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Name: Benson M George
Year in School: 2012
Hometown: East Meadow, NY
When you started playing volleyball: 8th Grade
Position: ...I hit the ball
Number(if not college, your HS #): 7
Favorite Volleyball Player: Jimmy George (the pride of Kerala, India...wiki him)
Personal Favorite Volleyball Memory: Getting a kill only to hear JBC yell "Big B has a Big D." Also, owning Emmanuel all year makes me smile.
Major(or intended major): Course 7
What you want to do after college?: Practice medicine...deliver babies...cut some fools up
Favorite Class: 7.05...our professor had a student draw his blood in class...it was awesome
Favorite moment at MIT(CPW counts for freshman): One night Tim Lee and I tried climbing the tennis bubble to top off a wonderous night of debauchery and gallivanting.
Nerdiest thing about you: I like to calculate the change I'm going to receive after a purchase before the cashier can ring it up
Things you do other than volleyball: I love to play tennis and soccer. I just bought a bike so I plan on going on long rides around Boston. I chill a lot, I'm pretty solid at it.
Things you are involved in around campus: Being a Kappa Sigma brother, working in the Amon Lab, TA'ing, SAAS, MedLinks and some other stuff
For Non-Freshman:
Where did you live freshman year?: Burton-Conner (B5)
What was your favorite class freshman year?: Writing and Experience...straight joke, take it
If you were to go through freshman year again, what would you do differently?
I would probably have done more p-sets during Freshmen Fall. I recommend to all pre-frosh to take classes as serious as possible in the Fall despite it being pass fail because it'll be a good introduction to what work will be like here. You don't want to be caught off guard when your in the Spring while playing volleyball.
what would you do the same?:
Name: Daniel Chan Sngiem
Year in School: Junior
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
When you started playing volleyball: 8th grade
Position: Defensive Specialist
Number(if not college, your HS #): 2
Favorite Volleyball Player: (professional) Sean Rooney and (not-so-amateur) Eugene Jang
Personal Favorite Volleyball Memory: Digging A.J. Witkofsky from Endicott, seeing Matt tag one of this former teammates with a vicious serve versus Harvard, murdering Endicott and Rivier at their house, "you know it, you know the story... tell the whole damn world this is beaver territory" and there's so much more ...
Major(or intended major): Computer Science (6-3)
What you want to do after college?: Work for a graphic design firm or be a lead UI/UX person or work in a startup OR work for Pixar (that would be sweeeeet)
Favorite Class: 6.02 Intro to Signals and Systems -- I really enjoyed the labs for this class, so much so that I did them early.
Favorite moment at MIT (CPW counts for freshman): CPWs, Volleyball, Performing Musicals (not rehearsing, rehearsing sucks). Taking my MITatheltics headshot with a mohawk.
Nerdiest thing about you: Thinking of inflatable bounce houses makes me think of differential equations... making nerdy and often esoteric references.
Things you do other than volleyball: Lots of artistic things -- music, dance, acting, painting, graphics. I should warn you that I sing pretty often. I'm kind of obsessed with anything Nintendo related or most things Apple. and Disney and theme parks and roller coasters... and Pixar...
Things you are involved in around campus: Musical Theatre Guild (I've been a five star general, a rapping drug dealer, and a circus performer that bites of the heads of chickens), a little startup that eats up my nights, and I'm part of a new fraternity called Pi Kappa Alpha (or PIKE).
Where did you live freshman year?: I still live in F-entry which is probably one of the liveliest entries in MacGregor. If you end up there and you want to live in my entry let me know -- it's noisy sometimes. My friend says it gets noisier than some parts of Baker.
What was your favorite class freshman year?: 18.02 with Professor Auroux. He's a very good professor. and most parts of 8.02. I would have liked 5.112 more if I remembered my chemistry. Oops.
If you were to go through freshman year again, what would you do differently? what would you do the same?: Differently: Learn to ask for help. Get over yourself and ask for help. I'm serious. If you don't, you may end up doing not so well as you wished and not know the material as you should or even end up cheating. Ask for help. Same: participate in activities on campus. MIT is a place of participation. You don't have to be the good or know anything at all to join an activity that you are mildly interested in. I never did drama in high school but I participated in a few musical here at MIT. Just have some fun and don't burden yourself with school work (but don't forget about schoolwork either).
Name: Evan Puhua Wang
Year in School: Freshman
Hometown: West Lafayette, IN and Cupertino, CA
When you started playing volleyball: 8th Grade
Position: Setter
Number(if not college, your HS #): 22
Favorite Volleyball Player: Dante Amaral
Personal Favorite Volleyball Memory: Beating SCVC 16-1s at Far Westerns, and going down to the SCVA January tournament with the #1 seed
Major(or intended major): 10-Chemical Engineering or 14-Economics
What you want to do after college?: Not sure yet
Favorite Class: AP U.S. History?
Favorite moment at MIT(CPW counts for freshman): CPW, and realizing that I wouldn't be going to a school that's 79% Asian anymore.
Nerdiest thing about you: I like math.
Things you do other than volleyball: I like going to Fellowship, film and photography, piano, drums, and anything that involves traveling
Things you are involved in around campus: Class officer, Math club
For Freshman:
Where are you living?(If the results haven't come out yet, where do you want to live?): Baker or Burton-Connor, hopefully
What are you looking forward to the most?: Volleyball, meeting new people and exploring Boston
What are you most worried about?: The amount of classwork and my non-existent study habits
Name: Garrett Lee Winther
Year in School: Senior
Hometown: Broomfield, Colorado
When you started playing volleyball: 5th Grade
Position: Opposite
Number(if not college, your HS #): 13
Favorite Volleyball Player: Clay Stanley
Personal Favorite Volleyball Memory: It's a tie between destroying Riv in their own gym last season, coming back to 0-2 to win in 5 against Hunter my freshman year, and a cross court set I had during NECVA semis that JBC bounced.
Major(or intended major): 2-Mechanical Engineering
What you want to do after college?: Product Design
Favorite Class: 2.008 Manufacturing and Design 2 or 2.00b Toy Product Design
Favorite moment at MIT(CPW counts for freshman): The CPW during my freshman year...
Nerdiest thing about you: I spend my free time thinking about things I could build
Things you do other than volleyball: I like to draw, play guitar, mashup music, DJ, and graphic design
Things you are involved in around campus: Undergraduate Research Project on Rapid Product Development which will result in me designing a product line that we are about to deploy... and I'm in a fraternity Sigma Chi,
For Non-Freshman:
Where did you live freshman year?: I lived in a quad in Baker. It was pretty awesome for freshman year but don't know if I'd want to do it for all four years.
What was your favorite class freshman year?: 8.01 (Mechanical Physics)
If you were to go through freshman year again, what would you do differently? what would you do the same?: I would go to more office hours and explore things that I might want to do later down the road. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do for a career till after my sophomore summer, so it would be really helpful to explore some other options during IAP or try to get a UROP second semester in something that might be interesting to you. Just in general be more open to trying different stuff because it could be exactly what you want to do with your life. I would do most everything else to the same.