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<li>dream career, if money were irrelevant? mathematician</li>
<li>intended major/academic interests? biology/math</li>
<li>favorite book? Goedel, Escher, Bach</li>
<li>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? 5</li>
<li>guilty pleasure? uhh…Super Smash Bros…</li>
<li>favorite music genre? ROCK</li>
<li>greatest accomplishment? Living</li>
<li>greatest failure? Hmm, I don’t know…putting girls before friends most likely</li>
<li>how high is MIT ranked on your list? be honest --Numbah One</li>
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<li><p>dream career, if money were irrelevant? Probably a stand-up comedian at night, and a cryptographer during the day.</p></li>
<li><p>intended major/academic interests? mathematics and some other major, probably physics/comp sci or econ. also i’m thinking about minoring in linguistics ‘cause noam chomsky is a beast.</p></li>
<li><p>favorite book? Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.</p></li>
<li><p>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? 7. I’m pretty nerdy, but this question really depends on the media-driven image of what “nerd” is. Really, I just think you’re a nerd if you find joy in things that take more thinking than rockin’ a stoge.</p></li>
<li><p>guilty pleasure? rockin’ stoges.</p></li>
<li><p>favorite music genre? everything!</p></li>
<li><p>greatest accomplishment? won a game of hide-and-go-seek in the city of berkeley. it took forever. FOREVER.</p></li>
<li><p>greatest failure? a failure is a failure if you don’t use the experience to become something better. i think every instance in which i didn’t act with that philosophy in mind is probably one in a set of great failures. do i have a superlative? not really.</p></li>
<li><p>how high is MIT ranked on your list? be honest: pretty high, but i’m not sure if i’d be able to pay. right now, i’m ranking schools with affordability as an awfully high standard. i’d love to go if i could afford it, so i’d say top 3.</p></li>
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<li>dream career, if money were irrelevant? Nuclear Engineer</li>
<li>intended major/academic interests? Nuclear Engineering/Physics</li>
<li>favorite book? The Jungle</li>
<li>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? 7</li>
<li>guilty pleasure? Staying up late (3-4 AMish) just thinking and playing games</li>
<li>favorite music genre? Classic =X</li>
<li>greatest accomplishment? Somehow managing to stay alive despite my activeness and forgetting to eat/sleep (heh =D)</li>
<li>greatest failure? Not pursuing the violin more =( Just hobby</li>
<li>how high is MIT ranked on your list? be honest Numba One</li>
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<p>Hey all… ambitiousteen. I logged in just for this 
- dream career, if money were irrelevant? - cryptologist/cryptoanalyst
- intended major/academic interests? - math/comp sci/linguistics
- favorite book? - Exodus by Leon Uris
- nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? - 7…
- guilty pleasure? - NCIS and House and dessert
- favorite music genre? - latin/oldies
- greatest accomplishment? - being able to defend myself and my sibling in a hostile situation
- greatest failure? - not telling people I love that I love them
- how high is MIT ranked on your list? like 2ish</p>
<p>So many interesting people on here… I hope I get to meet you all…</p>
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<li>dream career, if money were irrelevant? Work in a chem lab, maybe doing research with medicine or something.</li>
<li>intended major/academic interests? chemistry!</li>
<li>favorite book? Harry Potter</li>
<li>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? 2pi</li>
<li>guilty pleasure? My friends and I listen to the Spice Girls in my car.</li>
<li>favorite music genre? Show tunes</li>
<li>greatest accomplishment? I don’t know</li>
<li>greatest failure? I don’t know this, either.</li>
<li>how high is MIT ranked on your list? be honest 1st.</li>
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<li>Researcher! Diplomat? Author? Maker of wonderful pastries.</li>
