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

[modest trench]

lmaoo

[calm kestrel]

https://tenor.com/bEhW8.gif

can you send beats without scoring them

or is it not even worth atp

[calm kestrel]

what aree yall doing for your maker portfolios

[hollow sedge]

still need to do it heheheha

as in make the maker portfolio out of what i hav

[calm kestrel]

bro over the summer I wrote out such a big plan for my maker portfolio

and now I have everything but not enough time to make the portfolio 😭

[calm kestrel]

whats urs gonna be on

[hollow sedge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800761415388102676/1186052369499291668/image.png?ex=6591d858&is=657f6358&hm=5f84366a7a9ac96a0bbc6d4ae5ca0e50a7375bcb2922183c15cbf4708e6082d1&

freeway interchanges in minecraft

[calm kestrel]

🤩

[green dew]

bro i didn’t realize a maker portfolio was a thing u could do and i already applied ea 😭💔

[junior heath]

doing research portfolio

[atomic vapor]

do we def need a maker portfolio if we're applying to STEM? i think the things i could include might take away from the rest of my app, i'm not that impressive rip

[hollow sedge]

you dont need one but you can include one if you want\

[calm kestrel]

I dont think a bad maker portfolio hurts tbh

cuz they put maker portfolios into 2 piles, Meh and Cool apparantly

theres no "completely dogshit" pile so I assume they dont hold a bad one against you

[hollow sedge]

where did you find this

i must see

[calm kestrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCpk2R4ak9k

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/9z8p1o/should_i_submit_a_portfolio_for_mit_if_it_isnt/

[calm kestrel]

I dont have timestep

[inland flicker]

timestamp ?

[calm kestrel]

^

[inland flicker]

Lol

[calm kestrel]

did u submit maker portfolio

[inland flicker]

Yeah

[calm kestrel]

what was it abt

[inland flicker]

All my software projects

[calm kestrel]

what weree they

[modern lava]

(No)

[obtuse heron]

This is completely new news to me…can someone explain what a maker portfolio is.

I finished my essays for MIT and thought I was done lol…is there more?

[modern lava]

Nope

It's entirely optional

And by optional, actually optional, seriously

[modern lava]

MIT lets you submit portfolios of your work, ex. in art, music, and if you've made something perhaps say on the lines of an engineering project, that's a maker portfolio

There's also research supplements if you did that

But they're by no means necessary

If you've done some of that stuff and believe that submitting that work would benefit you, go ahead

But you don't need one at all

[obtuse heron]

I see yeah I have some research work that I could definitely throw in there for sure!

Is there anything else I could be missing from MIT cause this is massive, kinda insane that I missed it

[modern lava]

As far as I know, no

[obtuse heron]

Ty!

[sand lance]

Did you?

[charred musk]

how do I add my recommenders if my school uses Naviance? on Naviance it just says in progress

[ionic spindle]

It isn't that important and most applicants don't submit it, but if you have created something truly unqiue and impressive it could help you.

[calm kestrel]

if u have time I would submit

[modern lava]

Nope

[calm kestrel]

I didn't document my motor driver schematics so idk how to rebuild it for the maker portfolio

[crisp bay]

🫥

[calm kestrel]

lowk hella pissed rn

I need to find 2 motors from somewhere

im gonna go to ventura beach and steal some kids RC car that hes driving around the parking lot

[stoic fox]

...

[maiden owl]

for the portolio: if you have research you intend on submitting, how do you request a recommendation from slideroom directly

can't seem to be able to find it under the bio info or maker portfolio tab

nvm, spent an hour looking for it only to realize that mit has a separate research supplement tab on slideroom

👍

[frozen karma]

i'm not sure that there's a way at my school to connect Naviance with MIT application. for me, i just added each recommender and my counselor on MIT's application system, and they all had to upload to MIT in addition to doing commonapp/naviance submission

[maiden owl]

mit doesn't have it

you need to do it separately

[modern lava]

https://mitadmissions.org/help/faq/docufide-naviance/

We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT-specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to submit their additional documents (prepared letters, school profiles, transcripts, etc.) using a third-party service.

[crisp bay]

no youll just get rejected

youll be fine

[median grotto]

I applied to a 0.1% ar thing once with this type of essays and I got accepted XDDD.

Istg I even wrote that "The Doctrines of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini had changed me.

[calm kestrel]

will MIT Aos be aware of league of legends

yes, right?

[brittle glacier]

most likely

its a pretty famous game

[calm kestrel]

this mit maker portfolio is gonna be so good

league of legends 😋

how long can the MIT maker portfolio technical document be?

[keen sentinel]

hop on league

or better yet, hop on tft

[cedar hornet]

hop on val

[keen sentinel]

bet

[cedar hornet]

whats ur rank big bro

[keen sentinel]

uhh

bronze?

[cedar hornet]

i gotchu

[keen sentinel]

no clue

[cedar hornet]

im washed up but i can still carry u

[keen sentinel]

haven't played ranked

nrn

I'm on vacation

in 5 days though

[cedar hornet]

aight aight fasho

[sand lance]

cr >>> coc

[cedar hornet]

whats ur main deck

mine is hog firecracker infernotower ewiz lumberjack log tornado espirit

[sand lance]

i dont play now

but afair it was wiz, baby drag, bat queen, purple guy with huge stone, skel army, ...

[cedar hornet]

luh bro runs wizard\

[elder vine]

Hop on TFT bro

I’m legit goated at TFT

[ionic spindle]

I don't think so, I am personally not aware of it

[ionic spindle]

Honestly this is so out of left field and if specific enough and not edgy it could go hard

[median grotto]

Tbf I did actually give decent reasoning for it but if I had actually cared about the fellowship I would not have thought of writing that for sure.

