Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2023-2024)

[stoic fox]

Deferrals that turned into a reject or flat out reject

[proud current]

all the best for rd everyone

[fallen storm]

Wait im confused
Is this your second admission cycle or something

[stoic fox]

Yes

[fallen storm]

Ah

Gap year?

[stoic fox]

Im an Intl so im hella fucked

Lol

[proud current]

does anyone know schools similar to MIT wrt culture (like i love the quirky yet ingenious stuff MIT does) which provides aid to intnls?

[fallen storm]

What country?

[stoic fox]

Thailand

[fallen storm]

culture similar to mit
literally nowhere
2nd part idfk

[strong torrent]

harvard gives aid but culture is very different

[fallen storm]

tbh uchicago culture seems a little similar but less stem-only

a lot less

[proud current]

yeah I am applying anyway but the culture is unfortunately very different

[proud current]

hmm, thanks for the rec

[fallen storm]

caltech and cmu culture arent similar at all in case anyone tries to tell u it is

[proud current]

I thought caltech is since it's a STEM school too

[keen sentinel]

wait what's caltech like

if not like mit

[proud current]

caltech kids do seem a lot more serious and lacking the quirk element tho

from what i've noticed

but i am probably wrong

?

[stoic fox]

Caltech is mitrejects.com

[shrewd basalt]

The caltech students are not that different

[hollow sedge]

isnt georgia tech culture similar

[shrewd basalt]

It’s mostly the school

[keen sentinel]

damn

rough

[shrewd basalt]

Caltech definitely seems more like a pre-research school

[fallen storm]

study, grind, academia

[fallen storm]

nah

[proud current]

hmm

[tribal ether]

Wdym

[stoic fox]

I GOT REJECTED OBVIOUSLY IM GONNA BE FUCKING ROUGH ON CALTECH

[shrewd basalt]

Because I have aspirations for industry you couldn’t pay me to go there

[stoic fox]

💀

[fallen storm]

theres no play hard at caltech its just work hard

and its smaller than a high school for ug

[shrewd basalt]

Play hard is dumb imo

[modern lava]

[shrewd basalt]

Play softer

[proud current]

so is it like it's too rigorous and you have no time to do anything else?

[shrewd basalt]

Don’t disrupt your balance

[proud current]

like it's not fun?

[shrewd basalt]

Caltech is not fun by any measure

[stoic fox]

Me and @modern lava planning a snowball cannon to troll kace with for the winter

[proud current]

do you have any suggestions since we're applyinh for similar majors?

[modern lava]

Fr

[fallen storm]

its just the culture, you make your own experience regardless of where you go, but there truly isnt fun at caltech fr lol

[modern lava]

I dunno man

Harvey Mudd??? 😭

[keen sentinel]

yo lemme in

[modern lava]

There really is no school quite like MIT

[proud current]

yeah i am applying their but there majors seem quite broad to me?

[keen sentinel]

spoken like a true mit student

[fallen storm]

mit isnt all hopes and dreams theres schools that are better in some ways then others

[fallen storm]

what major

r u

[proud current]

environmental engineering/science

[shrewd basalt]

If I had to compare a school to MIT I would say Olin

[proud current]

something along those lines

[fallen storm]

ah idk then

from my friend at mit, mit is ran horribly, admin sucks, campus sucks for students, student services sucks, academics are great, culture and community are great, events and parties are fun

[shrewd basalt]

Counterpoint: you get to wear the MIT hoodie and jeans combo

[proud current]

i like MIT for their culture and community aspect mostly
love their academics too

[shrewd basalt]

That combo is undefeated

[hollow sedge]

me after staring at the screen for 2 hours and finally thinking of what major i want to apply for

[keen sentinel]

imagine knowing your major already 😔

[modern lava]

Based

[fallen storm]

for mine it just depends on the school lol

[proud current]

would you say Duke might be good for like the environment based majors?

[fallen storm]

yeah probably

[proud current]

any other school that comes to your mind?

[fallen storm]

i dont think school matters much for most majors including environment engineering

like if i was hiring someone to do something for a company environment related i wouldnt care if they went to mit or bama tbh

[proud current]

hmm

[royal badger]

Companies will look for local students first

Doesn’t matter if they’re MIT or UMass

[proud current]

for me i'd say i want to go to a good school for the community (since that is hard to find in India), and in part academics too (obviously) but if the community isn't good enough i'd rather go to an indian college only since academics are okayish here too.

[royal badger]

Bc with this it’s a much harder ask for a college student to relocate for a summer vs one who’s already settled in the area for school

[modern lava]

Yeah for engineering in particular most companies really don't give a shit about where you studied exactly

[proud current]

I can't bear the Indian nerds competiiting for every damn thing another year

[modern lava]

Though AFAIK MIT is a ridiculous outlier for engineering in particular though

[proud current]

right now they do it for entrance exams and as soon as they entire college they run after placements

[modern lava]

Yeah community is one of the big things about American Unis and their academic model

[royal badger]

Where do you wanna work

[proud current]

i wanna ultimately enter research so US makes most sense as of now, no preference for a particular place in the US

[royal badger]

More specific

[stoic fox]

They have a serious Napoleon Complex

[royal badger]

Figure out who’s doing research you like and where they are then

[stoic fox]

Sure one of them is mad about me

[proud current]

hmm, thank you for the advice

[royal badger]

You shouldn’t dead set on a company but if you can find x research tends to be in y area regardless of company that’s helpful

Like a lot of people come to Central Valley schools if they like veterinary or agriculture stuff

Which ik you don’t but just an example

[stoic fox]

Theres a degree path for explosive engineering that leads to getting paid to blow buildings up but yeah

[proud current]

hmm makes sense.
I don't really know where people go for environmental engineering stuff. Typically, I would want to go to a STEMish school since my interests are pretty elastic and ik they can change (altho ik they won't go beyond stem)
(this was a reply to chloe not the explosion thingy)

[proud current]

wow

i had no idea something like that exists

[shrewd basalt]

This is easy until you have to interview thousands of students

[median shard]

Ive heard some prefer UMass Cambridge to MassTech

[median shard]

hello everyone

I have a question

for the question that asks: When did you take Physics/Calc/Bio etc.

Should I put when I took the most advanced or most basic course?

