#MIT (2025-2026)

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carmine ocean
dense tangle
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Mine went pretty well

I asked him good questions about himself and we had a good conversation about interests

So I think it will help it. Also since Character is the most important part, could the interview report also positively add to their perception of your character

split compass
cinder lagoon
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šŸ‘¼

stuck jolt
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but im sure applicant to mit pretty much fill that mostly

candid hare
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Will MIT send me an email regarding financial aid?

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I heard this was the case from someone who previously applied to MIT but I am not sure if this is true

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because I havent received any email yet

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Ive started filling in the CSS form just in case, but does anyone know what CBFinAidID is

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(I am an international)

random iron
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if ur currently new to CSS profile

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then u dont have to enter anything

random iron
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their deadline is Feb 1 though

candid hare
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i heard it was feb 15

random iron
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nvm

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its feb 15

candid hare
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lol you scared me for a bit there

compact horizon
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goodbye college hello mit

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if anyone gets accepted please lmk! šŸ™‚ā€ā†•ļø

strange rampart
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We try to ping in this thread once it happens and run a poll

woven idol
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Brah

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2 Bs in senior year semester report

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Am i cooekd for MIT?

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Do they really index off of grades that much

pure fog
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did yall prepare for your interview or anything or like practice speaking? idk. i have my interview tmr and i feel like i should be preparing somehow but idk how

manic hull
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There's really no other preparation needed

split compass
split compass
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Or if you had friends interview chat with them

covert ridge
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i second that advice. having a few answers in mind is good preparation but dont make a script. you'll never know how the conversation will turn. get loose before your interview relax and pretend like the interviewer is a friend. they wanna learn abt you right. would you prepare a script before you meet a new friend?

wicked swallow
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i really wanna get into MIT but don't understand what they r looking for. like one of my friend with no major ECs, or olympiads but a decent score got into MIT while another one with a bronze in IMO and done lots of research and stuff got rejected....i am like what-

pseudo moon
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also college admissions are a gamble

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sooo

wicked swallow
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lol jk, ig you r right, essays are imp too

pseudo moon
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but take what I say with a grain of salt bc Iā€™m also a junior lmfao

wicked swallow
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well yeah, actually i am first gen so i obv didnt get much of support and knowledge on what to do for strengthening college application so i dont have much elite ECs and all but yeah i surely did what i was interested in and what i had available to me, so ig its a pretty gud point on my resume??

gray echo
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I think there are factors more important in admissions than having a completely pristine academic record (although strong performance overall is necessary)

plain nebula
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Bruh my interview was so bored and was obviously following a script

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he asked me two questions and didnt follow up on either

split compass
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That sucks

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:(

pure fog
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Bruh my interview was so badšŸ˜­ he just kept jumping topics

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And I didn't get to go in deep in any of then

cinder lagoon
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šŸ˜­

strange rampart
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Basically use high school to do well in school, become a better person, and figure out what you enjoy. MIT may accept you because of this but even if they donā€™t you wonā€™t regret high school forever because youā€™ll know you made the most of your time and took skills out of that time of your life that you can bring to help you succeed in many parts of your life

candid hare
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Hi, I do CAIE A/AS levels, for course level do I just put "other" and then say CAIE blah blah in the Class Name?

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hmm i cant seem to put images on here

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anyways

candid hare
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and when we write the grades there, must we only put a symbol or can we put a percentage too like 95% (A*)

modern snow
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We yapped about geopolitics, sociology, engineering, Taiwan, superconductors and the manufacturing process for that for some reason, hardware, gardening/farming, and building staircases šŸ’€

split compass
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My interviewer just kept emphasizing she just wanted to get across what I cared about

pure fog
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my interviewer did not ask any follow up questions so it was so badšŸ’€ ... hope someone enjoys mit for me šŸ„²

split compass
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I don't know. Maybe you got across really well what you wanted to say. My interviewer didn't ask a lot of follow up questions either

dense tangle
empty forge
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WTF šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€

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Maybe itā€™s a good signā€¦?

slate steeple
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So, I apparently got an interview request on the 5th of Jan and I am just now seeing it. The interviewer sent me another email on the 7th of Jan but I still didn't see it in my inbox somehow.

I swear I had been looking at my Gmail everyday to keep up with any updates but I just didn't see this one email and now I am 19 days late at replying to their email.

Am I cooked ?

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This is the ONLY interview request I have recieved

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I only found it cuz I was actually shocked that I didn't get a single interview so far so I decided to enter the names of the colleges I applied to, and lo and behold, it was sitting right there for the past 3 weeks.

random iron
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Ur not cooked, but uā€™ve missed a really good chance

gray echo
wet light
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does the FUN form really help with anything regarding admission

random iron
slate steeple
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So, update on the entire interview drama: EC was able to schedule me for in-person. So let us see happythumbsup

wet light
random iron
random iron
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Unless u got cooked in sr year

stuck jolt
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just finished my interview.. circa 30 min before

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was the one of the coolest shit ive ever done

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crazy cool convo.. and honestly it was really fun to put a face to the mit app

slate steeple
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mind sharing some of the questions that were asked ?