[keen sentinel]

I think I may have an addiction

[keen sentinel]

I love set 10

[elder vine]

Set 10 kinda mid ngl

The balancing is whack

[keen sentinel]

I think the balancing is quite good

double up balancing is kind of fucked though

if you ever get a spat on stage 2 or 3 carousel

you can just force a prismatic trait exodia for free

[dusk pecan]

I'm kinda confused by mit's summer activity section

"reading, relaxing, camp, travel, summer school, volunteer work, etc" relaxing???

Can you write summer activities in the activities section instead if you want to be able to provide a description

Bc if u put it in the summer activities section there's no room to describe

[austere vapor]

use your spots wisely

[crisp bay]

Sooo what’s the recommendation

[ionic spindle]

@stoic fox why are you saying on reddit that you go to USC Film School?

[cedar hornet]

what LOL

ngl isnt usc film school good too

[austere vapor]

professional capperino?

[austere vapor]

depends on the activities

[crisp bay]

ive decided the thing i do for fun is yap

[sterile hare]

Merry christmas!!!

[median grotto]

MIT sucks!

Long live Harvard!

BEST CLASS EVER 😎.

[indigo sparrow]

all I want for Christmas is this email

[sand lance]

SAME

My Christmas is in march 💀

[indigo sparrow]

Same

[calm kestrel]

im convinced MIT adcom all have adhd

this reads so much like a text my friend sent me earlier

[indigo sparrow]

everyone at mit is neurodivergent

no neurotypical people are this quirky

[ionic spindle]

Their attire is not appropriate for the vacuum of space

[indigo sparrow]

Do you not see the helmet

/s

Or: skintight rubber suit mimicking pressure

[austere vapor]

Quick Poll:
How much effort are you all putting into your FUN update?
Where 1 is not filling it out and 5 is putting on a national award

[sand lance]

Wait

Is fun for rd also??

[charred musk]

Interesting deck...

[cedar hornet]

itd work better if i wasnt underleveled asf

[charred musk]

Why e wiz and spirit

Wait which school was it that had a clash Royale deck building class

[cedar hornet]

WHAT? LMFAO

[charred musk]

I swear I saw it on the news a couple years ago

I think it was Carnegie or mit or maybe I'm completely wrong

[sand lance]

Mit most prob

[shrewd basalt]

Nah

It’s just for deferred ppl right

[spiral tiger]

@modern lava I’m changing my major to Urban Planning 😈

Weren’t you majoring in something like that too

[spiral tiger]

Acc its something like urban science and planning with cs

I thought about it for a while and i realized all my research is pretty much this

It makes a lot more sense to apply as this than something like physics

[sand lance]

They say ea doesn’t have any strategic adv over rd. sure seems otherwise lol

[junior heath]

civil/environmental i believe but dont quote me on taht

[modern lava]

Fun fact, MIT does have that

It's Course 11-6

[spiral tiger]

yea there was an option

in the drop down box

[modern lava]

Yeah I applied CEE

I considered planning but I ended up thinking it was too narrow for undergrad

[spiral tiger]

idk tbh

they don't admit based on major right?

[modern lava]

CEE into Planning Masters was the plan if I was gonna go into planning

[modern lava]

Nope

[sand lance]

What’s urb pl?

[spiral tiger]

so like i wont fuck myself over

by applying smth narrow

idk

[modern lava]

That's why you pick the major you are most attracted to and just explain why

[modern lava]

They don't let you declare a major until 2nd year

[spiral tiger]

like most of my research has been with green infrastructure management or traffic control

[modern lava]

They just wanna see what you're interested in now

[spiral tiger]

so im like

why not do this

i chose with cs cuz like

[modern lava]

Sure, go ahead and write about it if it interests you

[spiral tiger]

yea

i alr wrote about it

idk if i should've switched but whatever

i either get in or i dont

[modern lava]

I mean I'd rather read about a kid who has a passion for Urban Planning + CS than another generic CS essay

[junior heath]

Billert what was your research on

[modern lava]

Plus you have research to back up your interests

[spiral tiger]

i've done 3 projects so far

well actually 4

tbh

i forgor to count one that was just me

[junior heath]

whichever one youre submitting as research supplement

[spiral tiger]

oh the research supplement one was something over detecting illegal fishing

so like

it's not 100% related

[junior heath]

is that the ieee one

[spiral tiger]

one of the ieee ones yea

the other one was kinda shitty ngl which is why i wanted to submit the other one

[junior heath]

the best paper award one i mean lmfao

[junior heath]

real

[spiral tiger]

yea the best paper award one

the other one i got an honorable mention

the other one was actually about like

identifying traffic bottlenecks in cities

and designing walkable cities

[junior heath]

yeah good
i dunno if its true but i heard some statistic that ~1/3 with a 'distinguished' supplement get accepted

[spiral tiger]

and then i did another project that was basically just monitoring salt stores for our city's infrastructure

cuz it snows where i live

💀

and then i did an independent project

[junior heath]

i hope youre mentioning these somewhere on your app because they relate significant

[spiral tiger]

that was basically like

[junior heath]

ly

[spiral tiger]

i did

[spiral tiger]

i mapped every single tree

and measured every single tree

where i live

[junior heath]

what the fuck

[spiral tiger]

not by hand

that would be insane

i found a way to use USGS lidar data to accomplish my objective

then i peddled it at a bunch of conferences and got a best paper award

and this was independent

[junior heath]

what was the purpose of the tree mapping

[spiral tiger]

basically like

tbh idrk but im trying to convince myself it's useful

but like if you're trying to make urban developments right

or make a new park

or a new road

you want to see the impact it has on your city's green infrastructure

if you suddenly get rid of all the trees in your city you're going to get fucked

my inspiration was basically something i saw online

but i was like i can do that for cheaper

let me find it

https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/

i wanted to make this

but without actually hiring people to manually survey trees

oh shit this gives me an idea

[junior heath]

im sure there are better uses of this information
its definitely useful but probably moreso to niche fields

[spiral tiger]

holy fuck

[junior heath]

..?