Like for instance, I've taken biology 1 in 9th grade and AP Bio in 12th grade. Should I say 9th grade or 12th grade?

[median grotto]

Most advanced.

[median shard]

okk thank you

[median grotto]

who out of curiosity? I may know another one?

[normal pike]

Did anyone get into MIT without IMO and was international

[modern lava]

@stoic fox Did

He got into MIT as an international after getting denied 41 times from other colleges lmao

Bro's main EC was snake handling

Like, a lot of snakes

[tardy pulsar]

Wow

[normal pike]

Damn congrats Chris

High sat score ig

[median shard]

i hate how MIT doesnt have to common app essay

like that thing was bomb

it tied my whole app together

how will I stand out without it

[proud current]

@stoic fox which country are you from?

[median grotto]

Thailand ^ (he's said it a few times).

[proud current]

oh cool, thanks

[strong torrent]

@modern lava i sent your decision letter to my friends bcuz it was so funny but I gave no context so they thought i got in and im now like 💀 do i correct them or take advantage of bragging rights so like thank you for giving me clout good sir 🫡

[boreal mortar]

a2c moment

[strong torrent]

LMAO

[sand lance]

addln info secn?

[flint wigeon]

i love it LOL

(its dec and i still dont have a finished draft of mine 💀 )

[proud current]

same 💀

like i did, but it was bs so it's now dumped

[spiral tiger]

bruh @modern lava i have a question

do i have to give them this

and is their url apply.mitadmissions.org

ion wanna give some random-ass website my ssn

[flint wigeon]

yes

[spiral tiger]

am i spelling the name wrong

there'se no way MIT doesn't have this shit there

[junior axle]

i think they use it to link with your Financial aid forms

[sand lance]

What is this

I can’t see this on the portal

[spiral tiger]

a social security number

[sand lance]

Ik that (american internet imperialism) but I don’t see this form on the portal

Is this something for the deferred applicants? @spiral tiger

[spiral tiger]

im applying

im not deferred

[flint wigeon]

did you try "beijing university"?

[sand lance]

Rd

Hm same

[cobalt jolt]

Masstech

[austere vapor]

anyone know what the FUN Form looks like

[sand lance]

What is fun

[spiral tiger]

that's like tsinghua

[flint wigeon]

what

[austere vapor]

febuary updates and notes form

[flint wigeon]

💀

[sand lance]

What is that

[austere vapor]

bruh google it

[sand lance]

-_-

[flint wigeon]

idk most likely ceeb code doesnt exist

my parents also went to uni in china and i had to manually fill out that

anyw @spiral tiger the official eng name is still peking university so if it doesn't exist then .,,,

[sand lance]

Why is mit asking the name of another ug school?

[spiral tiger]

your parents

[sand lance]

Ohhhhhh i get it now

[wanton obsidian]

btw guys what do you think of the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making major for MIT

[hard shard]

why does MIT have its own app i have to write so many essays bruh

[wanton obsidian]

?

i am applying for regular decision

[wanton obsidian]

I wanted to know if the major has good prospectives for the future

like interms of jobs and stuff

[hard shard]

i feel like if you go to MIT getting a job isn’t a huge worry

[high spruce]

Could someone help me sort out my extraucurricular list for MIT?

[wanton obsidian]

ig, but i still dont hope i get fucked by choosign this major

[flint wigeon]

well

at mit you dont have to chooose until end of freshman year

and in general it should be very easy to switch majors

so if thats the major that interests you the most, go for it!

[wanton obsidian]

ykw that is true

my EC's are also around AI so that is cool

[tacit lily]

not anymore

this used to be the case

but MIT students do struggle to get jobs now

the market is dogwater

[gusty siren]

damn your parents went to peking

[prisma tree]

what if my parents went to a

very obscure

middle-of-nowhere

uni

[cobalt jolt]

Ur not first gen

[prisma tree]

ik

but like

so obscure they dont have a official

english name

do i translate that myself

[cobalt jolt]

Mine dont either

Still counts as college

[cobalt jolt]

That’s what I did

[south pecan]

you can't drop this and not elaborate 👀

WAIT DO YOU RUN AI SPONGEBOB

[cloud grotto]

bahahaha the same thing happened to me

i forgot what i did but i think there was some option for other or foreign

[junior ocean]

I think that the AI Sponge project has a very good chance of getting you into MIT if it weren’t for the copyright infringement issue. It’s possible that MIT doesn’t want others to think that they support copyright infringement.

[eternal jasper]

how’s deferral gang doing one day later

[modern lava]

Yes

They do need your ssn for matching documents

[remote vessel]

YES

[south pecan]

WOW YOU'RE FAMOUS CAN I HAVE UR AUTOGRAPH PLZ

[ionic spindle]

1. Olin
2. Harvey Mudd
3. Cooper Union
4. MIT
5. CMU

that is my list in order

No.1 is my first choice

[austere vapor]

Does anyone know how long the FUN form is? How much space do I have to write

[south pecan]

ouch

[ionic spindle]

Enviromental Engineering

Those are my real stats???

I don't have a GPA

[austere vapor]

0 gpa = no gpa

[ionic spindle]

I don't have grades

all my classes are pass/fail

I have no grades

assignments are 0/1

[austere vapor]

odd

[ionic spindle]

Passing is determined by 75% attendance and 85% of work turned in

It doesn't have to?

