MIT Optional Essay

College Essays
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<p>The prompt reads thus:
(Completely optional) Tell us about something that you have created. This can be, for example, a design, a device, an object, an idea or concept.</p>

<p>Ok so, I can’t really think of anything that I’ve created, but recently I’ve come up with some funny idea/concepts. I came up with a theory involving attractiveness in women and relating it to personality and promiscuity, and found a way to represent it with like normal curves and everything. Do you think I could put this in there, as a sort of humorous approach, with a disclaimer that it isn’t intended to be scientific or anything? I thought it might show that I can apply math to real life, and that I am an unique thinker. Or will it just be completely stupid? I don’t mind taking a risk as my stats are otherwise low…</p>

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<p>So you are saying there is a strong positive correlation between beauty and personality? lol. I’ll read it if you’d like.</p>

3

<p>Haha, not quite. It’s more interesting than that. I haven’t written it yet, but I think I’ll send it to you once I do write it. I was just asking whether overall it would be completely ■■■■■■■■ to send in an xkcd-like “math relationship.”</p>

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<p>Well, if it’s well written and you have some details behind this theory, I don’t see why not. I wrote about the desk I built and designed.</p>