#MIT (2022-2023)

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random valley
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Mit isnt in my top5 choices so im fine if i dont get in, was worth a shot

ruby stag
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sheesh

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hopefully trend stays

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MIT is my #2 but i won’t be bummed if i don’t get in

indigo knoll
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MIT is my #1

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and I spent a month on its app

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This will be the only school I would feel a tad bit of grief when I get rejected

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even though that is pretty much imminent

ruby stag
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caltech > mit > princeton > harvard > JHU > gatech > cornell > yale > NU > dartmouth > columbia > NEU

i forgot where else i applied to

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OH

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there

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that’s my current list rn

indigo knoll
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Deleware
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Northeastern University
Pennsylvania State University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Purdue University
University of Massachusetts Amherst

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That's my list

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in order of approximate preference

ruby stag
bright crow
ruby stag
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are you going for chem eng

indigo knoll
ruby stag
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they’re #2 they claim

indigo knoll
bright crow
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my list is mit > brown > princeton > cmu > most of my other stuff

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but im eding cmu since its my best shot

ruby stag
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they’re expensive af oos

surreal eagle
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my list is mit>penn>gt>umich>ut austin

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i got rejected cmu ed😭

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but fair enough i expected it

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i applied CS

indigo knoll
ruby stag
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yeaaaaaaahh

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they’re expensive af instate too

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that’s why they’re off my list now

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i’d be paying less to go to a t10 space science school than to my own goddamn state school

stark fox
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when the mit portal comesout, r they also gonna release like a pdf version of our application 💀

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cuz im having doubts rn if i put the field i wanted to study correctly 😰

stark hare
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Is an MIT interview of 40-45 minutes too short?

royal gull
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Peculiar....

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certainly peculiar......

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I think you know what I mean

ruby stag
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they’re supposed to be 30 minutes by convention

stark hare
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Oh, reading the 30 min to 2 hour range scared me

surreal eagle
# royal gull Uh huh?

i dont want 17 kids hitting up my dms saying how dare you say that to mit why bother even applying etc

royal gull
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so other than GT, correct order?

royal gull
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there is just 1 100 word essay on it, nothing else

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they admit to university, not to major

stark fox
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i just wanna make sure the essay i wrote lines up with the thing i selected lol

royal gull
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once again, they don't have a selection page for anything anywhere

stark fox
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oki ty

tidal lagoon
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my interview is on tuesday
tuesday has not happened yet
i do not know how it was as it has not happened yet idk how much more clear i can be

brittle anchor
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holy smokes the interview must've been p tough if you don't know what happened

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jkjkjkjk

stark fox
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👍 tysm

indigo knoll
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should I wear my pgs to interview

hollow tangle
real compass
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hmm i'm not very stem so i think i have a super low chance of getting into mit
but it's prob my top #3 after dartmouth and purdue

indigo knoll
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Damn the interview lasted an hour

indigo knoll
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At least it was a very fun interview lol

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demonstrated my personality and stuff

hollow tangle
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Everyone stutters

royal acorn
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my one quirky MIT fact that I wanna bring up in the interview is that I accidentally made (but didn’t submit) an application back when I was like 11

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and they assigned me an interviewer and told me to contact them T^T

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somewhere in the interview if I get one I’m going to have to make an awkward joke about finally scheduling one even if it took me about seven years

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it’ll either be really weird to them or like kinda funny and kinda funny is probably what I’m trying to be

bright crow
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that's amazing

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its been your lifetime goal

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congratulations

queen ledge
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I wouldn’t mention it tbh

bright crow
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im j saying it here jokingly lol

royal acorn
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day one type stuff 🔥🔥 jkjkjk

bright crow
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i think its just a nice little fun fact

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that you can toss in somewhere

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if it flows well

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dont redirect the interview towards that tho ofc

royal acorn
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yeah I’ll probably just mention it as an icebreaker when we say hi or whatever

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it’s not something to steer towards yeah haha lol

queen ledge
royal acorn
queen ledge
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😭😭

royal acorn
queen ledge
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I know one personally

royal acorn
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but my parents didn’t let me and equally the uk school system is a bit bleurgh for earlier progression and stuff

royal acorn
queen ledge
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Yeah it would be good to start with you admiration for the school

royal acorn
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for sure, as well as being a bit funny it also shows you’re really down for the college

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imagine if I got assigned the same interviewer seven years later though 💀💀💀💀 i even used the same email i have now

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that’d be hilarious

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i’d be like heyyyyyo long time no see homie

queen ledge
ruby stag
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One of my TAs over the summer just graduated and works in my region now 👀

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would be really funny if i got her

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i’m not sure she’s interviewing but that would be hilarious

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or my friend’s parents’

topaz canyon
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finally got my interview

indigo knoll
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I am utterly concerned

ruby stag
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that’s what my interviewer did for harvard

surreal eagle
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i think penn wrong order too

random valley
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Am curious

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Mines on saturday

tidal lagoon
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mines tuesday i could use some info on what to expect

steep vine
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my interview was ages ago but i remember them asking why mit, a conflict i had to solve, something i like to do for fun

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basically the prompts

ruby stag
steep vine
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yer

random valley
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My whole personal statement

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For commonapp was a challeneg

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So thats like 10 minutes of the interview down right there