stuck jolt
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it was how are you doing

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what got you interested

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how cool do you do stuff and why do you like stem

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atp i was just yapping and the guy was guiding me it wasnt really liek qs ans qs ans

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it was truly a convo

gray echo
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mine was so interesting because the first question was ā€œwhat questions do you have for me?ā€

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And then from there we talked about all kinds of wonderful things like foreign language study (He studied engineering + a language at mit, and Iā€™m really passionate about languages, maybe an aspiring linguistics student in addition to engineering?) and so we talked about the roots/development of some languages and why itā€™s easier for native english speakers to pick up more languages (My interviewer speaks several!! super super cool.) A lot of my interests came up naturally as he shared about his mit experience, and the only question I was actually asked was ā€œTell me about failureā€

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Overall a wonderful conversation though :)

upper shell
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anyone in the MENA region get an interview?

cinder lagoon
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how is this even poossible

nimble grove
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Me and my interviewer talked about cameras for a good bit

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Camera and a lil bit of optics it was hella fun

split compass
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šŸ¤·

nimble grove
cinder lagoon
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evyer interviewer just happens to share some niche interest wp bro

nimble grove
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My interviewer and I didnā€™t necessarily talk about niche stuff

cinder lagoon
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cameras

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isnt exactly a common topic unless you applied photography

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i guess another part ofthe issue is i dont really have that many niche interests

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i dont have a special type of autism

nimble grove
nimble grove
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Also itā€™s mit theyā€™re very much known for having some eclectic individuals in their campus so I was kinda ready for my interview to be a lil silly

nimble grove
cinder lagoon
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that is true you are right

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survivorship bias

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not exactly but close enough

nimble grove
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Mhm

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Also Iā€™ve heard like some horror stories from like quora (now idk if itā€™s true or not) but like some of those interviewers were interesting

gray echo
cinder lagoon
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who knows

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šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

cinder lagoon
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gg

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just finished my interview

dense tangle
cinder lagoon
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lowk good

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i was complaining abt nice interviewers but i was blessed with lady luck

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shared 4 interetest

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hiking and national parks

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dosteovsky

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both worked at party city

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both love movies

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part city was a crazy pull

nimble grove
dense tangle
cinder lagoon
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white nights probably v

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iā€™m a sucker for romance

cinder lagoon
dense tangle
cinder lagoon
dense tangle
nimble grove
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Iā€™ve always wanted to read Dostoevsky, which book should I start with

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Which one do yall recc

cinder lagoon
cinder lagoon
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gambler is good

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white nights is good

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NOT crime nad punishment or brothers karamazov

nimble grove
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I see I see

dense tangle
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I started with Crime and Punishment

Saw a YT vid on it and then read it online

nimble grove
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Have yall read count of monte cristo

gray echo
cinder lagoon
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i was ove rhere bitching and then this happens

nimble grove
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ā€œWhy does every mit interviewer have something niche wtfā€ and then thereā€™s this

cinder lagoon
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LMFAOOO

nimble grove
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bro got the MOST NICHE AHH THING

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We have linguistics or talking abt cameras vs working at party city

cinder lagoon
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yeah truly blessed

flat willow
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interview today i suppose stare

strange rampart
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Every early October in elementary my mom would always rush my brother and I over to our local one bc theyā€™d sell out of costumes quick

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I think the only other time we went was for balloons

cinder lagoon
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company liquidated

candid hare
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In the February Updates form, do we have to only put in our grade

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or can we also put in our percentage in the "grade received" section

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also it is recommended to write things in the updates section or is it ok to leave it blank

flat willow
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my interviewer is late šŸ˜ž

limber panther
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I have mine in 10 minutes

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Sweating bullets rn

wet light
limber panther
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Finished my MIT interview

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Lowk went pretty well

flat willow
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FINISHED INTERVIEW

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PRETTY GOOD

flat willow
flat willow
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hey so do i send a thank you to my interviewer via email or text message

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because i have his phone number now šŸ˜­

cinder lagoon
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why do you have his number wtf

dense tangle
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Some people interview via facetime and stuff

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I did for example

cinder lagoon
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oh thats true

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i didnt consider that

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yeah shoot him an email i mean its a ncie thing

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dunno how much it boosts yrou chances

random iron
cinder lagoon
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whatsapp

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man wtf

nimble grove
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idk what help exactly

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But itā€™s nice to have it

cinder lagoon
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my interviewer told me at teh VERY beginning "yeah man ocne this is over I cant really do anything so dont msg me"

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"if you got a short question I can answer but dont send me paragarphs"

nimble grove
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Atleast theyā€™re straight up abt it

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Cuz they REALLY canā€™t do much

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Lowk I have zero expectations for this school ngl, only applied for the giggles

pure fog
nimble grove
flat willow
cinder lagoon
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oh

flat willow
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aw my interviewer he was nice :( he said i could reach out and i could even ask about his wife since he mentioned she worked in tech like leadership

gray echo
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I do not think Iā€™m getting in but Iā€™m still hopeful of course :)

cinder lagoon
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dawg my interviewer musta hated me

flat willow
candid hare
candid hare
tame coral
wet light
strange rampart
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Assuming the percentages youā€™re mentioning wouldnā€™t be on your official transcript I would stick w the grades

spring lintel
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guys i think my interviewer was more nervous than me šŸ˜­ he was rlly nice tho and he seemed to sincerely wish me good luck at the end !!

