<p>wow, lol...maybe i should stick to one since mine don't really go together</p>
<p>I put in...ooh, half a million things -- had a giant collage-type thing, so I managed to shoehorn in my photography, some poetry, a lot of JAVA code, some calculus, some physics, and a very large cloud-chamber diagram. But I'm a bit of a graphic design nerd, so I spent a lot of time making it all aesthetically fit together.</p>
<p>If I put pictures I find from the internet, do I need to show where they come from?</p>
<p>Yes. A picture doesn't spontaneously appear on the internet; someone has to take or create it. Citing the picture both gives due credit/accountability to this person and makes it clear (especially in the context of an application) that you aren't him.</p>
<p>Thanks!
BTW, I know that the electronic submission should be no larger than 300kb. My question is that should the size of the jpeg picture be no larger than 8.5*11?</p>
<p>Anyone can help me?</p>
<p>It will get shrunk if it's bigger, or split up in a way beyond your control, so it should definitely fit on a standard piece of paper.</p>
<p>(But it's not typical for JPG formats to actually contain information about the physical size of the image, though this can be done by specifying the resolution. In any case, if you send one that is "too big" it will probably be downsized automatically by the software that prints it.)</p>
<p>Thanks! I guess I'll do it in the size of A4</p>
<p>As Ben said, JPEGs do not contain information on the physical size of the image, but do have a resolution. The reason for this is because different ways of displaying these images have different resolution to size ratios. For example, the standard for graphics to be viewed on a monitor is 72 pixels per inch. Graphics that are printed are often 300 pixels per inch or higher. </p>
<p>If your image is especially intricate as mine was, 300kb is not nearly enough space for the image... so I ended up submitting my application on paper to take full advantage of a 600ppi printer.</p>
<p>A dumb question, I know.
If it's smaller than that..will it get stretched or distorted? And when it's printed at caltech, will it be printed in color? (Uh oh. It's a little late...but some of my words will be very faint if so.)</p>
<p>I remember when I read apps a lot of them had boxes printed out in color. So I think the answer should still be yes. If it's smaller, I don't think it will be stretched or distorted.</p>
<p>lol i sent a rube goldberg design i made in gr 8 haha</p>
<p>I sent in a snapshot of my chess engine in action (been working on it for 3 years).</p>
<p>YAY....:)</p>
<p>The latest WTP (MIT Women in technology Program) seems to have
adopted the Caltech Box idea (minus the JPEG submission) and I just
got to complete it.</p>
<p>It was fun. I am dying to submit the real box to caltech for 2008</p>
<p>yay! :)</p>
<p>I think the box is one of the better parts of the application. It's interesting hearing what different things people put in.</p>
<p>Mine: <a href="http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q50/DreamerPandora/caltechbox.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q50/DreamerPandora/caltechbox.jpg</a>
Cat reference found online, captions says "Schrodinger's cat sought escape from his uncertain life."</p>
<p>hahahaha!! that's my favorate so far! (besides my own, of course.)</p>
<p>Aww, that's so cute.</p>
<p>aawww! poor kitty!</p>