<p>Just wondering...</p>
<p>What programs do you use to write research papers for STS and Westinghouse?</p>
<p>in some circles, LaTeX is favored.
on the other hand, microsoft word or corel wordperfect can work too.</p>
<p>it depends on the formatting requirements of your paper I suppose</p>
<p>A while ago i downloaded latex, but i have no idea how to use it. Isnt it meant for linux? Can you use it on windows?</p>
<p>Get texnic center. Go to <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com%5B/url%5D">www.artofproblemsolving.com</a> and learn how to latex. It's how I started learning.</p>
<p>Is there a LaTeX version for linux?</p>
<p>Is a suit still BETTER at regional/state fairs? I really wanna win to go to ISEF, so if ISEF ppl wear suits, then wouldn't it be good to wear a suit to regional fair?</p>
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<p>[url=<a href="http://www.langbein.org/software/ntex/%5DNTex%5B/url">http://www.langbein.org/software/ntex/]NTex[/url</a>]
[url=<a href="http://www.tug.org/teTeX/%5DteTeX%5B/url">http://www.tug.org/teTeX/]teTeX[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Those are the two I remember off-hand, but a google search would probably produce more.</p>
<p>In fact There are probably versions of LaTex for almost every computer platform in existence</p>
<p>random-->so how's the food, housing, etc at MIT? do the rooms have aircon?</p>
<p>the food is effing terrible. You get to eat in lobdell every night for free, but there's a reason why it's called "lobhell" and not lobdell. They're good, but not great. Trust me, after 8 hrs in the lab, ANYTHING TASTES great. If you don't want to eat in Lobdell, you can use your TECHcard and buy delicious subway-like sandwiches at LaVerdes. Oh, they're so much better than subway. You have to try the BBQ Chicken! or the Philly Cheesesteak.</p>
<p>Housing, you're going to be in Simmons Hall. Lol. GOOGLE IT! It's the most interesting-looking dorm at MIT. It's a bee-yatch waiting for the elevator, especially if you live on the highest floor, the 10th floor, like I did. There is no AC in individual rooms, but you can buy fans. Trust me, the only time you'll be in your room is when you need to SLEEP, and at night, it's pretty breezy if you keep all 21 windows open. And I do sincerely mean 21 windows in one room.</p>
<p>Not caring the relationship btw MIT and RSI, I want to know what does it take for a foreign country to participate in RSI. What's the qualification of the national agency that can manage to collect and screen applications for RSI in a foreign country?</p>
<p>T_T I wish I knew this program before my senior year. But I knew it months after I submitted my apps to all colleges. So now I can't apply to RSI. I simply want younger students in my country to participate (or have opportunity to, at least).</p>
<p>wow i'm definitely not getting in as the "top 100 math/science" students</p>
<p>The main reason you wear a suit at ISEF is out of respect for the judges, almost all of whom are PhDs or CEOs.</p>
<p>Wearing a suit isnt going to make or break how well you do at any science fair; the main thing is you dont want to be way underdressed compared to others. Judging doesnt take your appearance into account; wearing a expensive suit really wont help you win, so dont worry about it.</p>
<p>At a regional fair, at least where i live, a suit is not necessary. For my regional fair i wore khaki pants, shirt and tie, navy blazer...and i won. Really, dont worry...</p>
<p>For state, a suit is more appropriate, and most people wore them, although some didnt even wear ties. I won at state too (i wore a suit).</p>
<p>Everyone wants a prediction on when we'll receive notification from RSI. I want to hear predictions on how many people out of the 40 currently on the roster will get in. I say... six. I have no reasoning to back that up... but six will get in. Call me optimistic.</p>
<p>Maybe I was a bit out of line but I'm still right.
And as for not being cocky, I am cocky, its part of who I am and theres no reason for me not to be.
I think you're dead wrong about the six, this place is a huge bunch of well qualified people coming here to discuss stuff. I'll go with 15+, including me, and I'm from NY.
Hows that for a prediction?</p>
<p>How about 39?</p>
<p>You're probably correct about there being more than six. As a whole the people on this board are extremely qualified for RSI and definitely more obsessive about it than most. </p>
<p>39? Haha, everyone but me probably.</p>
<p>lol well i think it's more than 6. like 7!...who knows? i haven't even heard the profile of the ppl on that roster. i think atleast 1/2 of the ppl that discussed stuff in THIS thread will get in. i, myself, will be on the 1/2 that doesn't get in. but i really don't care anymore. i competed with the best, so if i don't get in, that doesn't mean i'm incompetent, it just means that there are 80 people that are better with me. and i am perfectly content with that. you can't be the best in everything. although...it'd be nice to be in that 80....even though...it won't happen =(</p>
<p>"And as for not being cocky, I am cocky, its part of who I am and theres no reason for me not to be."</p>
<p>Being cocky isn't something to be proud of. Although many of the rickoids do have the right to be elitist, because after all, we got into RSI, we are humbled by nature. I love how everyone there is so modest about everything, from SAT scores to accomplishment.</p>
<p>We lived in Simmons, which is the humongous new dorm at MIT. It was pretty nice, a little idiosyncratic. There are lots of organic curves built into the walls, but the walls themselves are all grey plaster. The doubles are pretty damn big, especially if you get a corner room, but the singles fit your bed, a desk, a chair, and a set of drawers--maybe (and of course, the guy who lived in the single was the one with the DDR pads. Go figure.). No air conditioning, but the rooms never got very hot, and at least one wall of your room will be honeycombed with windows, so it was nice. Elevators, though lets just say that I beat my roommate to our room by running up the eight flights of stairs to it instead of waiting for the elevator. There are lounges everywhere, and kitchenettes and laundry facilities on certain floors. </p>
<p>However, that entire paragraph might be useless, because I don't know where this year's Rickoids are going to be housed. In the years before this, they were always over in East Campus, which was a lot closer to...everywhere, basically, but also more delapidated and I hear there was a cockroach counting competition (?). </p>
<p>Food...well, there's good news and bad news. You'll eat probably at the campus center. The stores on the main floor are pretty good, and I hear that the convenience store/deli Verde's is open 24 hours this year, so that's awesome. However, lunch and dinner are served at the upstairs cafeteria, Lobell's (Lobdeath!), and food quality ranges from mediocre to ewwww. They do give an okay selection, in terms of types of food to eat, but whenever I ate there it was mostly more for the social aspect of dinner than actually wanting Lobell food.</p>