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Hi, I'm Kik Hayano.

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I'm a first year here at MIT.

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Hey, guys.

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My name is Carlos.

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I'm a freshman in ESG.

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So where's your first tube?

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All right, so pop the lid off.

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The dynamics you have with your
teachers and your peers is far

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different than what you have in
what we call here "mainstream."

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I when I get here,
and I x before 9 the

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because remember a null--

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With the small
classes, you really

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get to know your
teachers, and they

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really care about
your success, not just

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passing classes or doing
well learning their subjects,

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but success outside of that.

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I believe that everybody
has very unique stories,

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and it's something
that you can't really

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share when you're in
a class of 200 kids.

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Being able to share where you
come from with your professors

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enhances the teacher-student
relationship.

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I've made a lot of friends.

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Part of this
development of community

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is the wonderful
space here at ESG.

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There's a great lounge that
people are always psetting in.

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Any hour of the
day, I can come in

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and sit with people who
are psetting in my classes

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and get help.

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Yeah, I'm not really
sure [INAUDIBLE]

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Food is also a part
of everybody's story,

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and it's something that
people get to share here.

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Here, we have Friday lunches,
which is when all of us

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get together in community.

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It's really central
to MIT's campus.

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You can take classes here and
get to all classes around campus

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really easily.

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It's really cool to see the
view of Boston and Cambridge

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and MIT's whole campus.

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I really enjoy looking at it.

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The sunsets are very
beautiful from up here.