[spiral tiger]

wait shit

imma do this after college apps

[junior heath]

thats a lot of fucking trees

[spiral tiger]

but im actually so dumb i can use the nyc data

as a metric

not as a metric

mb

but as a benchmark

to compare accuracy

💀

previously i was just using university data

[junior heath]

i mean
worth a shot

lmfao

[spiral tiger]

i alr have accuracy assessment

[spiral tiger]

i dont really wanna doxx where i live cuz i took data of my own city but i can show u the tree layout

aint no one gonna try to find me based on that

[junior heath]

sure

[spiral tiger]

bro how did i not to think of using the fucking new york city map

[junior heath]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

it happens

i only have 1 research project at spie photonics west but its a dynamically controlled phoropter that uses deformable mirrors to measure visual acuity so ill submit that one

[spiral tiger]

yea but basically these are locations of trees and each one if i click on it tells you its location and height and dbh

u can actually kinda see the streets

actually you know what

i'll overlay this with the world map

what does it matter

no one's going to find me from this

[modern lava]

Bro's having the same feeling as if he found the right thing to say in an argument, but only 5 hours after it happens

[junior heath]

for a second i thought you were gonna delete it because of fear of doxxing lmfao

[modern lava]

Trees next to a street moment

[junior heath]

except it kinda matters 😭

[spiral tiger]

the satellite imagery and the lidar data are kinda different

[junior heath]

calling in rainbolt at this exact moment

[spiral tiger]

in terms of date

[spiral tiger]

he's not good at satellite imagery

im decent at it but not cracked

[royal badger]

Omg tea drop the receipts

[junior heath]

nooo

[junior heath]

the joke was that hes
yk
rainbolt

[spiral tiger]

rainbolt used to be really good at 0.1 second images

now he's decent but kinda washed compared to the competition

[junior heath]

okay but youre also calling somebody who can identify any country within a second 'washed'

i think the bar here is way too high

[spiral tiger]

bruh

you realize

that he doesn't always identify the country

[junior heath]

i dont stay updated on geoguessr content

[spiral tiger]

he posts clips of his best things

[junior heath]

oh im aware

[spiral tiger]

like some countries are really easy to identify

like singapore or hong kong

and some are just distinct

[junior heath]

the videos where he finds locations of meme videos are mainly what i was refencing

[modern lava]

https://tenor.com/view/boomshakalaka-gif-25687559

[spiral tiger]

like lesotho mountains

[junior heath]

referencing

[spiral tiger]

oh that shit is so fucking sweaty

i'd never put myself through that torture

[junior heath]

hong kong the country 🔥

[spiral tiger]

you basically pan through a shit ton of candidate locations until you find the location

[spiral tiger]

my bad

taiwan and south korea are iconic too

so is mongolia

[junior heath]

oh its terrible

[spiral tiger]

with the fucking like

car

and the grass

mongolian grass is like

i know it from a mile away

same with north macedonian and eswatini grass

[junior heath]

um

[spiral tiger]

north macedonian grass is so iconic

literally saved me so many times

[modern lava]

Geoguessr players on their way to stare at grass for 10 hours straight but never touch it:

[spiral tiger]

we the type of people to travel to a country for the grass

i remember telling my parents about license plates when we visited new york

[junior heath]

Billert

i think youre making a generalization with the term 'we'

[modern lava]

https://tenor.com/view/macedonia-makedonia-real-best-gif-25093867

[spiral tiger]

look at this absolutely ICONIC bollard

can anyone tell me what bollard this is

[junior heath]

it looks like grass.

[spiral tiger]

here's some architecture too

[junior heath]

i got you

tell me im right

[spiral tiger]

the answer is ||switzerland|| with the architecture and the really round but kinda like estonia/finland/germany bollard

[junior heath]

..yeah

[spiral tiger]

im an infrastructure hobbyist moreso than a geoguessr enthusiast atp

[junior heath]

you could talk about this in your application in some way or another

[spiral tiger]

like look at these ghanan license plates

[modern lava]

If you're such a infrastructure hobbyist then name every single type of highway intersection there is

Smh smh

[spiral tiger]

i do

[junior heath]

its just yellow.

[spiral tiger]

exactly

i mean tbf

most african countries have that i think

i think kenya and uganda have some too

[spiral tiger]

but it's not that climate

[junior heath]

looks like this

[spiral tiger]

this is a taiwanese telephone pole

[junior heath]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-cube-nerdcube-gif-25277654

[spiral tiger]

dyza's better than me at this shit i think

[junior heath]

okay but
you also say that north macedonian GRASS is iconic

[spiral tiger]

im only top 3000 in the world rn

[junior heath]

'only'

[spiral tiger]

like im trying to crack top 250

in the USA

[spiral tiger]

no one plays this game

💀

[junior heath]

i actually dont know what kind of stuff goes here tbh

but

[spiral tiger]

uh like

music

and writing

[junior heath]

damn

music opens it up though

[spiral tiger]

i put my french award

too

but idt that's intended

[junior heath]

'duolingo 3000 day streak'

prom king/queen

lmfao.

im sure thats common among mit applicants

[spiral tiger]

youd be surprised

[junior heath]

weird (maybe dumb) question
i dont think i have enough music awards to fill the non scholastic but would top 20 speedrunning rank for a video game count

[spiral tiger]

it would

[junior heath]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

cant hurt ig

[tribal ether]

I just felt my knee pop should I be concerned

[crisp bay]

No

[junior heath]

No

[calm kestrel]

MIT IDS 😋

wait IDS is like supply chain management not gambling

actually wait no this is peerfect

[violet hill]

a school around us had a hoco king who went to cmu

cs too i think

[calm kestrel]

does anyone know if MIT is looking for a collage or detailed video for the maker portfolio

A lot of ppl I see with accepted maker portfolios on the internet have like 20 projects crammed in theirs, and I feel like that dosent do any of them justice. But at the same time, they got admitted (ik not due to maker portfolio but I cant help but believe that it mustve played a part somehow)

[fierce gust]

i keep thinking your pfp is actually you

i’m like wuts this 40 yo man doing here in a2c

[modern lava]