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🤩

tidal lagoon
steep vine
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u wrote about it in ur essay

tidal lagoon
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did i

steep vine
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its one of the prompts

ruby stag
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i assume it’s probably nonacademic

tidal lagoon
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oh yeah i did

steep vine
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🗿

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bro forgor

tidal lagoon
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i didn’t like that prompt

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lol

ruby stag
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can it be academic?

steep vine
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u can always make shit up

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if things get dire

tidal lagoon
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i don’t have problems

steep vine
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yeah mine was academic

ruby stag
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ah okay

steep vine
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physics class beef 💀

tidal lagoon
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hmm ok

ruby stag
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yea then i’ll just reiterate my essay

tidal lagoon
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i’ll brainstorm a little bit because i don’t like what i wrote about in my app

steep vine
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also research ur interviewer a bit

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think of questions to ask them

ruby stag
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i literally don’t have an interviewer yet

steep vine
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easy question for the alumni who graduated 50 million years ago is "what differences do you see between mit when you went there and mit now? do you like the changes"

ruby stag
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i’m kinda sad

steep vine
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shit like that

ruby stag
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i haven’t gotten any interviews yet D:

steep vine
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skill issue

ruby stag
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fr geographical skill issue

queen ledge
amber turret
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Me too

random valley
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The thing in my ps didnt fit in the 225 words

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So i wrote abt sports there

indigo knoll
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I talked about a really fun challange that I overcame 💀

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something about my physics class

maiden burrow
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hello!

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i have joined the club

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cramming MIT for the hell of it

small forge
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Did your school total just go down😭

ruby stag
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i think mit is due today right

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🤨

tidal lagoon
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i thought MIT was due on the 5th

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or did it get extended

amber turret
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it got extended for some ppl who didn't submit yet

tidal lagoon
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i gotta stop researching what kinda questions are asked at MIT interviews

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i want the conversation to be authentic

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i'm just gonna relax and enjoy talking to the dude

maiden burrow
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SUBMITTED MIT

maiden burrow
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submitted MIT tho

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so its 44 again

gritty inlet
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any international student got an interview invite yet

iron heron
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not at the same time as you submit

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atleast that’s true for ea

small forge
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Yeah umich is my last one

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Idk how kind they are to RD people

ruby stag
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got my MIT interview!

random valley
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For interview prep

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I think im gonna reread my mit supps

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And research some more why mit and maybe faculty-student events

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Possibly more about my interviewers specific job at mit

ruby stag
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my interviewer sounds like a zoomer but i looked him up and he’s SO COOL

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and he’s not a zoomer

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i’m just not 100% sure i can meet him and person and keep my sanity lol

vernal fossil
maiden burrow
tidal lagoon
short folio
ruby stag
steep vine
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in person is not nearly as bad as u think

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easier to express emotion too

ruby stag
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okay

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it’d have to be next next weekend 😵‍💫

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like 21-22

ruby stag
steep vine
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i mean ask ur interviewer

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and if they say its cool

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and u are cool

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then it is cool

ruby stag
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aight they said they were cool with it when i proposed in person & virtual times

steep vine
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W

random valley
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my guy just sent me

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some link

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made me feel like an npc

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fuckin zoomer

ruby stag
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like not a zoom link?? lol

random valley
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it wasa to sign up for a time

indigo knoll
tidal lagoon
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it went well he was a really cool guy

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had a lot of stories and interesting perspectives

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interview lasted about 110 minutes

amber turret
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Nice!

hollow tangle
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Can you convert that to hours and minutes for me?

covert sentinel
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1h 50m

tidal lagoon
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bro was rich rich

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sold a company in brazil for 200 mil

ruby stag
tidal lagoon
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i literally looked him up

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there's 0 info on him online

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also he's 82 he's over 4x the age of linkedin

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he was 62 when it was founded

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so

ruby stag
amber turret
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LOL

small forge
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jus finished interview

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my guy was in his 80s i think

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🛌

random valley
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Lmao both of yall

random valley
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Damn nearly 2 hes

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Hes

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Hrs

tidal lagoon
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he asked me what i do in my free time, why MIT, and why computer science

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the rest was just us talking and him telling stories pretty much

ruby stag
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ooo nice

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mine is set up for next wednesday

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virtually

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couldn’t meet in person during the week D:

indigo knoll
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bro my interviewer didn't even ask why MIT

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💀

covert sentinel
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yall are getting interviews

ruby stag
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yes

small forge
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^

ruby stag
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a couple of my friends got late interviews too

covert sentinel
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Ik it just makes me anxious

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Like a dude in one of my classes got an in person interview in mid-late nov iirc but ive heard nothing abt it after for my area

ruby stag
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ur good

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mine took a few days

lunar sapphire
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ahhhhhhhh plz interview

royal acorn
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wooo I just got my MIT interview request (uk student for context)

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they’re a mechanical engineering grad who works at a biotech startup so quite possibly my dream interviewer yay

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any other uk students gotten one yet?

small forge
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Is it a hopeful to get deferred being an International and mostly less than 3 people are selected from your country 💀💀💀

small forge
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Sure

ruby stag
subtle lodge
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MIT

ruby stag
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anyone interested in joining a MITMH team?

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so far we have ~7 members

bright crow
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ahhh id love to but transportation meltingsob

ruby stag
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rest of us are just SSPers but we’re still deciding if we want to keep it exclusive or not since we don’t have a big team

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and we prob won’t win

maiden burrow
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whats mitmh

ruby stag
maiden burrow
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oh interestinhg

alpine patrol
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does it hurt if i opt for virtual interview instead of in person?