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i stuttered and paused a few times but eh

coral cipher
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no intervirwšŸ’”

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maybe cause i live in uzbekistan

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rhats the reason right

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šŸ˜°

dry star
coral cipher
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hell yeah

cinder lagoon
candid hare
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how much do i need to polish my FUN essay?

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can I just speak casually and informally?

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also is it recommended to fill the whole 250 words even if i dont have many updates to share?

wooden pine
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it's not an essay
share updates or share jokes, and you don't need to fill the word limit

coral cipher
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i just put a linus torvalds quote

slate steeple
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I put a Jim Carey quote

wet light
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i put life updates lol but they were kinda major

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nothing buffing up my ECs or awards tho

hasty plinth
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Ts finna be my get back for Georgia tech watch ts

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Or are they gonna yield protect me

dry star
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Basically saying i didn't have time to research the plot for brand new day bcz i was doing x y z..

grizzled plaza
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wait the form is due the 5th right

split compass
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Yes

flat willow
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so i donā€™t remember if i reported my spring dual enrollment courses when i applied

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is there a way to find out šŸ¤§

cinder lagoon
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can i lowk write anything int he fun form

wet light
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@cinder lagoon

cinder lagoon
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they said i can even write jokes

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should i LOL

wet light
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Ofc if you have an EC or award update put that too though

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Idk, if u want to

cinder lagoon
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yeah I alr have that and i dunno what to add to the rest of 250 words

summer thorn
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MIT interviewer is NOT here

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And is NOT answering my call cursedmoon

tame coral
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they saw caltech and ran..

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you can just email them

summer thorn
tame coral
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where is your 1r from btw you're extremely cracked

summer thorn
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illinois

tame coral
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bum ahh cornball school

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i assume you're a CS major

summer thorn
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engineering

tame coral
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go to caltech

summer thorn
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prob will

tame coral
summer thorn
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Yeah I gochu

hasty plinth
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How long does the FUN form take

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O still gotta do ts

split compass
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As long as you want

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Just remember that it doesn't save

hasty plinth
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Yā€™all think I can do it in an hour

summer thorn
hasty plinth
summer thorn
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Ah okay Iā€™m doing it tmrow then

split compass
slate marlin
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should i go to MIT if i want to do engenering

dry star
slate marlin
tame coral
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your role says freshman

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if that is up to date, do not worry about college

manic hull
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target primary school -> target middle school -> target high school -> target uni

tame coral
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a2preschool

dry star
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And yes MIT is one of the best engineerig schools in the world

slate marlin
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what others should i look into

plain nebula
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Not a joke.. my friendā€™s mit interviewer is in the epstein files

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they had an email exchange

tame coral
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lmfao

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why are they letting bro interview

plain nebula
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Its the files that were released a few days ago, she interviewed weeks ago and she is somewhat famous

nimble grove
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Do I need my counselor to submit my transcript if I alr submitted my fun form?

dry star
hasty plinth
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Yo in the FUN form Iā€™m lowk just using the answer box to tomfool.

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Real quote, ā€œTurn to the admissions officer beside you and discuss thisā€ šŸ˜­

tame coral
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they donā€™t have time for ts šŸ„€

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I mean if it were me I would be entertained but

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from what Iā€™ve gathered on the toxicity of the mit admissions subreddit theyā€™re not into that

hasty plinth
random iron
random iron
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only choice u can make is to apply

cinder lagoon
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just do whatever you like in hs and then from there youc an decide what schools you think you would enjoy/fit nicely with

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doesnt mean that its gonna be super top tier schools necessarily but it very well could be

grizzled plaza
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does mit require official mid year report

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or just FUN Form?

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and how do they send it

candid hare
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What does this exactly mean

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Does MIT ask for the final grades to my school as well as to me?

stuck jolt
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no

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if you get in your conselor sends in your final grades

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but they may request you midyear grades that you reported, if they are not reported in your finalised transcript

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like my schools transcript doesnt have midyear grades on them

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only final grades

strange rampart
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If you did the SRAR somewhere else this is kinda like that but not for all your grades ever

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Itā€™s the same in terms of how theyā€™re gonna trust you on it now bc if you do lie and get in theyā€™ll fact check it through your counselor as time said

candid hare
candid hare
candid hare
strange rampart
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The thing there is if the school requires it which not all do

candid hare
strange rampart
strange rampart
coral cipher
slate marlin
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and im hoping to do the ROTC program

halcyon plume
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is it a bad idea to go a bit beyond "just providing updates" on the FUN form?

