<p>^^^ haha lol</p>
<p>I think duckedTape created his/her account today, just to throw us off… I was doing fine as one out of two but the third is just too much</p>
<p>write about drawing fractals on the computer with recursion with color changing for each layer then SUDDENLY! the computer fan start going super loud and you see this red line in the output “stack overflow!” computer blows up XP jk</p>
<p>i got deferred EA so am going to send them essay for this LED sign thing i’ve been working on. like how i got the idea and the things i had to solve to make it work. Its like those clocks that have the pendulum like thing swing back and forth with lighted text. I made a bigger version with customizable text. ( maybe i should program it to say “MIT PLZ ACCEPT ME!!!” and video tape it, and then send the tape with the essay)</p>
<p>Do you think that it is okay to write about a paper I wrote in my philosophy class about the nature of scientific progress? Somehow I think it’s not “hands-on” enough but at the same time this paper is more important to me than my lab work and research experience.</p>
<p>@Vorron- I think that’d be cool. If it’s important to you, tell them about it.</p>
<p>Responding to the OP, I think the thing to remember here is that you want your essays to be memorable (and I realize my last post about shower curtains didn’t actually answer the question posed in this thread).</p>
<p>If you want your essay to be technical, that’s absolutely fine- however, be sure to say WHY you loved this thing you created/discovered/built from toothpicks. Make yourself a human that loves what they do, that is passionate, that wants a UROP in the Media Lab so that they can build an LED sign programmed to read MIT ROX.</p>
<p>For the record, I submitted a Research Abstract with just a paragraph after it to put it into context. Since none of you would have done this particular project or happen to be me, you’d be stupid to copy and paste, so here’s the paragraph (probably my least exciting writing sample on the entire app):</p>
<p>“I’ve been infatuated with proteins, genetics, and how the two interact for as long as I can remember. The study of transcription factors is the ideal marriage of the two, and at MIT there’s quite a bit of work being done right now on their influence in embryonic stem cells, particularly in the Young lab at the Whitehead Institute (coincidentally, also home of my dream UROP). If there were any doubts about my fate in academia, last summer’s research experience quelled them within my first hour in lab.”</p>
<p>Does that help?</p>
<p>It helps a lot , thanks ducktape and everyone else.</p>