<p>Are you serious? I’m sorry. That sounds horrible (and scary).</p>
<p>Hey Silence, I got pretty much the EXACT SAME THING.
No worries :D</p>
<p>Wow, that was totally different from my interview. Though, I think I bugged my EC too many times to send his stuff in a month after I had it. I hope it didn’t make him angry : </p>
<p>Weird, my interviewer and I seemed to have a real conversation. or at least it seemed so…</p>
<p>Yeah Rice it was the same for me 
I guess it’s all luck and how much you have in common with your interviewer</p>
<p>oh yeh almost forgot</p>
<p>rice<em>boy
merudh123
JohnGalt
i</em>need<em>a</em>pillow
biomath2
Hamster
TheRestisSilence
CH121S
LiLiachencko
maverach
mognoose
atomicfusion
zoogies
imiracle911</p>
<p>rice<em>boy
merudh123
JohnGalt
i</em>need<em>a</em>pillow
biomath2
Hamster
TheRestisSilence
CH121S
LiLiachencko
maverach
mognoose
atomicfusion
zoogies
imiracle911
Globber</p>
<p>So guess what’s in seven days guys! :)</p>
<p>Hope you’re all having fun working on your essays or whatever. This friday is when I plan to submit my app. Does it get any more nerdy than having your friday night activity be sending in your application to MIT? Certainly not!</p>
<p>I’ll redeem myself saturday night, promise ;). Unless I decide to just memorize more pi… that would be pushing it though.</p>
<p>Movie quote: who said it?</p>
<p>“See, I told you this would be more fun than staying home and calculating pi”</p>
<p>Don’t submit your apps last min. I’m willing to bet half of our approx. 2794 EA friends will be on that server monday night.</p>
<p>Whooooooooooosh</p>
<p>There, that was my attempt at breathing life into the thread again. How’d I do?</p>
<p>Hahahahaha it’s like you’re giving the thread CPR or something…</p>
<p>Yeah good idea, because the last thing you want is the server to be lagging so you can’t submit your app on time or something. </p>
<p>Maybe I should start my essay… 
;)</p>
<p>The thread lives. HEY GUYS! HOW ARE THE SHORT ANSWERS COMING? </p>
<p>Heh, I have a question. I have a bunch of quarter-long classes and things like that, and basically, I don’t have half the room I need in the self-reported form under “Other” for coursework. What should I do?</p>
<p>Short answers are coming along fine, but I am having difficulties with my long essay unfortunately.</p>
<p>My interview seemed very colloquial. There weren’t very many formal questions per se. Rather, he started off by asking me to tell a story. After I told my story, the two of us just seemed to start trading anecdotes, each one connecting to the other’s story. At one point, we even exchanged puns. However, at the same time, I felt that my interviewer was reluctant to dive into MIT, so I did have no some difficulty trying to express everything I wanted to say. But by the end, I felt pretty good.</p>
<p>We will see! I doubt the interview will make or break my application though. Other things have that covered.</p>
<p>John Galt</p>
<p>Heh, I’m the opposite, I’m more sure about my essay. The interview being colloquial sounds like a good thing, however. How formal are our short answers/essays?</p>
<p><em>sighs</em> it would be really cool if we all got in. Let’s put a secret code word in our essays so they’ll know who we are and accept us :)</p>
<p>Any suggestions? lol</p>
<p>Yeah I’m trying to blow life into my long essay like mognoose did with this thread. My short essays are fine, I just don’t know how to make the answer to “which department” unique.</p>
<p>Ah, unfortunately, Bryan Nance says we cant use “nipple” ANYWHERE on our essays, so that’s out. It can’t be a made up word either. </p>
<p>It’s funny - my long essay is really colloquial and Short Answer A even more so, and then you reach Short Answer B, which is…drop dead serious. <em>shrug</em> I had a job of it getting that down to a hundred words or so, and guess it didn’t leave room for the slightest trace of colloquialness. Probably going to happen to Optional A to. </p>
<p>I’ve never used “colloquial” so many times in a post.</p>
<p>I don’t know how my “which dept” is going to be unique, either. It seems like all those answers are going to be so similar.</p>
<p>Yeah like: I’ve wanted to be a chemist ever since I saw that barium sulfate precipitate out of solution back in 10th grade…</p>
<p>…the foamy substance was so…so…inspiring! =) (I hope this isn’t taken as an insult =p)</p>
<p>I’ve thought of some good codewords (2), but they’d be awfully difficult working into some of those essays.</p>
<p>Like the codeword is: “canticle”, but you must use it in the “what do you do for the fun of it” essay.</p>
<p>or:</p>
<p>Wait, scratch that last idea. I just saw we can’t use the word nipple.</p>
<p>Guess that makes one good idea.</p>
<p>“I’ve wanted to be a chemist ever since I saw that barium sulfate precipitate out of solution back in 10th grade…”</p>
<p>^Hey, if that’s what did it for you. My chem experience was significantly marred by the fact that my lab partner had the hugest crush on the girl the next table over, so he’d stare into space at her (she didn’t notice, she was facing the other way, because of the seating configuration) the whole period, and I’d end up doing most the work myself, which wouldn’t have been so bad if he didn’t always say, right as we were at the verge of finishing the lab:</p>
<p>“****, let me do the last trial”
“No Nick, you haven’t done anything. You don’t know how to do this lab. Let me finish the last trial and we’ll be done with it”
“C’mon, you did all the other ones”
“Alright, but don’t screw anything up”</p>
<p>Which he did anyways. Never failed. By the end of the year I was running to other lab tables for the final trials. I remember one phenylphylene titration lab (something like that) where we had to pour very very small amounts of pink solution into a clear solution until we saw the lightest clearest shade of pink appear. Well the last trial, our previously clear solution was PINK OPAQUE. It was hilarious. I’m suprised that teacher still says hi to me in the halls because of all the stuff I got associated with in that class. Good thing I did well on the tests.</p>
<p>I’ve been rambling. Back to work :)</p>
<p>Edit: edited out my name. I’ll reveal it once I get my admitted or rejected from my colleges. Provided I’m still loser enough to hang out on this board after I know where I’m going anyways :)</p>
<p>“cookies”.</p>
<p>Why not?</p>
<p>well my why short answer is pretty good but is 110 words but i don’t think that will be a problem will it?
the essay is working out fine as well. However, the one that asks about “what do you do for fun” sounds deceptively simple. I know they say “this is not a trick question” but if i just write watch TV and the usual teen stuff mine won’t stand out. How u guys doing it?</p>
<p>I talked about playing the violin, because god knows I’m not good enough to play it for anything else except fun</p>