<p>Haha, thanks Ben. </p>
<p>I’m only two degrees of separation from Baltimore already – one of my recommenders was his postdoc. That practically makes us buds 
Ok, no it doesn’t.</p>
<p>I’m just sort of glad it’s Caltech which asks the EC question, as I think they will have a better intuitive understanding of MIT cheerleading than some of the other schools I’m applying to, due to the similar proclivities of the undergraduate student bodies. (Why MIT cheerleading has to be understood, for example: we do [this</a> cheer](<a href=“athletrix.com”>athletrix.com) at actual cheerleading competitions, for godssakes. I suspect that many of the other cheerleaders at this competition hadn’t ever heard of some of the terms in that cheer.)</p>