If I attend 75% of my classes and turn in 85% of my work I pass

[modern lava]

I feel obligated to do this now bruh this shit targeted

T-shirt design contest

[ionic spindle]

I'm not going p/f I don't have grades

There are no 60s man

assignments aren't graded

there are no kids barely floating, only kids viciously treading water, because they are going through absolute hell outside of school

[remote vessel]

viacom just hates fun

[ionic spindle]

I go to a school with a 20% graduation rate

my school has a 5 year survival rate

we have sent 5 kids to college in the history of the school

Yes

NC

School for 2E and at Risk Youth

We have had a few HYPSM acceptances, but none have ended up going

Here I can list the college outcomes:
2 to UNC, 2 to NC Sate, 1 to Oxford

idk a kid last year got accepted to harvard test optional

they went to UNC tho

because they didn't want to leave NC

all the people from my school who end up applying to college get accepted to good places, but most just don't end up actually making it to them

They were just a board member at a lot of places and were on winning hackduke teams a few times

they also had a similar SAT score to me, but I also think that some of the college software converts p/f with all passes into a 4.0

like I've seen it interpreted as a 1.0/1.0 before and other weird shit at different colleges

No

And all my classes include a multi paragraph narrative teacher assessment that speaks of me relatively highly

Yeah, I don't really know about the tests, because I didn't take any math there and other classes didn't utilize tests and instead relied on essays and projects

I don't think we really have people who barely try, but we do have people who can't make attendance or get there work done, because of extenuating circumstances outside of school

I utilized physics and engineering classes as math credits

and I am going to self study and test for AP Calc BC

We do math based on need and most of it is 1 on 1

highest math class ever offered was precalc, but students have taken higher outside of school

or with 1 on 1 tutors at school

Yes, because of our proximity to duke sometimes we get professors teaching engineer/physics for a semester or two

It just depends on their availability

If I go a little bit more rural there are some publics that don't even offer calc, because they don't have enough calc-ready students to fill a class

[austere vapor]

@ionic spindle are u taking a gap yr? why hs grad role i thought u where a senior

[ionic spindle]

January graduation date and friday was my last day of school

[austere vapor]

oh w

[ionic spindle]

because I had to super senior for a semester

[cedar hornet]

me on my way to take a gap year after i get rejected everywhere

😍

[ionic spindle]

in order to get a biology credit

[ionic spindle]

me fr

[cedar hornet]

boutta go 0/15

[ionic spindle]

I'm either going 0/5 or 5/5

[cedar hornet]

where r u applying

?

[ionic spindle]

1. Olin
2. Harvey Mudd
3. Cooper Union
4. MIT
5. CMU

[cedar hornet]

gl on those

isnt harvey mudd competitive

idk much about it

[ionic spindle]

They are all <10%

for a male into engineering

[cedar hornet]

lmfao

male in stem really sucks eh

oh well

[ionic spindle]

Both

[cedar hornet]

LMAO

yea thats unlucky bro

[ionic spindle]

Mostly white

[cedar hornet]

im an asian male in cs 😍

[cobalt jolt]

Rare

[cedar hornet]

yea so rare

i think im one in a couple thousand

[cobalt jolt]

No AA discussion dawg the mods gonna start getting mad

[ionic spindle]

Both parents are white, but are from southeast asia and 2 of my grandparents are asian

[cedar hornet]

bruh what

[cobalt jolt]

If u dont get into any do u have any safeties

[ionic spindle]

Auto accept at NCSU and UNC and recruited Colorado School of Mines

[cobalt jolt]

Wdym auto accept

[ionic spindle]

I'm pretty sure if I don't get accepted to one of my top choices I just won't go to college

[ionic spindle]

UNC system schools have programs with a few schools in NC to auto accept all of their grads

[cobalt jolt]

Gotchu

[ionic spindle]

NCSSM, which is a public boarding school and a few non profit schools for non traditional students

[cedar hornet]

sure

[raven saffron]

A day later

It still stings 😢

[cobalt jolt]

Deferral or rejection

[raven saffron]

deferral

[cedar hornet]

prolly deferral

[fringe cave]

my friend got accepted and he said he might not go

[cobalt jolt]

Tf

Its mit

😭

[fringe cave]

He said he'd rather go to vanderbilt

[cobalt jolt]

Where is bro going

wild

What major

[fringe cave]

idk

prob engineering

[cobalt jolt]

Did he ed to vandy

[stoic fox]

I dont have a choice 😄

[cobalt jolt]

Why

[fringe cave]

rd maybe

[cobalt jolt]

Gotchu

[stoic fox]

MIT is the only school to take me

[elder vine]

what are yall second choices besides mit

[stoic fox]

None

[cobalt jolt]

You only applied to mit??!

wtf

[elder vine]

need to start brainstorming for rd

[cobalt jolt]

😭😭

[cobalt jolt]

Im not even applying

[stoic fox]

No MIT is the only school of 20

To take me

[cobalt jolt]

Wait how did u get 19 rejections already

Its december

Tf

[elder vine]

gap year prolly

[stoic fox]

Gap year

[cobalt jolt]

Oh u got in last year?

[stoic fox]

No this year second round of trying

[cobalt jolt]

Oh ok

[stoic fox]

Email ppl on crack

[cobalt jolt]

This year which schools did u apply to

[stoic fox]

Buncha T30s and 40s and MIT

[cobalt jolt]

Did u withdraw all other apps

[stoic fox]

Yes

Now that im here why would i go anywhere else

[sinful sky]

I still haven't checked my result

[cobalt jolt]

Check rn

[sinful sky]

No

[stoic fox]

“It is my pleasure to offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2028.” I fucking fainted

[elder vine]

when are you waiting for

[solid pawn]

You've worked so hard you totally deserve it

[sinful sky]

I will check on march 14 so it doesn't matter if I'm deferred or not

😎

[solid pawn]

if u got deferred u have to submit FUN

[stoic fox]

you could be accepted lol

[eternal jasper]

lmao

[stoic fox]

[sinful sky]

I know lol

[elder vine]

you dont have to do rd if you get int

[eternal jasper]

join the deferred squad

check now

[stoic fox]

If you got in you’ll get a crackhead email

[sinful sky]

Yeah that's basically why I want acceptance

[stoic fox]

Average MIT email

[elder vine]

then check

[sinful sky]

You only get it if you click on website?

I have no email rn

[stoic fox]

I still cant believe it

[sinful sky]

Also they said they won't share from email

It would be bad if they did

Last year they shared waitlist result from email

[modern lava]

Least goofy acceptance email

[sinful sky]

I got jumpscared while casually checking my emails

[stoic fox]

Someone has to be high af

[sinful sky]

Oops guess that means I'm not accepted then

[stoic fox]

Either that or

[cobalt jolt]

Open the portal

Rn

Do it

[median shard]

heyy, care to share stats?