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for mit

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cuz i aint travelling an hour for an interview

ruby stag
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ur good

alpine patrol
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aight thx

weak thicket
ruby stag
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together

weak thicket
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where 👀

ruby stag
# weak thicket where 👀

i’d have to ask if u can join but i have a team atm with 7ish ppl, there’s a mystery hunt event mit does every MLK weekend where you solve puzzles in succession to get a coin

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and if you get the coin first

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you win the puzzle hunt

weak thicket
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oh that’s actually rly cool

ruby stag
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we have 1 irl who lives practically in cambridge

weak thicket
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ohhh it’s in person??

ruby stag
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and then the rest of us are across the US

weak thicket
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ah

ruby stag
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there’s one part that is

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getting the coin requires u to be in person

weak thicket
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oh🤣

ruby stag
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at least one person has to be

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which is good for us

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most smaller teams are online

weak thicket
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👍

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honestly if u need someone else i’m down

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should be mostly free that day

subtle lodge
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Wait, MIT admits exist?

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I thought it was a myth-

bright crow
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id be down, except im busy full day sunday since i have to prepare for a performance thing

ruby stag
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all good

random valley
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hot

verbal skiff
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I literally don’t care about getting accepted from deferral I just wanna go do hunt in person :/

ruby stag
ruby stag
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and good luck as well

lunar sapphire
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does anyone have a clue how to update mit about new stuff

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or sohuld i just wait until fun form

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sts just dropped and they said to inform colleges in addition to their thing so im unsure

verbal idol
lunar sapphire
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yeah

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im unsure whether to find a way to update them rn, or wait 2 weeks for FUN/finalists to release

verbal idol
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congrats first of all

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second of all yeah they literally say this is what the fun form is for so

lunar sapphire
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okay bet

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ty

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regeneron was like "update ur collegs asap" and i was just like is there any way too but ig ill j wait

verbal idol
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u should prolly update ur other colleges tho

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I assume ur applying to stanford

lunar sapphire
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nah i already got in

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i changed my name bc im not set on going bc of cost

verbal idol
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is that the only reason

lunar sapphire
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and becuase mit exists but we will see on march 14th

verbal idol
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why didn't u ea to mit then lol

lunar sapphire
lunar sapphire
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i wanted to write good essays so i just waited

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and got better at writing

verbal idol
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do u think ur stanford essays were good

lunar sapphire
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nah

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well

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not compared to like my rd essays

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like i think they definetly got better over time

verbal idol
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how long did it take u to write rd essays

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cause ngl for RD my essays took less time and were better

lunar sapphire
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ngl same

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well after i got in rea i just hardfocused cambridge schools?

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so id say i spent equal time on my h/m/s essays

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but for my other rd schools which i was writing pre decisions i wrote them way faster and id say they were better

verbal idol
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well congrats on stanford

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u kinda have something to fall back on

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if u can afford it ig

lunar sapphire
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yeah i hope they give me better aid 🙏 sent an email

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ty again and good luck w ur apps :D

verbal idol
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my mit essays were kinda trash tbh, didn't do any of the optional essays and wrote about cooking for my family in the "what do you do for fun" essay LMAO

lunar sapphire
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LOL

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i mean alot of my adMIT friends didnt do any optionals and were super upfront about their what do you do for fun

verbal idol
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mmmm

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interesting

molten latch
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the optional essays are definitely optional

ruby stag
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I think i did a few of them

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i did the identity one for the sake of doing it

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and then i had to explain covid policies and grading scale & a certain type of class i take

amber turret
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I did all of them because they added more dimensions and context to my app

random valley
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For the describe school grading system

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My counselor said to put “see school profile”

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Im paranoid about how much is actually described on there tho

amber turret
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Yeah I winded up just describing the way the honors track and senior capstone project programs at my school works

steep vine
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i did all of them because why not 💀

verbal walrus
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I did like 60% of them

iron heron
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i did most i talked about being hispanic, english not being my first language, my family being very anti mental health, struggling with undiagnosed learning disorders, and not receiving a 504 plan until senior year

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oh and not having any of my education reenforced at home because i’m not allowed to speak english in my house

amber turret
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I really like how MIT provides a lot of space for additional contextual information

ruby stag
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me too!

iron heron
random valley
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Im at my interview rn

molten latch
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Why are you messaging here then 🙀

random valley
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Interview went fine

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Yea lmao

amber turret
molten latch
alpine patrol
random valley
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an hr on the dot

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we were mid convo

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and he just ended it

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so i think he had somewhere to be

random valley
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it was an alum

alpine patrol
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thats rude tho

random valley
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yeah idk

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it went from telling about ourselves to talking about stuff to him asking if i had questions to him stating some "i have to write stuff down answer xyz" questions to him asking if i had anything to add

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and i added like 2 things alrdy and he just

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was like

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ok it was nice talking to u

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the only weird parts were like i talked a bit abt medicine since im applying bme and hes a doctor

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and he said mit is eh for medicine since u need good grades

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it was funny

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since it was an alum it was comfortable rather than ao formal yk

bright crow
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arent most interviews alum?