<li>Physics! Or math, or engineering, etc.</li>
<li>There are a few - Into the Wild, Come Back to Afghanistan, The Hobbit, Freakonomics, The Reagan Diaries, etc.</li>
<li>a +bi</li>
<li>Watching Desperate Housewives, eating cupcakes, and frozen waffles still frozen</li>
<li>Afro-pop, orchestral pop, weird music with lyrics that contain obscure, pedantic references.</li>
<li>Trying hard in most aspects of my life to be a good person, daughter, young scientist!</li>
<li>I generally learn from my failures, so paradoxically sometimes my great failures can be epic wins?</li>
<li>Number one. I just need to raise my SAT scores to be competitive! (And I will, because MIT means that much to me).</li>
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<p>greatest failure…getting rejected next year</p>
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<li>applied math professor/ concert pianist/ author/ mom</li>
<li>18 (applied), (minors/concentrations in 15, 21m, 21w)</li>
<li>the secret life of bees, an american childhood, how the garcia girls lost their accents. i really really really like poetry. but i never know whether i can include poetry collections in this list.</li>
<li>2pi (i verymuchso have a life but i enjoy uhh… nerdy pursuits and humor?)</li>
<li>gossip girl. chocolate. cc.</li>
<li>classical, alt rock</li>
<li>answering this question</li>
<li>failing to answer this question</li>
<li>i’m honestly not sure. the veryverytop of my list is verymuch-ly jumbled. i LOVE MIT and i know tons about it and every other school i’m applying to, i’m just not 100% what exactly i want my ug education to be like. i guess that after i get my options in april, i’ll have a month to decide. :)</li>
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<li>Anything having to do with math!</li>
<li>math, physics, and/or engineering</li>
<li>Flatland, and other random books I forget.
4.(Pi^2)/(6) + e^2 + or - 2.5 ( depends on how nerdy you are)</li>
<li>Watching survivor and sytycd/ Protein shakes…</li>
<li>classical, indie rock, good melodies</li>
<li>Ever so hardworkingly getting into MIT/ arm-wrestling champ of my school.</li>
<li>I don’t know, everything I haven’t success in…
9.MIT…HPY, and all the other wannabes.</li>
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<p>I like this thread because it’s not stats-y
I doubt I’ll be a future '09-er (well, '13-er) but you can get to know me anyways. I’m just that delightful, aren’t I? :P</p>
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<li><p>mmm, I’d rather be poor and have my dream job than make money doing anything else. Atmospheric physicist / meteorology research / fluid physics / related. </p></li>
<li><p>EAPS yo! 
(atmospheres, oceans, and climate track)</p></li>
<li><p>I can’t choose just one.
“Physics: With A Strange Sense of Humor, Some Moralizing, and A Few Duly Cynical Observations about Humanity.”
A Separate Peace
Der Besuch der alten Dame</p></li>
<li><p>10!!! well, it depends on your definition. and what distinction you make between “nerdy” and “geeky”.</p></li>
<li><p>sleeeping… I’m so tired…</p></li>
<li><p>acoustic</p></li>
<li><p>Huh, I don’t know… maybe when I was in fifth grade and taught myself atmospheric stability. or last year’s Physics C (5’s without ever taking a physics class. Ever. I wouldn’t feel like I have bragging rights, except that my school blatantly and directly told me I had no chance at passing). </p></li>
<li><p>Part II of my app. The impending rejection letter from MIT. Wheee -_-
Other than that, 4th grade long division. I got an F. As in, on my report card, F :D</p></li>
<li><p>how high is MIT ranked on your list? # -e^i*pi
best atmospheric science in the country, hands-down. though maybe I’m biased.</p></li>
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<ol>
<li>definately international relations</li>
<li>comp engineering/international relations</li>
<li>i work at a library, so i’ve read sooo much… but i’d have to say “a walk in the woods”, bill bryson</li>
<li>probably 5… the library job pushes me up from a 3</li>
<li>kayaking, dates, and goldfish snacks</li>
<li>ANYTHING! classical (love brahms), rock, hiphop, etc… just NOT country!</li>