[stoic fox]

3.851 UW, 1550 SAT

[median shard]

nice, what's ur intended major

oh are you the snake guy

[stoic fox]

Bio

Yeah

[median shard]

nice, ive seen people talk abt u haha

[stoic fox]

I guess that was what stuck out on the application

[cedar hornet]

LOL

BRO WENT 1/20 BUT ITS MIT

thats actually kind of fire

[modern lava]

https://youtu.be/IoY3IJvoZQ0?si=TJGVUDSMZWuEemFy

[hollow sedge]

They don't have tsinghua either you're fine

[shrewd basalt]

💀

[spiral tiger]

@modern lava they only give me 4 spots for my activities or smth right

or am i being illiterate

[modern lava]

Yes

[spiral tiger]

well that makes things easy

[modern lava]

They have different spots for summer and work tho

[spiral tiger]

is it okay if i repeat myself or nah

[modern lava]

I have no idea ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hollow sedge]

I'm probably not gonna list research because they have a research supp

[stoic fox]

I HAD ONE THING

[modern lava]

Preferably add new info

[spiral tiger]

cuz like

[stoic fox]

Jsncmakaksjcukrks

[spiral tiger]

i was a student research assistant at two labs

[cedar hornet]

u had one ec??

[spiral tiger]

and i dont know if i should count them as jobs to save space

[stoic fox]

It was.. different

[modern lava]

🐍

[cedar hornet]

yea

it was really cool tho

i think more schools should have taken u

but u landed #1 so who cares

[stoic fox]

I wonder if they were worried id pose a danger

[modern lava]

Were you paid?

[stoic fox]

[cedar hornet]

na i think it was more

u just did something really cool and unique

[stoic fox]

Snakes + cold winter dont mix

[cedar hornet]

idk why schools didnt take u

maybe legality yeah

[spiral tiger]

one of them was unpaid

[stoic fox]

MIT was probably just like: fuck it

[cedar hornet]

nah

i think mit just thought youd be a cool pesron to have on campus

[cobalt jolt]

Spaniards are white

[ionic spindle]

what is this

[median grotto]

Yeah I'm from Spain so I'm def white.

like very clearly white 😂.

What do they mark if not tho?

[ionic spindle]

what the fuck

[austere vapor]

no way this is real

[exotic briar]

Same 🤩

[ionic spindle]

That just sounds like genuine ignorance and not maliciousness

I'd just tell them why that was wrong instead of holding it against them

[spiral tiger]

💀

@modern lava did you see this

[modern lava]

Yes

[raven saffron]

😭

They better add me

After I get in

Trust!

[ionic spindle]

I got to actually do my apps

I am just sitting on here

[raven saffron]

Frfr

[modern lava]

Lol

[ionic spindle]

doing nothing

[raven saffron]

I wanna go to CPW 😭

[cobalt jolt]

Lmfaooo

[raven saffron]

Dawg this shit feels so eh

Deferral is like the most negative neutral feeling ever

[ionic spindle]

You'll get in

it is gonna be alright

[raven saffron]

Hoping

Gonna take USACO today too 😄 hopefully we get Platted out

Will be helpful I hope

[ionic spindle]

I think about tesco everytime someone in here says USACO

[raven saffron]

Who?

[ionic spindle]

Tesco

the grocery store

[elder vine]

tried taking it today did not go well

[ionic spindle]

what is it?

can anyone take it?

[elder vine]

united states of america computing olympiad

[elder vine]

i think so

[raven saffron]

Yeah anyone can take

[ionic spindle]

oh yeah someone told me about it before

[elder vine]

you have 4 hours to do 3 coding questions

[raven saffron]

Im done with 667 every fkn time man

[ionic spindle]

is it just like an online test you can take?

[elder vine]

do well and you rank up

[raven saffron]

This the one I swear

[elder vine]

yeah

[raven saffron]

800+

[elder vine]

what rank are you rn

[ionic spindle]

too late to register?

[raven saffron]

Gold

[elder vine]

no

[elder vine]

do you also do acsl?

[raven saffron]

Tf is ACSL

No I do not

[elder vine]

american computer science league

[raven saffron]

I do just USACO

[ionic spindle]

wow these people look exactly what I'd expect competitive CS people to look like

[raven saffron]

Exactly 💀

Theres one IOI guy thats actually looked normal I swear

[raven saffron]

Bro has charisma

Ngl

Def goes outside at least a lil bit

Mmhm

Sumn screams no vitamin D

Nah

U got this moz!

They plucked them right out the South China Sea

Guy on the right is William Lin

[elder vine]

and who is that

[raven saffron]

Hes a CP legend

[elder vine]

a what legend

[ionic spindle]

Uh I'm assuming CP stands for something different in this context

[raven saffron]

Comp prog

[modern lava]

💀

[ionic spindle]

💀

[eternal jasper]

im feeling the exact same way dude

like yesterday i was fine but today im just kind of annoyed

[inland flicker]

😦

[eternal jasper]

mfw deferred

[elder vine]

my friend who is a recruited athlete for mit got deferred

[raven saffron]

Im gonna get in RD man trust me!

[ionic spindle]

Applying to MIT for the free food at CPW

[raven saffron]

I WANT TO GO CPW 🔥

CPW WANTS MEEEE

[exotic briar]

CPWWWWWWWWW 🤩

Time to beeline next?

find new victims to infect with xooks spam

[raven saffron]

Nah

MIT putting too much pressure on me

[cedar hornet]

given how many say the n word i wouldnt be surprised

i knwo someone who plans to put themselves as a trans female

[cedar hornet]

recruited athletes

are not guaranteed admits

it offers a slight boost but its not an auto admit like it is w other schools

[modern lava]

CPW moment

His face

It haunts me

[cedar hornet]

indian guy looks kinda good ngl

ive thought this for a while

william lin isnt too bad looking either

[cedar hornet]

3rd has potential

i see it

[modern lava]

Man why are y'all picking over IOI kids' appearances

[cedar hornet]

lmfaooo

tidk why

[ionic spindle]

I deleted all my messages related to it, because I felt bad

[cedar hornet]

yea

[modern lava]

https://tenor.com/view/sanzmeme-moai-batu-emot-batu-gif-23675752

[cedar hornet]

idk i get what u mean but its a lil weird

its like people who are hyperfocused to programming probably dont take care of themsevles that well

but u can say that about anything

LOL

[modern lava]

https://youtu.be/z1gQH6onSHQ?si=-GY9glGWQHBwvMYm&t=3

https://tenor.com/view/arting-siamese-cat-gigachad-ambatukam-ambasing-gif-26293326