Normalize older adults going to college to continue their education smh

[fierce gust]

can’t really be normalized because it’s not typical

[modern lava]

That's not how it works

That's like saying schools shouldn't have become co-ed because women pursuing a college degree wasn't typical for the time

[fierce gust]

when did i ever say normal = good or atypical = bad

i just went by the definition of normality

[modern lava]

What? 😭

That's not what Normalization means

[fierce gust]

it’s contradictory to say something rare can be normal

[modern lava]

And that's not what I was saying

[fierce gust]

i think the word you’re looking for is destigmatization

[modern lava]

[fierce gust]

yeah again i don’t think it can be regular because it literally is not a regular occurence

like i get what ur trying to say

but normal shouldn’t be the keyword here

[modern lava]

This is literally the most pedantic response ever

😭

[fierce gust]

😭😭😭

i get that a lot 😭😭

[obtuse sentinel]

normalization as Oats is using the word here is more in line with the idea of making something not 'abnormal' or 'weird' instead of making something 'common' or 'widespread'
for instance, I have red hair. about 1% of the population has red hair, making it somewhat rare, but, still, having red hair is fairly 'normal'. it's not weird, people generally do not point and stare at those with red hair, etcetera, etcetera.
in contrast, intersex conditions have about the same prevalence as red hair. however, intersex conditions are often considered to be 'abnormal', 'weird', or 'strange'. clearly there is some aspect to the idea of normal in common parlance other than purely a matter of commonality.
'normalization' in this context, then, is making something, regardless of its actual commonality, considered something that is part of 'normal' human variation, rather than something that is 'unusual' or 'weird'—that is, something different and requiring a markedly different approach than would be used for other cases.

normalizing older adults going to college, then, would be changing sociocultural norms and expectations to allow older adults to go to colleges without them doing so being considered noteworthy or odd—the same way you wouldn't find it noteworthy that a red-haired individual was going to college.

[fierce gust]

i think the negative connotation that comes with words/concepts like weird & strange should be erased completely

i get your pov and ik the word normalization is not meant to be taken literally , but i’d rather people less frequently (automatically) associate what is good with what is normal

i think we should acknowledge certain things as atypical, but not instantly think of them negatively

emphasizing “normalization” even through casual conversation just furthers the restrictive idea of abnormal = not good

[spiral tiger]

what the fuck was this convo

[modern lava]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/612877720866652160/870069835231531068/image0.gif

[austere vapor]

everyone

[ionic spindle]

Lmfao that is what I have selected

I thought it was the most amazing thing when I first found it

it is about to be 100% of A2Cers who selected that major got accepted

[spiral tiger]

💀 im boutta bring that number down

[spiral tiger]

It’s very relevant to whats happening rn ngl

[calm kestrel]

^^ can anyone answer this

urban planning majors when they see LA

[ionic spindle]

We must use the computer to stop the houstonification

[spiral tiger]

Add some fried chicken doused in motor oil with a $500000 hospital bill to it and youve got america raaahhhh

[ionic spindle]

I honestly have no idea what the job outlooks for a major like that is

[spiral tiger]

It’s civil engineering adjacent

It’s just a field of study

Nothing binding

If i realize I’m going to be homeless i can switch majors

[ionic spindle]

I mean it is super interesting to me

it was I applied as

I just don't know what the jobs are for urban planning + CS

[spiral tiger]

Government work

Or something for disneyland/world

[ionic spindle]

I mean at the end of the day you studied CS @ MIT and that has a lot of oppurtunities

You could totally apply to CS jobs with a degree like that

[hollow sedge]

What do you think a generic CS essay looks like

[modern lava]

I love coding I love coding I love doing I love debugging I love debugging I love debugging
Here's how I'm going to use CS to solve world hunger (I'm going to use it to get jobs at tech startups with awful ideas)
I love coding I love coding I love coding
Oh look I made a website isn't that cool??????
I love coding I love coding I love coding
Jargon jargon jargon jargon jargon jargon

[remote vessel]

is the maker portfolio due the 28th or Jan 4th?

I'm blind nvm

[hollow sedge]

There's an earlier deadline for fee waivers on creative portfolios

[remote vessel]

Jan 4

[calm kestrel]

realistically what else are you gonna use a CS degree for anyways

also is CS or IDS the more computationally focused major

[modern lava]

https://tenor.com/view/aristotle-ballin-gif-22706788

[crisp bay]

Shit

[calm kestrel]

💀

MIT CS isnt even application 99% of the time its all theory

mfrs be solving world hunger by golfing down their binary search in brainfuck to 2o chars

[cedar hornet]

you cant forget "i lost at my regional isef fair because my machine learning project to detect cancer had been done 500 times before"

[modern lava]

I ain't gonna lie

I think I've seen an app pretty much just like this

[cedar hornet]

yea

cuz ml to detect cancer is so overdone

lmao

[modern lava]

Not necessarily that specific thing but just

like, way overdone CS

[cedar hornet]

spike student

[modern lava]

Today is the day. Four weeks of developing our app and designing our business model canvas led up to this warm Saturday morning. We were competing with six other teams for a $4,000 investment. Our judges worked for a range of companies, from Riot Games to Dollar Shave Club. A blend of nervousness and excitement overtook me as my team went first.

Like a scene out of Shark Tank, we described every aspect of our app: NOLA. “Our Right of the Day feature teaches users fundamental liberties while Trivia Trials allows users to test their knowledge with fun quizzes,” I persuasively said as I demoed the app on the screen. It went perfectly, until: “In 2nd place . . . NOLA!” I unmuted myself, thanked the judges, and saw the winners’ faces light up.

Although we did not win, I was beyond proud. Not only because I was the architect behind an app but because I fulfilled my dream--using my programming ability for societal impact. I created NOLA because I was tired of seeing teenagers in my community being taken advantage of for not knowing their rights.

