<p>I composed a musical piece for my band at school once, and even though that's creative it doesn't seem to fit the guidellines and has nothing to do with science/engineering. Should I write about it or just leave the question blank?</p>
<p>write about it</p>
<p>who cares about science and engineering
Seriously, MIT admissions realizes we are not all math/science robokids and that we have lives outside of integrals and test tubes. At least, most of us do. So yeah, go for it.</p>
<p>THERE'S LIFE OUTSIDE OF INTEGRALS AND TEST TUBES?!?!?!!?!?!?
MAJOR EPIPHANY HERE!</p>
<p>no haha, jk...it sounds great, def. put it in! Who knows, that might make the difference between an acceptance and a rejection/deferral/waiting list...</p>
<p>Thanks! I will write about it then. The wording of the question "design, device, object, idea, or concept" seemed to indicate something math or engineering related, so I wasn't sure.</p>
<p>toffee, writing a piece for the school band fits perfectly! My son included a particularly evocative photograph he'd taken, and wrote about its composition and meaning for him. Clearly you have created something in your piece, and it would be fine to write about that.</p>
<p>Musical composition would qualify as creative mathematics, wouldn't it?</p>
<p>toffee -"The wording of the question "design, device, object, idea, or concept" seemed to indicate something math or engineering related"</p>
<p>Those are just examples. The main question is "show us and/or tell us about something that you have created."</p>
<p>btw, MIT does know a thing or two about music.
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/mta/www/music/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/mta/www/music/index.html</a></p>
<p>What if you included two things that you have created? I have my research (abstracts) and a particular drawing that I would like to submit. Would two be too much?</p>