[cedar hornet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/800761415388102676/1185737406360604743/speed-1-1.gif?ex=6590b303&is=657e3e03&hm=ff60eafd1c04f9b8230e7faa7fcf4dad89dca61c327b1ae7ae98126f796ef7fd&

i hear so many indian kids who say the n word

thats just kinda normalized lol

[royal badger]

Ok let’s change topics

Let’s all say something we’re grateful for that starts with the letter M bc this is MIT thread

The word money is banned

Go

[spare folio]

https://tenor.com/view/jiggy-jolly-get-jiggy-get-jolly-get-jolly-with-it-gif-13651478034157223092

[royal badger]

I am grateful for the moon

Bc without the moon there would be no plot for the Despicable Me movie

[cedar hornet]

im grateful to my mom because without her gods gift to humanity would not exist

🙏

[junior axle]

LMFAO

[stoic fox]

I am not joining that discord

Im gonna get so trolled

[cedar hornet]

lmfao

are mit students as elitist

as other schools

i saw a video of a dude asking princeton students if it was a comm college

and htey got like so angry

i think veins were about to pop out

[modern lava]

Not really as far as I know of

[stoic fox]

Princeton is kinda shit if you want anything to do but study ngl

[modern lava]

Compared to the ivies and hell even Stanford or smth MIT doesn't really have that air of elitism

They specifically don't consider legacies or evaluate recruited athletes differently, for example

[eternal jasper]

mit W

[modern lava]

Not gonna lie MIT people are so deep in the trenches of impostor syndrome to have any inflated ego at all

[eternal jasper]

that will so be me

[modern lava]

Actually, just read this article https://thetech.com/2012/09/07/loveletter-v132-n35

Even now, being at Harvard, I am still benefiting from MIT. Your professors open their arms to all students regardless of whether they are getting a degree from MIT. My doctoral research at Harvard entailed interviewing scientists at the forefront of 21st century science, and your most notable professors were there for me. Robert Langer replies to emails on his Blackberry with an average response time of one minute. And yes, I mean Bob Langer, the PI of the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world and winner of the Nobel Prize-equivalent for engineers (Charles Stark Draper Prize). Philip Sharp agreed to a sit-down conversation without any hesitation, a Nobel Prize winner. I am always so amazed at how the people at MIT are so humble given their brilliance, a rare trait among the elite schools; I know this from being at a school where people wear double pop collars and white pants with pearls. I even have MIT professors sitting on my Harvard dissertation committee. None of them have any obligation to me as I am not an official student at MIT, but they do it because they care about their contributions beyond the walls of the institution. This is the energy you foster at MIT. Thank you.

Besides enriching my academic and research life, you enriched my social life during college. By allowing Wellesley shuttles to drop off students at various MIT locations, you’ve enriched the love lives of many Wellesley and MIT students. From MIT, I’ve dated the right and wrong guys, and ended up with my current husband (MIT ‘06; the right guy). Trust me, there are a lot of happily married Wellesley-MIT husbands and wives, thanks to you. I got to experience the fraternity life, being a “rush” girl, throwing rush week events, and taking childish jabs at other fraternities. I even lived at an MIT fraternity over a summer, as they become co-ed over the summer, and lived unofficially as a resident girlfriend during other times. You gave me the best times of my life at MIT. I got to party with people that were uncannily witty, jovially sarcastic, and all the while had substance and big goals for their lives. It was through seeing your students working together from two o’clock a.m. to sunrise on problem sets that were almost always impossible to solve that I learned the bigger purpose in life. It’s not all about getting A’s, which is surprisingly a more random process than you might want to believe, but being able to unselfishly collaborate, share information, and come out of the experience with a memorable story to tell and a band of friends that will be secretly thinking about all the people you’ve dated while you’re saying your wedding vows.

Wellesley-MIT love stories lmao

[austere vapor]

i wrote my FUN update and its so good omg

my confidence in getting in again ⤴️

[cedar hornet]

d1 glazing

[modern lava]

Naw seriously though MIT just does have that vibe

[eternal jasper]

wait is it out yet

[ionic spindle]

Those are chery picked videos

[ionic spindle]

Some are, but generally just because they came from very privileged backgrounds and don't know better

[modern lava]

Yeah that's the gist of it

MIT doesn't have an elitist culture but some individual kids might be more elitist because of their background

Meanwhile, ahem, the other school down the river sure does have an elitist culture

[eternal jasper]

mit W

[cedar hornet]

lol

harvard

🗿

[modern lava]

In the 2006 game, MIT hackers changed Harvard’s “VE-RI-TAS” logo on both sides of the scoreboard to “HU-GE-EGO” (Pentacoff).

[ionic spindle]

meh

[cedar hornet]

lol

me when i meet a humble harvard student

[cerulean trail]

is letter of continued interest a good idea or would that be too tryhard lmao

[cedar hornet]

i think u just have to do the fun

[austere vapor]

no but its just 250 words about whatever to the best of my knowledge

and holy shit did i cook

[cedar hornet]

lmao i hope u get in man

[cerulean trail]

wait whats the fun

[modern lava]

For Masstech?

You have the FUN form

[austere vapor]

today on google.com

[modern lava]

https://mitadmissions.org/apply/firstyear/february-updates-notes-form/

[ionic spindle]

Honestly most harvard students don't come from super privileged background and I think that the institution is more pretentious than the students

[cerulean trail]

OH

IT ABBREVIATES TO FUN

💀

[austere vapor]

got ahead and wrote it early

but damn did i bleed my heart into it fr

[cedar hornet]

ive heard of harvard feeder high schools

ive never heard of an mit feeder high school

[ionic spindle]

Well then you aren't looking very hard

[cedar hornet]

fair enough

my school is a uc davis feeder

[cerulean trail]

oh shit we have to write stuff for it

[cedar hornet]

kekw

[cerulean trail]

i thought it was just midyear grades

?

[austere vapor]

u can do whatever u want for it

so no u definitely dont have to write stuff

infact its not even expected u do i think

[cerulean trail]

aa icic

[ionic spindle]

I mean it is pretty well distributed

given what it is

other ivys are worse

[exotic briar]

ctinoal equations

[spiral tiger]

xook

[median grotto]

this joke died out last summer...