maiden burrow
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Yes

molten latch
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Sounds like he just had stuff to do

ruby stag
random valley
ruby stag
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very nice

random valley
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Quirkiest thing was asking who my physics teacher was but thats likely cuz he knew him alrdy

ruby stag
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ohhh okay

random valley
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Bro my interviewer plays tennis with my physics teacher 💀

ruby stag
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yeah I think my interviewer is very surprisingly local

random valley
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And his daughter is a freshie at my hs

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😭

ruby stag
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omg that’s something

random valley
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They gave me the perfect interviewer

ruby stag
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well at least he’s familiar with your area

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lol

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i think i got the perfect interviewer too

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mine published a book on policy and i think did meche or aero eng

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and is a huge game nerd

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and dapples in crypto

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💀

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me going on a 59 minute rant about puzzles

verbal skiff
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pls i was so prepared to talk about mystery hunt and my interviewer didn't know what it was 😔

thorn burrow
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help what do u wear for an interview

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at starbucks

bright crow
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just wear casual clothing i think

thorn burrow
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is business casual too formal

ruby stag
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and had a lot of stuff that went on this week too

ruby stag
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best to go business casual

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or, a nice outfit that you’d wear to school

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i’ve done my interviews in a nice sweater and jeans

thorn burrow
royal acorn
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my school has like three people applying to the us a year so i'm like 50-50 about whether they submitted the correct stuff for me 😭

random valley
thorn burrow
random valley
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Ur interviewer likely wont wear a suit (mine just wore an informal crewneck with dark pants)

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So kepe it more casual

ruby stag
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i’m lucky my counselors and teachers were so cooperative

royal acorn
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the school next to us though is one of the best english private schools and sends tons

royal acorn
ruby stag
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hopefully lmfao

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probably not at mit though

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i’d be super surprised

royal acorn
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same haha

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but there's always hope! springs eternal, after all

ruby stag
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this is a bit unrelated but @verbal skiff how many puzzles has your team solved so far for MITMH? I feel like there were way more puzzles this year

verbal skiff
ruby stag
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what team are you on again? I assume you’ve got a ton of people to get to 120 right

verbal skiff
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ttbnl!

ruby stag
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AH yeah

verbal skiff
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we're about 170 people

ruby stag
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ohhh okay that makes sense

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I’ve solved 3 on my own and my team (3 people total) has solved collectively… 4-5?

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.___.

verbal skiff
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i've been with them for 4 years, and wafflehaus for one--doing mystery hunt with them has always been why i've wanted to go to mit

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no, that's a great showing!

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the intro round this year was hard

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the reason hunt isn't over is teammate wrote an extremely difficult hunt overall

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like, we're not gonna get to 2013 levels of overtime, but i think it's gonna be a long night

ruby stag
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that’s so cool that you’ve been on ttbnl for 4 years, and also yeah I feel like this year was harder than usual looking back at the previous hunts

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this was my first year hunting

verbal skiff
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unless like death & mayhem shows us up somehow

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:(

ruby stag
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are you guys leading?

verbal skiff
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we don't know

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i can't really say too much publicly about our progress (but i'll dm you after hunt or smth), but i suspect there's probably about 3 or 4 teams near us

ruby stag
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ah i see

verbal skiff
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though we've been discovering some errata, so maybe we are? can't say for sure.

ruby stag
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how did you even end up on ttbnl

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i’ve heard they only take math camp kids

verbal skiff
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i've done other puzzlehunts since i was 13

ruby stag
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ohh interesting

verbal skiff
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and i ended up there through word of mouth from some friends

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there's a couple mathcamp people on our team (i've never even done AIME lmao), but idt that many?

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none who've been super active, anyway

ruby stag
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yeah i’ve never taken ANC or AIME either but i’m big into puzzles so hopefully i can join a puzzle club in college and do in person hunts 🌝

verbal skiff
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for sure :D it's way more fun when you have people irl

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how's your experience been so far?

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ig i can't ask about specific puzzles, but everything about this hunt has been so good oml

ruby stag
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hmm this hunt has been interesting, i’ll say most of the ones i’ve solved have been cryptic crosswords

verbal skiff
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omg i love cryptics

ruby stag
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but the themes are so interesting

steep vine
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y'all in here having a nerd off

verbal skiff
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there's been some really good ones

ruby stag
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yeah ikr!

verbal skiff
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😩 this whole event is a nerd-off

ruby stag
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it’s given me such a productive way of procrastinating my schoolwork

verbal skiff
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they're just competitive homework

ruby stag
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i’ll admit i’ve been grinding noon-2am

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😔

ruby stag
verbal skiff
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LMAO please get rest

ruby stag
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nah it’s okay it’s fun! and we’re 3/4 of the way done with 2 more puzzles

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so i want to help finish those before we call it quits

verbal skiff
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hunt is a marathon, especially this one

ruby stag
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for a team of 3 i think we’ve had a good run

ruby stag
verbal skiff
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very much so

steep vine
verbal skiff
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i should probably go finish something off, but i'd love to talk more later--good luck with the rest of hunt!

ruby stag
alpine patrol
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bruh my interviewer asked me the hardest case studies

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he said he was testing my way of thinking

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i thought interviews were supposed to be about your personality and not a test tho

ruby stag
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that’s kinda crazy

alpine patrol
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yea like he asked me what i would do in random scenarios

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but he didnt ask anything about my personal life

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it was agood interview tho

timber urchin
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That sounds so funnn

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My interview (during EA) was super standard. Nice interviewer but it was just really straightforward

ruby stag
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hoping mine is pretty standard