<li>2400 honestly… not telling anyone for 4 months because i din’t want to sound like a nerd</li>
<li>not getting into GHP </li>
<li>tied for 1</li>
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<li>was Ibanker</li>
<li>math/finance/econ</li>
<li>don’t care</li>
<li>3</li>
<li>nothing, im awesome</li>
<li>rap</li>
<li>being me</li>
<li>not being like other people</li>
<li>kinda low</li>
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<ol>
<li>starving artist. </li>
<li>architecture/planning; marketing?</li>
<li>catch 22</li>
<li>4</li>
<li>mtv</li>
<li>rap/rnb/hiphop</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>6-ish</li>
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<li><p>Poet. Yeah, really. Or maybe an actor in a Shakespeare ensemble. Playing either Iago or King Lear happens to be one of my biggest dreams.</p></li>
<li><p>Mathematics and English.</p></li>
<li><p>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, with some very close seconds of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Ulysses also by Joyce.</p></li>
<li><p>Hard to judge. I’m extremely nerdy on the inside (8-9), but I don’t fit ANY of visual nerd stereotypes. This might stem from the fact that I am many types of nerds at once: math nerd, Linux nerd, literature nerd, drama nerd, and choir nerd.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t feel guilty about anything I like.</p></li>
<li><p>Everything, though I suppose I would have to say “indie.”</p></li>
<li><p>Qualifying for the Math Olympiad Summer Program.</p></li>
<li><p>Oh where do I start… how about not sending in my parents’ tax returns for my QuestBridge application? :(</p></li>
<li><p>Tied for 1st with Oberlin College.</p></li>
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<ol>
<li>dream career, if money were irrelevant? hotel manager, and some luxurious resort in venuzuela</li>
<li>intended major/academic interests? planning.</li>
<li>favorite book? I don’t read much.</li>
<li>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10? 5, considering MIT is nerdier than usual.</li>
<li>guilty pleasure? Chocolate trumpet</li>
<li>favorite music genre(s)? rock/pop/gothic</li>
<li>greatest accomplishment? learning how to speak English :D</li>
<li>greatest failure? social life</li>
<li>how high is MIT ranked on your list? 1st = with cambridge</li>
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<ol>
<li>Professional soccer player</li>
<li>Chemical/mechanical engineering</li>
<li>The Hobbit?</li>
<li>5.235643</li>
<li>I waste money on subway sandwiches</li>
<li>talk radio</li>
<li>dam that’s a really good question lol</li>
<li>not having a good answer for #7</li>
<li>#1 solid freaking verbal</li>
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<p>elvito must be rich… more than 50000 dollars a year lol for undergrad ridiculous… and no foreign aid… Cambridge is hardcore… if u can get in that is beast!</p>
<ol>
<li>Supreme World Dictator, until I solved all the world’s problems and got bored, then progamer with no agent</li>
<li>Architectural Engineering (design?)</li>
<li>The Little Prince?</li>
<li>I break the scale… no maybe a 6, until I’m fixing something or doing anything with a computer (programming etc…) then full blown 8</li>
<li>video games, used to be…</li>
<li>Rock Alternative</li>
<li>Beating Red Nada :D</li>
<li>Not saying</li>
<li>MIT Tied with Cornell approximately. Honest…Used to be just MIT</li>
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<p>Please note I said progamer, not programmer</p>
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<li>dream career, if money were irrelevant?- musical performer</li>
<li>intended major/academic interests?- BME, Med School</li>
<li>favorite book?- Tie b/w the Picture of Dorian Gray and Persepolis</li>
<li>nerdiness on a scale of 1-10?- I’d say a 5</li>
<li>guilty pleasure?</li>
<li>favorite music genre?- International</li>
<li>greatest accomplishment?- doing research (hopefully getting into top schools!)</li>
<li>greatest failure?- don’t think that’s happened…yet</li>
<li>how high is MIT ranked on your list? be honest- #1 tie with Duke</li>
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<p>why not JHU?</p>