[austere vapor]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-cinema-homelander-cinema-gif-26650685

[gusty siren]

is the crimson summer academy any good

[atomic bough]

mit on top

dm for advice if u want help on the fun form

[solid pawn]

dmed!

[exotic briar]

xooks rbo

quite alive in MOP still

[austere vapor]

dm'd!

[austere vapor]

no. dont do it ur wasting ur money

[gusty siren]

oh i thought it was free 🥲

[austere vapor]

oh i thought u where talking about something else

yeah harvard one could be good

[tacit lily]

oh

she wrote an answer about ketchup

frogs

and how that ties to art

actually shit

she might be in this server

[modern lava]

I wrote about fried chicken for one of my essays

In response to this prompt too:

Prompt: Tell us about one of your proudest achievements or moments and what it says about you. (200 Words)

[raven saffron]

Chat

[raven saffron]

???

I dont rember this

[modern lava]

QB

[raven saffron]

Kk

Is it worth it to submit a research and maker portfolio

If I got deferred

I was gonna for EA but forgot

also is it OK if Ive seen my research rec letter 💀

I used it for a summer program and didnt think I'd ever need it again

But it was written before I saw it

[tacit lily]

go for it

[cedar hornet]

i have a friend

who will probably put valroant here

ngl

[stoic fox]

This is what probably got me in lol

[gusty siren]

you did qb too?

[stoic fox]

Na

Im talkin about the essays

[gusty siren]

ohh

[stoic fox]

MIT probably thinking that having a student whos also a pro snake handler might help if theres ever a snake on campus and they dont have to pay me 💀

[gusty siren]

you wrote about the snakes?? 😭

[stoic fox]

Yeah

[gusty siren]

nicee ill prob write abt training my dog in the future ngl 💀

[cedar hornet]

lmao

idk write about something kinda quirky you do

[gusty siren]

honestly if i do qb in the future and they still got this, ima write abt my famous french fries 💀 (lowkey i make the best fries according to 10 ppl 😭)

Is anyone into 3d printers, im trying to start on it and debating between 3 diff ones 😭

[elder vine]

which ones

[gusty siren]

uh bambu a1 mini, a1, and the creality ender 3 on amazon

[elder vine]

if you have the budget for higher price printers

i wouldnt get the ender 3

requires a lot of maintenance

[gusty siren]

yeah the ender 3 look sketchy

[elder vine]

which will be hard if your just starting

[gusty siren]

but my range is anywhere from 200-400

so im debating b/t a1 or mini

[elder vine]

also it depends on what you want to print

size vs quality

[gusty siren]

quality prob

is there a quality difference between a1 mini and normal a1?

[elder vine]

probably build plate size

[outer hollow]

Bambu is really nice, at my old job my boss has about 30 of them

[gusty siren]

damn

[elder vine]

its kinda expensive tho for a small build plate

[gusty siren]

yeah i like the look of the bambu just dk the mini or normal one to get

[elder vine]

i think most of the cost is due to the 4 color printer

[outer hollow]

Idk what bambu model he has, but he can put in multiple colors and it has a poop shoot, its pretty cool

[elder vine]

i'd say go with the a1 because the larger build plate

[gusty siren]

I think every bambu can do that

theyre known for multi color printing

[elder vine]

most models are designed with 200 x 200 x 200 and larger in mind

[outer hollow]

Yeah idk much about printers, thats all i know about the bambu lol

[gusty siren]

okk thanks

[gusty siren]

yeahh im just getting into it too

[elder vine]

like if you want to do any cosplay or large pieces you need a large build plate

[outer hollow]

He had 18 of a different model at one point but got rid of them cuz he liked the bambu better for manufacturing

[elder vine]

most large models on thingiverse are designed for ender 3 specifically or bigger

and the mini is smaller than that

[gusty siren]

so the a1 is more universal

alrrr

[outer hollow]

And before that he had like 10 of a different model, and he gave them away to me and the other employees, tho it was wacky and i could never figure out how to set it up

[gusty siren]

i mean ig for $100 difference its pretty worth it

[gusty siren]

at least u got free printers 😭

[elder vine]

the only thing is I think the a1 is only two color printing

while the mini is 4

[gusty siren]

I think if u get the ams you can do 4 colors too?

not sure tho

[outer hollow]

Yeah, he also has a scanner and i was able to scan my body and print it out lol, some of my friends printed giant busts of themselves but i went with an action figure

[gusty siren]

ima watch review vids 💀

[elder vine]

ur right im just blind

[gusty siren]

damn thats cool

[remote vessel]

THINGIVERSE MENTIONED

[elder vine]

i love thingiverse

[remote vessel]

sorry but printables on top

[elder vine]

i just print random things I find on there

[outer hollow]

I would send a pic but the wifi on the airplane im on rn is terrible

[elder vine]

ive done that with an xbox 360 kinect

[outer hollow]

Some of my friends are really into the printing and make a bunch of random gadgets, but i havent really gotten into it

[remote vessel]

I own a 3d printing business

on top of ai spongebob and the blood drive and all my other insane ecs

[elder vine]

I had an internship for 3d printing

[gusty siren]

you’re cracked

😭

[remote vessel]

AND YET I GET DEFERRED

it's gotta be my sat bro

it's GOTTA be

[gusty siren]

my ecs are eat and sleep

[elder vine]

got deferred even though I got first place in an internation cs competition

[gusty siren]

💀

[remote vessel]

oh my god

[elder vine]

out of like 100 teams

[gusty siren]

i got none of that

[elder vine]

tbh its like not that prestigous

[gusty siren]

💀💀

[remote vessel]

SHUT THE FUCK UP

[outer hollow]

Thats nice, the one my old boss has is like 1000 dollars i think, we tried other methods before the scanner but nothing worked so he just bought a really nice one

[elder vine]

compared to usaco the competition is super easy

[gusty siren]

my best award is prob getting 1st place in my school district’s coding comp in 8th grade 💀

[remote vessel]

at least i admit my ECs are prestigious

[elder vine]

my b ad

[gusty siren]

they r

you can still take the sat right

[remote vessel]

you gotta be less humble bro

[remote vessel]

nah December is the cutoff

[gusty siren]

what was your score

if u dont mind 😭

[elder vine]

im so glad i was done with sat in spring

[remote vessel]

1460 (700/760)

COLLEGE BOARD DENIED MY ACCOMODATIONS

[gusty siren]

how many times did you take it

[elder vine]

brag time sorry guys

[remote vessel]

4 because I just wanted a 700 reading

[elder vine]

1570 (770 ENGLISH) (800 MATH)

[gusty siren]

Damn

[elder vine]

still deferred tho

[gusty siren]

ion even got a sat score yet 💀

[stoic fox]

1550 (750 ENGL) (800 MATH)

[outer hollow]

Eyy same here, i got the same score as spongebob guy my freshman year then bumped it up to this my sophomore

[elder vine]

you a sophmore you got time

[gusty siren]

You took the sat as a freshman??