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I wrote a bit about my final capstone project at school and what it meant to me (it concluded this january after submitting my MIT application)

grizzled plaza
split compass
halcyon plume
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alright thanks

woven idol
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Guys

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Is the fun form due tonight

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Or tomrorow night

misty whale
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tmr

cinder lagoon
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shoudl I actually add things to the fun form that isnt an update

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lieka joke or something

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or a rant about some awful movie i watched

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cough cough pacific rim uprising

grizzled plaza
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it might be tonight

woven idol
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Shit

grizzled plaza
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is starting like this buns

gentle comet
gentle comet
cinder lagoon
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so it was just updates

limber panther
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Damn I was going to fill out the fun form tmmrw until I saw that is said to submit the form ā€œbefore February 5ā€ šŸ’€

strange rampart
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Itā€™s a more formal way of starting and from what Iā€™ve gathered they donā€™t care too much about format as long as youā€™re not too fluffy with it all and follow the basic instructions around grade formats

gilded nacelle
strange rampart
gilded nacelle
vernal lynx
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is the MIT grade form due february 5 end of day or today end of day nvm im lwk an idiot who didnt scroll, someone here said tmrw

vernal lynx
misty whale
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itā€™s due 2/5 i think their email said

lyric lava
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how formal should it be

north wasp
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Im so confused bc they said "by 2/5"

gilded nacelle
quasi loom
north wasp
gilded nacelle
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however, i would submit it asap

north wasp
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Hmmm

gilded nacelle
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the portal is so crappy i wouldn't be surpirsed if it crashed or smth at 11:50 tomorrow

north wasp
gilded nacelle
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and its literally 250 words

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took me 30 minutes

north wasp
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Yeah it doesnā€™t seem to bad. I have smth drafted but Iā€™m CST so Iā€™m kinda cooked if itā€™s 2/14 11:59 est

halcyon plume
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i think it means before the end of february 5th

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"The form must be submitted no later than February 5 even if you do not have grades yet."

halcyon scroll
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it says this tho....

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oh shit...

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????

halcyon plume
halcyon scroll
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wait so

halcyon plume
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and iirc that was also the case for the application deadline too

halcyon scroll
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do i just put 0 for ts

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halcyon plume
halcyon plume
grizzled plaza
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can you see your mit app responses?

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im tryna see if i included osmething (it was extremely new at the time of application and dont know if i did) or if i should add it to the FUN

grizzled plaza
halcyon scroll
grizzled plaza
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anyone alive

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i gotta quick q

gentle comet
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but I don't think they let you re-view your responses in app season

serene torrent
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Would it be bad to have a super long winded joke in my fun form

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Like the comedy comes from how inconsise it is

tame coral
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reddit posters clarify that

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you do not need* to put a joke if you have no updates

serene torrent
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I do have an update

tame coral
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oh youā€™re pairing a joke with updates

serene torrent
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I just wanted to put one for fun

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Would this be seen as wasting the aos time

tame coral
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i mean how long is it

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i just yapped about beavers in my yard for mine

serene torrent
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Like a few minutes long

tame coral
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that might be too much

serene torrent
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It can be however long i want to

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The joke comes from it being needlessly long and the eventual pun being very bad

tame coral
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unrelated but

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campaign trail user šŸ„€

serene torrent
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Woah you know about it?

tame coral
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yeah

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play democracyā€™s martyrdom shit is gas

serene torrent
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bro I put TCT on my college application šŸ„€

tame coral
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And what is your best acceptance so far

serene torrent
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Purdue Eng

tame coral
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cooking

serene torrent
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Deferred uiuc rejected uva and duke

tame coral
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duke is weird

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they deferred my friend with negative iq points

serene torrent
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Duke accepted only like one kid from our high school in a decade

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I only applied because I couldnt finish my chicago essays by ed1 deadline and they were the only other november 3

serene torrent
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So idk if that plays any role

woven idol
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For the MIT fun form, if we dont have a mid year report yet, do we say we report no courses?

Or do we report the classes we are taking and write N/A for grade recieved?

woven idol
hasty plinth
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MIT decision is gonna drop during my prom šŸ˜­

serene torrent
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I dont remember what i put on my mit application is there a way to view a pdf of it after submitting

gilded nacelle
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No there isnā€™t

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They say - ā€œthere is no PDF viewer

gray echo
hasty plinth
plain nebula
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whys the mit admissions subreddit so weird

vernal lynx
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is it bad if i dont put anything (no jokes/quotes) in the FUN form

plain nebula
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Shit I forgot to put a joke

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while I was submitting I realized

gilded nacelle
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i didn't put a joke or anything

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Just straight updates lol

plain nebula
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Who has updates?

vernal lynx
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i dont have any updates šŸ’”

plain nebula
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Yea i havent accomplished anything in the 1 month since i submitted my app

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sry MIT

vernal lynx
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šŸ˜­ fr

serene torrent
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Should I preemptively explain my presence in the new epstein files release in my FUN form?

vernal lynx
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your what

serene torrent
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Would they even go through the trouble of looking me up in the Epstein library?

old sierra
tame coral
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holy shit itā€™s the guy from mites applicants

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šŸ‘‹

nimble grove
old sierra
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fail

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no embed perms

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tragic

tame coral
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Donā€™t look at that the interviewers are just tired

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Though AOs are also in there

plain nebula
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I think its just one or two guys

halcyon plume
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i actually dont know if any uni i applied to will drop their decisions before MIT

