<p>Okay, so I'm a slacker. I still have to do my MIT essay =P</p>
<p>I'm going to do Essay B since I think I have quite lofty dreams/aspirations and it would be good to write about them...but...I am confused about what the question is asking for...</p>
<p>It says "Describe the world you come from, for example your family, clubs, school, community, city, or town" So does that mean the whole essay we just describe our environment and then in the conclusion be like Ahh okay! So, that all matters because I want to make a difference!</p>
<p>Or what? It seems kind of silly that I'd write an essay describing just the "world I come from"...Am I supposed to write about mAINLY my dreams and aspirations, and then include/describe various things I've done/have affected me and show how it has LED me to have THOSE dreams/aspirations?</p>
<p>I don't know...I'm kind of confused...just some specifc background on what I'm thinking which may help you help me is...</p>
<p>-I co-founded a video productions organization w/ my friends, and am now CFO/treasurer (we have club at school to teach other students how to produce videos from start to fiinish ..how to shoot, how to edit, etc. everything) and Web/Forum Manager
-I have very strong business interests, and definitely want to go to Sloan if I get into MIT...which is itself part of my dreams/aspirations
-as far as the "world I come from" uh, hard-core strict indian parents with two older sisters (one who went to MIT) that I've constantly been compared to
-my dreams are (not to sound TOO cliche..although it's sort of hard) basically to gain enough world influence to make a considerable (positive) influence on the world on an extraordinarily large scale...not only to help people, but to change the way things go...to change the way people think, adn to change the way the world functions (all for the better)</p>
<p>SoooO any suggestions on how I could play some of that stuf in/answers to what essay b is about?</p>
<p>Any help would be very much appreciated ...esp considering I'm so pressed for time =P</p>
<p>I did essay B. It's hard b/c the prompt seems to ask two unrelated questions. The key is to tie in how your "world" has led you to be inspired to pursue a particular dream. Your involvement with a club might be a good way to handle it -- but it depends on how serious you are vis-a-vis film. And take into consideration that MIT isn't generally known for their film studies programs.</p>
<p>If connecting is difficult then just write something vague for ur dreams, that's what most people did. They don't expect you at this age to know exactly what you will do</p>
<p>but is the essay supposed to be largely about your dreams..or largely about your environment? I'm still kind of confused...and as far as the video productions go, I want to use it because 1) I'm very passionate about it and have built it from the ground up, and 2) because it's a professional company--which does relate considering I'm interested in business, and MIT is known for its excellent business program (Sloan)</p>
<p>As far as describing my environment goes...if that's what they want, I'm really confused on how I would do that... do I just go "coming from a first generation indian family blah balh" or waht..it seems very trivial/silly...</p>
<p>or should I just talk about my dreams and how i'm passionate about this video company I have and how I'm interested in business because of this and want to do business in college and then I want to enter the business world head on and relate it back to my current business experience etc.. (the aspirations part), and then talk about how I want to use business as a means to make a difference in this world etc.?</p>
<p>I think that prompt is actually quite open ended, and I think you could take a lot of different routes with it, hence why I chose it.</p>
<p>I talked about how growing up in a university town with parents who have graduate level educations has made me want to get the best education possible. I've been surrounded by learning my entire life (spent so many days with mom at the university when I was little) and grown very accustomed to being around professors, researchers, etc, and I just wrote about how that's affected my desire to become educated. I also wrote about how diverse my community is (and it really is... at my high school alone, over 60 languages are represented) and how that's made me very cosmopolitan without having had to travel much. Essentially I just told a little bit about the place I live and how it has made me think.</p>
<p>Why not talk about your first generation Indian family? Have they inspired you to start this video company? Is your family traditional? Do you want to go to MIT because you feel a social pressure to become an "engineer"? Have you ever lived in India? If yes, how does the environment differ? What kind of person are you like over there as compared to over here and why? What made you interested in video? Do you live in a place like Silicon Valley where everybody is working with technology? Does your school specialize in video classes? Is there a specific store or place locally that inspired you to get involved?</p>
<p>Those are the kinds of questions you want to be asking yourself when you write this essay, and don't worry if you don't address EVERY aspect of the prompt. I honestly think it's somewhat broad, so interperet it as it comes out when you're writing, and good luck.</p>
<p>Alright =)
Thanks a bunch, my family is very traditional, and although I've never lived in india, I have visited there a few times and been there for around a month at times. My basic motivation for starting the video company was just an interest in business and an interest in general video/graphics/techhie kinda stuf...the company actually originally started as a flash site, but we realized that woudln't get us newerhe nad moved to video productions. my cousins/uncles in india are all businessmen so I could talk about that and that kinda stuf I guess, and how it's influenced me and such =D</p>
<p>yay. i'm getting a whole bunch of random ideas now. hopefully I can get some of this on paper, play around with it, come up with an outline and get to work =P</p>