Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Mollie Woodworth: The Blood Will Tell
Season 2010 Episode 40 | 2m 16s | Video has closed captioning.
Mollie Woodworth: The Blood Will Tell
Aired: 09/20/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Season 2010 Episode 40 | 2m 16s | Video has closed captioning.
Mollie Woodworth: The Blood Will Tell
Aired: 09/20/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
(air whooshes) (gentle music) - So my mother was a cheerleader in high school, she was the head cheerleader actually.
All through my childhood, you know I had said, "well, I am not a cheerleader, "you know, you were a cheerleader, I am not a cheerleader."
♪ Let's go tech fire it up fire fire it up ♪ And so she's adopted this very I told you so attitude.
The blood, the blood will tell.
My grandmother was actually also a cheerleader.
So the clear evidence suggests that this may be a genetic trait.
I have no evidence to suggest that it's not.
♪ F I G H T fight tech fight ♪ I started cheerleading completely by accident.
One of the seniors who lived on my floor, she said, "hey Mollie, "have you ever thought about being a cheerleader?"
And I said, "no."
And she said, "maybe, would you come with me to tryouts?"
And I was like, "okay, you know, all right."
So I went with her to tryouts and I loved it.
♪ Tech let's win W I N ♪ ♪ Tech let's win W I N ♪ (soft music) One cheer that we do in particular it goes like this.
♪ E to the u du dx e to the x dx ♪ ♪ cosine sec and tangent sine ♪ ♪ 3.14159 intergral radical mudv ♪ ♪ slipstick sliderule MIT go tech ♪ The cheerleading squad did this cheer at a cheerleading competition and the other cheerleaders looked at us like we were insane.
♪ MIT is hot tonight everybody yell red and white ♪ I have my jacket that says.
"MIT Cheerleading".
I've had people come up directly and say, "where did you get that jacket?
"Because I would like to order one", and then I'm like, "well, you can't, "its my jacket that I got "from being on the MIT cheering squad."
And you can tell that's not the response they were expecting.
MIT has cheerleaders, yes, we have sports.
It's a misconception that I've had to dispel many times.
It's certainly a conversation starter.
♪ Secret life win secret life fight secret life go ♪