Although I lost the competition, I went home knowing I accomplished something greater.

https://www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/questbridge-essay-examples

Lol

[calm kestrel]

RIOT GAMES MENTIONED

[cedar hornet]

that

seems so cliche

[calm kestrel]

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS RAAAH

[modern lava]

(they wrote all of their essays on CS )

[cedar hornet]

i lost all my valorant games today

fuck riot games

[modern lava]

their personal statement was on CS, their topical essay was on CS, their "greatest accomplishment essay" was on CS, their "historical figure essay" was on Alan Turing - CS

[calm kestrel]

alan turing would make a goat essay topic if ppl read abt his life instead of the wiki page

[cedar hornet]

starts with "today is the day"
describes a competition
achieves enlightenment at the end even if they didnt win

mfw college essays are all the same

[modern lava]

Like, no shade to the guy who wrote these essays -- they're obviously very accomplished and hardworking and I respect them for that

but like

These are so cheesy 😭

[cedar hornet]

nah bro

mit bound

[calm kestrel]

also oats dyk anyone doing IDS

and if so what does the program entail

[cedar hornet]

ngl

every college essay ive read

or like 99% of them

[calm kestrel]

IDS and CS seem like the same thing to me

[cedar hornet]

are just so corny to me

[modest trench]

I love mit

mit best school

[cedar hornet]

mom would be happy if i got into mit

🙏

[remote vessel]

I genuinely just sim raced for 7 hours straight

oh my god

actually

worth

[remote vessel]

changed my mind not worth it

[junior heath]

@spiral tiger
for the research supplement are we meant to use all xxx characters
cause like i only have 466/1200 for the brief description

and this for the contributions

[shrewd basalt]

In no way are you meant to use the entire essay in any context

[junior heath]

fair but 257/1500 seems a bit low
i assume theyre just allowing space for all possilibilities to be met, but idk

[sand lance]

Whaaaaat

Where is it

@austere vapor

[sand lance]

There can be problems when they’re not… I wouldn’t know if the essay I’m writing is more cheesy than Jerry’s intestines

[spiral tiger]

No, but I did lol

[river sky]

IDS is bum

literally just the annoying parts of CS

and none of the interesting parts

[sand lance]

Ids?

Inter dimensional sorcery

[wanton obsidian]

for the "List any course(s) with standardized exams (A-level, Baccalauréat, etc.) taken or underway. "

am I supposed to also list examinations that i will take later?

[crisp bay]

guys am i dumb or does MIT just not have a space for the common app essay thingy

[stoic frost]

i dont think they take ur common app essay

i think the only essays they want are the supps

[crisp bay]

bet

[stoic frost]

my essays are so ass holy hell

[crisp bay]

same!

is it even worth submitting an ap score if its not a 5

[stoic frost]

dont u have to submit all ur ap scores

[crisp bay]

my school doesnt offer ap classes so

technically i dont have to

[stoic frost]

idk

[quick hawk]

4s yeah. 3 it depends

[lilac trail]

ya

[stoic frost]

the dreams and aspirations prompt is kicking my ass rn

my writing just sucks rn

[calm kestrel]

does anyone know the characteer limit for summer activities

[austere vapor]

guys they want me

[ionic spindle]

Yes, because it is CS not SWE

[full wagon]

is anyone here submitting an art supplement for MIT?

[eternal jasper]

me too

[remote vessel]

this is such a niche MIT kinda math realization but n!/!n for n>12 is equal to e

!n just means subfactorial n or the derangement of n

[eternal jasper]

holy hell

[remote vessel]

IT'S SO WEIRD

[eternal jasper]

just wait until you hear that the sum of all natural numbers is -1/12

[remote vessel]

10!/!10 is about 2.7183 and 30!/!30 IS e

I hate e why is it everywhere

please leave me alone

[sand lance]

Only it isn’t e

[sand lance]

Technically…

[median grotto]

That is literally the definition of e 🤡.

[flint wigeon]

i am back

(i will leave)

[oak shore]

someoine help

im doing the IB right

IB diploma

and i only have predicted grades rn

which section do i report my courses in

because in the Test scores section, it asks for actual grades which i dont jhavbe

and in self reported classwork, it says the same thing

do i leave both sections blank??

[river sky]

yeah the subfactorial is literally defined as round(n!/e)

[remote vessel]

deadass?

[remote vessel]

it was 3am when I did this give me a break

[sand lance]

emphasis on round()

[outer hollow]

Anyone know if you remove a recommender from MIT does it send them a notification?

[sand lance]

So it cant be the other way around to define e using them

[sand lance]

Recommendation politics can get ugly. Its a soap opera. But… most probably not. Mostly because it says ‘exclude’ in the option.

[outer hollow]

Ima have to anyways cuz i got the greatest supplemental lor

I wish i could submit two

Or 3 lol

I have one from my workplace i wanna submit but its not near as strong as this one

[oak shore]

please suggest 🙏

[river sky]

yeah thats true

but the fact that n!/!n approaches e as n -> infinity is quite literally baked into the definition of !n

[austere vapor]

what is !n?

[river sky]

Derangements

[spiral tiger]

do you think i could submit a 12 minute music portfolio

okay, make that 11

[spiral tiger]

never mind i decided to actually respect their time after thinking about it for a bit

i made it 9:59.99 seconds

[remote vessel]

let me have my 3am epiphany in peace

[dusk pecan]

Uhh just checking u submit the commonapp first and research supp separately right

As long as both before jan 4

[ionic spindle]

premium gibberish

[river sky]

nah it is an insight tho

why would the amount of derangements be 1/e of the factorial

[junior heath]

wait we can do both?

[spiral tiger]

Wdym

[junior heath]

music portfolio and research supplement

[spiral tiger]

Yes thats what i did

[spiral tiger]

I think so?

[junior heath]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

too much work for me rn

whatre you playing

[spiral tiger]

Hindemith viola sonata op 25 no 1

Schubert arpeggione sonata

[junior heath]

whole thing?

moreso where youre cutting off 💀

i dunno the quality of music portfolio applicants to mit tbh

otherwise i would submit bottesini concerto 2 mov 1

[dusk pecan]

And they will both be fine?