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i can’t play mind games for an hour straight

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💀

alpine patrol
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LOL

alpine patrol
small forge
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Bye ☠

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At least with mine, we conversated for 3 hours instead of testing my mental strength for 2😭

indigo knoll
topaz canyon
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went very in depth on stuff I researched

small forge
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What can I do now to boost my chances at MIT

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Deferred international

small forge
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Thanks

ruby stag
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this is comforting

pine prism
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wait wat

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do women literally not apply to mit??

short folio
#

That's a 3% difference T_T

ruby stag
ruby stag
#

same is true for caltech

pine prism
#

💀

#

bruh what

covert sentinel
#

Why do you think there are so many programs for diversity in stem LMAO

ruby stag
#

yea there’s a huge gender imbalance in stem

#

aside from maybe med

pine prism
#

wait so...if this is true both other schools have balanced applicants

covert sentinel
#

Its like 90% White Male (Upper Middle Class) ((Cishet)) (((Has Seen 3 Minorities And One Was A Poor Person)))

ruby stag
#

💀

pine prism
#

then there is the opposite skew in the humanities...so humanities is the strat

#

👀

verbal walrus
#

Lmao

ruby stag
#

well yes but actually no

verbal walrus
#

I submitted my history research to mit…

ruby stag
#

men are represented in humanities too

verbal walrus
#

^^

pine prism
#

oh

ruby stag
#

you’d have to declare ur major as womens studies

pine prism
#

lmao

covert sentinel
pine prism
#

but i see ur point

covert sentinel
#

Idk for all majors but uf you looked overall itd probably be slightly more male v female

ruby stag
#

my grandma literally told me in the 40-70s women went to college to look for a rich guy to marry and in the 50-60s the only professions for women were teacher, nurse, or housewife pretty much

ruby stag
#

more men typically go to college afaik

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i’m thinking maybe nursing there’s more women

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aside from womens studies

covert sentinel
#

Maybe also psych idk

#

What gender is considered more mentally ill

ruby stag
#

i’m not entirely sure abt that

#

lmfao

pine prism
#

💀

ruby stag
#

more men were in psych because how do you think they commonly recommended women lobotomies?

pine prism
#

probably more women in gender studies idk

covert sentinel
#

Oh yeah true

#

Gender studies as a major is

#

???

ruby stag
#

i don’t think you can sneak into mit as gender studies major

#

unless you had olympiad awards and a passion for stem

pine prism
#

lol yeah

ruby stag
#

mit values “bilinguals” aka stem major with humanities minor

covert sentinel
#

Like i feel like theres some invaluable skill of analysis learned there but it would only be attained by learning alongside someone insufferable enough to believe any opinion aside from theirs = youre uneducated and wrong x 938282729282838382928489

pine prism
#

true

ruby stag
#

and its typically woman’s studies, or music

covert sentinel
#

Phil?

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Or im just a generic cs major idk

#

I feel like mit would breed some whacky ideologies though

gritty inlet
ruby stag
#

maybe philosophy

ruby stag
#

and my mom went to cc and my dad went to cc then transferred to a local 4y

pine prism
#

depends on country i suppose

#

and socioeconomic class

ruby stag
#

that’s true

gritty inlet
pine prism
#

downside of being well rounded ig

ruby stag
#

i’ll note that down.. don’t mention piano

#

💀💀💀

#

my interview is tmr

gritty inlet
#

good luck!

pine prism
#

gl

ruby stag
#

catthumbs planned to talk about how i did mitmh and am now dying trying to build a parabolic mirror telescope to prove a theorem & constructing a puzzle hunt for our valentines event at school

pine prism
#

funny story, I got the same interviewer as 2 other ppl in my school, and one of them had an interview from 7:00-7:30 the same day I had an interview at 7:30

#

and we didn't know about it

ruby stag
#

💀

pine prism
#

and i'm pretty sure we were zooming in from the same building too 🤣

gritty inlet
#

think i might be the only one insane enough in my school to apply to MIT 💀

ruby stag
#

i’m the 2nd person insane enough at my school to apply

#

a friend of mine is QB finalist + WTP and she got deferred

#

so i shotgunned RD

pine prism
#

😳

covert sentinel
#

Wtp??

ruby stag
#

ye

pine prism
#

isn't that affiliated with mit??

covert sentinel
#

What does it mean

ruby stag
#

yeah

#

womens technology program

covert sentinel
#

Ohh okok ty

ruby stag
#

i applied pretty much bc the program i attended has a ~33% feeder rate to mit as well

pine prism
#

nice

ruby stag
#

i’m prolly not going to get in

pine prism
#

nah, gotta believe

covert sentinel
#

Wait bruh i remember seeing that AS i was gonna not qualify bc of taking apcsa that year like bruh

#

But alas

#

Jfc i have the vocab of a snail

#

LMAO

ruby stag
#

wtp is pretty cool

gritty inlet
#

honestly as an international I'm really just winging it LOL

ruby stag
#

i didn’t hear much from her about it but she said she really enjoyed it

pine prism
#

what's AS?

