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

[austere vapor]

this is so valid

[modern lava]

Some kids do great with Olympiads, some are great at doing their own things

[shrewd basalt]

My website's too simple for that

[calm kestrel]

oh then its fine

[modern lava]

Legit just be excited and passionate about the things you do

[high spruce]

What does this even entail

[austere vapor]

sometimes i wish i kept grinding comp math after I quit in the 6th grade; however, i enjoy happiness.

[high spruce]

Aren't most people showcasing their passion when it comes to college apps

[shrewd basalt]

I can intuitively understand what is wrote in each part but I can't be asked to learn how to build it myself

[modern lava]

That's the thing, nobody knows what it entails lmao

[calm kestrel]

"my brother you have a hook you run 10000 times without memoizing"

"what is a hook"

[modern lava]

The thing about being yourself is that only you know who you are

[hollow sedge]

just got an idea for the unexpected challenge supp gotta write it down

[exotic briar]

This is quite hard to do (or for the AO's to differentiate)
Excellence is a lot more concrete and you can show passion fairly intuitively from there

[shrewd basalt]

My site doesn't use React

[calm kestrel]

html or framework

[shrewd basalt]

There is like one JS file for that trendy thing that people do with their introductions

HTML

[high spruce]

Also if I have some satartup stuff on my app is it bad that I didn't mention any of it in my essays

Is that a red flag

[calm kestrel]

https://tenor.com/bIfum.gif

finally someone who rawdoggs their shit

so real

[shrewd basalt]

"I like to meet new people", "I like to travel", "I like to eat good food" that sort of thing

[high spruce]

Cause tbf it was just a software project that I did never expected it to go this far

[shrewd basalt]

Of course mine were less NPC

[high spruce]

^^

[calm kestrel]

I quit doing website performance consulting after this

[shrewd basalt]

Ngl some of the people at my school are insanely stacked

[calm kestrel]

the bag was not in fact worth it

[high spruce]

I don't want to make them be under the impression that did it for colelge

[modern lava]

Showing passion really is a hard thing to do tbh, but ngl a lot of it has to do with how you choose to describe the things that you do

[calm kestrel]

this u?

[modern lava]

Passion should be self evident in how you write about things

[shrewd basalt]

I wish

[calm kestrel]

top 200 putnam 🥶

[high spruce]

could someone help?? plzzz

[exotic briar]

don't dox people

[calm kestrel]

I have a mutual connection do I send him a request

[shrewd basalt]

He's p public

[modern lava]

For example, for ecs, you could go beyond what you did and what you accomplished and touch on the motivations and personal values that led you to pursue that activity

[shrewd basalt]

Probably

[modern lava]

What you've learned from it and how you've applied that in other parts of your life, etc.

[austere vapor]

guys im so delulu i rly be thinking my FUN form is gonna get me in

💀

send help

[modern lava]

A lot of that is more personal stuff really and that's how you show "passion," the nebulous thing that it is

[exotic briar]

does anyone know what questions (specifically) the FUN form contains?

[modern lava]

It's showing the person--you--behind your accomplishments

[austere vapor]

grade update, 250 words about whatever you want, and then file/image upload.
from the research ive done

[exotic briar]

huh

[austere vapor]

like its just mostly free space afaik

[exotic briar]

file/image upload? is this for grades?

[high spruce]

What does the research supp contain?

[modern lava]

Tbh I think some of y'all are tripping over yourselves trying to make sure your FUN form is full of new accomplishments

You can write whatever you want

[calm kestrel]

wait did he enroll 2023?

[modern lava]

How have you changed since y'all made your apps? You can write about stuff like that too, and tbh that's arguably more substantive

[exotic briar]

Can admitted students just blank the 250 words without getting rescinded

[austere vapor]

im not talkin new accomplishments in my FUN but just two projects.
lmao im attaching a MIT themed puzzle hunt to my FUN for the AO's too

[modern lava]

That's neat

[hollow sedge]

supposedly they can see your passion in your essays

based on the way you write

[modern lava]

Why would they rescind any of us for that 💀

[austere vapor]

wrote one of my essays on doing puzzle hunts so i figured it was a nice lil follow up

[shrewd basalt]

Nah he's like a junior

[calm kestrel]

oh lol

I thought he got into BAIR during high school

Ive been on a2c too long

[modern lava]

Sometimes people are good at faking passion of course but there's just something special in passionate writing

[exotic briar]

ok that's what I thought
The only really important part is to upload 1st sem grades right

[calm kestrel]

eh tbh I feel like anyone can sound passionate abt anything with a few hours of priming

[austere vapor]

just dont fail a class 💀

[modern lava]

That sort of writing feels like an elevator pitch per se about a person, but more about hearing someone truly demonstrate what is it about that thing interests them and what places that interest has led them to

[exotic briar]

I have successfully done this 😎

[elder vine]

Ima cook on my fun form Fr Fr

[austere vapor]

double negation? sorry to hear u failed

[exotic briar]

oop edited

[austere vapor]

arent u in u dont have to cook

[hollow sedge]

one of my classmates is top 3 in texas for UIL CS and is barely passing english 💀

[elder vine]

No unfortunately not

[modern lava]

There's a difference between being confident and being passionate

[calm kestrel]

I mean in writing how would u even convey the diff between the 2

you can easilly conflate one with the other with the right topic + tone

[austere vapor]

then how r u a2c '23

[modern lava]

By focusing more on the how and why rather than the what

[elder vine]

Special anniversary role go check in role channel

Just click it to receive

[exotic briar]

I feel like someone who is passionate about the stuff they make but ends up delving into technical details is not going to be as compelling to the AO's
Versus someone who actually explains and analyzes exactly why they do the things they do, even if they are less "passionate"

[calm kestrel]

^^

I dont see how you have to be passionate abt smth to explain why you could feel inclined to do smth some type of way

[elder vine]

Mit tho doesn’t have that much space to explain your passion

Like the why major essay was tiny

[exotic briar]

but you must put the "why" regardless

[hollow sedge]

i think 100 words was enough

[modern lava]

I mean, you can be passionate per se without really thinking much on why you do things

[elder vine]

Nah I struggled to keep it under 100

[modern lava]

It's a combination of passion and reflection I suppose

[austere vapor]

thats so real

[elder vine]

Cuz you have to say why major and then why mit

It was like 4 sentences

[modern lava]

You have to interrogate why you do things and why things interests you

[calm kestrel]

100 was too much I was abt to end it at "balling"

[austere vapor]

anyone who in wanna take a look at my fun and lmk if i cooked sufficiently

[modern lava]

Jargon isn't compelling; you are compelling

[calm kestrel]

I can read smth

[modern lava]

You show passion by showing who you are, not necessarily what you've done

[elder vine]

Bro chillax it’s not even February

[exotic briar]

I acc want to look at my admissions file next year lmao

[elder vine]

You could change in a month in a half

[hollow sedge]

i dont really think you have to say why mit
the way i approached this prompt was "if you could pick any course at mit, why this one?