[ionic spindle]

Ya'll I'm submitting a photo of my headphones that are held together by rubberbands

[spiral tiger]

I cut it

[junior heath]

genius 😭

[spiral tiger]

I play viola

I’m guessing there aren’t too many people that play viola

[junior heath]

i play double bass
theres none of us

[spiral tiger]

Yea same for u

Did u submit a stanford portfolio

[junior heath]

i didnt
deadline was too early for my comfort

[spiral tiger]

Tbh my research portfolio isnt amazing

[junior heath]

im hoping mine carries me 😭

[spiral tiger]

I wish they let me submit shit that was independent

Cuz i have an independent project thats a lot better

But my professor doesnt know much about it so…

[junior heath]

the tree one or?

[spiral tiger]

Yes

[junior heath]

whats the one youre submitting abt?

[spiral tiger]

It’s about detecting illegal fishing businesses

It’s very scuffed and it was a collaborative project

[austere vapor]

oh hey i run one of those

[junior heath]

through what means :o

[junior heath]

youre detected dw

[spiral tiger]

Literally just stupid ass data and visual analytics

It’s nothing sophisticated

The problem is our poster is so fucking bad

Because they didn’t let me write half of it and it looks utterly incomprehensible

[junior heath]

im submitting my 2-page abstract instead (photonics west opthalmic studies required a longer one too)

[spiral tiger]

An abstract isnt two pages

My guy

[junior heath]

i think they care a lot more about the actual research than the poster

[spiral tiger]

An abstract is like 10 sentences max

[spiral tiger]

The only research theyre going to get is from the poster

They aint getting much

[spiral tiger]

What the fuck

[junior heath]

yeah'

[spiral tiger]

I didnt get this shit

[junior heath]

it was stupid

but most of it is filled with images

well

not most

but a good 2/3 of a page

[spiral tiger]

Where is this

[junior heath]

spie photonics west

largest optics/photonics conference in the world

it was a specific requirement under the subconference i submitted though

[spiral tiger]

Wait but

This isnt for uh

Mit

Right

Mit doesnt ask for this

[junior heath]

mit just says abstract or poster

[spiral tiger]

An abstract is like under a page

Do you not have a regular abstract

[junior heath]

i do

but

¯_(ツ)_/¯

its not as cool

[spiral tiger]

I’m pretty sure you’re just wasting their time then lol

I dont know

I feel like theyd want to read an actual abstract

Not a two page summary/report

[junior heath]

well

its an abstract but slightly longer and mostly pictures

in reality its only like 1.5-2x the length of a normal abstract but the pictures are good

[neon cipher]

for "What field of study appeals to you the most right now? Tell us more about why this field of study at MIT appeals to you. (Note: You’ll select your preferred field of study from a drop-down list.) (100 words or fewer)"

Did yall respond more on why the field itself sppeals or more so why MIT?

[austere vapor]

i talked more about the field but linked it to courses at mit

[crisp bay]

Why MIT but it could go either way

[hollow sedge]

I broke this prompt down as "if you could pick any course to "major" in at MIT, why this one?"

[hollow sedge]

As the PhD I'm working with on research says, "read the abstract and conclusion before deciding to read the paper itself"

[junior heath]

course offered at mit + professor's research is what i did

[full wagon]

i did more of a "why this major" essay because everyone know that MIT has the best resources and proffessors

[hollow sedge]

I feel like masstech isn't pretentious enough to put a "why us" essay

[outer hollow]

for my MIT religion should I put atheist or catholic? Technically i am confirmed as catholic, but i am in no way religious nor do i consider myself so. would being catholic help my odds lol

[hollow sedge]

Doesn't matter

It's demographic info that doesn't get read in your app iirc

[outer hollow]

ok good

white, asian, male, computer science, upper middle class - lmao ive got the worst of everything for college admission demographics

[full wagon]

CS lol

[hollow sedge]

Just apply and see what happens

Most of the time it's not demographics, it's more like every bay area asian male CS is built the same

Just be yourself

[full wagon]

MIT prompts are so cringe tho

[hollow sedge]

I think they're all pretty good

At least you're not answering "how will you use your harvard education after you graduate"

[full wagon]

that's a great take! well done billert!!

i think on average MIT promtps are worse, but that one Harvard prompt is rock bottom

[outer hollow]

yeah i think im pretty unique even tho i do cs, my main selling point is my minecraft server lol and being captain/pres of some sports teams and clubs

my academics are good but dont have any olympiads to put

[violet hill]

😭

[modern lava]

Hohrdveradh

Hurvdurd

Hahrahfvjkfcjkawhd

[junior heath]

real

[neon cipher]

LOL the harvard prompt hate is real

[remote vessel]

I'm using it to continue abusing AI to make tv shows for me but I'm not saying that

[modern lava]

Typical Harvard behavior tbh

[sand lance]

mit really needs to increase the word limit on the essays

[neon cipher]

its not that bad :P

compared to .-. the schools with character limits

[quartz badger]

Did anyone get an interview email today?

[dawn prairie]

9. What did you learn about the research process and your research interests? *

does anyone know if the first part of this (for the portofolio) is literal ?

like i learnt this and this or like theoretical about difficulty and stuff

[keen sentinel]

literal probably fine

[bitter cape]

hum

does MIT want you to send a video?

[crisp bay]

no?

