<p>Well Rickoids, it looks like the TASP thread has got you beat.
just thought you all should know:)</p>
<p>science> humanities (Period).</p>
<p>psshha.
i think not.
someday we humanities people will be running the government and just you wait and see what we do with funding for the sciences 
;)</p>
<p>Math/Physics majors actually have the highest average lsat score.</p>
<p><a href=“http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:A8u2yeJ9PzQJ:www.uic.edu/cba/cba-depts/economics/undergrad/table.htm+average+lsat+score&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2[/url]”>http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:A8u2yeJ9PzQJ:www.uic.edu/cba/cba-depts/economics/undergrad/table.htm+average+lsat+score&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2</a></p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>(I cite this because a lot of people in government come from law)</p>
<p>kinda ironic how the lowest scores come from the criminology majors</p>
<p>At my school, the main emphasis for both teachers and students is on the humanities. The majority of teacher are in the humanities departments, the majority of classes are offered there, and the majority of school-wide influence is felt from that quarter. This kind of fact would seem to indicate that there should be numerous outstanding students in history, english and the arts. However, in the past seven ar eight years, there has been no one who has matriculated to a major liberal arts school (Princeton, Harvard, Yale, other Ivies) or won ANY national humantities awards. However, we have had 3 students go on to study at Caltech, one student go to the national Chem Olympiad camp and win a gold medal at internationals, a student go to the national Physics Olympiad camp, and two different Science Bowl teams go to Nationals, one of which won seventh (Not bad for Idaho!)<br>
Powerful nations have naturally been those who have technology (making a higher standard of living for you), and if the humanities people in charge don’t give science people that money to develop it, we’ll just go give it to China. And hey, there’s no way that WE can forget about the humanities because we have to/like to use them. </p>
<p>BTW my mentor emailed me today! The only thing is that he’s at Boston College so I’m a little worried about the rule that we can’t go off campus without someone else. Has anyone gotten email from a prof at BC?</p>
<p>Who’s your mentor? Mohanty?</p>
<p>Yes! I was a bit suprised because he does biophysical chemistry while my first-choice field was atmospheric chemistry, but I suppose they paired me with him because several of my questions on the app had to do with low-temp stuff, which he deals with.<br>
How did they deal with profs from other universities before? I noticed that he is a visiting prof at MIT so do we do research on campus?<br>
Sorry my posts have been so long today but I just got bit by the writing bug!</p>
<p>Whoaaa a lot of people say he’s like the best RSI mentor. He’s had an STS finalist every single year (I think…) except this year, when he “only” had a Siemens Regional Finalist + ISEF 1st Place. IM me at Vinny919 (I can give you the sn of the kid who had Mohanty and you can hear more about it!).</p>
<p>So…are there lots of really good mentors? If you haven’t been contacted by your mentor yet, does it mean you probably won’t get a very good project? :(</p>
<p>I haven’t been contacted yet :(. Have you?</p>
<p>who would you say are the best mentors? I heard that pizer’s was really great, a claim supported by the his win of 1st at isef in chem. (my category…ha…had no chance against him…lol)</p>
<p>The only mentor that’s like actually known to be good is Mohanty. Others can be good or bad.</p>
<p>Barely anyone is contacted early. It’s just weird that two people on this board have been. I wasn’t lol. Maybe 10 kids find out early.</p>
<p>Wow… and I was fairly disappointed when i found out that he wasn’t from MIT.</p>
<p>Does the mentorship matter that much? I remember at the RSI breakfast, when I asked some of you rickoids whether you continued your RSI project it was about 50/50. I was talking to Shiv outside steak’n’shake and he seemed to have a different project for seimens, sts, and intel.
Congrats anaphora on getting such a great mentor!!! You deserve it :D!
btw- I just realized that pizer’s mentor was Mohanty, so my last post can just be disregarded.</p>
<p>
Yes.
Absolutely not. This is just a matter of when you’re matched with a mentor, and his/her personal preference. For instance, the math kids get matched with graduate students during the first week of the program and find out who their mentors are the day before mentorships start.
“like” is the key term here Really, don’t worry about any of this. There are a lot of great mentors, and the reasons someone might become “known,” like the student’s project happening to actually work out in five weeks, are not necessarily all that relevant.
It can. That’s where you’ll be spending a lot of your time. You can learn more than you thought possible in four weeks and end up almost a different person. Whether this happens, or whether you “just” get through it and gain lab and writing experience, is a matter of pure dumb luck as well as how hard you work. But if you go into it really hoping and expecting to get a project you’ll be able to enter in a competition, you will probably be ridiculously stressed out. (I was an absolute mess, and I had never even heard of Siemens or Intel! My project happened to work out pretty well for both, but I realized that in September.) The important thing is that you’ll learn a lot not only about your specific field, but about how science in general works. I’d mention that RSI is people and the whole mentorship is not even necessarily the most important thing, but you already know that :)</p>
<p>Thanks Vanilea 
Now all I have to do is pull off a great project in a short amount of time that is a bit outside of my strong areas (I only took regular biology from my high school) Boy, will I be studying before i go :D…</p>
<p>do you know what the computer science kids get? Like, where their mentorship takes place and such? BTW, have you guys finished reading Frankenstein? I recently managed to obtain the 1818 copy.</p>
<p>If you’re really curious, the list of last year’s mentors is at <a href=“http://web.mit.edu/rsi/www/2005/people/mentors/last/[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/rsi/www/2005/people/mentors/last/</a></p>
<p>Why is reading Frankenstein so important? And what exactly are we going to do at the humanities session?</p>
<p>So… Is everybody feeling how near RSI is :)</p>