<p>I submitted a collage of internet fads. :P</p>
<p>If i take a pciture from google images, will that be considered violating the copyright laws?</p>
<p>I wrote a short story that had nothing to do with science or math. ;) But I guess they didn't mind.</p>
<p>Mine contained attempts at modernist poetry, really. They didn't seem to object to that either. ;)</p>
<p>adam_dewitt7 -- depends on the source of the image? If you really are concerned, stick a little note at the bottom telling them where it's from; that way you avoid the issue.</p>
<p>I left my empty by choice...I got in, so it seemed to work?</p>
<p>Mathson put in the opening credits for Linux. He didn't get in.</p>
<p>
[Quote]
I left my empty by choice...I got in, so it seemed to work?
[/Quote]
</p>
<p>Really? Wow..... why? That must have taken guts...</p>
<p>Partly laziness, and mostly just to be different. Everyone was probably going to put something in, so I decided to exercise my right to not put anything in.</p>
<p>Hmmm.... well, you find nothing (as in the concept of nothing, rather then a lack of anything) interesting.... that's actually kinda cool....</p>
<p>Yea, they could've also interpreted as a tabula rasa/blank slate ready for learning at Caltech!</p>
<p>but they could've just as well thought I was boring and had no personality, so... I suppose it was a bit stupid in retrospect. I guess I got lucky.</p>
<p>hmm... maybe they thought they lost it and gave you the benefit of the doubt?</p>
<p>lol, that's probably the simplest explanation.</p>
<p>i sent a proof of fermat's last theorem using group theory</p>
<p>^^I would have sent one myself, but the margins were too narrow to contain it.</p>
<p>Sorry, had to be said :D</p>
<p>haha, i figured that i should have put something math/scienc-y, but i didn't really know what, so i just attached the latest thing i had done for my math class - a simple picard iteration script in mathematica that gives you a cute animation of the solutions converging as more terms are added to the taylor polynomials. i really didn't think it was that creative, but i got an axline, so whatevs?</p>
<p>I used a pin and a piece of string to draw a circle (in pencil), then shaded it in so that it looked somewhat like a sphere. I drew a line through the sphere's center to represent some arbitrary axis. I wrote something about how the equation for a sphere doesn't change when the sphere is rotated about any of the "infinite number" of axes passing through the sphere's center. (I love invariance!) And I was admitted, so apparently it worked. :-)</p>
<p>I used a couple of pictures from my family's Yu Shan (the tallest mountain in Taiwan and Northeast Asia) expedition and created a small colorful article (combining my enthusiasm for Yearbook) of it. I thought the overall product combined my passion for mountaineering and Yearbook well!</p>
<p>I was accepted, so perhaps they enjoyed it.</p>
<p>If I'd applied I'd have put: This box is blank.</p>
<p>I like paradoxes, don't ya know? :)</p>
<p>^ That's been done before.</p>
<p>I think the box can be anything. I recall one girl making graphic sign of Caltech; so artistic I wish they'd use her idea on t-shirts. The effort may let admissions know how interested one is in Caltech. Whether art, poetry, yearbook, proof, travel photos with legend--all are thoughtful and original.If I were on Admissions, I'd love a break from reading earnest essays to see photos of a mountain expedition. I'd be leery of leaving the box blank, but who knows.</p>