[autumn bison]

bro why are the MIT SAT scores so fuckking high

💀

[junior heath]

mathematics

[autumn bison]

ye but like

why is the 25th percentile 780 math

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[junior heath]

its 790 i thought

leme check

yeah 790

they really like math

[autumn bison]

??

this is what i'm seeing

[junior heath]

https://ir.mit.edu/cds-2023

heres the 2023 common data set

[autumn bison]

hella stats

💀

[junior heath]

fr

[autumn bison]

so

everybody basically either has 790 or 800

LOL

[junior heath]

pretty much

or a 35-36

[autumn bison]

isnt 35 easier than 790 and 36 easier than 800 or am i tripping

[junior heath]

the tests are different overall but on some forms i think you can get like 1-2 wrong and still get a 36

ik i got 4/60 wrong when i got my 35 but the section was hard

[autumn bison]

💀

some SATs if u miss 1 on entire math section u get a 780

LMFAo

it's rare but sometimes the curve just fucking trolls like that

[junior heath]

yeah standardized tests at this point are dumb

tbh

[autumn bison]

ye

they say virtually fucking nothing'

[junior heath]

they give a general idea and thats abt it
the difference between a 770 and a 790 math is miniscule and could easily be attributed to lack of sleep or something similar

[autumn bison]

if ur evaluation is one where ppl can vastly increase their scores through petty tricks and strategies instead of genuine increase in understanding

i don't think it's a legit evaluation

💀

[junior heath]

act english: pick the shortest option
works 95% of the time

[autumn bison]

https://tenor.com/zbNkZ4lqHj.gif

i received advice that unironically just

eloboosted me from like 1480 SAT to 1560

and it was literally just

"there is only one correct answer; the other three are incorrect for a reason"

that one piece of advice clapped the shit out of reading/writing for me

LOL

[junior heath]

💀 lmfao hahaha

[autumn bison]

i guess it's just a fancy way to say like

[junior heath]

i hate the standardized tests

sm

[autumn bison]

abuse process of elimination

ye

i have bowel issues so like

lowkey i was just sitting there holding the shit in

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

for hours

bottom 1 moment of my life

[junior heath]

but there are people who get like a 33 composite with a 29 math and there it matters for somewhere like mit but if youre looking at 33+ in a section its miniscule

[autumn bison]

ye

[junior heath]

and you got a 1560 despite that? 💀

[autumn bison]

the curve was super forgiving on that exam

idk what it was but like

i lucked out lol

[junior heath]

theres this one kid at my school who got a 1510 and every time he has the ball in soccer one of my classmates screams "HE HAS A 1510"

like

[autumn bison]

LMFAO

that's so fucking funny

it's like

i used to play league w 4 other dudes

and one of them was master elo

and so every time he'd die

we'd just allchat "u killed master elo player btw"

same energy

ye

just random "HE HAS A 1510" in the middle of fucking soccer

[junior heath]

its certainly something

[autumn bison]

soon mf is gonna prevent a goal

and a guy is going to stand up and just say "3.968 UW 4.9 W 1510 IMO WINNER"

I wish that were me.

[junior heath]

unbelievable
i think i would die

[autumn bison]

I would like to be 3.968UW 4.9W 1510 IMO winner.

🗿

[junior heath]

me when youre including a 1000ths place on the gpa 🗿

[autumn bison]

3.999

idt that's a possible GPA, no?

[junior heath]

[autumn bison]

unless your school is on the quarter system or smth

and they register it in quarters

[junior heath]

no

youd have to take an unimaginable amount of classes

[autumn bison]

lmfao

im not going to lie

at that point 3.999 is way more impressive than 4.0

💀

bro has 28 hours in the day

[junior heath]

fr

[autumn bison]

hermione granger energy

[neon cipher]

💀 its mit

don't really know what u expected .-.

[autumn bison]

?

[placid flower]

kek

[remote vessel]

it's possible at my school by taking all normal classes and getting 94 or more in every class but exactly one which has to be a 93

actually no that's still 3.998

(4.0x20 + 3.95x1)/21

[autumn bison]

honestly

that's still more impressive than a 4

the absolute precision that achieving that gpa requires is remarkable

[autumn bison]

💀💀💀💀💀

[sand lance]

This should be on the starboard lol

[sand lance]

Petey’s like the elon musk of admissions officers

[junior heath]

if your story goes something like this:
broke my foot before big competition, recovered, tried my hardest, and ended up taking a w later
yes thats cliche
it's technically doable but it depends how you write it

im no expert of course but this seems fine
make sure to really emphasize how you managed the situation
to my knowledge theyre looking for how you manage difficult times/situations and you only have 225 words

[crisp bay]

when reporting my coursework im assuming its kinda like the SRAR where i put all my classes taht are on my transcript

[hollow sedge]

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/writing-the-mit-application-essays/

if youre finishing supps last minute like me, this is good advice

[junior heath]

are you writing your mit supps now wtf

[hollow sedge]

half finished, half ive locked in ideas for

[junior heath]

well tbf i still have some caltech and 1 darmouth to do

[junior heath]

u got this 🙏

[violet hill]

i'm like

still shocked that people actually apply mit rd

💀

idk why

[austere marten]

bruh

what is bro yapping abt when he’d prob get in

[violet hill]

(i did not get in)

[austere marten]

oh wait yeah

i forgot

well u still got deferred

so stop the yap

[violet hill]

70% get deferred 😴

[austere marten]

mhm

tru

but still

[remote vessel]

1.8% acceptance rate for deferred kids

roughly

[ionic spindle]

What is wrong with applying RD?

[eternal jasper]

this will be me ong

[violet hill]

no it's just almost everyone ik applied EA

nothing wrong

[violet hill]

😂

[inland flicker]

ED?

No such thing

[violet hill]

EA mb

[inland flicker]

Were you accepted into MIT EA?

[violet hill]

nope

[inland flicker]

to where do you intend to attend

[violet hill]

another place

[solid pawn]

UChicago

[inland flicker]

lol

[twilit siren]

hello guys, is the name of the organization here the name of the event or the name of the organizer

[hollow sedge]

the name of the organization that gave you the ward

in your case, put down whatever organization runs the event where you recieved the award

[twilit siren]

okay thank you

[autumn bison]

maybe i should apply to MIT

it seems interesting

LOL

[cedar hornet]

this is not because there is a disadvantage for being deferred

it jsut means they defer a bunch of bums that had no chance at acceptance

[twilit siren]

if the summer camp is like 2 weeks long and we live there is the approximate hours per week 24 x 7 or like we reduce the sleeping and free time?

