<p>Soooo now that we can sit back and semi-relax, what did you put for your "creativity" essay?? </p>
<p>mine was kinda lame: Making a camp skit and energizing my campers.</p>
<p>Organizing a sideburns contest.</p>
<p>How I started drawing different animals and naming them with a novel system</p>
<p>Mamooie, you mean like shaving sideburns into interesting shapes?</p>
<p>bump! bump!</p>
<p>I wrote how I was asked for directions in Mexico, and I naively walked into a robbery. As a girl, I didn’t stand a chance. But you know how dangerous that place is, so I actually had a flare gun with me. Seeing that they didn’t have concealed arms, I kept their knives at bay by bringing it out. One of them didn’t seem to know what to do, or didn’t seem to trust their ‘leader’, so I figured they didn’t really know each other. Then I realized that the two who had asked me for directions knew each other, and had a higher payoff if they collaborated with me and defected against their fellow perpetrators. I promised I’d pay them, with extra that I wasn’t carrying to ensure my safety - which would be more than if they split it up. They weren’t sure to trust me, and I told them look, I can’t overwhelm the two of you, but I gave them the position of symmetric information - that I’d make sure they were the ones who get hurt if the 4 of them attacked me, but they would be safer if they sided with me since I had a ranged weapon. Somehow, I talked them into backstabbing each other. To keep it short, I later outwitted the remaining two while ‘getting the extra money’ for them and got them arrested.</p>
<p>^ haha! that’s awesome! how old were you?</p>
<p>Lol I’m sorry, I just came up with that story as I was talking to my friend about his experience in Mexico. The real story, my friend and I was discussing, was that someone approached him saying that he was left behind by his wife and asked for a ride home. My friend was afraid he’d get robbed - it was getting dark, and he could just abandon that guy and go to his hotel which was footsteps away - but he volunteered to help. The guy didn’t know his directions, and my friend eventually gave up driving him home and decided to hail a cab for him. It was a pretty sweet story. Very ordinary yet revealing of his personality. That’s what I wanted to say.</p>
<p>My question for him was: if you used an evaluation function for the probability of how likely he was planning to rob you, on hindsight, what do you think the result would be? Then I suddenly saw this thread and felt it was really funny and warped if something like what I had written had happened.</p>
<p>And my actual essay had to do with a very simple problem and a coincidental solution in my research. Feels quite boring now that I think about it, some people advised me against keeping it, but I really loved it (as in, the research, not my essay) so I went ahead.</p>
<p>Lucid dreaming</p>
<p>I wrote something on product design… Got this opportunity this year, and in time :)</p>
<p>Did you guys face hard time when working with this Creativity essay?
At first, I had a lot of ideas, but when starting writing, I found it hard to convey the emotion and experience. Finally I switched to another one, which seemed quite “little” (because it’s just an idea of how to make a car for a kid; you know, kids’ stuff are always “little”), but eventually, became the subject of my essay :)</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>BTW, I’m thinking about connecting the stache with the burns.</p>
<p>Talked about a website that I made when I was 10 - a website on guitars - and how it prompted me to start a web business more recently.</p>
<p>^^ yea! I know how you felt. I wrote about six different ones until I found one I was semi-happy with.</p>
<p>Sci-Fry, what’s your business?!</p>
<p>Talked about how I taught an eight year old autistic child to read using the piano and music sheets.</p>
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My husband and his engineer friends at work grew “Decembeards” last month, and are having a contest to see who can shave them into the funniest facial hair during “Manuary.”</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>^LOL Mollie! You wish you were a guy, don’t you? ;)</p>
<p>I wrote about a classic Caltech prank I did in COSMOS…well, we were having a NorCal and SoCal competition, and as a faithful NorCal, I wanted to promote NorCal coolness.
I broke curfew one night to change the huge “COSMOS” on the building…I rearranged the words to make SOCOWS (flipped the M to make W).</p>
<p>Because everyone knows SoCals are a bunch of cows. hahaha.</p>
<p>I think I’m having enough fun watching from the sidelines. :D</p>
<p>Mine was on how I use(d) pattern language when writting childrens’ books which are being used as part of an ESL (english as a second language) program throughout Hunan Province, China.</p>
<p>Not! I mean, it was more about how it’s often difficult for me to come up with a good idea (I have 27 books so far, so it’s not THAT difficult lol). I thought they would get tired with all of the “I’m soooo creative by doing blah blah blah.” The writing and the story of it was all pretty creative though…so…I hope they like it!</p>
<p>C’mon MIT people!</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>