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i heard that ivy day is on the 18th this year tho

gilded nacelle
halcyon plume
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oh

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i guess ill have to endure 12 days of despair if i get rejected lmao šŸ’€

gentle comet
quasi loom
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you can email them updates, I'm unsure if they will take it post Feb. 5

gilded nacelle
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I remember somewhere on their website they have a Q and A and it says if you have stuff after the FUN form, email them

little raven
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and would yall say AMO update helps for MIT. if ur an econ major applying

hasty plinth
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So it can really just be a net positive

slate steeple
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MIT interview tomorrow

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Kinda scared but this too shall pass

stone minnow
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submitted FUN form šŸ˜„

cinder lagoon
serene torrent
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Its okay i applied like 6 days late

grizzled plaza
old sierra
cinder lagoon
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is it?

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aime was yesterrday how is amo cutoff alr out

grizzled plaza
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bro how do i answer "why is mit a good fit for you even tho its hard"

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like my response was supposed to be about the collaborative environment and really good connection between courses and real applications but thats super generic..

cinder lagoon
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idk mit does a lotta shit man

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but in the same boat so does every college

grizzled plaza
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what do u guys think mit has that harvard or stanford or berkeley doesnt

slate steeple
grizzled plaza
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just grinding psets everyday lol

little raven
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cutoffs aint out there

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*yet

cinder lagoon
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they think you qualified and you just wrote it down

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what if you donā€™t

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šŸ˜­

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wasnā€™t dhr this year 150?

wet light
drowsy raft
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Gang I JUST got an interview offer

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I feel so lucky to have made it out of the overflow pile

random iron
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they still send out interviews?

slate steeple
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I lowkey heard something similar, but my interview is literally today

drowsy raft
hasty plinth
slate steeple
grizzled plaza
old sierra
slate steeple
slate steeple
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Just did the interview

slate steeple
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Pretty good

candid hare
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Is this my MIT applicant ID they are asking for?

tame coral
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I think so, but check your financial aid portal to see if anything else populated there

candid hare
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doesnt seem so

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tame coral
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just use your mit applicant id then

candid hare
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Also anothe question, in the css profile, they ask you to state which currency you will use for the rest of the form, but I will have to use 2 currencies since we immigrated to another country

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What can I do in this situation?

tame coral
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you may have to convert the old amounts to the currency you will be paying for MIT in

candid hare
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ah i see

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thank you

bitter badge
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when are the results comming out for TPP ?

gilded nacelle
bitter badge
wet light
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Does anyone know if the optional supplemental rec letter actually really important

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Like one of those things that are optional but not really optional

wet light
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Cause I couldnā€™t do one šŸ˜­

old sierra
strange rampart
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MIT mention

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halcyon scroll
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I kinda wish mit decision was during ivy day

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BC I might get me hopes up and like disillusioned

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BC it comes out b4

little raven
wet light
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Decision date is 3/14 right

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Cause itā€™s always Pi day?

gilded nacelle
stone minnow
limber panther
hasty plinth
dense tangle
tame coral
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Why is it literally just a list of T20s

empty forge
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Cuz ppl there are so academically pressured

summer thorn
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This is why Caltech better

old sierra
empty forge
cinder lagoon
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mit has a lotta people who are super super dedicated to academic rigor whereas caltechs eemed more laid back on that

summer thorn
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But yeah Caltech rlly pushes collaboration

summer thorn
cinder lagoon
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idk why caltech sint mad depressed

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probably cuz its pasadena cali

summer thorn
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Caltech rigour harder

cinder lagoon
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vs massachussets

summer thorn
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Also smaller school

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Itā€™s also only for certain kind of person

cinder lagoon
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exactly and thsoe peopel knwo exactly what theyre getting into

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and enjoy that stuff very highly

nimble grove
# dense tangle RIP

I don't need any of these bum ahh schools to be depressed, I'm going into engineering I'll alr be depressed

empty forge
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Like esp if you have SAD or extremely sensitive to the cold like me (I live in NorCal, applied to a few schools on the east coast but canā€™t imagine going there upon second reflection cuz itā€™s so cold)

median sluice
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i'm ngl being a native of socal and seeing people say that pasadena has a good vibe is kinda crazy šŸ˜­

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probably personal bias but i wanna go much farther away to east coast

wet light
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Nvm didnā€™t see above convo

lament kestrel
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I'm actually surprised Harvard is 2nd

cinder lagoon
#

cornell isnā€™t higher insane

hasty plinth
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Everyone there was a chiller

pure fog
livid harness
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gotta lock in all day long haha

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jk jk

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does anyone here know a bit about american uni admission and could give me some general advice on my chances and what I should be doing? specifically I'm doing ee and cs projects

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I will send more info about my projects and running and grades and stuff if anyone wants to discuss, ping me

slow river
#

3 weeks until decisions right? MIT always drops on the 14th?

cinder lagoon
#

3/14 6:28

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pi day at tau time

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convert from their timezone to yours

paper harbor
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I forgot to use git for most of my code samples for a long time, and apparently it's pretty substantial for MIT's maker portfolio, what should I do?

