<p>For some reason, when i view the pdf version of my application (part II), it says I’m interested in a sport - baseball - although I don’t ever recall clicking this, and i’m clearly not interested in mit varsity athletics. I then tried to fix it in the computer version, but there’s no way to “unclick” it, if you know what i mean. Any suggestions? Hopefully, I won’t look stupid for this…<em>sigh</em>
btw, does an additional essay for the addint. info section about a love for nanotechnology suit the section’s purpose, or should I submit an abstract? My abstract is overly complicated, and I don’t think it would help adcoms at all…</p>
<p>I can’t help you with the baseball issue. A similar glitch happened to me wherein one of my classes wouldn’t include the grade in which I took it, but I ended up just submitting my application with that error because it was pretty obvious where it belonged.</p>
<p>I think that a nanotech paper will work for an additional essay as long as it’s different enough from your paper describing which department you’re interested in.</p>
<p>As far as your Spanish goes, the command should be “ayúdenme”, not “me ayudan”, which means “they help me”. And generally you would put “por favor” after the command, but I don’t think that’s necessary.</p>
<p>Voy a ayudarte!</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the athletics thing. There are really two questions there: one involving interest in playing a sport once you get to MIT and the other involving your contact with an MIT coach. Perhaps you accidentally clicked a field? No worries here, Dashboard. (Have you thought of playing baseball for MIT? We had an awesome season last year!) I’ll forward these two issues to our folks who are technologically inclined.</p>
<p>Re: your abstract: I think there is value in either way you’d like to present the nano info. Personally, I think that someone who is a good “explainer,” that is, someone who can clearly state a complicated topic to a lay audience, is a good person to have around. Personally, I also think a talented abstract writer is a good person to have around.</p>
<p>-McGreggor (MIT Admissions)</p>