Victor D. '27
- Course 11-6
Biography
I'm Victor!
I’m a ‘27 living on Putz in East Campus but I lived 2 happy years on B4 in Burton Conner (go Players)!
I was born in Ventura, California but grew up in Camarillo, California in the aptly named Pleasant Valley (named due to idyllic year-round temperatures and nearly cloudless conditions). People (my dad) would recall horror stories about the weather outside of coastal Southern California but contrary to expectations I have come to relish Cambridge's seasonal diversity.
I’m a Course 11-6 (Urban Planning + CS)! Course 11-6 was partly why I committed to MIT, and my suburban upbringing led me to urban planning (so much for idyllic weather if you spend hours everyday behind the wheel). That’s why I love Cambridge: so many places to go, and so many ways to get there easily (my favorites being biking and walking).
Despite my parents both having Mexican backgrounds, I grew up in a mixed culture household: my mom is originally Mexican from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and my dad is Chicano from Los Angeles. There is a clash of personality: my mom has uprooted before, while my dad has lived his entire life in California and is adamant about staying forever. So I guess I took more so from my mom. I wanted to move as far as possible for university and valued that MIT is intentional about admitting a geographically diverse class, on a regional, national, and international level.
In my free time, I enjoy reading (especially about urban history), writing, learning languages (I am not a 24-2; I keep the urges at bay), playing Smash Ultimate, playing music (VGO [Video Game Orchestra], Mariachi, jams, etc.), writing & arranging music, (mostly indoor) rock climbing, biking, and going on absurdly long walks.
I wanted to be a Blogger since I was a prefrosh (but first applied this year)! I stayed active reading the blogs because, even as I became accustomed to MIT, I still discover new things I didn’t know about MIT and Cambridge (communities, cultures, events…) through the eyes of other bloggers. I’m really excited to share my experiences to elucidate just how diverse and wacky MIT really is.