The Box

forax · December 2, 2006, 8:34pm

hmm, i did this:
<a href=“http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Flynn,%20Errol/Annex/Annex%20-%20Flynn,%20Errol%20(Adventures%20of%20Robin%20Hood,%20The)_02.jpg[/url]”>http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Flynn,%20Errol/Annex/Annex%20-%20Flynn,%20Errol%20(Adventures%20of%20Robin%20Hood,%20The)_02.jpg</a>
beginning to think that maybe i should have written something, o well, Robin Hood is worth it :)

sciolylove · December 10, 2006, 1:08am

olo, that is HILLARIOUS. You are my hero.

DefTech · December 10, 2006, 1:25am

a picture is worth a thousand words, but it takes 3x as many bytes.

lordofthedark_89 · December 10, 2006, 1:41am

I sort of had my box thingy supplement my long essay for the supplement. i wrote about leading a team for the jpl invention challenge project in part a, and for the box, i just submitted a picture of my project with some labeling.

sciolylove · December 10, 2006, 1:48am

I did a combo of all my essays (somewhat accidentally). It was a stream of consciousness style art piece that kind of grew around my interests. Pretty corny, and mind you, I don’t know yet if I’m in or not…It was kind of risky.

Platero · December 11, 2006, 9:50am

I want to put a problem that I made up, solved, and discovered it was wrong, and ordered a model, and got the experimental result, but still can’t prove it.
Does it have to fit in the actual box? I think I can fit it on 1 page, but it would be corwded in the actual box.

Olo · December 11, 2006, 11:01am

I am actually oddly proud of what I put in that box. I agree in that it’s the best part of the Caltech application. :)…

continues humming innocently…

Kamikazewave · December 11, 2006, 5:10pm

I didn’t create anything I put in the box…I just copy and pasted various comic strips I found funny…deadline was only a few hours away…oh well…at least I know I won’t be getting in…

Hriundeli · December 11, 2006, 5:23pm

I put a picture of asteroid 444 Gyptis (we had to find its orbit at SSP) and a picture of the Ring nebula (all done on the same CCD Telescope in Socorro, NM) and two pictures of the small refractor I built from garbage found on the streets of NYC…all four pictures came with explanations…but eeh…I screwed up other parts of application, so I don’t expect even a deferral (Seriously, I’m not trying to be modest or something…I just know it lol)

Perplexitudinous · December 11, 2006, 5:36pm

Hriundeli, that sounds pretty cool.

I drew a mathematical picture & provided an explanation.

o0CrazyGlue0o · December 11, 2006, 5:49pm

I put a program i made
<a href=“http://i2.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/y43/Crazy_Glue/caltechfinal2-1.jpg?t=1165877413[/url]”>http://i2.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/y43/Crazy_Glue/caltechfinal2-1.jpg?t=1165877413</a>
The picture is a little small on the link, but the one i sent to caltech is bigger so dont worry, they wont have to strain their eyes too much. Anyway, I doubt its impressive by caltech standards but oh well…

fizix · December 12, 2006, 5:11am

^^Wow, that’s pretty neat.

I won’t share what I put in the box since Caltech could probably identify me if I posted it. If they wanted to.

Perplexitudinous · December 12, 2006, 5:18am

If they really wanted to do that, couldn’t they just look at your stats profile? I mean, even if there are several applicants with the same score distribution, they could still compare your listed activities (attempted pushups etc.) to those on the apps.

I think a better reason not to post what you put in the box is that you don’t want anyone to steal your idea. :-)

baboonrancher · December 21, 2006, 12:56am

I am photoshopping the picture i made using functions in my calculator –> i drew Einstein and Newton & adding a single comic strip joke to it.

fizix · December 21, 2006, 8:49am

true. I suppose I will go with that reason, then. :)

Kamikazewave · December 22, 2006, 2:48pm

Dude, I copy and pasted a series of comic strips that I liked from <a href=“http://www.phdcomics.com%5B/url%5D”>www.phdcomics.com</a>, and I actually got in. :D.

andy_tok · December 23, 2006, 11:22pm

I’m just wondering who will actually see “the box”. Faculty member?
What if what I put in the box is some weird physics stuff and the adcom just happen to be unfamiliar about that?

tech_fan · December 24, 2006, 12:06am

Every application that gets past a preliminary first cut is read thoroughly by an admissions officer, a Caltech professor, and a Caltech undergraduate student. If the case goes to committee, then these groups are also represented. So you will always get a fair shake from someone who probably understands the physics.

smangin · December 31, 2006, 8:16pm

can you put more than one thing in the box? like a java program that i made and a picture that i find inspirational?

fizix · December 31, 2006, 8:22pm

^^I put three things in the box, and got in, but I kinda linked them together. So probably.

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