years ago now . Um and when I told
07:33	her that I'm interested in graduate school , she immediately
07:35	was like , there's this bar here and you're gonna
07:39	meet it because I know I see it in you
07:41	, you're gonna meet it . Well actually the bar
07:43	was over here . That reminds me of a very
07:46	famous quote by uh it was a social psychologist who
07:50	was a guy named Asa Hilliard who is a professor
07:53	at Georgia state . And he said , I see
07:55	the genius in you , right ? And like that
07:58	, it was like a motto that he had for
08:01	educators to really help empower students . You know ,
08:05	I see the genius in you and I am not
08:08	going to let you fall short of that , like
08:10	you are going to not just meet but exceed ,
08:13	you know , the standards that I have for you
08:15	because sometimes , you know , like especially when people
08:18	are young , they don't always , you know ,
08:20	carry their dreams for themselves . Yet sometimes it requires
08:23	parents or teachers or mentors , you know , to
08:28	see the greatness in the person before they see it
08:32	in themselves . You know , it works best when
08:34	they see themselves from , you know , day one
08:36	, but you know , we all need some time
08:38	to grow and develop , but it's important to have
08:40	those people to like , we can't do it on
08:42	our own . Not at all . There's so many
08:44	people that have helped me , my teachers in particular
08:49	, best part of your mitt experience , mocha moves
08:54	, you know why I joined when I was a
08:55	sophomore and I still ended . And what is smoke
08:58	moves ? It's a hip hop team . Is this
08:59	place where I can forget about all the P sites
09:02	and the research and just on top of that also
09:05	go into my hip hop alter ego . So Frankie
09:08	, what is your hip hop dancing mocha moves ,
09:13	alter ego , Name FX . So we're here with
09:20	FX and he's about to show us some of his
09:23	mocha moves . So FX understand that you are excellent
09:28	at a number of different types of dance , but
09:30	you are going to teach me a little bit of
09:32	salsa . Okay , I'd love to know . Who
09:36	is this ? This is Sonora Dean Amita , which
09:40	roughly translates to sound of dynamite . Dynamite sounds .
09:45	Yeah , yeah , yeah . 1123123123 So you can
09:53	watch frankly . This is what I do and do
10:03	the little , but I do a little back .
10:05	Yeah , no , they are so move move .
10:32	If you want to go into hip hop , we
10:33	can do that at some other time . Okay .
10:37	We'll work on that . Have no moves to teach
10:40	Frankie Frankie is the Master Fx . We could do
10:42	some freshman to L . A . Oh , jesus
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