Daniel's Survey
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).
