arrrrgh, More help with MyMIT please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I took a look at the PDF preview of my application and my essays look <em>ugly</em>. The font/size combination is nearly unreadably pixelated unless you zoom waaaay in, and they totally removed all the indentations out of it, so it looks like it's all one massive, run-on paragraph.</p>

<p>I tried to just upload the file instead, but whenever I convert it to .doc or .txt form the text doesn't wrap around, and my six paragraphs become six extremely long lines of text. Is there any way to be totally sure that they'll get it in the format I want them to see it in?</p>

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<p>What browser are you using? Obvious question but it might be a problem.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately the text is not justified to the right only to the left.
I had a problem with the main essay. The other 4 appeared pretty good.
I use single empty line for praragraph separator and have no identation
for the first line of the paragraph.</p>

<p>The problmem with the essay were that there was no clear distinction between paragraphs. So I uploaded a .doc file formatted as I mentioned above(created with office XP) and there was no problem with it.</p>

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<p>Just internet explorer 6.0 and acrobat reader 5.0...did this happen to anyone else when they previewed their essay, or just me? All my indents in all my essays were ObLiTeRaTeD.</p>

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<p>So, do you think it would work if I just typed it into the MyMIT form and separated each paragraph with a blank line?</p>

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<p>My indentations for new paragraphs became single spaces, but everything else was just fine.</p>

<p>EDIT: and seperating with a blank line would probably work just fine. They wouldn't "take off" for not-quite-perfect indentation.</p>

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<p>Yeah, come to think of it, ObLiTeRaTeD may have been an exaggeration, they were more like "turned into a single space"...but it's still ugly, I think, and it detracts from my efforts to separate my thoughts...I'll try that blank line thing, but I don't know what to do about the nasty pixelated font...</p>

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<p>Wow, as of now there has been one reply for every time someone has viewed this thread...you guys rock.</p>

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<p>Yeah, after I went back and looked at my pdf file, my font looks horrible too. I think when I printed it out it looked ok(decent enough to read anyway).</p>

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<p>Good, so as long as they print it, it's fine. Thanks!</p>

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<p>haha not anymore hamburger :)</p>

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<p>Well, if you count my first post AND the replies, there has :)</p>

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<p>darn, i guess my back button on the browser is beckoning and then im going in again...lol jk</p>

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<p>I printed it again to see what it looked like again. It looks so much better on paper than on the computer. It looks like a decent courier font. Not a bunch of pixelated letters.</p>

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<p>mine was kind of messed up, but nothing like what you guys are talking about. the spaces after the periods were gone, but everything else seemed normal. i typed it on word and then uploaded. i figured that if there was a problem with the pdf., then they always had my word document to use instead.</p>

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<p>Gah! I tried putting a blank line between paragraphs and the pdf version removed those as well. I guess the only right way to submit the essay is to upload it. How did you get your .doc or .txt form to word wrap so that you could make it into coherent paragraph form?</p>

<p>If this keeps giving me problems, I swear I'll resort to putting ______ in the place of an indent. :P</p>

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<p>Your problems cannot be as annoying as what happened to mine: My essay for Question 13 was shown just halfway thorough :( The word limit is 1000, and my essay was only 800-word long :( Damn terrible :(</p>

<p>Pixelated words, omitted space lines, etc all happened to me ---> I am the unluckiest here :(</p>

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<p>
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the spaces after the periods were gone, but everything else seemed normal.

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Did you put two spaces after each period? Then that's the problem. Press space only once after each period.</p>

<p>It seems that myMIT doesn't recognize indentation, either by tabbing, or by pressing space multiple times. Just leave one blank line between paragraphs, copy and paste your essay from Word into Notepad, check that paragraphs are not indented, remove all excess spacings (except for the one blank line between paragraphs), and copy and paste the essay from Notepad into the textbox in myMIT.</p>

<p>My essay was pixelated, too, but it only looked so on the computer. It looked normal when I printed it out, so don't worry about it.</p>

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<p>erm, MyMIT erases double line breaks as well, so that wouldn't work...There's got to be some way to set off a new paragraph though...</p>

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<p>Nope, it doesn't erase double-line breaks if you cut and paste. It does erase double-line breaks if you upload your file.</p>