[austere vapor]

well im not gonna write it later and i have to spend time making the puzzle hunt im attaching to it

so fr

[modern lava]

Does masstech even let you check your file

[austere vapor]

no

[exotic briar]

oh

rip

[austere vapor]

i asked one of my friends there abt this they dont

[elder vine]

Puzzle hunt for the aos?

[modern lava]

Probably for the better tbh

All the Stanford students making file checking kids 💀

[austere vapor]

i wrote an essay about playing puzzle hunts and in my update i mentioned the one im currently playing and im like "oh and heres one for u! no hints:(" except better

[elder vine]

Lmao

Just don’t make it too hard lol

They got a lot of funs to read

[modern lava]

I didn't mention shit about MIT's specific offerings in that essay 💀

I wrote it basically just as a why major

I mentioned that in my interview in fact

[hollow sedge]

same

[elder vine]

Maybe I read the prompt wrong

Didn’t it say specifically at mit

[modern lava]

Didn't feel the need to flatter MIT for engineering

[austere vapor]

im gonna play test with some ppl get the time to <5m~10m.
probably just gonna be a really easy first stage to get them in and then a slight thinker second stage and then either rick roll or beaver call video at the end lol

[elder vine]

I have like a 150 word base for all why major essays

[modern lava]

It did, but you don't have to do that

[elder vine]

Then I spend 50 words for why that school

[modern lava]

What they just wanna see is what interests you and why

[elder vine]

I mean it makes sense it’s mit they know you wanna go there

[modern lava]

Legit don't overthink it that much

If you can touch on some great things about your major at MIT that's great

[elder vine]

Yeah it’s in the past now

[modern lava]

Mention it

But you don't have to

[elder vine]

We move on to fun form

Lowkey I feel like I sold my interview

My interview was actually an ai

[austere vapor]

mine was like 80 lol

he was chill tho we vibed

[modern lava]

Same lmao

[exotic briar]

wait is this a ferpa violation or smth? (or maybe I'm hallucinating)

[austere vapor]

they can destroy the files

iirc

[exotic briar]

oh so they just destroy them?

[modern lava]

My Interviewer attended MIT while computers still took up whole rooms

[austere vapor]

not 100% sure

this is just what they said could be off

[modern lava]

Ngl tho my Interviewer being old worked out for me

Cause that somehow spiraled into a conversation about changes in society and technology which ended up helping me

Actual vibe tbh

[elder vine]

My interview spent a lot of time talking about himself and about how mit is so great

Bro didn’t even ask me a lot of questions

And when the interview ended he just got up and walked away

Like he didn’t even drive he just appeared there

[austere vapor]

bro teleported?!

[elder vine]

that’s what I’m saying

Ok I have to go see my case western results

[austere vapor]

gl

[exotic briar]

^^^^^

[elder vine]

DEFERRED WTF

[elder vine]

Y’all it might be over we are no longer back

[calm kestrel]

keep your head up king we still have 13 days

[spiral tiger]

do you think MIT knows what a discord server is

or do i have to elaborate

[calm kestrel]

they sent out a discord server invite to everyone '28

I think its popular enough now for them to know

[modern lava]

Not yet

They're only making the server in March though it seems some have gotten ahead of the curve

[hollow sedge]

peteys in this server

and they also have a discord for admitted students

i doubt they dont know what discord is

[outer hollow]

yo oats what did you submit for your supplemental lor? or did you? im currently struggling to pick one letter to submit

[modern lava]

Bold of you to assume I submitted one

[outer hollow]

in #🌻-app-questions i just posted a question about my LORs, its a struggle rn lol. i have a gut feeling with which one i wanna go with but then i go back and read the MIT lor section online and think maybe the other one would be better

[violet hill]

who is ur interviewer

cause lowkey

i had a somewhat similar experience

[elder vine]

Don’t wanna dox myself

[violet hill]

bay area?

[hollow sedge]

wtf shambles is back

[violet hill]

oh

[hollow sedge]

youre just in time for poker

[elder vine]

Nah opposite coast lol

[violet hill]

planned!!

[violet hill]

rip

[outer hollow]

cuz like on one hand i know MIT greatly values character, but on the other hand maybe the work experience would show a different side of me. also depends on what my teachers wrote lol

@modern lava do you have an idea of generally what ur recommenders talked about? do you think they talked a lot about how nice of a person you are, that sort of thing? or more your intellectual curiousity, etc

[modern lava]

Nope and I'd rather not think about it

[outer hollow]

i think ima just go with my gut on which LOR to submit, but if only i could submit both... cuz rn i dont really have a space to talk about my SE internship in the app, but that takes up a lot of my time now. ill need to incorporate that somehow throughout my app if i decide to not submit a work lor

[austere vapor]

yes. like 100%

[river sky]

mit AO saying "no mods no masters" is insane 😭 i love this school sm

please let me in

[inland flicker]

I mean each class has a discord server

[onyx elk]

can any admits send me link for class of 28 discord?

im tryna meet new ppl

[inland flicker]

it won't be made unti lmarch

[onyx elk]

bruh

[inland flicker]

yuh

[onyx elk]

btw i got admitted with 1490 and 3.9 gpa so i hope that gives hope to the ppl out here

u can make it

[inland flicker]

I got deferred with a 33 and a 4.58 GPA

you guys gotta be cracked at writing essays

[river sky]

what are bros ecs 😭 🙏

[green dew]

^^

[inland flicker]

my ecs are tech startup (100K revenue), developed an online political simulator (30k registered users), managed campaign for my brother for town council and our clerk of court candidate, class president, 2 non-profits (worked for them didn't create them),

[spiral tiger]

my ecs are sniffing glue

ngl

[inland flicker]

thats a good one

[river sky]

oh thats so neat!!!

[spiral tiger]

i can actually tell you the brand and age of the glue im sniffing

im not joking

[river sky]

yo check dm rq

[river sky]

me 2

im gna manifest usamo qual

fuck it

mop

nah

imo

IMO gold in fact

[spiral tiger]

I know an IMO gold medalist that was admitted to MIT

It helps a lot if youre domestic

It’s like almost guaranteed

[river sky]

what if its on USA team but like your technically not domestic

bc of visa or whtv

😭

[coarse fjord]

i feel like my ecs are worse and i still got in lol

you got this have hope

[spiral tiger]

It’s about selling yourself as a person

[river sky]

bro istg im going to make a fruitless petition for MIT to consider ppl in my position as domestic 😭

[spiral tiger]

Be corporate but not too corporate

[river sky]

it fucking sucks so much bruuu.....

