<p>So on all these "rate me!" bulletins I see all these great ECs but barely anyone is that big into the environment! Does anyone care??? Or is MIT's mission just to get the smartest kids, even if those kids were raised in a family with four SUVs with parents that didn't even have a recycling bin???</p>
<p>I applied to MIT early action. And I'm the Earth Conservation Org (ECO Club) president at my school. Apparently, there aren't too many of those around CC or even people I know that are big into the environment.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I was deferred. Two of my essays were about conservation awareness and how I was devastated by the loss of habitat near a place I jog by every day.</p>
<p>So I feel MIT sees me as just a dumb hippie, not one of those people who they would LOVE to admit because they want to "help the world."</p>
<p>PS Every single person I know that went or goes to MIT (and that's probably like 10 people) aren't that big into the environment to the point of what I consider ignorance.</p>
<p>Sorry to vent. I just love my world and helping it, unlike a lot of people who I feel should as well...</p>
<p>If you wanna read my "big" essay, PM me.</p>
<p>Again Im sorry I just had to get this off my chest :)</p>
<p>Im not that sour MIT deferred me, I just wish more people cared more about the Earth! :)</p>
<p>I was admitted EA and I have to say that I do give considerable thought to the process. However, how can you argue that a student pursuing nuclear fusion research isn't trying to better the environment? A student of computer science can optimize systems to consume less resources. A chemist or biologist may find a way to reverse or slow down an ecosystem heading towards disaster. </p>
<p>Also, I think MIT doesn't just want people who are "aware" or president of a club. What have you already done to fix the problem? Recycle the daily newspaper? I do that too. Planted thousands of trees? Now I'm impressed. :)</p>
<p>“We must become the change we want to see.” - Gandhi</p>
<p>Actually our club has so far, under my leadership:
1) Sold more t-shirts to save acres of habitat than the club had for 9 years
2) Joined with our city to plant trees in a neighboring park, and maintain the park
3) Arranged to outfit each of the 80+ faculty members at our school with "conservation gifts" for the holidays
4) arranged to "adopt" (basically sponsor) more than 5 different animals and their families
5) Had monthly Vegetarian Days for the club
6) Gone to neighboring schools to teach elementary school students about biospheres and recycling.
7) And right now we're working on a documentary for our school's film festival to wake up some hummer-driving parents to what Al Gore called the "Inconvenient Truth"
8) We're also arranging a showing of that movie I just mentioned for the rest of our school in our school's theater.</p>
<p>So now I've got that off my chest...
I have no problem with anyone who wants to help the environment INDIRECTLY!!! In fact, kudos to you! I just have noticed that on so many people's resumes you barely ever see the word "environment." Am I just crazy??? </p>
<p>By the way, nuclear power is non-renewable anyway, so one way we'll run out of it. So indulging too much in nuclear power is basically like having a rebirth of our oil-dependency... Not too environment-friendly to me :(</p>
<p>By the way I took a political spectrum test for government this semester. And strangely, on the authoritarian/libertarian/liberal/conservative axes, I was exactly placed where Ghandi was!</p>
<p>Hehe, I'm into the environment, too, and I'm applying RD.</p>
<p>And I know an MIT student who's big on environmental stuff and is into hiking, canoeing, etc. She's doing chemical engineering, though.</p>
<p>Just curious - which course did you apply for? I'm doing Environmental Studies almost everywhere else, but MIT has decided not to offer that. I almost considered EAPS, but I'm not into earth science, so I'm doing STS instead.</p>
<p>Hey theoneo, I have a friend who's doing course 12 (EAPS) with a minor in chemistry and several classes in biology -- so it's sort of geochemistry as it relates to conservation marine biology. There are several departments which offer some sort of courses in conservation, so you can cobble together stuff to make a major that you're into, if you're psyched.</p>
<p>Sometime simply there just isn't enough space to write about environment, in addition to everything else. I agree with what differential said - in one way or another, we all try to better the environment through the things we do. Even though we may not directly convey it, we feel it in our hearts and put it into action. After all, how would the world be if there were only environmentalists but no one to refine industries so that they focus on helping the environment?</p>
<p>1 The cotton used to make those t shirts was processed in an industrial textile plant in Honduras or Indonesia, manned by children half your age.
2 Maintain a park? All you have to do is make sure no one builds a strip mall on it.
3 What the heck is a conservation gift, a pamphlet on how to dispose of used motor oil?
4 Sponsor animals? I sponsor 3 squirrels living in our garage.
5 Vegetarian days?? yawn. Eat your carrots so you get the supplemental beta carotene so you can spot trash on the side of the road more easily
6 I'm sure 3rd graders are real interested in ecological systems.
7 Whats wrong with driving a hummer? The truck used to deliver your tshirts gets worse gas mileage than a hummer.
8 This is a win/lose situation, on one hand students get plenty of rest during the movie. Conversely, the ones who stay awake will get dumber.</p>
<p>I really don't know what to say other than that comments like those coming from Corroborator make me worried about where our country is headed...</p>
<p>Why so many attacks? Is it because you don't value helping the community at all? Your arguments are barely even justifiable, and for that reason I can't help but feel pity for your small, ignorant mind.</p>
<p>By the way if you need clarification on any part of that list I made, just ask, don't assume!</p>
<p>I blew my nose with a squirrel today and then I proceeded to run down small woodland creatures in my HUGE gas guzzling SUV. Then I went to the recycling bin and switched some signs around so now polysterene goes into the bin designated for polyethylene. After that got old I made a Native American cry. In fact, if some of my stocks pan out like I plan I'll by that wildlife sanctuary and sell the right to dump garbage on it to the neighboring county.</p>
<p>P.S - We're just kidding, don't get your undies made from recycled corrugated cardboard in a knot.</p>
<p>hahahahahahahahaa oh my god corroborator i actually am laughing out loud right now. </p>
<p>back in the day, when i was in to mischief and not aWeSoMe~~~ recycling i would switch around the signs too.</p>
<p>btw i love the earth! our school just renovated the main building using only green technology....and we have a sswweeet lighting/heating system that turns off when you exit and on when you enter....yay motion sensors.</p>
<p>"a warmer earth is not necessarily a better earth"
"'thats hot' is not something i wanna be saying about the earth in 50 years."
-me</p>