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I have some of the old versions but they're not uploaded on my GitHub, only 1 version of each of my project

slow river
#

Does MIT prescreen applicants for the interview?

split compass
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No

nova marten
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crazy work

keen summit
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just sent this correction out to the small number of parents who got it earlier today

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it is kind of funny that most of the email inquiries we received btwn now and then were "wait, why am i getting this, it isn't pi day yet"

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brand is strong, etc

slow river
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I'm lowkey looking at my MIT essays again and i feel like my "unexpected challenge" essay is cliche

keen summit
strange rampart
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I vividly remember Northeastern having crisis control on a Saturday afternoon after sending out a similar email

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I think theirs ended up being connected to branch campus decisions so they released those that day and the rest came on Monday despite them usually doing unannounced Wednesdays

keen summit
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I think/hope it helps that we emailed parents (not students) of deferred kids something clearly not intended for them and the students had nothing

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this never feels good obviously but

pure fog
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this is making me worried. I really hope I don't accidentally get an acceptance on decision day for any of my colleges and then have them tell me i was actually rejected

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like imagine screaming for joy and telling your fam and friends and then finding out and telling them agian that you were actually rejected šŸ˜”

flat willow
#

should let you in for emotional damage atp

pure fog
hasty plinth
lapis dagger
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did anyoen else get an email about a letter of rec?

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like i submitted my LORs on time and everything but I just got another email saying like

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"we have recieved your letter of rec from ________________"

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even tho it was submitted way back alongisde my other lors

night coral
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welp

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now that i didnt get it

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time to overthink it

lapis dagger
night coral
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the suspicious email sent earlier today to certain applicants' parents

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it is time to overanalyze this trivial fact

lapis dagger
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oh lmao

night coral
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and psych myself out

lapis dagger
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i think it was only to ea kids who got deferred

night coral
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!!

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well you see

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i was an ea kid

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who got deferred

lapis dagger
#

šŸ’€

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what other schools did u apply to

night coral
#

the usual suspects

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i submitted 9 apps in 19 days

lapis dagger
#

stanford better anyway just wait until that

night coral
strange rampart
# night coral time to overthink it

ā€œHey guys we accidentally sent this email to some students so we are emailing you with explicit instructions that this isnā€™t a sign and means nothingā€

night coral
#

oooo i can feel my brain hole overthinking it already

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all the possible different things that "nothing" might mean

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and whatever secret and hidden implicit meanings there are tucked away behind the very explicit and clear-cut instructions given

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||/s if it wasnt clear||

lapis dagger
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if you didnt get it

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that means ur rejected

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and theyre emailing every other college and telling them to reject you

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and theyre drone striking your home

night coral
#

oh shit

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whos that at the door rn

lapis dagger
#

me

night coral
#

ā‰ļø

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i thought you lived in my walls

strange rampart
#

Ngl I didnā€™t realize there was so much sql in slate until now

hasty plinth
#

You are following the herd.

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Sheeple mentality

livid harness
#

I mean you could still add your projects to GitHub now anyway? Only difference surely is no commit history from the start

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What projects have you made btw?

paper harbor
#

Video is only there to explain moving this not a presentation

keen summit
civic crow
livid harness
paper harbor
inland seal
#

did anyone from rd get that email or was it only for early?

strange rampart
#

Nobody was supposed to get it

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But itā€™s also not like NEU 2023 where they accidentally sent out acceptances early

strange rampart
dim vapor
#

only when you got moving parts

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I wish more unis had a maker portfolio

paper harbor
# paper harbor

Yeah some of my projects have limited documentation so I'm really not sure how I'm gonna show

dim vapor
#

and shows that you are smarter ig

paper harbor
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Yeah

dim vapor
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I'm even using git for hardware projects lol

paper harbor
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How

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What js for the code section

dim vapor
paper harbor
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I have photos of build process but not of coding

dim vapor
#

hardware?

paper harbor
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Yeah

dim vapor
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like you got all kinds of cads

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you upload the revisions

paper harbor
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God all my code I haven't used fits on

paper harbor
dim vapor
#

or else how can mit know that it's you who made the thing

paper harbor
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Well yeah I wish I had known that before I made ALL of my projects

dim vapor
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šŸ˜­

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I did that even before looking at portfolio reqs

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it's standard industry practices

paper harbor
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I'm still a junior so I have some stuff I added to git now

dim vapor
dim vapor
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git and github isn't the same šŸ˜­

paper harbor
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Also I have pictures of me building the thing does that count

dim vapor
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yeah that's good

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I got like over 100 git commits for hardware stuff

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and 500 for my software projects

paper harbor
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How many of my projects should I include? I feel like some projects might cause me detriment more than it helps me

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Oh crap I don't have documentations of my cosplays dammit, can't use those either

dim vapor
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and most technical

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Quantity < quality

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I got like 20 projects but put in 5

paper harbor
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U did it upside down lmao

dim vapor
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fml

paper harbor
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It eats the bigger one

dim vapor
#

it's 10pm šŸ˜­

paper harbor
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Or wait

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Is simulated stuff also like projects?