[calm kestrel]

I come back online to see this wtf...

[spiral tiger]

Are you on visa?

[calm kestrel]

you have 100k revenue why are u applying to mit

[spiral tiger]

In the US

Or what

[river sky]

H4 for the past 15 yrs

[spiral tiger]

Revenue is not profit

[calm kestrel]

100k revenue at hs is still insane

[river sky]

we filed AOS like a few years ago but i think greencard is like a few years out

[spiral tiger]

If you put 2 million in and make 100k revenue that’s unfortunate

[calm kestrel]

drop out and just become a startup founder

[spiral tiger]

Yea youre kinda screwed sorry

[calm kestrel]

yall have that kinda leverage? 💀

[river sky]

💀

[spiral tiger]

Hashbrown was in the EXACT same situation

[river sky]

im so depressed bru

[spiral tiger]

She got into wellesley

[calm kestrel]

fwiw u get considered in ur hs pool

so u only intl for aid iirc

[river sky]

wait but aid doesnt matter for MIT?

theyre need blind everywhere

[calm kestrel]

need blind is for admissions

you get considered for intl COA

from which u can apply for finaid like a regular student since they dont discriminate against intls

[charred musk]

i think this guys trolling
"4.0, 1600, nasa internship, isef grand award, usamo qual"

[solid pawn]

nah hes rural and LI

[inland flicker]

i applied for a grant and got it which helped start the company

[river sky]

wdym

[inland flicker]

ever since then ive just been making money -> put the moneyb akc in the business

i take 0% owners withdraw

[calm kestrel]

what does ur company do? I'm hella invested now

[inland flicker]

IT Consulting & Software Development

[river sky]

i know i actually probably have better chances at need aware for intl colleges bc im applying full-pay everywherew

[inland flicker]

not many software dev jobs in my area, but lots of companies want websites and need network engineering done

[calm kestrel]

you make 100k off of network engineering?

[spiral tiger]

I think you’ll end up somewhere good

[calm kestrel]

gayudayum

[inland flicker]

no i didn't make 100k

100K was revenue

[spiral tiger]

Present yourself as enthusiastic and inquisitive

[inland flicker]

my profit margin is about 50%

[spiral tiger]

I believe in you

[inland flicker]

thank u

[coarse fjord]

facts you've got this

[spiral tiger]

Nah like I’m being legit

There’s no way you aren’t

[inland flicker]

my confidence is 0% after my deferral

[spiral tiger]

Just dont forget to not throw

[coarse fjord]

chances are never 0

[calm kestrel]

bros are crazy oml how do you not resist the urge to just drop outta high school and ball

[spiral tiger]

Ur essays

[solid pawn]

You were just sadly disadvantaged for MIT due to test scores

[inland flicker]

idk i don't think my essays were bad but I guess they were

[spiral tiger]

Im slightly confident after my stanford deferral

[solid pawn]

I think you have an amazing chance at any number of T20s

I've known you for a while

[inland flicker]

@spiral tiger stanford deferall is really good man that means your AO vote was 2-2

[spiral tiger]

Idk how mit works but with stanford it means you made it to committee

[solid pawn]

You have my full confidence

[inland flicker]

thank kirk ❤️

[spiral tiger]

Is it not the same with MIT

[inland flicker]

no

[spiral tiger]

u should be fine

[solid pawn]

He only knows the 2-2 due to Admitium

[spiral tiger]

You still have RD

just dont throw

[inland flicker]

They deferred 8,000 people only rejected 2k and accepted 661

[spiral tiger]

You weren’t rejected

[inland flicker]

?

[calm kestrel]

dawg ur def getting in, just clutch the FUN

[spiral tiger]

I have faith

[inland flicker]

What I can put on the FUN:
I won another campaign that I managed FULLY for a County position this time and the candidate wasn't my relative
I won another campaign during hte same election cycle but I was only on the campaign committee but it was for state office
all A's (they are A+s but my school doesn't do A+/A-) (AP Calc BC, AP Microecnomics, AP US Gov, AP Comp Gov, AP Physics 2, and Dual English 111)
Continued to run my business while maintaining A's (WE JUST WON THE BID TO DO FULL IT FOR A NEIGHBORING LETS FUCKING GO cough)

and thats it

I didn't do any international olympiad or anything

[river sky]

im so anxius about everything bruh

[inland flicker]

i'm cooked

[solid pawn]

Bruh ur winning political campaigns?!

[calm kestrel]

dawg at this point your resume is better than most undergrads 💀 going to grad school

[torn panther]

100k revenue, atp just get some startup money from a VC fund and life your life

[inland flicker]

REVENUE NOT PROFIT PPL

[spiral tiger]

My brother in christ

I hate ego stroking but

[river sky]

dude youre running a business and a political campaign

[spiral tiger]

You are fine

Just dont throw your commonapp

[river sky]

me on the other hand i think im genuinely fucked

[spiral tiger]

Write it well

[torn panther]

i know diff between profit and revenue, but VC funds don't care they give millions out like candy

[inland flicker]

I know I will get in SOMEWHERE but like, MIT has been my dream school for YEARS actual YEARS

[river sky]

i dont even want to apply to college anymore

[spiral tiger]

Start writing EARLY

apply everywhere

[spiral tiger]

You still have a chance

[inland flicker]

i hope so

[river sky]

🫡

[spiral tiger]

Youre literally only deferred

[inland flicker]

Stanford is my next choice 😄

[spiral tiger]

Even if you dont get in

[spiral tiger]

Stanford is elite

[inland flicker]

they like businesses i thonk

[river sky]

hopefully my diff eq/discrete/calc3 professor writes a fire rec

[spiral tiger]

I dont know if I’m gonna be able to clutch up with my deferral

[austere marten]

Stanford mid 😂

[river sky]

and the caltech research pulls through 🙏

[austere marten]

😂 😂 😂 😂

[spiral tiger]

For what

[torn panther]

what college did u get?

[elder vine]

Wait can we submit an additional Rec after we get deferred

[inland flicker]

no

[austere marten]

nothing yet

[calm kestrel]

yeah im dipping from this server idk how yall land this stuff

[austere marten]

im just yapping

[river sky]

my first cold emal

[green dew]

so real

[river sky]

i must have a way with words

[austere marten]

stumped me

(unironically)

[torn panther]

im a freshman watching yall suffer in applications (i didnt study for finals and my most important exam is tomorrow)

[river sky]

should i do stannyrhoea or MIT+Uchic EA

[river sky]

hop off lil bro

[calm kestrel]

imo stanny + state school EA is peak

[river sky]

state school is separate tho

[green dew]

does stanford rea have higher acceptance rates?

