MITES 2013 Discussion

Pre-College Topics Summer Programs
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<p>That’s me from mid August to November: 225 hours of marching band, combined with other (relatively rare) activities. The rest of my year I purposely leave beautifully under-extended, lol. Although, apparently not under-extended enough, because one of my percussion friends just yelled at me for having plans. He texted me at 3 and wanted to have a percussion party around 5, same day, and proceeded to say that he gave me far more notice than he usually gives people, and that I should stop making plans that aren’t last minute.</p>

<p>@Lily: What musical?</p>

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<p>@lldm21: I did marching band freshman year. It is so time consuming! </p>

<p>My friends get upset too when I can’t go to their last-minute things. I have not being able to be spontaneous anymore, lol. I have to carry my calendar with me everywhere!</p>

<p>We’re doing Willy Wonka!</p>

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<p>[Participation</a> Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (Jakob Nielsen)](<a href=“http://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/]Participation”>Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features)</p>

<p>For every contributing poster, there are nine lurkers.</p>

1205

<p>Yes!!! I got in!!!</p>

1206

<p>Then holy crap we are surrounded 0.o</p>

<p>@Lovely That is exactly it. It’s either being overwhelmed, or bored. Turns out the stress feels better XD</p>

<p>@lldm21 and Lovely. The same thing happens to me!!! Nobody ever asks me “hey are you free next week” or something. What everyone says is “Hey are you free today? and by today I mean in the next hour.” Of course I am!!! The most time I’ve ever been given is 3 days, and I’ve had plans.</p>

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<p>@Rivs are you ****ting everyone or are you being legit? No one can take you seriously xD</p>

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<p>Haha, I’m just yanking chains.</p>

1209

<p>Rivstein’s kidding, of course. I wouldn’t expect anything until April 15th, the most likely date of decisions being released. Of course, MITES could release early, or as their usual trend, release late.</p>

<p>@Rivstein: You better hope you get in! Otherwise you’ll look back on that and think “Wow, not so funny anymore…”, haha.</p>

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<p>I imagined. Funny part is, I automatically went to check my e-mail XD.</p>

1211

<p>Ay got that ACT in the mail. No more standardized tests for me, except AP exams. And apparently @Rivstein is quite the boy who cried wolf</p>

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<p>@lily that’s great advice, I really need to work on my essay writing, the AP Lang exams is one of the ones I’m more worried about. And I know exactly how you feel! Like just today I’ll be having a schedule conflict on just about every Saturday until May. Ughh.</p>

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<p>@Ozzy: I know! My friends tell me that I alway blow them off, and I feel bad, but it’s not my fault! I just need to make plans in advance… A month in advance, preferably xD</p>

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<p>Wait I’m just wondering… What programs did all of you applied to?</p>

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<p>@Alpha I applied to Univ. of Wisconsin’s Engineering Summer Program and Quest Bridge. You?</p>

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<p>@Alpha: RSI, MITES, Clark Scholars, SSP, local research internship. I don’t think I will even consider Clark or SSP now, it’s MITES or internship for me.</p>

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<p>Solely MITES.</p>

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<p>@Alpha: I didn’t know about any programs (besides the crazy expensive ones) until it was too late. I only found out about MITES from the pamphlet they sent out. There’s not a lot of awareness about those types of things here. When classmates ask me what I’m doing this summer, and I tell them I’ll hopefully be at MITES, most don’t even know what MIT is.</p>

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<p>MITES and Questbridge.</p>

<p>@Nashia I’m also from IL</p>

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<p>@Lovely I’m so happy :’) somebody who understands my life!!! XD</p>

<p>I applied to Questbridge, MITES, and I’m not sure what I would name the Robotics Internship.</p>