ruby stag
#

last yr we had 1 WTP 1 SSP and 1 dartmouth bound

ruby stag
#

just capitalized

pine prism
#

oh lmfao

covert sentinel
#

What acronyms in college admissions spheres does to an mf

pine prism
#

😭

ruby stag
#

I actually attended AS 🤓

covert sentinel
#

Nah no worries bro

#

This whole process is just like

#

Expedited brain blast

pine prism
#

^^

ruby stag
#

true

#

i literally have no clue about what i want to talk about tomorrow

#

i did some research but couldn’t find anything too substantial so i plan to talk about summer stuff and how i like collaboration

#

i ACHTKTUALLY like drinking from a firehose!

pine prism
#

collaboration is good. i think my interviewer liked it when I talked about collaboration and also interdisciplinary stuff

gritty inlet
ruby stag
#

yeah

#

it was also in the ssp handbook

gritty inlet
#

but yeah def collaboration since MIT keeps emphasising that in the kind of students theyre looking for

ruby stag
#

will do

short folio
#

Although women undergrads are 15% more than men undergrads today

slim charm
#

Have you read the 2016 report on undergrad women at MIT?

ruby stag
steep vine
#

bro never told us what it said

tidal lagoon
#

wonder what it says

slim charm
surreal eagle
#

MIT interview tomo

#

what questions should I expect

#

prolly the millionth time some1 has asked this sorry but i scrolled up and couldnt find much

ruby stag
#

mit interview today, asking the same

tawny schooner
surreal eagle
#

perfecttt

#

and when they mean interests, do they mean hobbies?

#

or academic

random valley
#

@ruby stag @surreal eagle
mine wasnt very question answer more conversational, but he did ask certain things in a certain way to make sure he had enough to write about
tell me about yourself, how it links to mit, what have you been interested in school, what have you been interested in outside of school, why major, any questions + anything else you would like to add (id usually adlib those based on your interviewer's background or personal understanding, like i originally planned to brain dump about designer babies but instead i went into discussing research and medical ethics)

sturdy fox
small forge
#

e

ruby stag
#

i hope i don’t get quizzed

#

ik they ask why mit

random valley
surreal eagle
#

but for some reason

#

my EC looks like

#

a

#

very stern

#

indian uncle

#

and i dont like it😭

maiden burrow
#

Nyu Stern

ruby stag
#

your what 😭

#

bro

surreal eagle
#

education counsellor

#

interviewer

ruby stag
#

idk how mines going to go today but i’m going to bawl my eyes out if i have to ramble about how much i love collaboration for an hour

surreal eagle
#

he asked me to set up the interview on whatsapp

ruby stag
#

i am SICK and tired of talking about how much collaboration i do

surreal eagle
#

very indian uncle of him

ruby stag
#

oh

#

😭 bruh

ruby stag
#

what’s the best way to approach questions while not knowing who exactly ur interviewer is?

#

he’s not on linked in

indigo knoll
ruby stag
#

yup

#

interview over! :D

#

my questions were:

  • why mit? (give me a background about yourself, what you like to do, etc)
  • why major? what compelled you to start being interested in the major?
  • what do you do outside of school?
  • where do you see yourself after your undergraduate education?
  • what do you hope to receive or give as a mentor/mentee at MIT?
  • what research do you want to get involved in/what other extracurriculars do you intend to do at MIT?
  • if you won the lottery tomorrow, what would you do with the rest of your life?

(there were a few more, i just don’t completely recall and he said i answered a lot of the follow up questions he had with the ones he gave me)

#

we talked a lot about UROP, the collaborative nature of MIT, and overcoming challenges

#

rlly excited because he kept saying I hit the question on the nose and i taught him about the puzzle hunt and he’s going to do more research into makerspaces

somber horizon
#

had the MIT interview yesterday

#

one question my guy asked me was "whats behind your name? how does it bring something unique?"

real compass
ruby stag
real compass
#

O

somber horizon
ruby stag
#

my answer was so wishy washy for the lottery one

#

“I’d build an observatory and conduct my own research because i hate corporate… but I’d still love collaborators because I can’t do it completely by myself”

#

😭

#

also i signed onto the zoom with my freaking screen name

#

quickly changed it to my full name

bright crow
#

YOU DIDNT EMAIL

#

WITH IT

#

HAHAHAH

ruby stag
#

thank god

bright crow
#

i refuse to make that mistake again.

ruby stag
#

my email is my full name

bright crow
#

no cause i changed it to my full name

#

before

#

but the thing is

ruby stag
#

💀💀

bright crow
#

THE STUPID MAIL APP

#

ON MY PHONE

#

KJFSDHFBSFKSDHFSDF

#

did not update...

#

sigh

ruby stag
#

literally the second i got in i changed it

#

🥲 he def knows my screen na me now

#

hopefully he doesn’t look me up

#

💀💀💀💀💀💀

#

how to change reddit username?

bright crow
#

LMFAO

#

NOOOO

#

at least

#

i dont have anything online

#

related to my screen name

#

esp since i abandoned the moniker i used quite a while ago except for some games

#

in which case, i dont think they're going to try to find me on steam?

mortal quarry
#

i have my mit interview tomorrow at a cafe and i’m so scared😭

#

should i get there earlier?

ruby stag
bright crow
#

😭

ruby stag
#

HIH

#

HUH

#

HUH WHY

#

HUH

bright crow
#

you dont want to risk being late under any circumstances

#

doggo

ruby stag
#

bro 😭

#

i’m straight incriminating myself

bright crow
#

ITS OKAY I DONT THINK

#

THEY WILL LOOK IT UP

#

FOR THE SECOND THAT IT SHOWED

subtle lodge
#

MIT

surreal eagle
#

MIT interview in 30 mins f

ruby stag
#

gl!

surreal eagle
#

done!!