[river sky]

marginally

iirc

[calm kestrel]

most state schools offer aid for EA so you can get around stanford REA with them

[river sky]

state schools dont even count for REA

REA only applies to privates

[calm kestrel]

I forgor

abt that

[inland flicker]

@spiral tiger The biggest problem is only 150-250 deferrals get in
My chances just went from
661/12,563
to
(high ball it)
250/8,057 + however many apply RD

[river sky]

i feel like the monte carlo paradox plays a role into it

[inland flicker]

I'm not sure my application is good enough to be selected out of the ENTIRE RD + Deferall pool

That, OR what I"m hopeful for is I was only deferred bc of my test scores and they just want to see if I get all As in my full load of APs so they know my work is sustainable

[river sky]

EA accepts highly cracked people and defers most others

[spiral tiger]

It’s fine

Why is MIT your dream

[river sky]

RD gets hihgly cracked people who did HYPS REA

[green dew]

what was ur test score

[calm kestrel]

RD also gets bums like me

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[river sky]

sso does EA honestly

[flint wigeon]

3k

[river sky]

on average the EA pool isnt that much better than RD

[inland flicker]

mit is my dream bc of their community

[flint wigeon]

still though

[inland flicker]

oh wow their rejection rate went up

[coarse fjord]

im not sure if doing research at hyps matters but more of the quality of the research

[inland flicker]

33 act

[green dew]

if basically everyones deferred then does that mean anyone that meets like a basic academic level is deferred

or do they actually look at ur app

[inland flicker]

they look at your app obv

but they defer people who aren't glaring rejects

[river sky]

bru i just discovered wellesley dual degree and then i found out that wellesley is a girls college 😭 yall girls got it tho!!!

[inland flicker]

lol

[green dew]

wait that’s a girls college??

[flint wigeon]

oh is that the BA + BS thign

[river sky]

ye

[eternal rampart]

a few others offer it too i think

[river sky]

really??

[inland flicker]

My hope is me and @solid pawn get regional finalist in Coke Scholars that would look 🔥 on FUN updates

[river sky]

legally no technically yeah? i think?

i cant apply coke sadly

[inland flicker]

y

[river sky]

visa

lel

[inland flicker]

wdym

oh

yuh you gotta be a US resident

[green dew]

r u applying cs

[inland flicker]

yeah but that doesn't have any effect on mit admissions

[green dew]

did u apply anywhere else ea

[solid pawn]

and @spiral tiger

[river sky]

u gotta good state shcool tho?

[river sky]

*permanent

[flint wigeon]

i feel like i have nothing for FUN :(

[river sky]

buyt yea

[inland flicker]

yuh i applied UVA EA

[green dew]

omg me too

i dropped all my ecs bc i was lazy

[river sky]

blud lives in VA 💀

[inland flicker]

BUT LIKE the only reason you were deferred is bc of intl status

you're a shoe in for RD bro

[flint wigeon]

nawww

[inland flicker]

your app is great across the pool

[flint wigeon]

no one is 🥲

[inland flicker]

oiuaeiogurhjiugreq45hiu

[inland flicker]

oh yah fr

[spiral tiger]

I’m also praying

Are u in my discord

[inland flicker]

yes

[spiral tiger]

wait holy shit

[inland flicker]

?

[spiral tiger]

How is EM STILL IN VC

I’m gonna pop in

[inland flicker]

[flint wigeon]

why do we have one mutual friend

:peepoparty:

[inland flicker]

poor az

[flint wigeon]

nOOOOOO

[river sky]

oh shit

i feel bad for you being in the same state as tjhsst and nova

[spiral tiger]

oh tori?

probably because she does a lot of math

[flint wigeon]

true

[inland flicker]

are you applying rd for mit

[spiral tiger]

ye

[flint wigeon]

i dont do MO thoguh 💀

ik her through IOL lol

[inland flicker]

good luck you r a good applicant

[river sky]

you did ling oly rigt?

[spiral tiger]

thanks dawg

[flint wigeon]

yas

[river sky]

dude im doing ling oly this year

[spiral tiger]

oh wait

[river sky]

hopefully i get intl

[spiral tiger]

tori did naclo

[flint wigeon]

omg gl

[spiral tiger]

and she went to iol i think

[flint wigeon]

yeayea

thats where i met her

[river sky]

ive been conlanging for like 8 years and i probably have hundreds of hist ling papers in my drive rn 😭

[flint wigeon]

omgg

i started conlanging in 10th grade 💀 and qualed the next year 💀

[inland flicker]

lol

[flint wigeon]

kinda trolled

[river sky]

i remember last year i was trying to do my own reconstruction of PIE lol

[flint wigeon]

wait thats so cool

[river sky]

i was gna do naclo last yr i js forgot to register

[inland flicker]

guys i asked my school to sign me up for AMC12 for november so I could add it to my RD apps and they said "we don't do anything like that"

[flint wigeon]

idk how competitive naclo is but you have a great shot i think

[river sky]

yeah the current reconstructions are pretty terrible

[river sky]

yep!!!

[flint wigeon]

2 vowel system moment

[spiral tiger]

should i grind it

[river sky]

no (i need to qual this)

[flint wigeon]

💀

[flint wigeon]

doable

probably

[river sky]

wait so how does qualing work

[flint wigeon]

some naclo questions are wack thouhg

[flint wigeon]

not sure cuz im intl
but i think theres an open round and then an invitationals?

[river sky]

oh nice

[flint wigeon]

2 US teams and 1 can-anglophone

[river sky]

linguistics lowkey been my specila interest until august of this year

im too locked in now

i think i fit into the mold bc every other really interested theoretical cs/math guy i see on discord is also into ling

[flint wigeon]

im a ling lover and cs hater lol 💀💀💀

[inland flicker]

@spiral tiger my coke semi app is kinda scuffed bc i rushed throuhg it like 3 days before the deadline

i honestly think my essays all suck but idk

[river sky]

ling lowkey got me into cs too

[spiral tiger]

i rushed through it in 1 hour

don't worry

i just wrote everything major corporate vibe

[river sky]

my boy kho azizi 😭 🙏

[inland flicker]

BetterCollegeApps helped me revise my MIT app I thought it was a lock 😦

[river sky]

he's my goat

[coarse fjord]

oh yeah ngl that's annoying

i had to set up usabo at my school for me to take it

my teacher came through with that she's the goat

[flint wigeon]

our school does usabo but like so few of us are citizens lol

i still took it tho

[river sky]

where r u

sg?

[flint wigeon]

hk

[violet hill]

3/10?