Damn dude

[remote vessel]

spongebob guy

[outer hollow]

Yeah lol

[gusty siren]

thats what ur known as now

[elder vine]

lowkey I feel like i can get in rd after deferred

it might just be copium

[remote vessel]

real

[gusty siren]

1220 on psat if that counts as anything

[elder vine]

but I have some decent updates on fun

[outer hollow]

Spongebob guy if u take it again u gonna get 1570 cuz i had exact same score as you and jumped up to that a year later

[elder vine]

and I think my application lacked personality which I will fix on my fun form

[gusty siren]

i wanna try taking it as a sophomore 😭

[stoic fox]

Maybe not

[elder vine]

a bunch of my junior friends tried to rush to take it before it was digital

[remote vessel]

real talk i am autistic as shit and cant read for the life of me there is no way i break 720
also no more sats for me

[outer hollow]

Im not submitting my score tho cuz the school forced me to take act cuz state requirement and i got a 36 so im submitting that jnstead

[gusty siren]

https://youtu.be/EJtl-fRrP3k?si=7Cm6_jdkQVe7c-S3

[stoic fox]

MIT students cant read

[gusty siren]

I wanna know if this guy got in

[stoic fox]

[gusty siren]

he built a whole car

[outer hollow]

My reading skills peaked in middle school and since then i havent read a book lol

[elder vine]

my friend who was on the same team as me so he also won got straight up rejected early action

[outer hollow]

But im fast enough for standardized tests

[gusty siren]

I dont read at all

[remote vessel]

I only just got reading accomodations for school

[gusty siren]

Didnt they shortened the sat reading

you read like a few paragraphs now instead of a whole passage

[stoic fox]

Uh read that again

[gusty siren]

thats what i heard for the digital

idk

[remote vessel]

I think part of the reason I was deferred besides my sat was because I forgot to make a maker portfolio

[stoic fox]

Shorten

Not shortened

[elder vine]

i also forgot to make a maker portfolio

cuz I realized too late that it also included coding projects

thought it was just physical/engineering stuff

[gusty siren]

thats why im failing sat reading

[stoic fox]

“I created ai spongebob”-get deferred because kinda generic MIT application

[remote vessel]

I got perfect scores on every sat grammar section I took besides my first one and it still took me 4 attempt to get a 700 English score

[stoic fox]

“I created xyz successful tech thing”

[remote vessel]

BUT I WROTE ABOUT BUFFALO WILD WINGS

[elder vine]

for what prompt lol

[remote vessel]

FOR FUN

[elder vine]

i wrote about rock climbing

[remote vessel]

also is an application truly generic if you have several one in a billion extracurriculars and incredible essays

[gusty siren]

should give harvard a try, u dont have to submit scores right

[remote vessel]

yeah

trust me i am

[elder vine]

I did a chanceme and got told my ecs are average

[gusty siren]

i mean if u get in harvard, u technically get in mit vice versa

[hollow sedge]

i think mit specifically tells you to not make them your dream school

[remote vessel]

I did a chanceme and got told I'm getting into everywhere but stanford and mit

[stoic fox]

I mean i have 400K on instagram

[gusty siren]

since u can take classes at either one

[stoic fox]

But thats besides the point

[elder vine]

i got told that I should be good for at least one t15

[remote vessel]

i have a nice smile:))

[gusty siren]

i mean i run my dog’s instagram acc with 1.3k followers 😭

[elder vine]

which im hopign will be true

spongebob guy where else did you apply ea

[gusty siren]

where else are you applying

[elder vine]

for ea: case western, uva, gtech, unc, mit, and northeastern

rd im still working it out

[gusty siren]

oh nice

[remote vessel]

northeastern and drexel (free fee waiver for living in pa)

[gusty siren]

northeastern 💀

[remote vessel]

SHUT

UP

!!!

[gusty siren]

literally 30% of my school’s grad class last yr got into neu

yall will get in fs

[elder vine]

my plan is that if i get deferred northeastern and rejected every where else, ima convert northeastern to an ed II

[remote vessel]

I know I like it there :))

[stoic fox]

Rejection list for me (1-10) not in order lol

1. Princeton
2. Yale
3. Brown
4. Harvard
5. UCLA
6. UMich
7. Dartmouth
8. Columbia
9. Stanford
10. Cal Berkeley

[gusty siren]

its right next to my hs and the campus is mid 😭

[elder vine]

im hoping to atleast get georgia tech for ea

then I can relax and not stress rd

[remote vessel]

ok I live in scranton though so any campus is good

[gusty siren]

whens gtech coming out

[remote vessel]

the University of Scantron has an ass campus

barely any actually

[elder vine]

mid january

[stoic fox]

Scantron

[remote vessel]

oh my fucking god the typo

[gusty siren]

Scantron

[remote vessel]

Scantron and Scranton are basically the same word

[gusty siren]

if any of yall get accepted to a Boston/mass school

have fun with the t 💀

[remote vessel]

ok!

oh

[gusty siren]

its ass

[remote vessel]

I thought you were gonna say something else

[elder vine]

im hoping to get into one boston school

[gusty siren]

what 💀

[remote vessel]

I love the mbta it makes me want to kill myself

[elder vine]

mit harvard bc or northeastern

[deft mulch]

stop i go to a boarding school near boston

[gusty siren]

