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<p>Ahhh how I love getting the jewish holidays off :)</p>
<p>Hey, I’m applying to MIT EA.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Actually my interview is tonight… oh no…</p>
<p>sorry, my 'net has been freakish as of late.</p>
<p>but yea, i was referring classics to the old B&W films as well as other “classic” films</p>
<p>yea ben! way to like coldplay and death cab. i’m surprised you like bridge to terabithia cause no one else i know has read that book or enjoyed that book (we read it in 5th grade, everyone but me hated it).</p>
<p>maverach, thanks on the lj community.</p>
<p>maverach – the Keanu pic was a great touch. Wish I didn’t have to wait a year to use your lj.
Love, Jean Louise.</p>
<p>Thanks, that’s my user pic. I <3 Trinity AND that movie.</p>
<p>Wait, whaddya mean wait a year? Anyone can get one, no?</p>
<p>Well, she did say <em>your</em> live journal, rather than <em>a</em> live journal.</p>
<p>Anyhow, can’t say that I have a livejournal. I’d join if I did ;)</p>
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<p>Hey! I liked Roark too. As for Rand, The Fountainhead was certainly much better than Anthem. Although, with regards to LOTR v Silmarillon, LOTR takes the cake for not boring me to absolute tears.</p>
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<p>At one point, when I was in fourth grade or so, I had it to perhaps 100, and since then it’s dwindled down. </p>
<p>MIT’s the best place in the world, and the people there are the most awesome. MIT students have a fantastic sense of humor. One hack story tells of a time when a new president moved in, and as a welcome gesture students made a synthetic wall where his office should have been. And with total disregard for the mental stability of the inhabitants of the Green Building, enterprising hackers commandeered the lighting system and played Pong down the length of the building. And then there’s the famous police car assembled overnight on top of the dome. I mean, you just can’t argue with that. Everywhere you turn there will be awesome people, and they will know much more than you about many things. </p>
<p>Last week a reporter came to interview me and another student from my school and take our picture for the paper…why?..because we, uh, made National Merit Commended. With all due respect to the people who run my school, it’s not exactly stocked. Two students today went on a desperate school-encompassing hunt for a tissue box, because, uh, we ran out of tissue funds. MIT students, on the other hand, probably use old textbooks as toilet paper. And toilet paper as dog toilet paper. (just kidding, but the point is MIT has so much more opportunities)</p>
<p>And La Verde’s over at the student center? They make the best honey bbq sub’s in the WORLD. THE WORLD. For those of you unenlightened, BUY ONE.</p>
<p>You guys can find my SN in my CC profile. No LJ, sorry. I use [url=<a href=“http://zoogies.net/blog/]wordpress[/url”>http://zoogies.net/blog/]wordpress[/url</a>]. </p>
<p>Oh, I’ve just remembered, hah, MIT runs its own variant of Linux RedHat. 
I’ve always wanted to learn Linux. And not just be like, <em>poke.</em> <em>nudge</em>. <em>run wailing back to Windows’ lap</em></p>
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roster:
rice<em>boy
merudh123
JohnGalt
i</em>need<em>a</em>pillow
biomath2
Hamster
TheRestisSilence
CH121S
LiLiachencko
maverach
mognoose
atomicfusion
zoogies</p>
<p>And I’ve just looked through four pages of this forum to find the “EA Roster” post to which maverach referred me, FOUR PAGES!..it was on the first page. I should go look for my sign.</p>
<p>Another one for the books, and I’m applying as a <em>gasp</em> non-science/engineering major (economics) No fear, I’m going to minor in math probably :)</p>
<p>I’m applying EA (although I believe many of you knew that already). Probably major in 8, minor in 5 and 7. Or double major in 8 and 9, minor in 21L? Or maybe 8 and 18, with a minor in 6 (Strata center!).</p>
<p>Gyaaaah. So many choices! The course catalogue makes my mouth water. :)</p>
<p>EDIT: Forgot 21L, <em>sigh</em> So much to do!</p>
<p>Memorizing course numbers already! 
(8 = ME?) I’m actually reading the Olin catalog now, they sent it in a static proof bag. </p>
<p>(But it’s the Stata Center, natch)</p>
<p>Ack, indeed, silly typos.</p>
<p>And as for memorizing course numbers, if you read earlier, you’ll see memorizing numbers is a talent of mine. :). Although the real bulk of it is hanging out in chat rooms with the '09 students. After you hear “did you get the 18.022 homework done?” and “that 3.091 test owned me” enough times, you start to pick up what each class is.</p>
<p>8 is physics, 5 is chemistry, 7 is biology. 9 is brain/cog sci, 21L is linguistics. 18 is math, 6 is EECS, and ME is 2. 3 is MSE. :)</p>
<p>EDIT: And I wouldn’t know, but I hear that (sadly) the Stata center isn’t as impressive on the inside as it is on the outside, which makes me sad.</p>
<p>I’ve been inside the Stata Center quite a few times. It’s NICE. BIG. ROOMY. HUGE PUBLIC CHALKBOARDS, like, everywhere.</p>
<p>There’s also a book exchange.</p>
<p>And the spiral staircases. They’re beautiful.</p>
<p>Meh, I like Stata. The lecture halls are roomy… that’s all I really require in a building.</p>
<p>The dining hall is a pain, though. It’s supposed to be a “community” setup – basically, they stuck in a small number of tables which seat a large number of people – and nobody ever eats in groups larger than 1-3, so people are always sitting at the ends of the tables instead of scooting to the middle, and so there is nowhere to sit. Arr.</p>
<p>Globber, i totally want to double in BCS and Econ but PoliSci and Mgmt look really good as well.</p>
<p>Woo hoo! Course 7 and 18! I love them…</p>
<p>i’m gonna have to agree with biomath - course 7 and 18. i wish there were different biological sciences like biochem, molecular/cellular bio… but ill prolly end up learning the same thing anyway.</p>
<p>altho i’m not applying to yale, i think it has the coolest major ever - mathematics and philosophy. lol i dunno what i would do with it, but that’s such an awesome reconciliation of two topics.</p>
<p>mmhm Yeah, I know a grad from Yale who did Mathematics and Philosophy, but I’m not sure if it is that big of a novelty. They mainly focus on quantitative reasoning, which also makes the senior thesis a lot easier to write or at least find a topic about.</p>
<p>Of course, no major is truly “easy:” it’s what you make of it. 'nuff said.</p>
<p>Do they differentiate at MIT between general mathematics, mathematics with computer science, applied and theory? Or are they all lumped into a course 18? I’m a big theory guy, but also planning on double-majoring in physics, which is applied mathematics in a big way anyway.</p>
<p>There are a number of options under the general course 18 umbrella: General, Applied, Theoretical, and Mathematics with Computer Science (18-C). See details of the undergraduate degree programs here.</p>
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<p>But don’t let the lack of distinct departments fool you. There’s quite a bit of freedom in the biology degree – everyone has to take genetics, organic, intro biochem, cell bio, intro lab, and project lab, but the choice of upper division classes is left to you. </p>
<p>Although my diploma will say “biology”, I’m really getting a degree in molecular/cellular biology, as all of my electives have been molecular/cell related.</p>
<p>i just got back from my interview =(</p>
<p>we sat down, he said, “okay, you’re gonna talk and i’m gonna write on this notepad. my report to MIT will contain only as much as you tell me, alright? so, you’re on.”
so uhhh… he just expected me to talk… he never asked any questions, beyond clarifying what I mentioned… I was at a loss for words… bringing random topics out of the air…
Not the interview i was expecting.</p>
<p>sigh.</p>