[river sky]

oh nice!

i wanna visit hk ngl

[flint wigeon]

apps done 😭

[river sky]

i know sg has a big indian community tho look at the name!! so it will probably feel less foreign ngl

[flint wigeon]

you shouldddd its so nice here

[river sky]

tho i suppose even going to india feels very foreign for my US ass 💀

[solid pawn]

didnt we all

[spiral tiger]

go to the bios

ctrl f

"equity"

that's my strat

[solid pawn]

aint no way

37 mentions

[solid pawn]

imma grind this shit

[stoic fox]

3.851 weighted GPA and 1550 SAT

Here

[gusty siren]

everyone with the comps

can’t relate

[stoic fox]

Just a extremely cracked EC

lol

[gusty siren]

I gave up on the usaco

[hollow sedge]

chris is the snake charmer

[stoic fox]

My EC is snake handling

I gave up hope long ago before this

[inland flicker]

lol

[eternal agate]

do I have any hope to finish the essay if I start now?

[inland flicker]

yes

[proud current]

Love your snakes from the yt vids btw!!

[stoic fox]

Ty

To be honest; if i had another option i’d withdraw my admission and give it to @inland flicker

[proud current]

I was curious about how you got interested in snakes

[inland flicker]

Nah you earned it

[stoic fox]

You had better ECs for MIT imo

[hollow sedge]

did you think your essays were good

[inland flicker]

My essays were probably just bad

[stoic fox]

No

[inland flicker]

I think the worst part about being deferred is just seeing people commit already

[stoic fox]

I committed

[inland flicker]

Yep 🙂

I don't blame you-- I would have committed to MIT the moment I got in too

[outer hollow]

Lol my school hadnt proctored it in 15 years but i was able to get them to sign up for it literally the last day of late registration for 12B. For me though it was more for fun, cuz i didnt have enough prep time to get an actually decent score. I convinced a bunch of my friends to take it with me and most of them answered a few questions and then left lol, it was great. My school is so full of academics

[inland flicker]

lol

[outer hollow]

A bunch of them got below 37.5 which means they could have left everything blank and gotten a higher score 💀

[teal pilot]

Don’t have time for a maker portfolio though.

[outer hollow]

Probably if you have good essays and they think ur a good fit, thats what im focusing on mostly in my app rn

[hollow sedge]

Research is not a mid ec 💀

[teal pilot]

No publications though

[outer hollow]

I have the academics & ecs, so the main focus is making sure my passion and character comes thru in my essays and LORs, i think my whole application though lines up with the idea of applying sideways, since literally everything on there I did for fun, and it somehow formed a cohesive college app

[shrewd basalt]

It varies from a great EC to a shit EC

[hollow sedge]

I have no respect for the people that pay thousands for phony research

[teal pilot]

I got mine by actually reaching out to a prof at the uni I’m dual enrolled at.

[hollow sedge]

Same lol

Undergraduate research program as a high schooler

[outer hollow]

For my mit essay about a challenge you faced i wrote about “Minecraft Bullies” 💀 but its actually good cuz i own a minecraft server and i was able to talk about why i enjoy running one and some of my responsibilities on it

[hollow sedge]

I talked about my basement quartet, won't talk about the challenges/what I learned here because weirdos like plagiarizing essays

[quick hawk]

No chance mes

[outer hollow]

I havent done any research, what do they have you guys do? I honestly have no idea what college research looks like for high schoolers, never looked into it

[hollow sedge]

My group does a simulataneous research paper and review paper

Research is basically just contributing new ideas/info to the global science community

[outer hollow]

I just feel like there would be nothing i could actually contribute lol with my current knowledge

Anything meaningful at least

[violet hill]

@fierce gust

[outer hollow]

What are your other ecs u submitting to mit? Curious what everyone else here is doing

[hollow sedge]

To MIT?

[outer hollow]

Ye

[hollow sedge]

Running events & graphic design for a2c, taking meeting notes & planning events at my cultural org, and something else I haven't decided yet

[teal pilot]

Research, Independent project, Robotics, Non-profit

[hollow sedge]

Oh yeah and graphic design for Texas a&m esports

[outer hollow]

Dang nice

[hollow sedge]

Research isn't going to go on my ec list because they have a research supp

[outer hollow]

Yeah makes sense

[violet hill]

😴

[outer hollow]

Mine are pretty basic except for one, I have CS Club president, Quizbowl Captain, Tennis team captain, and owning a Minecraft Server lol, the mc server is what a lot of my app is based around and i have a maker portfolio for it

[teal pilot]

Ig that makes sense. But we aren’t in preprint or published yet so I’m screwed.

[outer hollow]

I made an epic 2 minute video and had the summoning salt music in it lol

[hollow sedge]

I'm not either lol

My group mates for my papers are complete slackers

[outer hollow]

Oh rip you have to work in a group

[hollow sedge]

Yeah

[teal pilot]

Are you doing a maker portfolio?

[outer hollow]

I bet for college research you get a bunch of kids who dont care and are just doing it for apps

That would suck

[teal pilot]

My uni is pretty shit. So the undergrads suck but the PHD students are good to work with.

[outer hollow]

Which uni?

[hollow sedge]

I'm doing a maker portfolio on the Minecraft boat freeways I build

[teal pilot]

It’s a bad one in central Florida.

[outer hollow]

My local uni is good for supply chain management and thats about it, their cs program is below avg

[hollow sedge]

Here's a partially complete freeway interchange in minecraft

[outer hollow]

Lmao nice

[teal pilot]

That’s pretty sick ngl

[inland flicker]

I made a roleplay minecraft server that was on a top chart for like a week lol

then I closed it bc I was busy rip

[outer hollow]

My maker portfolio shows a variety of things i coded, from a wipeout gamemode, calculus questions in chat, fruit picking simulator, and gambling lol

[outer hollow]

Where did you host, minehut?

[inland flicker]

MCProhosting

I think it might be shutdown now not sure

[hollow sedge]

They still exist

[inland flicker]

ah nice

[outer hollow]

How many players did you get at once?

[violet hill]

hfl told me apparently i got 6/4

😴

still ass but

not as ass as i expected

[outer hollow]

Bmt looked like so much fun i saw bprps videos of it, if only i lived in cali and not in arkansas

[violet hill]

6 doesnt make distinguished in this economy apparently...

top 20%

its fine we bounce back

[calm kestrel]

how do you report semester grades for MIT

[violet hill]

last yr i got t5 smt

this time

i shall get t1

oops

[calm kestrel]

do you just report the final grade or just the semester grades seperated by comma

[violet hill]

doxx alert ⚠️

[calm kestrel]

https://tenor.com/b1IxZ.gif

[violet hill]

still very very doxxable...