Bc is a fake boston school

[deft mulch]

I MISS CALI

[remote vessel]

Boston College is not in Boston

[gusty siren]

at least you will be in the rich area 💀

[elder vine]

only applying cuz im legacy lowkey dont even like it that much

[remote vessel]

7 kids from my school got into Boston College ED this year

[gusty siren]

but the t is so awesome you will love it 🥳

[deft mulch]

also hi

[gusty siren]

it will only take 10 minutes for it to move from one stop to another

[gusty siren]

hii

[remote vessel]

Now arriving at

Arlington

Next stop

Boylston Street

[gusty siren]

the green line 💀

lord

[outer hollow]

Back home from nyc, now time to finally do usaco comp tomorrow lol

[gusty siren]

gll

[outer hollow]

Ty, its my first one so im just hoping to get to silver lol, if i could get gold by end of the year i would be happy with that

[gusty siren]

how do u even participate in any olympiad

[outer hollow]

For usaco just sign up on usaco.org

[gusty siren]

oh

[outer hollow]

You can do it right now and im pretty sure you can compete in this comp too

[spiral tiger]

professional chatgpt prompt engineer

[spiral tiger]

silver shouldn't be too bad to qualify

when i first took the usaco i qualified silver first try

[hollow sedge]

i got silver 2nd try and ive been too lazy to study to gold

[outer hollow]

For the math comps tell your school to proctor it, ive never gotten to do them before until this year, and i had to practically sign my school up

[spiral tiger]

as long as you're comfortable coding and know a little bit of math/discrete you're fine

[hollow sedge]

some part of me thinks that moving my papers closer to publication is better for everyone vs just grinding usaco

[gusty siren]

how comfortable 🤓

[hollow sedge]

so havent really been studying usaco

[outer hollow]

A little late for college apps but its still fun for me and like one of my friends to try

[spiral tiger]

if i tell you to implement code to do something you can do it in your sleep

[outer hollow]

I almost qualed for aime with one weekend of prep this year, i wish i knew about it when i was in middle school like it makes me so mad

[deft mulch]

just know a language really well, for bronze you can do python

[outer hollow]

Olys just arent a thing where im at, no one knows about them

[gusty siren]

might try idk

[deft mulch]

lmao its free why not

[outer hollow]

Yeah just do it tomorrow why not

Im pretty sure u can sign up during the comp

[deft mulch]

yeah

[outer hollow]

It ends tomorrow night so if u have a four hour block of time tomorrow give it a shot and see how you do

[gusty siren]

Ima do it tmr gonna sign up rn 💀

[austere vapor]

Does anyone know if theres space on the MIT FUN form to submit files? ... @ petey

[elder vine]

yeah i think so

you can submit pictures atleast

[austere vapor]

gonna submit a picture of a frog

[outer hollow]

Niceee, gl

[gusty siren]

you tooo

[remote vessel]

thank you for saying this i meant to get back to work on my Harvard essays

[gusty siren]

goood luckk 👍 if u get in and need a boston tour guide, my rate is $20 / hr

[remote vessel]

too late

[ionic spindle]

Chanceme is horrible at predicting MIT

because it is really hard to predict

[eternal jasper]

i refuse to do a chanceme

[ionic spindle]

and overpopulated

[eternal jasper]

but i may or may not make a collegeresults post titled "fuck r/chanceme" at the end of the year

[ionic spindle]

lmfao

[ionic spindle]

I'm gonna do chanceme, because I feel like my post will be very unique and people will not know how to respond

likely nobody in chanceme has ever had stats like mine

[gusty siren]

whats a chanceme 💀

[eternal jasper]

yeah that could be funny

best for you to not worry about it 😊

but it's this subreddit where you post your stats and shit and people "chance" you for different colleges

[gusty siren]

💀

[eternal jasper]

but it's bs because it's just insecure high schoolers telling you that you'll never be enough

[maiden tundra]

chanceme an opp

they called me a generic cs indian (im a generic cs indian)

[eternal jasper]

oop

https://www.reddit.com/r/chanceme/comments/ynhgco/chance_for_mit/

this is my favorite post of all time

[maiden tundra]

is that the guy they said wouldnt get in and he got in the year before

[eternal jasper]

yes

[elder vine]

i did a chanceme and it wasnt as bad as I thought

[eternal jasper]

i did a reverse chance me, they didn't give me any info i wanted lol

i said i wanted target schools, one person asked a bunch of questions and then didn't give an answer, and then on person said gatech and rice

[gusty siren]

everyone on there is cracked 💀

[eternal jasper]

and i'm like those are def not targets lmao

[maiden tundra]

gtech target is crazy

[eternal jasper]

exactly, some people still say they have no chance

[eternal jasper]

they said if i was instate it could be a target, but i am not in state lol

[ionic spindle]

They are all full of shit

and incredibly pretentious

[eternal jasper]

very

[stoic fox]

I did a chance me

[gusty siren]

ykw maybe i have no chance bro my ecs and awards are mid only my grades are good

[stoic fox]

I got laughed at

[gusty siren]

💀

[stoic fox]

[maiden tundra]

my entire post just said go to ut but idk if ill get into ut 💀 💀

[stoic fox]

Look whos laughing now

[eternal jasper]

don't listen to them, i'm the same way lol

[eternal jasper]

real

[ionic spindle]

The kind of people who participate in chanceme won't get in, because they act like the kind of people who post in chanceme not because anything is lacking about there stats or ECs

[maiden tundra]

what is "mid"

like only cure 1 cancer?

[eternal jasper]

exactly

[inland flicker]

rio

[ionic spindle]

I don't know if my ECs are mid or not

I have no idea how to quantify

[eternal jasper]

new username just dropped

[ionic spindle]

nobody else has same ECs as me

[eternal jasper]

you can't, and that's the problem

chanceme is so innacurate

[ionic spindle]

My ECs are too unique to be compared to others

at least imo

[maiden tundra]

google "rng" and press generate

[ionic spindle]

I have a weird feeling I'm going to get in everywhere

[elder vine]

my ecs are kinda generic

[stoic fox]

You could compare to me

Tbh

[ionic spindle]

but I might be overconfident and get in nowhere

[gusty siren]

like joining clubs that i never attend 💀