#

he was so sweetttttt

#

very old for sure

#

but super sweet

#

gave me advice like a grandson and stuff

#

questions were basic

#

tell me a bit about yourself, Why MIT, interests you want to pursue at MIT, what other Universities have you applied to, my backgorund and where I was born in the US and what my Dad does

ruby stag
#

yay congrats!

surreal eagle
#

and I asked him a question about how MIT helped him in finding his entrepreneurial spirit

ruby stag
surreal eagle
#

(he owns his own company)

ruby stag
#

my interviewer told me they had their own rubric

surreal eagle
#

asked me to send my CV for the report and thats it

ruby stag
#

and they’re required to ask 3 basic questions

surreal eagle
ruby stag
#

yea til he knows i’m applying to caltech 💀

surreal eagle
#

i said big unis and safeties and also made sure MIT is my #1 like everyone else

surreal eagle
ruby stag
#

are you going for business?

surreal eagle
#

GT, UMich, UIUC, Rutgers and UPitts

surreal eagle
ruby stag
#

ohh ok

random valley
#

i feel like the rubric says "tell me about yourself", "why mit", and "what u want to pursue"

ruby stag
#

yup

surreal eagle
#

but got a recent interest in FInance so Financial engineering

ruby stag
random valley
ruby stag
#

they have to grade u on that

#

lmfao

surreal eagle
random valley
#

so thats good

#

i think

surreal eagle
#

he was told to ask three questions

ruby stag
#

thank god he recognized my summer program

surreal eagle
#

tell me about yourself, Why MIT and any questions for me

#

lol

ruby stag
#

we talked about late nights and psets

#

💀

random valley
#

tbh my interviewer barely asked why mit

#

it was just kind of implied

surreal eagle
surreal eagle
#

i made sure i end with a why mit in most sentences

ruby stag
#

hmm mine told me “i have to ask these questions, then we can have a conversation and i’ll ask my own”

random valley
#

lmfao

ruby stag
#

he’s been interviewing for 6y

surreal eagle
#

mine ended in 20 mins tops

#

is that normal?

ruby stag
#

and heads the alumni association in my region

ruby stag
surreal eagle
surreal eagle
ruby stag
#

mine was around 45 min without questions

surreal eagle
#

and I asked him 2 or 3

random valley
#

mine lasted for an hour but i think thats cuz i just kept going

#

on about randoms tuff

#

😭

surreal eagle
#

to which he then said it was nice talking to you

#

and let me know if you need anything

surreal eagle
#

wearing white

#

im not sure if its a vest or not

#

but i think it was

#

😭😭😭😭

#

man living in india sucks

#

i wanna go back

#

but i think this interview wont break my application, prolly will just make it

#

so im not very worried

#

oh wait yes i remember he mentioned his daughter is my dad's age💀💀💀

ruby stag
#

lmao

ruby stag
brazen coral
#

Does mit require mid-year report?

sturdy fox
ruby stag
#

that or FUN

brazen coral
# ruby stag yes

Is there a spot for counselors to upload yet? I don’t see any

small forge
#

Fun needs to release immediately

#

I have too much to inform them on✨

ruby stag
ruby stag
#

per the name

#

i’m kinda glad i applied rd

sturdy fox
burnt gazelle
#

yo which one of yall got in MIT?

ruby stag
small forge
# sturdy fox Like what

one thing is that I jumped myself from the AB examination to BC at the end of the year, with confirmation from my teacher

#

i think it's a noteworthy improvement from the fall

burnt gazelle
ruby stag
iron heron
#

tldr 😭😭

IMG_6841.png
verbal idol
#

yup just got that as well

steep vine
#

what if I have no updates to add 🗿

#

also my official midyear transcript doesn’t come out until 3rd week of feb

#

are they cool with that or do they also want that by feb 7 🗿

rain abyss
steep vine
#

ok W

#

thanks very much

small forge
#

Time to start ig

ruby stag
#

ahh what

#

I thought FUN was only for deferred 💀

#

i just submitted my app, what more do they want :(

tidal lagoon
#

all my semester 1 grades are finalized (as in no more grades are going in for any of them) so should i just self report all of them now?

#

mid year transcript isn't "official" yet though

#

but i'm not waiting on any grades anymore

real compass
#

um i just finished my interview
it was okay but i think i got too nervous
whenever i talked about social anxiety my voice started cracking up
and i feel like he's gonna say i seem too humanities oriented or awkward
he was chill, it got better towards the end though but ahh
lasted 54mins

#

but not like im going to get in anyways so 🤡

pine prism
#

ya what da heck

#

I've done nothing since Jan 5th 🙂

small forge
#

I didn't even know it was for RD people tbh

#

You could put in your mid years ig

ruby stag
#

if I have 2 quarter grades would i average them for a mid year?

ruby stag
small forge
#

Lowkey should've taken the digital sat☠

#

People saying they jumped 100 points with no studying wtf

ruby stag
#

WHAT

small forge
#

Yes I regret my life and everyone saying I shouldn't retake now😭

#

The way I killed myself studying the SAT back then, probably would've gotten 1500+ easy

#

Only problem ig is that they made it hard for seniors to even think about submitting to colleges