[calm kestrel]

yall are actually crazy

[violet hill]

yes

[violet hill]

still deferred 😠

from mit

winner

we prob wont have a team B

our org is dying

and i dont care enough...

[frozen karma]

how do you format the essays indent wise on mit application?

are you supposed to manual indent, hit tab, or nothing and just start a new paragraph with a new line?

[flint wigeon]

i think theres an FAQ

[flint wigeon]

uhh i just did new line but maybe thats why i was deferred 💀

[flint wigeon]

https://mitadmissions.org/apply/firstyear/essays-activities-academics/#coursework

if they are on your transcript i think you should add semester grades too (separated by comma)

[zinc berry]

||no you're not 100% in lmfao||

dat when 🤨

IOI campers should stay away from IMO campers 💀

[warm juniper]

the only supplemental i’ve discussed stem in is the why major one, is this necessarily bad

[zinc berry]

not really

[frozen karma]

ok can others confirm?

also in the awards section theres like unlimited characters allowed on the award name, so should i explain the awards a bit

[inland flicker]

I don’t think so

[flint wigeon]

isnt there a sectoin to describe the awards

[frozen karma]

no

so why cant i just explain then in the award title if theres space for a description

[solid pawn]

ur IOL?

[dawn prairie]

he is IMO

orz greek guy that won IMO bronze at 14 or smth

[frozen karma]

does anybody have an answer to this? like anybody who applied to MIT already should know

[elder needle]

guys is it bad to have 3 bs first semester senior year 😭

[rain coyote]

there isn’t unlimited space in the award title; u cna try, but you’ll hit a limit pretty soon i think

[frozen karma]

well i could type a decently long description without a problem

i'm just wondering if it's a thing to describe your award in the title

and whether it's a good idea to do that to explain the significance of the award

[frozen karma]

yeah there's definitely no limit, at least if it's less than 1000 words. i like made the title like a full page long with no problem

how come there's no checkmark on mit activities for 9th grade?

[hollow sedge]

That's just the way their app is

[cedar hornet]

lmao

i assume they dont really care about freshman year 💀

[spiral tiger]

im guessing it could also maybe have something to do with covid

[frozen karma]

i looked online and i think it's because they view 9th grade as a time to explore what you want to do

mit is so different from the rest

[elder needle]

but that’s the only year i have good grade 👁️👄👁️

[cedar hornet]

🗿

bad grades are your first problem

ecs come after

[elder needle]

oh gosh community college recruiter is in front of my yard

[ionic spindle]

Community Colleges have recruiters?

[austere vapor]

guys i heard that MIT wants me

[ionic spindle]

They don't stop gaslighting yourself

they just want to lower their acceptance rate

[austere vapor]

shh they'll want me after my FUN

@solid pawn can confirm i popped off

fr

[ionic spindle]

I find it so funny they call it FUN

[solid pawn]

U DID

[austere vapor]

🙏 ty for vouch

im getting in fr

they want me

[elder vine]

We all getting in rd TRUST

[austere vapor]

i aint send petey my bitcoin wallet for nothing /s

[frozen karma]

mit: submit 10 minutes of music recordings for your music supplement
also mit: max file size is 250 mb

[inland flicker]

lol

@austere vapor lemme see

[austere vapor]

my bitcoin wallet? 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

or the FUN lol

[indigo sparrow]

first time I applied I was like "huh, where essay"

then I realised I had been duped

[stoic frost]

how did u write ur ec descriptions and essays??? thats cracked bruh

[eager peak]

immma p'ut it itha

[sand lance]

Typing 9th grade would be more efficient… I’m slowly converting USA to the metric system.

[cedar hornet]

🤓

[austere vapor]

84 days until MIT RD acceptance

[gleaming solstice]

what the

hidden talent

[wind cedar]

only 84 days?

[cedar hornet]

mit drops around pi day and its december 20th

so yea 3 months is abt right

[inland flicker]

mit drops on pi day

do not test petey's punctuality

[cedar hornet]

🤓

[outer hollow]

I remember seeing you in the usaco discord server a while back, how did you do on the bronze comp, did you pass?

[cedar hornet]

...

we dont talk about that LOL

ur boy dropped a nice 480 😍

[inland flicker]

ww

[zinc berry]

nah

[dawn prairie]

bro is capping, he is just humble

[sand lance]

I wanna be humble too

[indigo sparrow]

h

[austere vapor]

[outer hollow]

I icped and got obliterated by silver 💀

You did better tho than of my friends who didnt know how to use StringTokenizer and spent most of his time trying to fix that, he only got around to attempting problem 1 and didnt finish

He didnt do any practice tho either so he can prob promote next contest

[cedar hornet]

brooo

alr look so problem 1 i brute forced even though i knew it woudl time out after 10

problem 2 i half solved

and then problem 3 fucked me so brutally i spent 2 hours on that shit and only got 3 test cases

[outer hollow]

Problem one my friends timed out but i literally just simulated it and it worked fine, i just made sure to break in the loop and move to the next cane whenever it was fully eaten, i think thats what my friend didnt do

[cedar hornet]

i think not having the break in the loop is why i timed out for 11-14

[outer hollow]

Problem 1 i did in about 15 min, prob 2 i spent 45 minutes debugging one stupid issue, i used / instead of % and it was breaking a very specific case, and prob 3 took me a good hour and 15 min to solve cuz my first solution wasnt fast enough

Silver tho was absolutely brutal

[cedar hornet]

problem 1 was helal short for me

yea my friend got fucked by silver

[cedar hornet]

for problem 3

something was wrong with my helper method checking if it was possible

i couldnt figure out what was wrong

and then problem 2 was weird bc i had special cases for groups on the corners and groups not in the corners but it still only halfsolved

[outer hollow]

To be fair i didnt really practice silver and i mostly prepared for bronze, so i only knew bfs and dfs and psums going into silver lol, and i had never implemented any of them, i think if i practice enough the next couple months i should be able to make gold

[cedar hornet]

oh how much practice have u done

[outer hollow]

Yeah problem 2 i had to fix that edge case as well, but it was that one bug that took up all of my time

[cedar hornet]

i had like 51 problems done

i thuoght i was prepared but ig not

[outer hollow]

I did a bunch of bronze probs over thanksgiving, about 60 or so

[cedar hornet]

damn

once contest drops im gonna get back okn preparing

[outer hollow]

I had a time where i was prepping like crazy but then it dropped off cuz i got busy, but luckily i had practiced enough to get through bronze relatively easily

Silver is gonna be rough but it will be fun to learn all the stuff

[cedar hornet]

nah bro

if i dont promo january and i dont get through bronze after preparing

thats just truly tragic

[outer hollow]

