<p>Astrophysics specifically, but yeah! Seems like a really interesting field.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, did you focus more on application or it’s impact? I choose the later.</p>
<p>@MobiusUno me too! Theoretical astrophysics ftw 
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<p>I gave a brief explanation on how it works and how it can be applied, but focused more on the impact it would have on the world. After all, the prompt wanted us to write about how we would change the world for the better.</p>
<p>I didn’t go to much into the exact method, but dedicated a bulk of the essay to it’s effect on mankind.</p>
<p>Astrophysics, field of champions :D</p>
<p>Now I really hope you and I get in so we can talk about this more @_@</p>
<p>I do too lol</p>
<p>Actually that prompt was the one with which I struggled the most .____.</p>
<p>I just can’t wait until March (or April, whatever haha) :D</p>
<p>I wrote about a manufacturing technique that would lower the cost of mass producing electronic goods.</p>
<p>I was given a scholarship for the same idea about a year ago.</p>
<p>**scholarship was for essay</p>
<p>My extracurricular activity essay was descent, but it wasn’t as legit as an Olympiad. I talked about how I took over a club that only had 2 members and busted my posterior recruiting people — ended up with a dozen or so.</p>
<p>I wrote about an antidepressant that would be universally effective, that way people wouldn’t have to go through scads of pills before finding the one that’s right for them. I also added that the pill would affect the person’s biochemistry in a manner so as to not allow them to ever re-experience moderate to extreme depression (I specified that mild depression would not be affected because eradicating sadness completely may not the best thing to do).</p>
<p>A little bit morbid/unrealistic, but <em>shrugs</em>.</p>
<p>I focused more on the “why” than how.</p>
<p>Also, I wrote my EC essay my tutoring at a local elementary school. The program was started to give “high risk” kids help with their homework (duh), but also to give them positive role models and people to look up to. Easily the most important thing (imo) I spend my time doing, haha.</p>
<p>I wrote about a machine that would have the ability to harness the energy of lighting.</p>
<p>I basically wrote about nuclear energy and harnessing the waste in a way that can still be beneficial and cost effective. how cliche of me, i know.</p>
<p>@lldm I also wrote about tutoring! I wrote about this one student, who had just moved here from El Salvador and did not know anyone at all, and I tutored him in math. A pretty good experience, definitely humbling to see math from such a different point of view.</p>
<p>Hi everybody!
My name’s Jos</p>
<p>Oh god, FRC.
I just spent the whole day working on our team’s robot @_@</p>
<p>Heck yea! Wish we stayed till midnight, but we stopped at like 9. And why the “oh god”? you can’t tell me you joined FRC and you don’t like it!</p>
<p>@jose Glad to see a new person here. I do FIRST Robotics as well, it’s awesome!</p>
<p>You’re probably white, but Hispanic/Latino, just like me hablas espanol? </p>
<p>best of luck!</p>
<p>@lovelylistener and @lldm I like how you guys used your favorite EC to describe how you help people. I tried to do that with mine as well.</p>
<p>What did everyone write about for the rest of the topics?</p>
<p>Never said that, today was just long. I was there for nearly 14 straight hours trying to help the team wrap up. It’s crazy on the last day.</p>
<p>@Jos</p>
<p>@lldm21 I’m glad I’m not the only one with a school that lacks in science and math! Haha, all we have is a science club, which we don’t even compete in. However, we do compete in our math club, but we’re not so great at that either… :P</p>
<p>For my EC essay I wrote about TSA! I’m really surprised no one’s in TSA here…I mean they do robotics competitions too!</p>
<p>Anywho, I feel like April is approaching pretty quickly! We’re almost entering March :)</p>
<p>@Iuvenilis: My school has a math team, Green team, and Robotics team, and I think that’s it… The math team has performed very well in the past, but that was pretty much due to the local genius who graduated, and a current senior who is “bored in AP Calc AB most of the time”. Once he graduates, it’s going to go downhill fast. Our Green team has won scholarship money I think three years in a row now to finance a STEM lab & solar panels for my school (you film a video talking about why ‘‘going green’’ is important, as well as the importance of STEM, and then you type up a paper about what you would do with the scholarship money to make your school more environmentally friendly + STEM-oriented), but that won’t be up-and-running until a few years from now. The Robotics team, to my knowledge, is not taken seriously, and thus not worth joining. lol.</p>
<p>I know what you mean… junior year is going by so quickly now; it’s scary.</p>
<p>My school does not have many math and science organizations either. I am worried now because I did not include this in my application. Hopefully they won’t think I am a slacker!</p>