<p>for students at rice and anyone who's applying:
what did you put in the box on the app where it says to "fill it with something that appeals to you"? i've been thinking about this for ages</p>
<p>I searched this forum with the word "box", there are several threads concerning your question, here is one of them:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=146360&highlight=box%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=146360&highlight=box</a></p>
<p>::sighs:: And as I said before the last time this topic came up (which wasn't too long ago...) It's probably not a good idea to look through everyone elses ideas if you haven't come up with your own idea first. It's harder to come up with something yourself when you've got all these other ideas in your head taking up brain space. Just keep thinking and something will hit you.</p>
<p>i actually wanted to see what most people did so i could try NOT to do that....like if everyone did a picture of themselves winning a sports game of some sort, i would stay clear of that. i'm not afraid of my box being wrong but being trite</p>
<p>I've talked to many people, and they all seem to do very different things because they don't want to be the same as everyone else. Just put something in the box that tells Rice something about you they don't know from the rest of the application.</p>
<p>There are three things that you should NOT do with the box because they're grotesquely overdone:
1) An acceptance letter from Rice
2) A grain of rice
3) Putting something outside the box to show that you think outside the box.</p>
<p>I also wouldn't put something that seems overly contrived or thought-out. I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't write "residential colleges" or "diversity" or anything like that.</p>
<p>Really, just put something that you like. Don't overthink it like an essay. I put in a minaturized 3-D version of our school's paper (I was co-editor-in-chief and want to go into journalism). You could only read the headlines, but it was nifty-looking.</p>
<p>My friend put in "proof by rotation," which is a math proof that works but doesn't follow the rules of math.</p>
<p>Seriously, where they say, "put something that appeals to you," you really should put something that appeals to you, not something that you think would appeal to them.</p>
<p>/sarcasm on</p>
<p>well since it says "fill the box with something that appeals to you" do you think I could paste on a picture of some nude actress and get in?</p>
<p>/sarcasm off</p>
<p>That would set you apart from other applicants haha</p>
<p>I wanted to paste a lid from a pudding cup into it, but chose something a little blander in the end.</p>
<p>At my interview, I told the woman that "I'm not going to as about the box...", so she told me that's it's open-ended, and there are no wrong answers. Just please, nothing obscene, and nothing perishable. And don't write outside of the box "I like thinking here." Those are the only "restrictions"/recommendations.</p>