I bet u will be fine as long as they dont put a moo language on there lol

Thats the one bronze problem i have been unable to solve

I just didnt even try

[cedar hornet]

for number 3 was the solution just

check if its possible

and then simulate until its like solved

[outer hollow]

Yeah i just looped thru the array, simulating until the plant on the left was smaller than the plant on the right, and did one final check after to make none of the plants had passed the ones on the right, that solved a specific edge case i was missing

[cedar hornet]

ohhhh

i basically did like

[outer hollow]

I was pretty happy with this contest cuz there was nothing crazy and no terrible implementations you had to make

[cedar hornet]

if (possible()) {
while (!isSolved()) {
simulate

i basically simulated the whole array

which in theory should work but something was wrong with the helper method

[outer hollow]

Did you just go 1 day at a time and brute force

[cedar hornet]

possible()

yeah which didnt time out on all but 1

but the problem was

my possible method

wasnt completley correct

[outer hollow]

I brute forced to start and got 4 tc but it timed out and got it wrong on the rest

[cedar hornet]

yea i got right 3 time out 1 wrong on rest

i just got stuck

did u just simulate till each one was like smaller than the one next to it

or whatnot

[outer hollow]

Yeah i had a formula that would calculate the days it would take for the plant on the right to surpass the one on the left, and simulated those days for every plant

And did that throughout the array

[cedar hornet]

oh then did you do like the max

oh thats smart

i didnt think of that

whatever

surely i promo jan!

[atomic vapor]

for MIT's app, do we have to report all SAT sittings, or just our best?

[austere vapor]

your best

they superscore

[indigo sparrow]

yay‼️ ‼️ ‼️

[inland flicker]

They superscore so you report your highest sitting or multiple sittings that gives you your highest superscore
I.E.

If you have an 800M 800EBRW on the December sitting, you just report the December sitting.

If you have an 800M 300EBRW on the November sitting and 100M and 800EBRW on the September sitting you will report both the November & September sitting

[fierce gust]

being so bad at math that u get a nonexistent score is crazy

[inland flicker]

That is what you get when you put 9.8264 as an answer for a question that asks for which variable represents the zero of a function

[austere vapor]

you can get a nonexistent score easily

if you just dont take the test

no score is not within the score range of 400-800 per section

[vague pelican]

do we submit a LOCI or a FUN form or both?
If we do submit LOCI, when should we send it by?

[inland flicker]

No LOCI

Just have to send in the FUN form

They specifically say not to send in a LOCI

[vague pelican]

ok when does that open??

[inland flicker]

mid-january

[vague pelican]

alr thanks. btw can u show where they said not to submit LOCI

[inland flicker]

lol

being a deferred applicant myself I know but sure

[inland flicker]

https://mitadmissions.org/pages/ea-deferred-faq/

[frozen karma]

what does the FUN form ask for? not mit deferred, just curious

[inland flicker]

just an update on what you've done since you submitted your EA app

So whatever you did in November, December, and January

[inland flicker]

In all reality, it's MIT's verison of a LOCI lol

[sand lance]

not like anybody will lose interest in mit

[junior heath]

some people might who knows 💀

[cedar hornet]

i mean

probably 10% of the applications are just doing it for fun

[obtuse sentinel]

their yield rate is about 85%, every year hundreds of people get an MIT admit and turn it down

[cedar hornet]

well we can think of a few cases

1. someone gets into something like upenn ed, doesnt rescind their mit acceptance and waits for ea, gets in ea mit, and then goes with their ed or whatever

2. they didnt get enough fin aid

3. they had another dream school

all of which seem pretty reasonable

[zinc berry]

nah

[slender marsh]

hey guys
i got a B+ in calc 1 last year and will be having a b-range grade in it this semester
my calc courses are graded differently than normal, with over half the grade on things like page formatting and where you put your work
i'll explain this in additional info, but will this ruin my chances? I also worry if my rec letters are bad D: I do have a 35 on act math but that's just like.. level where youre considered

[cedar hornet]

if you are asking whether your b in calc will nuke your chance at mit

the answer is no

[junior heath]

2 bs
over 2 years

well
a yuear and 1 semester

still no but it doesnt look great

what major?

[slender marsh]

electrical engineering

[cedar hornet]

still not going to kill his chances

[junior heath]

no ofc not

[modern lava]

The kid who go into Brown ED and then into MIT EA only to get trolled by Petey for accidentally doxxing themselves be like

[cedar hornet]

explain

i never heard about this LOL

[junior heath]

wait whatd petey say

i saw the post but didnt see petey's

[cedar hornet]

ohh wait no i think i saw the person say they got into brown

did they get into mit too?

[inland flicker]

he posted his MIT acceptance and forgot to blur out his name before posting it lol

[cedar hornet]

damn

[inland flicker]

it was @mori but he left the discord

[cedar hornet]

ngl that would piss me off

so badly

like damn bro i got into mit and cant go

how much does it cost to break ed agreement lolz

[inland flicker]

MIT won't let you go

It's MIT's policy that if you get accepted into a binding agreemenet htat you have to go to that college

How they enforce that? I don't know, but I'm sure there is some way.

[modern lava]

Yeah it was mori

[cedar hornet]

LMFAO

[junior heath]

💀 ruthless

[modern lava]

Yeah they got into Brown ED like a day before and then posted their MassTech EA acceptance with their name uncensored lmfao

[cedar hornet]

LOL

ngl i dont think ill ed anywhere

maybe like rea at like yale or something

[modern lava]

I swear what is up with A2Cers and doxxing themselves

[junior heath]

ea > rea
masstech w

[modern lava]

I swear y'all will willingly doxx yourselves just cause 💀

[cedar hornet]

because on the quest for people to humble brag about their resumes they tend to share too much information

[modern lava]

That one kid who spammed his LinkedIn page with all his details be like

[junior heath]

"IF THIS POST GETS 5000 STARS ILL REVEAL THIS SECTION ON MY MIT APP"

[cedar hornet]

lol

[obtuse sentinel]

SSN included?

[frozen karma]

wait bruh so they can't go to MIT?

why did bro even apply brown ED

[modern lava]

Yes that's what ED means

[frozen karma]

bruh then what will kill your chances then? i'm pretty sure b's in stem would be very hard to overcome, that's why i'm probably not getting in

[modern lava]

Maybe Brown was their top choice, or maybe they just wanted to boost their chances through ED

[frozen karma]

well like if bro didn't dox himself, he could break brown ed agreement to go to MIT

but now like MIT will make sure that he honors the ED agreement

[modern lava]

In fact, no, unless they had a very good reason

Also don't encourage that bruh 💀

[frozen karma]

well usually you can just break ed agreements, it's just that it might blacklist your school

obviously not recommended to do

but like come on MIT...

