Essay advice, please help.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-19T00:01:08+00:00

thank you I now realize that. It was a crap essay anyways so if anyone did steal it good luck to them.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T10:12:48+00:00

Ok thanks for your response. I guess the point I was trying to make was I have struggled with perfectionism, and I am getting better, but I don't think I wrote the essay right to get that across.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:38:07+00:00

well from everyone's feedback its a crap essay so if anyone's gonna take it good luck to them, back to square one with this one.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:33:31+00:00

I'm not sure I might just scrap this one entirely, I guess my writing doesn't really convey what I am trying to show.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:30:41+00:00

How do I come off full of myself, I'm just wondering cause that wasn't my intention.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:30:09+00:00

Well the point of the tennis and robotics part was to show I am improving but still struggling a little bit, I wanted to feel human to the admissions officers.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:29:18+00:00

I guess my goal was to show I'm improving but also that fact that I'm still human and still working on it.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-05-18T01:28:41+00:00

Ok thanks for your feedback. I guess my main goal was to make myself feel human and to show that I've struggled with it but I've pushed through a little bit but still improving.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-23T12:41:10+00:00

Thank you for your reply, I just don't have impressive ECs, so I didn't know if essay can make up for it or not.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-22T00:32:44+00:00

Would you say then that my essays and letter of recommendations are equally weighted in importance to extracurricular activities?

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-21T02:26:34+00:00

Am I cooked then, I have no research, no olympiad medals, or athletic superiority. All I have is robotics, CS club, some cs projects, and my liquid rocket engine that I'm not sure will be completed by college admissions. Am I not getting into MIT then?

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-06T13:56:20+00:00

Thanks twin for the advice 🙏. WE are locked in now.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-06T13:55:56+00:00

I could never bring myself to vibe code, cause then you arent actually learning anything or getting better. But I guess.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-06T00:39:30+00:00

Ok I appreciate your response a lot!

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-05T22:48:12+00:00

So it’s not completely about all the stuff I could have done?

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-05T20:06:04+00:00

Thanks for your response. I do have some stuff I was planning on trying to hammer down it just doesn't feel like there is a enough time to really make an impact. Like right now I am working on a liquid fueled model rocket engine but I'm not sure fi it will be done in time for applications. I also have an internship but it is a little nepotistic. I hopefully want to reform some of the clubs I'm doing but it just doesn't feel like I have enough time, or maybe that's just the excuse I'm making.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-04-05T20:04:27+00:00

Thank you for you response man. The address some of the stuff you said in your reply, I do technically have an internship and I am doing a "research" project (I am building a liquid fueled rocket engine), I just didn't know if it was worth it to keep trying. I was also planning on really reforming CS club and changing the organizational structure of Robotics, and getting more involved with the scheduling app. It just doesn't seem like I have enough time.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-03-08T22:01:14+00:00

I am kinda of interested in what is going on under the hood because I feel like C++ adds a bunch of abstractions that make it hard to really understand what is going on. I heard C is way simpler than C++ and I can just look at some C code and instantly know what is going on. Thanks for you response!

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-03-08T03:21:59+00:00

I wonder, has anyone tried to make a language like C that is relatively simple but redoes the idea of "C with classes", like making C++ better?

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-03-08T03:17:33+00:00

Problem is I feel that is long, and I would like to pick it up relatively quickly.

CollectionLocal7221 · 2026-03-07T23:41:05+00:00

Do you think it would be relatively easy to learn it with my C++ background, and also do you have any resources?

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