<p>Even if Ben just posted his fav books and all in this thread, I’d be honored.</p>
<p>@Rice boy, I think what you meant was:</p>
<p>“classics? (mean girls, and such) war/history, drama, bogart”</p>
<p>lol, merudh, funny you anticipate being called a nerd and use ur gf as proof that you are not. maybe she’s as big a nerd as you are? jk jk =) haha, i wish brilliant cool ppl like yall were in my school, even one would be awesome <em>sigh</em> some of us are tired of being the odd duckling in our schools - well at least i am. it’s exactly why i cant wait to graduate and go to college, preferably MIT!</p>
<p>btw, I took Riceboy’s “classics? (bogart, and such)”, as in humphrey bogart, in the classic movie Casablanca… ?</p>
<p>no, the OTHER bogart. lol. So what part of the country are y’all from where you’re the only smart kid at your school?</p>
<p>Indeed, I find that more often than not, the people who get into MIT are nerdy and refined.</p>
<p>For instance, one of my biggest claims to fame is my memory, which is somthing of renown here. While I know the first 1200 digits of pi, it doesn’t mean I’m lifeless. I’ve won the Best Hair for a Male superlative at my school (they made the category just for me lol), and have been nominated for Homecoming King.</p>
<p>Look at Mollie and her boyfriend, Adam (stories found [here](<a href=“http://mollie.mitblogs.com%22%5Dhere%5B/url%5D”>http://mollie.mitblogs.com)</a>). She’s a biologist who’s also a cheerleader, and he’s an aero/astro whose also a skiier, runner, among other things.</p>
<p>hey olo lol I saw you in that SAT II forum what up!!</p>
<p>Hey do you guys have LiveJournals? I could start a community so we could do more forum-ish posting (i.e. you can reply to specific comments) if ya want.</p>
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<p>Aw shucks.</p>
<p>Music: Incubus, Counting Crows, Death Cab For Cutie, Coldplay, U2, Tremulant, and almost anything from the 80’s.</p>
<p>Books: To Kill A Mockingbird, Bridge to Terabithia, Where The Red Fern Grows, Frog & Toad, Ender’s Game, Blindness, Thoreau & Emerson, ack, too many.</p>
<p>Favorite Movies: American Beauty, Swingers</p>
<p>But “why MIT” Ben? Hahaha kidding kidding. Frog and Toad!! I read those books to my little sisters, awwww.</p>
<p>awesome I get to follow the great Ben 
lol anyways I personally play Basketball thats the only sport I play so i guess im not a nerd. though I think we wouldnt even have <em>nerds</em> now if we werent plagued by Saved by the Bell reruns lol 
(I cant believe I used to watch that show)</p>
<p>Movies-A Beautiful Mind(ironically enough I believe MIT is in that movie), The Five Heartbeats, and Coming to America</p>
<p>Also guys I just had my interview and it seemed great :D</p>
<p>BEN likes COLDPLAY !!! wooo and death cab for a cutie and couting crows…man that is awesome. GO BEN</p>
<p>by the way…rmbr me from the info session?</p>
<p>w00t for Death Cab. Anyway, answering maverach’s question, I’ve got one (I post on Xanga, but I keep the LJ account around to post comments). Anyone else?</p>
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<p>Of course! :-)</p>
<p>ooooh Ben’s fav music/books are so awesome! <3 Counting Crows, Incubus, Decathcab. and Ender’s Game is a great scifi. The rest of the series werent as good, tho the OCD, genetically modified Chinese ppl in Children of Ender was kinda weird.
to maverach, I’m from southern GA, in the middle of nowhere =(
where are the rest of yall from?
hehe, my friend, whose name is Mike Yang, went to the Atlanta session and met the MIT rep, also named Mike Yang =D</p>
<p>That’s ONE way to get your rep to remember you…have the same name, hahaha.</p>
<p>I’ll start a community anyways, pillow, I’ll call it “MITorBUST” and ppl can join as they want :)</p>
<p>I’m from Northern VA, just moved to CT for my senior year. THAT was a pain.</p>
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<p>Such literary awesomeness!
I remember those stories even now, and I haven’t read them for years.
An MIT community sounds nice, MIT or bust…but don’t actually do that…</p>
<p>I knew someone who tried a similar Brown or Bust…and wound up in SUNY Stony Brook.</p>
<p>mmhm </p>
<p>Interesting selection Senor Jones. Have you also read Ender’s Shadow? I don’t think you can truly appreciate Scott Card until you read both. It is extremely unique how he is able to tell the exact same story yet also make the plotline seem so fresh. Also, to all, I’d recommend a dose of Post Rock - Broken Social Scence and Explosions in the Sky are great. I don’t get “emo” music, but probably only because I dislike the categorization.</p>
<p>Anyway, so how are all the EA’ers feeling? stress, uncertainty, confidence? I just had my interview which is a boost to the confidence-o-meter, but who knows what tomorrow will bring.</p>
<p>Confident. You see, I have a 100% chance of being accepted. :).</p>
<p>To clarify, at MIT? No. But a university doesn’t make success. The people who would be successful at MIT will be successful no matter where they go, it’s just a matter of getting MIT to see that I’d be successful there.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t happen, you go on and lead a good life, maybe even go to MIT for graduate school.</p>
<p>Ender’s Shadow was indeed a very cool experience. But sad to say, I’m not sure Card will ever be able to top Ender’s Game. It’s just so… perfect. :-)</p>
<p>Olo, I agree to some extent with that statement (one can’t rightly disagree without sounding overbearing). But I think you are missing a certain caveat, otherwise you would probably not be posting so zealously on these boards (which by the way is awesome). </p>
<p>We apply to MIT not necessarily for the education. The caliber of students that we are, we are entirely capable make our own education. Granted, “making” our education at an institution such as MIT would be considerably easier than per se, at your average state school, but that only means we as students would try to go further there.</p>
<p>But I don’t believe we are applying to MIT for the education for success : there are psets at my state school, with enough contact with professors, I might be able to procure what is the equivalent of a urop, and I probably couldn’t exhaust all the math or physics classes there even if I had wanted to. But the atmosphere really dictates your character, your experiences, and that’s why MIT. </p>
<p>I visited MIT over the summer once. Unfortunately, I missed the admission session, because we arrived late. Afterwards, I dropped by to the Room 107, or whichever room admissions is. Somehow in asking a question, the student intern, I’m assuming it was a student intern, and I got into a political discussion about right-wing politics. That’s what I really want out of college. Spontaneous debates about everything from religion to the use of horticulture.</p>
<p>Blast, somehow a simple answer has turned really long-winded. More to the point, Olo, great way of looking at this parade of admissions. What I wrote isn’t trying to debunk it. I have the same feeling about my placement in college. Wherever I go, I will still be me, and if that’s enough, the jury is still out.</p>
<p>Edit: Ben, really? I have re-read Ender’s Shadow several times now, but each time I try to pick up Ender’s Game again, I just feel like I’m missing a part of the story. Bean’s perspectives on Ender really make Ender’s Shadow, but I just didn’t get that sense of psychological probing with Ender, until perhaps the very end. So do you think children like that really exist? Obviously, it depends on the condition of their upbringing (i.e. Battle School), but Ender was a lot more than just a product of his training.</p>