[cedar hornet]

having a felony, having a 2.2 gpa, having a 840 sat, gambling being one of your ec's, the list goes on and on

[modern lava]

No no, if you do break it without good reason then there's a not too insignificant change that you'd get Ls from the other schools you've been accepted to as well

Don't risk it

Istg why do people keep trying to break ED agreements

Seriously, only do ED if it's 100% your top choice

[cedar hornet]

cant you just pay a fee and then break it

lol

[modern lava]

Nope

[cedar hornet]

some kid in #🏹-extracurriculars yesterday was asking what to do if you appleid ED to 3 schools and got into all 3

LOL

[modern lava]

Tbf it's #🏹-extracurriculars

That's not exactly a bastion of sense or morality

[frozen karma]

yeah usually people i know don't do this, they more so do ED like a strategic thing. like many want HYPSM, but think they have no shot, so then they ED to schools like northwestern, brown, cornell, jhu, etc

[cedar hornet]

if you want yale scea yale

if you want harvard rea harvard

[modern lava]

😔

[cedar hornet]

same with stanford

like u can just apply to these schools rd if u really want LOL

[frozen karma]

no, but like many people are aware that they probably have zero shot at HYPSM, even if it's their top choice. instead of doing REA/SCEA on HYPSM where they got zero shot, they can do a school with ED and actually get a boost

[cedar hornet]

also is it just me but do people only think of HSM when theyre mentioning the top of the top elite schools

like people drop the HYPSM name but legit i ahve a feeling 99% of them arent really that cognizent about yale or princeton

[modern lava]

Seriously though if you break ED agreements in bad faith then colleges can and often will 100% say that to other colleges, which then leads into rescinded letters from other colleges

[frozen karma]

well still, B's, especially in stem, for mit, is not great

[modern lava]

Don't risk it, seriously

[shrewd basalt]

I definitely think of Yale/Princeton

[frozen karma]

yeah hypsm

[shrewd basalt]

Princeton is like arguably the best undergrad in the country

[modern lava]

To be fair if you mentioned Yale or Princeton then most people would know

But Yale and Princeton just seem a bit more lowkey than the others

[frozen karma]

it probably is, they focus on undergrad, and usnews puts it on #1 too

[cedar hornet]

yeah idk why

theyre both insane schools tho LOL

[modern lava]

Maybe it's 'cause of the alumni?

[cedar hornet]

its probably because of the brand name

[modern lava]

'Cause the Alumni bases of Harvard and Stanford are just really famous, or well, by some standards, infamous 💀

[cedar hornet]

i think if you asked someone to name an elite unviersity theyd either say harvard stanford or mit

[modern lava]

Stronger brand name 'cause of it yeah

[cedar hornet]

not that yale and princeton arent elite but the brand names are smaller

[modern lava]

I mean basically all of what society considers to be elite are just the schools that happen to have the biggest brands

[cedar hornet]

i suppose

idk it could be bc of alumni

all the big like ceos r usually harvard alumni

[modern lava]

Hahrdvarde

[cedar hornet]

lmfao

[hollow sedge]

they need to do more stuff like this

[shrewd basalt]

MIT ppl saying “Hahvahd” like they don’t study a block away haha

I have not yet heard the Boston accent but I really don’t want to

[sand lance]

Ssn does not exist

[prisma tree]

should i even aplly to mit

i know a guy

2 iphos

tons of volunteer

gets a defer

[fierce gust]

Olympiads seem so cool

[brittle glacier]

if you think it wouldn't be a waste of time then just go for it

[indigo sparrow]

apply

i have few ea's

kinda counting on my perfect alevels and really good sats

[frozen karma]

international?

and what level medal

cuz if international probably need gold minimum

[prisma tree]

2 gold yeah

[warm lava]

do i need to send self studied AP scores to MIT?

[stoic fox]

i think so

[indigo sparrow]

h

does MIT have sufficient storage for my 100kg antimatter brick?

[junior heath]

How do you plan on storing that

[modern lava]

That has enough energy to be equivalent to 100000 Nuclear bombs 💀

[cedar hornet]

almost as much energy as your mom makes with each one of her footsteps

[modern lava]

Tfw this implies that my mom literally destroys the laws of Physics

[cedar hornet]

tell her to lay off the mickey d's

[modern lava]

First law of thermodynamics btfo

[cedar hornet]

LOL

[modern lava]

"energy can't be created or destroyed"

Not if my mom has anything to say about it

[cedar hornet]

yo mama so fat she defies the laws of physics

[calm kestrel]

bro got you there

you might have to retire at this point

its over

[cedar hornet]

wrap it up

careers over

[sand lance]

It’s almost nitpicking. “Energy was transferred” has been used interchangeably with “created” so much at this point.

Well its as they say - the accurate beaver gets the wood.

[calm kestrel]

https://tenor.com/bI4Yh.gif

[river sky]

dattebayo!

[inland flicker]

ww

[proud current]

w.mit.edu

[ionic spindle]

Me moment

[median grotto]

Suggestion: make #1050620654485000213 senior only.

[tight plinth]

i heard mit is impossible for internationals unless with international recognized awards

do i just not apply then

[median grotto]

or at least get a fee waiver.

[ionic spindle]

This isn't true

Schmill emphasizes that this isn’t the case. “Certainly not all, or even most of” accepted international students participated in olympiads, Schmill said. “We look for the same qualities in international applicants as we do domestic students.”
https://thetech.com/2016/06/02/olympians-of-mit-feature

this has been debunked a multitude of times

plenty of internationals get in without international awards

in fact international has the same acceptance rate as RD w/o deferrals

[prisma tree]

this thing is called a mít in my language and imma eat all of it

and the spike!

if i get in here

imma clip it

[ionic spindle]

Is it edible?

[modest trench]

jackfruit?

[ionic spindle]

Oh, is that what that is? I have heard that if you eat it before it is ripe that it tastes like chicken.

[modest trench]

maybe

personally i don't like jackfruit

but apparently when ripe they taste sweet

[ionic spindle]

Yeah I know this, but I remember being told that if eaten before ripe they can taste like chicken

[ionic spindle]

I have never seen one before

[modest trench]

they're big

[modest trench]

thats interesting

[ionic spindle]

I don't think they have them where I shop

[modest trench]

same i have to go to the asian market

to get them

my dad loves them

[ionic spindle]

I basically only shop at a local co-op market so my selection is very limited

I don't know if there is an asian market close to me

[modest trench]

oh gotcha

[ionic spindle]

I wonder if they grow in my climate

on my way to piss of the nc department of agriculture again

[modest trench]

lmao

idk abt nc

i'd say like hawaii

they grow well in tropical areas

[ionic spindle]

why is all the fun stuff invasive....