[shrewd basalt]

LOL

Brutal and not completely true

[flint wigeon]

ehh

fair

im guessing they do defer some, who with their current stats would be rejected, but given first semester grades could be redeemed

[shrewd basalt]

When you accept less than 1 in 20 applicants it’s certainly not about being redeemed

[flint wigeon]

true

[shrewd basalt]

To maintain the state (or the illusion) of both application rounds being equal there is a very small set of students that they need to defer instead of accept to assess the RD pool fairly

The set that they actually defer is larger than this by a few orders of magnitude, regardless of what their PR might say

[tardy pulsar]

We have 4 essays to write right

Making sure no sudden essay pops out suddenly

[wintry basin]

five

why major, something u do for fun, and the three on the short essays section

[flint wigeon]

^

[spiral tiger]

are LORs due jan 4th

one of my teachers mightve forgotten

and i dont have anything to contact him besides his email

[stoic frost]

also does the mit portal email you or show u on the lor page if ur teachers submitted their letters

[north loom]

there's always a grace period

[sand lance]

Both

[ember star]

how do you see if your recommendation was submitted?

mine says the status was sent to recommender

[green dew]

there’s a confirmation email

mine was in my spam folder tho tho

[ember star]

oh i see, thanks!

[modern lava]

Bruh

THEY PUT HIS FACE ON EVERYTHING

They copyrighted it??????

[violet hill]

what's ur number

[modern lava]

555-Amogus

[violet hill]

winner

[junior heath]

real

[modern lava]

everywhere I go

I see his face

[junior heath]

start drawing him on the walkways when you get there

[modern lava]

They put him on the acceptance letter, the CPW background, the admitted students website, the poster in the acceptance package

[junior heath]

paste his face on dorm doors

[modern lava]

I'm drawing this mf on the tunnels

[junior heath]

market (definitely legally, im sure mit wont care) plushies of him

[junior heath]

cough

[junior heath]

welp

make it WIDE

stick his face under surfaces like gum

make a permanent mark on the MIT campus for your undying um.. hatred? in spite of their overuse? of this silly mascot

[dark forge]

Is it possible to put sports related awards here

if it's major

[junior heath]

put that in non-scholastic

[dark forge]

OHH

I'm stupid

I didnt scroll down

[indigo sparrow]

Mit

[flint wigeon]

Mit

[obtuse sentinel]

mit!

[flint wigeon]

[river sky]

Le deleuze reference

[median grotto]

Dear MIT intersection Deferral Damnation intersection international,

my consultant said this.

[flint wigeon]

[flint wigeon]

thank you for the copium

[brittle glacier]

mit rd gonna go crazy 🙏

i doubt they would need to defer a lot of intls with basically 100% intl yield rate

[sand lance]

how tf can rd get deffered? the rd defers get their decision on tau day 💀

[brittle glacier]

we were deferred ea

so decision comes on pi day

[wind cedar]

The law of energy reminded me about chemistry

I should apply here for chem as a joke 🤭

[indigo sparrow]

and if you get in then that is good

[oak shore]

Starting my MIT app today

🧌

[ionic spindle]

me, but tomorrow

[modern lava]

When the Chusetts Institute is of Mass 😍

[oak shore]

ill start it tomorrow too 🔥 gotta finish gtech, yale, tufts and uw today

💀

almost done with the first 3

[foggy notch]

Hi there, has anyone received an interview from MIT this cycle? If so, anyone got some tips for preparing?

[junior heath]

🙈

[tender sail]

good luck bro

[junior heath]

@modern lava did you put personality into your ec roles in activities section + descriptions

[modern lava]

I had no choice

[junior heath]

okay 😭
im just gonna do it and hope i dont come off as too quirky

[stoic frost]

how do u put ur personality in ur ec descriptions?

[night jolt]

wdym, normally personality is more in the essays yea?

[junior heath]

yeah but describing roles and descriptions in more fun ways

[ember star]

this has probably been asked a million times but is "Tell us more about why this field of study at MIT appeals to you. " supposed to be more why major or why MIT?

[inland flicker]

why major at mit

[junior heath]

can do either

[inland flicker]

mine was about like CS at MIT becaues MIT has a collaborative environment where everybody is eager to help one another to change the world for the better with innovation in the CS field stuffz like that

[junior heath]

EM told me to do why major at mit

[inland flicker]

of course my ass got deferred

[ember star]

oh i see, thanks sm!

[hollow sedge]

i did why major

based on the wording of the essay title "What do you want to study?"

[inland flicker]

@royal badger do we have a leaderboard for how many colleges applied to?

[royal badger]

No

[rose thistle]

guys

[crisp bay]

wat

[rose thistle]

I wrote my maker portfolio's description but not sure if it's good enough

can I send it here?

[autumn bison]

decided not to apply

too much work to fill out the application

💀

[rose thistle]

is it good enough as a description of my maker portfolio

word limit is 300, I wrote 170 (that's why I'm afraid)

[junior heath]

the last sentence is um

very ambitious and a bit pretentious

[rose thistle]

at the end of the day these are not like essays,

[rose thistle]

read the whole essay

[junior heath]

i used a small portion of the characters in my research supplement

[rose thistle]

so I dont even need 170, ig

[junior heath]

in the 2nd sentence you wrote electric motors 3 times

[rose thistle]

fuck me, wait I gotta fix it, didnt proofread

[junior heath]

i would adjust the last sentence

it doesnt come off very well

[rose thistle]

yup I feel you thx

[rose thistle]

is it less ambitious :()

[junior heath]

you still say electic motors a lot

In this rapidly growing trend, I aim to offer more affordable drivers and facilitate access to electric motors

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[junior heath]

its better
gives ideas to your plans yeah

[rose thistle]

appreciate that mate

will be submitting 🙂

[junior heath]

good luck!! :D

[remote vessel]

mit students be like yeah i made free energy then find a way to get denied from mit

[sand lance]

Electroboom moment