Official 2010 Box Question Gallery

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
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<p>In a few minutes, it’ll be January 2, 2006 PST, and the deadline for applying to the Caltech class of 2010 will be over. </p>

<p>If you feel like sharing your creativity with us, post your image and/or written piece for the “box question” as a reply to this thread. </p>

<p>-Oren</p>

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<p>Actually… now that I think about it… is this allowed? Are there forum rules that apply here? </p>

<p>/me goes to check. </p>

<p>-Oren</p>

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<p>thanks god. so the deadline IS jan 1, 200 PST right? not EST.
That’s what i assumed but just wanted to make sure.</p>

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<p>Since the apps are in, I’ll go ahead and post mine I guess.</p>

<p><a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/ctech.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/ctech.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Edit: My middle name is Oren by the way… cool :)</p>

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<p>^ that’s really cool.</p>

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<p>Aww, that’s really sweet :)</p>

<p>Mine is a little less personal, about my numberform. The only thing I really liked about it was the fact that the shape turned out almost exactly right… but of course, that’s completely meaningless for admissions purposes! Oh well.</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/kscott/www/boring/square.jpg[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/kscott/www/boring/square.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I didn’t have anything creative. Part of the picture involved some punch cards, and I said that they were part of the program that I wrote for my summer research project. Of course, I was kidding, but the program <em>was</em> written in FORTRAN (the semi-old-school, non-free-form variety). I think it was a miracle that I got in. I also had a few slide rules (maybe 12?) and a (Caltech) pocket protector, which was my inspiration for essay #1.</p>

<p>What’s a numberform?</p>

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<p>Flier, did you skip a grade or something? My little sister is older than you (not saying that’s bad :P)</p>

<p>Edit: And your box thing looks great although I’m not sure that I completely understand it hehe.</p>

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<p>Haha, yeah, I’m going through high school in three years (and I was pretty close to the cutoff to start school when I did in the first place.)</p>

<p>Frank: A numberform is basically a nonlinear mental numberline. Some people always see specific numbers in specific positions on a 2- or 3-dimensional curve; colors may be involved as well. (I also have a mental year-form, week-form, and timeline… and I swear I’m not just on drugs or making stuff up! A Google search should get you some of the research that’s been done.)</p>

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<p>Okay, that’s what iI thought it was. My numberform thing is strangely similar to yours. Only it’s pretty straight between 0 and 20. Then it looks pretty similar.</p>

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<p>Oooh! that’s really cool. I have some learning disability ( I don’t really think it’s a disability though ) where I can’t picture three dimensional shapes in my head. I guess that would make it kind of hard for me to have a numberform… I am not generally a visual person anyway, I’m auditory. I “hear” the numberline hehehehe.</p>

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<p>Nifty… I wish I understood stuff by hearing it, but I basically have closed-captioning going in my head all the time instead. Helps with spelling, I guess :)</p>

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<p>Image quality is poor… but:
[My</a> submission](<a href=“http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v70/SahinTC/Misc%20Junk/timur.jpg"]My”>http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v70/SahinTC/Misc%20Junk/timur.jpg).</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>Editted to make the link more friendly.</p>

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<p>That’s hilarious, even if I don’t understand all the references.</p>

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<p>hahahaha that’s great Olo.</p>

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<p>Hehehe… like I said, even if I don’t get into Caltech, that box made applying worth it.</p>

<p>Kudos to Caltech! :D</p>

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<p>Timur’s Caltech box WINS! :smiley: If you don’t get into MIT and Caltech, I’ll be surprised.</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/deviation/27179032/]Mine.[/url”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/deviation/27179032/]Mine.[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>Haha, honestly, I think my box is the only thing that kept me in the running!</p>

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<p>Yours is rockin’, Timur! :smiley: </p>

<p>I’ll step out of the AnonBubble (or box, rather?..lol)…
[my box](<a href="http://closet.biyeun.com/photos/misc/caltechBox.jpg"“&gt;http://closet.biyeun.com/photos/misc/caltechBox.jpg”&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

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<p>haha!! Olo’s is great :smiley: Mine was very on-the-spot so it’s probably not one of the better ones. I just sort of thought “hey, this picture (which I’ve seen before) would be good for that”, slapped a caption on it, and attached it :wink: <a href=“http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v101/GuitarManARS/brokenapplesauce1uq.jpg[/url]”>http://img.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/v101/GuitarManARS/brokenapplesauce1uq.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;