<p>“Curing cancer was no mean feat. When I did it I had to stop smoking weed and research for 2 goddamned hours. Can you believe it? 2 hours. So much time. But now, in hindsight, I think it was worth it. Even though it meant cutting down my plan of growing plants on mars while reading the bible backwards. After all there is so much a man can do.”</p>
<p><em>Excerpt from my essay (backup one lol)</em></p>
<p>^ Made me crack up hahahah :D</p>
<p>I wish I could be half as productive as you :)</p>
<p>Well, work’s piling up again. See you guys in december.</p>
<p>I’m interested in knowing what Eminemfan wants to study though. Just curious.</p>
<p>Do the SAT1 and SAT2 scores get sent together or do i have to pay separately for both? I just signed up for sending scores to 4 additional colls, but the score history is not showing my free score colls. Is that normal, or did something go wrong? :(</p>
<p>@Karan- LMAO. I think youll have the readers of your essay hanging off their chairs :P</p>
<p>@karan: I am wondering what your essay really conveys about you except a sense of humour? I am certainly not competent enough to criticize your work, but I would have thought that the essay is meant to tell something about you. The fact that you have a sense of humour is, in my opinion, an accessory feature that you can embed in an essay which actually says something meaningful about you.
Just my humble opinion though.</p>
<p>^I’m just guessing, but I think he has more to the essay than just 5 lines o_o we don’t know what the rest of his essay conveys you know!</p>
<p>@AleaJacta: Don’t worry mate, its just some fun. I’ll use it on one of the supplements, if I even use it.
@dreamlord: You are right that there is more to the essay, but unfortunately its all like this 
BTW how goes your quest to USIEF?</p>
<p>Hah, didn’t go again. I live in Gurgaon so its a PITA to be able to take out the time to travel for 2 hours to Delhi :|</p>
<p>@dreamlord: Yes commuting is indeed PITA, but I thought Gurgaon-Delhi took 45 minutes. Guess I was wrong.</p>
<p>LOL Karan 
Come to think of it, that is so him 
*shakes head *</p>
<p>@Cobalt: How far are you on your essays? Any luck coping up with the huge amount of stuff needed to be done? Applying sucks. I’ll be so glad come 1st Jan.</p>
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<p>45 minutes on a good day. 1 hour on a normal one.</p>
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<p>I’ve a very deep interest in Mathematics and Physics, especially Cosmology and Astrophysics, one or both of which I’m planning to pursue as a career. Haven’t really decided whether I’d major in Mathematics or Physics though. I guess that will depend on where I get admitted. In US, probably Physics, in UK, probably Mathematics, or in India, the one which looks more promising. </p>
<p>Haha I am in 11th. Just why you were curious, pp? :p</p>
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17 years of travel between the two cities has taught me that before the expressway was built through Mahipalpur, it could easily take anywhere from 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours. However, in the past 3-4 years, It consistently takes only about 45 minutes - 1 hour, with the only congestion at the toll booth :P</p>
<p>Um… … How’s everyones supplements going? I don’t like the CA supplements.</p>
<p>Tizil, I absolutely hate the CA supplements. </p>
<p>About Gurgaon-Delhi, last month I covered the dist. in 35 minutes. But it was 6 am and no rush. Plus I had to catch a train. :D</p>
<p>Also has anyone contacted their EC for the MIT interview yet? I sent him a mail 3 days ago. No reply as of now. What should I do?</p>
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<p>lol it’s amazing how CC just makes people who get less than 2000 on the SATs go into depression.</p>
<p>Hello, with all this talk about ECs and people thinking of going to the extent of faking things, I thought I’d just make a point here. I was an applicant with full financial need and very average ECs. I had NOTHING that was even state level. No awards in short. But I think I managed to get across in my essay how much the couple of ECs I did have meant to me, and what I did as a part of them(one was dance and the other was social work-related). You might feel inadequate compared to other applicants who do have them, but if you manage to project an image of yourself as a well-rounded person who made the most of what was available to them, it shouldn’t matter. I am sure if you don’t go to one of those schools in India which do have a lot of scope for extracurricular(because mine didn’t), it doesn’t mean a whole lot. My school had no club or society of any sort, but one of my fellow-applicants made up a math club on his application. He already had an international award(very well recognized one, I won’t name it because it might give away his identity), but he still felt the need to do this. He pretty much got rejected everywhere. Although I did not have any ECs even close to his, I got in here and waitlisted at Amherst and Columbia(I hadn’t applied to any other ivies). So, I believe that honesty pays.</p>