dim vapor
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send me a pic

paper harbor
#

I have some technical ROS stuff that I'm rlly proud of

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Really well documented too

dim vapor
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ROS? ig

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it's software

paper harbor
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Yeah but I don't think it counts as code projects

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Because it like simulates an algorithm for a robot to move in a defined space

dim vapor
paper harbor
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A bit

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I have the old versions tho

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Not in GitHub

dim vapor
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Then put in on github first šŸ˜­

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pov me:

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everything goes onto github

livid harness
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What projects did you guys do?

livid harness
dim vapor
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and add files in portions then change git commit dates

livid harness
dim vapor
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sameeeeeee

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they don't gaf

livid harness
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Yeah

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Are you applying UK?

dim vapor
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*Applied

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rejected cambridge šŸ„€

livid harness
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Oh ye ofc

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What for?

dim vapor
#

EE

livid harness
#

Ee?

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Isn't it just general engineering at Cambridge

dim vapor
#

yeah

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applied to eng

livid harness
#

Ah ye

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Do you do EE projects?

livid harness
#

I got pooled then rejected for cs

dim vapor
#

check my gh

livid harness
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Nice nice

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Same

dim vapor
#

šŸ‘€

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wanna share github

livid harness
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I've not really put much on GitHub šŸ˜…I need to

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I use git locally for version control on some stuff but I don't have readmes or anything

dim vapor
#

Ooh

livid harness
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I'll DM you

dim vapor
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I love git lol

livid harness
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It's nice

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I like having the coloured shell prompt

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only reason I use git

dim vapor
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xD

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Same, git on zsh da best

livid harness
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Ooh nice

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I use fish for interactive and bash otherwise but it's a bit of a mess having two shells

dim vapor
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Fish is nice

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But my bash scripts broke

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:c

livid harness
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Ugh yeah

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You need the line to specify what to use to run it

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The #!/bin/bash

dim vapor
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I didn't make the scripts xD

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And too much of a bother to fix everything

livid harness
#

I sent u a friend request btw

strange rampart
#

I can see automod

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Although funnily enough your link got blocked for a reason you shouldnā€™t have been

#

It wouldā€™ve been deleted manually otherwise

dim vapor
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I was wondering what word actually did the block

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was it ".com", "github" or what?

strange rampart
#

No

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I donā€™t think youā€™ll guess it

dim vapor
#

it was weird

dim vapor
#

cheyao

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nope

strange rampart
#

It wouldā€™ve been deleted for ads anyways

dim vapor
#

ice

strange rampart
#

No

dim vapor
#

idk šŸ„€

#

ts so weird

strange rampart
#

I will be laughing abt it in mod chat icl

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It was a hella funny block

paper harbor
paper harbor
#

Yeah no

strange rampart
#

Who can do a makerspace telling me how to tinker this

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My friend emulated his to show the local transit network

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It even lets you scan ur transit pass but doesnā€™t take any money off

dim vapor
#

nope

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the new vids are just from people who haven't read the reqs šŸ’€

dim vapor
#
  • fancy 3d printed case
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for the screen get a cheap one off aliexpress and use a pi zero to drive it. Or maybe if ur feeling fancy use a esp32

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we getting into MIT with these skills

strange rampart
#

I just bought this thinking Iā€™d figure it out

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But no I canā€™t

dim vapor
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u'll learn

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:3

strange rampart
#

Iā€™m old

dim vapor
#

skill issue make a time machine

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everyone who wants to get into Mit made one right

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riiiighhhttt

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(/j)

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But honestly just open it up and look

civic crow
strange rampart
#

My friend made his work

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It tells you to see operator when you scan

strange rampart
#

I did this back in the day when I applied for a cs summer camp

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I just didnā€™t know this was a thing at the time

livid harness
#

This is kinda common sense though?

strange rampart
#

Kids here do things bc they think itā€™ll help their apps

livid harness
#

I hate that

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In my school people did similar, and then dropped it all when they didn't get in where they wanted

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It's like faking being passionate about something

livid harness
strange rampart
#

I got username dropped on college confidential bc a parent was that upset I got in with a 2.8 gpa 1280 SAT one intro to programming class and all of my very few ECs being volunteering related

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I wasnā€™t even on college confidential

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They were referring to my comment on r/a2c and cross posted it over there

livid harness
paper harbor
strange rampart
#

Separate story

paper harbor
#

Oh

strange rampart
#

The moral there was about applying sideways to a non mit thing

paper harbor
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Ah kk

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Some of my ECs were forced by my school and parents so I'm not sure if I could count it as sideways

strange rampart
#

Was this

gray echo
#

Two weeks, how are we feeling

slow river
#

The wait is killing me but nevertheless im an instant reject so Idk why im stressing

livid harness
#

Good luck

pulsar peak
#

But I still want to fill out the varsity form anyway

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Cause I would love to play in the tennis roster

split compass
#

I kinda put the wait out of my mind for a month and a half

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But now it's there again

cinder lagoon
#

that canā€™t be legal can it?

stuck sail
#

the person who built one (david hahn) sadly passed away due to an OD

cinder lagoon
#

damn

stuck sail
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It's sad

#

he was such a bright kid too

summer thorn
strange rampart
strange rampart
#

Iā€™ve recently been playing on the Chess app thatā€™s pre downloaded onto MacBooks bc Iā€™m too scared to lose on chess.com