#

Since they just now released scores, you probably had to literally gamble you'd get the score you wanted, then elect to submit test scores

#

which could go bad ig

verbal idol
#

Interesting, does MIT not need counselor letters or something? Doesn't appear in the checklist and says its optional yet makes you send a recommendation request for it in the app

image.png image.png
#

🤔

maiden burrow
#

hm

#

idk

ruby stag
random valley
#

For the MIT FUN form, I get my grades for 2nd trimester back beginning of march
Fun form is due feb 7
My school sent 1st tri for midyear so i could just input that but my school also likes to send second
Do i just do first tri?

dusky tide
#

Yes I would

#

MIT wants self reported for some reason

#

@random valley

random valley
#

Kk

civic shale
#

or faqs idk which

random valley
#

Don't have any updates? No problem! Many students don't. Know any good jokes or have a favorite inspirational quotation instead?

#

do i actually just

#

put a joke/quote

#

LMFAO

dusky tide
#

Sure

#

I’m writing about my interviewer whom I loved

royal acorn
#

oh sweet that's a good idea

#

i'll do that

dusky tide
#

Hopefully he wrote me a good rec

ruby stag
#

for midyear if i have 2 quarters should I put in the average of those two?

#

they show as non numeric grades but I can get a semester average as I will know my scores

random valley
#

is it weird to write about how my interviewer

#

reminded me a lot of like

#

myself and my dad 💀

#

this mfs free time and profession nearly identical to my dad its

#

crazy

ruby stag
#

idk

#

fun is basically an optional sup

#

i want to talk about my interviewer a little bit maybe

#

he taught me a very valuable life lesson

molten latch
#

What lesson

#

@ruby stag

ruby stag
#

he took longer than anticipated to graduate, nearly doubled the time, he was considering dropping out since he didn’t have enough credits but switched his major, started again in his sophomore year, and graduated with his degree

#

he realized that he was more into operations than design in aeroastro, switched his major, and came out on top

#

sometimes you have to seek help to succeed, and just because you’ve failed doesn’t mean you can’t still win

#

i think that’s important

#

we talked a lot about mentorship and being/helping mentees as well

#

he also walked me through the entire interview process and didn’t look down on me for my geographical residence like many people i’ve interacted with did

small forge
#

anyone know about any successful FUN forms

#

i'm debating whether i should actually write a 250 word essay or bullet list

#

an essay would restrict me to like 3 things afaik

dusky tide
#

successful

#

One essay won’t make or break anything

verbal idol
#

They just want updates and grades

dusky tide
#

Grades #1

small forge
#

yeah that's true

dusky tide
#

I think the main reason they want the FUN form is because they love self reported grades for some reason

#

I guess it makes the parsing easier

verbal idol
#

Ye usc Mit stanny all want self reported

#

ig they all do some form of recalculation

#

Well stanny does fs

#

With the freshman year

dusky tide
#

They use su6

ruby stag
#

do they recalculate gpa based on mid year

#

even if it’s a full year class?

#

that seems kinda silly

#

of my semester classes i got an A and an A+ in calc 3 and a planetary science course

#

both dual enrollment

dusky tide
#

Doubt

#

Probably just look at mid year grades without GPA

ruby stag
#

idk how i’m supposed to recalculate is the issue

dusky tide
#

Combining grades you earned when you were 14 with senior year grades don’t make sense

ruby stag
#

you don’t actually send in a mid year

#

through the counselor right?

dusky tide
#

Yes

#

Why would u need to calculate?

ruby stag
#

my school reports in quarters

#

but we have a semester schedule

#

there’s no classes you can take that’s a quarter

dusky tide
#

Just report avg of quarter then on FUN

ruby stag
#

kk

dusky tide
#

Either way, the math checks out

ruby stag
#

that’ll be a lot better for me tbh

#

i got B+s first quarter 🗿

#

like 4 of them but in all of those classes I got A+s second quarter

#

so im practically screwed without a semester avg

dusky tide
#

Did ur transcript include those quarter grades

#

You might need to report both

ruby stag
#

no

dusky tide
#

Cuz average technically would be 3.8

ruby stag
#

well mine included the classes im taking this yr

dusky tide
#

What would u put in for semester grade lmao

ruby stag
#

what

dusky tide
#

A-?

ruby stag
#

im confused

dusky tide
#

Oh

ruby stag
#

I have a 4.0 avg prior to this

#

with 34.5 credits

#

so a few B+s wont change much especially since they are unofficial

dusky tide
#

Right

ruby stag
#

I took 11 classes this yr too

#

so it’s not too bad

dusky tide
#

Actually u should check with counselor

#

U might need to do a

#

Q1,Q2

ruby stag
#

WAIT

#

YES

#

WE GET SEMESTER AVERAGES ON MIDYEAR

#

thank god

#

😌

#

i’m taking slight dubs

amber turret
random valley
#

do they even

#

know the context

#

of that ss

#

LMFAOO

#

F is for Fire that burns down the whole town, U is for Uranium bombs, N is for No survivors

#

💀

amber turret
#

Well of course

clear gulch
ruby stag
#

so the premise:

  • submit midyear grades
  • submit SOMETHING in the box
verbal idol
#

I receive- FUN form

#

You receive- rejection?

ruby stag
#

ngl i do have some big updates i guess

#

i’m still gonna tell a joke tho

#

😼

verbal idol
#

I just realized u were icy