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I was talking to people a few days ago at a chess social apparently the MacBook chess is kinda hard

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But also the MacBook chess isnā€™t gonna write condescending comments in chat like chess.com users will

lofty leaf
dim vapor
#

Not even a nobel prize? Lowkey cooked, it's obvious they won't get in smh

verbal obsidian
#

not as much as u might think tbh, all they can do is put a good word in for you in essence but it wonā€™t push you over the edge if other stuff is lacking if that makes sense.

cinder lagoon
#

but thatā€™s not even ridiculous to say

stuck jolt
split compass
cinder lagoon
#

the more prestigious a school gets bruh istg the less serious they are

#

especially for engineering

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look caltech and mit

#

šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

summer thorn
split compass
#

It sounds fancy.

stuck jolt
#

well i hope my lor's help

halcyon plume
#

||/j||

split compass
#

The age old question

summer thorn
summer thorn
covert ridge
gentle comet
#

Damn rd comes out soon huh

#

Time flies

stuck sail
halcyon plume
#

for a moment i thought you meant that it would come early too somehow šŸ’”

dull tiger
dry star
#

Bro dont scare me like that

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cinder lagoon
#

bro

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what country

flat willow
#

šŸ™„šŸ™„šŸ™„šŸ™„

trail jewel
#

holy crap i didn't realize i was necroing this badly

#

soz

#

šŸ˜­

nimble grove
#

mit pls donā€™t do the same to me on decision day

dry star
celest verge
#

PI day is a Saturday wonder how they're gonna try doing that

river verge
#

hello beavers

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i cant wait to see the crashing out

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is it on the 14th or is it on the 13th

stuck sail
river verge
#

nice gl šŸ™

old sierra
stuck sail
old sierra
#

Where

flat willow
#

itā€™s always been Ļ€ day lol

stuck sail
#

Soooo

old sierra
#

Yeah ik

#

But still it's a Saturday so maybe it changed or sum

stuck sail
#

Nope

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Itā€™s always been pi day

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And most likely always will be

#

I feel like 3/14 being a weekend has happened before

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So it probably hasnā€™t changed

old sierra
#

Tau time right?

flat willow
#

yep

celest verge
#

oh yeah 2020 too

stuck sail
#

oh nice

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did they send on 3/14 still?

#

or did they move it around?

celest verge
#

They usually don't move it out of tradition

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Yeah they still released it

limber panther
#

might just be a rumor tho

celest verge
#

Quite odd though since it's a sunday

celest verge
limber panther
#

oh interesting

strange rampart
#

Unsure whatā€™s gonna happen when it lands on a Sunday tho

#

Oh wait they did do it on a Sunday before lol

strange rampart
#

Itā€™s usually 6:28pm

#

EA is the only that changes times most often

nimble grove
#

Itā€™s gonna be on tau time right

#

6:28

flat willow
#

yes

nimble grove
#

Okay cool

dim vapor
#

what time zone tho

celest verge
fickle mountain
#

Pretty sure from what Iā€™ve heard they love to do RD on pi day and tau time

#

Hell they did EA at tau time

celest verge
#

TAU time sometimes varies though but its also tradition so they'll most likely do it again

slow river
#

9 days

stone minnow
#

Did anyone else get an email asking for a citizenship verfication on campus

#

yeah utd better anyways

flat willow
#

utd is an ivy league

#

šŸ˜›

stone minnow
#

no lwky js create a school called ivy

#

ivy league university

#

"Oh yeah I went to (an) ivy league university"

slow river
#

I read online that if 3/14 falls on a weekend then the release time is 1:59PM (since 3.14159...) but if it falls on a weekday then the release time is 6:28PM (prob bc they dont want to release during school). do we think this is true?

stone minnow
#

tau

slow river
#

it probably is 6:28, I feel like they're going to send an email soon letting us know the exact date/time

celest verge
#

6:28

cinder lagoon
#

dorks

nimble grove
cinder lagoon
#

iu might be awful with women but im not a dork

nimble grove
#

šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

cinder lagoon
#

which mattewr of fact she said yes to prom

#

so its not that over

nimble grove
#

Gj man

cinder lagoon
#

šŸŽŠ

cinder lagoon
#

i get rankigns are fake but you truly cant deny greatness LOL

#

1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3

verbal obsidian
#

šŸ”„ šŸ”„ gotchu smile

covert ridge
cinder lagoon
#

ya got me bro I made that pot on reddit

covert ridge
gray echo
#

plus if theyā€™re reeeally big nerds they might because then it becomes 3/14 at 1:59 in the year 2026

#

Wait actually

#

Itā€™s probably going to be 1:59 because of that I hope they do it

#

3.1415926

#

8 digits of pi is hard to beat

old sierra
#

Yeah pls be 1:59

slow river
#

In 2015 they released at 9:26AM b/c 3.1415926 so I def think they might do it at 1:59

celest verge
#

Here's MIT's explanation

slow river
keen summit
keen summit
stone herald