first!

first! yay.

first

oh my gosh yay!

crap lol everyone is checking this every 5 min. i got third actually

first!

and very excited about decisions :D

lol i got the first "first" :P

(make that 6th...)

wow.... now the wait is going to be even more painful

...wtf

sooooooooo nervous

egads

Finally!

OMG. Major freaking out.
Haha.

CRAP.

I'm scheduled to work that day from 11-7.

It's official. God hates me. It's not like I've been waiting for this day for 6 years or anything.

Thank you! Waiting was making me crazy! I appreciate all of your hard work in reviewing our applications!

~Anna

I've just set my watch to count down to that moment and I will now proceed to stare at it for the next 117 hours and 49 minutes and 29 seconds.

YAY!!!!!!!!

The MIT Admissions Blog has become my number one most visited site. I've been waiting for this blog my entire life (ok maybe just since November, but still). Just six more days of suspense...

Good luck to everyone who applied and I hope to see you all next fall!

GOOD GRADES and co-cirricular activities pretty much guarantee you ADMISSION.
Just remember there's more to education than A's B's C's and D's.
Ever wondered what happens to the E's .MIT is closed to them right?

haha we get "E"s but thats for "citizenship"...

sigh... and now it comes down to a single day... well not really but still kinda feels like it don't it? Best of luck to everyone, remember there are many opportunities out there, MIT just happens to be one of the very best of them ;D

cheers

Side-step ,neat

come on guys, we are all totally going to get in :)

eat some strawberry shortcake, do your homework, stay up all night Thursday, so you will be tired Friday- then sleep Friday night. get up, take grandma to breakfast on Saturday, and then check the decision.

oh, and wear your pajamas inside out and backwards...if it works for snow, why not MIT?

I have a quiz bowl tournament starting exactly at that time :(

Thank you for pulling through by the 15th! OMG FIVE MORE DAYS

Having been accepted into my second choice college, also a very good school, I'm not stressing so much over MIT's decision.

That's not to say, however, that I would like to wait longer. I've told many people I'd rather get outright turned down now than to be deferred. Maybe that isn't just me?

I'm not telling anyone that decisions come out the 15th. I'll just silently slink off to my room, see my deferral, and quietly wait for it to come in the mail.
AHHHH. I'm dying.

Oh my gosh! I am so excited/nervous! I want to go to MIT so badly :/

aaaaaaaaaaah

GAAAAAAHHHH!!! This is so exciting/anxiety-filled!!

Oh my goodness.

This is intense.

omg ... Omg ... OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it's here. Less than a week away. Holy guacamole!

P.S. I hope I get in. It would be a VERY sweet early Christmas present!

Was kinda hoping that the tubes would precede the on-line announcements. There's no stopping traffic, though, on the information super-highway, sigh!

Wow I checked this blog 1 hr ago and the # of post replies has doubled....

YAY!!!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

=)

Okay I called at 11:00 moutain time to see when the notifications were going to be posted, and well what do you know an hour later this thing is posted. I am way excited too, the anticipation is worse than when I was little waiting for Christmas to come. Well good luck to all! I hope to meet some of you soon!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I can't believe it's really here...

YES!
I have been waiting for a week for this blog post! Thanks!!

Cool!

Yippee!!! We're so close!! These next days are going to drive me insane! I can't wait. (Well, I can, I just don't want to)

..Now off to study for a test on Julius Caesar that my Lit teacher decided to spring on us today...

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

(I really mean it, I'm not just half-heartedly throwing it out there.)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

i want a tube!!

Wow...I have been waiting for this post for quite a long time, checking about five times a day and now it is here! I'm freaking out!

stupid question, but does 12 PM = noon or midnight?

noon

Finally.....we know when the waiting is overrr...

ahhh! *spazzes out*

Gah~! This is indubitably going to be the most stressful week of my high school career. Unless I get deferred, in which case the week before the regular action decisions is probably going to be even worse.

Wouldn't it be beautifully ironic if the MIT admissions server(s) crashed on the 15th at 11:59:59 AM EST?

Well, I wish everyone the best of luck (and by human nature, myself better luck that 87-91% of you .. though that luck can transfer over to regular admissions).

Admissions staff, before I have any reason to have my feelings swayed one way or the other, I'd like to say thank you for everything you do. I can't conceive of how hard your job is. So, as I said, thank you for doing it so that some of us can have a great experience the next four (or more, course VI MEng program, for example) years of our lives.

And in case I find myself less evenhanded later, anticipative congratulations to everyone who shall make it and best of luck in regular to those who are deferred.

See you all Saturday,
~Donald Guy

@donaldGuy - I second your thoughts. The admissions staff must have worked overtime to process all those applications! Thank you admissions for all that you do!

Furthermore, GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!

OMG! This is totally like freaking me out.

Wow, great job Ben and the rest of Admissions!

So you can take a breather, before another round comes in on Jan 1? ;)

Also, good luck everyone! :)

if i get in, maybe i'll see you around the year.. I'll buy coffee or something lol

Ummm...is 5 days (5????????????) enough to prepare myself?
Nerviousnessssssssss
Good luck all

Thank you to all of the admissions staff for making this process all the more human and personal. Clearly many students are excited about the possibility of attending MIT, and some may be disappointed if they do not have this opportunity, but we all can be sure that a full-hearted effort is put into composing each and every class attending the university. I, and I'm sure many other students, appreciate the voice that the MIT blogs have given the students and community currently at MIT.

On Saturday, when we all read the decision that we have eagerly awaited, let us all be sure to remember that college, like everything else in life, is only as excellent as we make it, and that attending any institute of higher education is a wonderful opportunity to which we are fortunate to have access. To those who are admitted to MIT, congratulations, and I hope that you take every advantage of this wonderful opportunity--academic, social, cultural, athletic, and otherwise. And to those who attend another university, be assured that, once recovering from initial disappointment, you will also have a wonderful college experience, as long as you approach it with a positive attitude. This applies to the students of every university, including MIT. These are the years of our lives, when we are free from many of the obligations with which we may find ourselves a few years down the road, and when we are expected to explore, learn, create, laugh and enjoy. So do so, and celebrate your achievement, whether in Cambridge, California, Kansas, or Canada. In the end, the four or five years of college are the start of our adult lives, so let us all get off to a positive and constructive start by maintaining our perspective and focusing on what we have achieved, for surely every one of us is unique and has done wonderful things, whether at a personal or international level.

That being said, I wish you all the best of luck for Saturday, which will be an exciting day for all of us. But, please keep in mind that being deferred or rejected from MIT should not be an event that one would describe in the "end of the world" question with which we are all quite familiar. Instead, at our age, multitudes of doors of opportunity are opening, the only question is which ones.

Thanks again to all of admissions for helping all of us through this process, and I wish all 2012 prospective students the very best, wherever they decide to go!

Sincerely,
Erika Bildsten

Wow, hard to believe it's already time for another cycle of admissions...I can't wait to see who's been admitted! ;)

Best wishes to all of you! The wait is almost over.

Haha...the number of comments is growing...fast.

Oh forgot to say how anxious I am too hehe.

I'm sooo excited for everyone who applied early!!

Good luck people!

xD
Thank you admissions officers for keeping us so informed on the selection process.

I'm really excited!! =] I'm not nervous at all, because I know you guys will make good decisions.

Good lucky everyone.

wow, erika, you're a really good writer lol... thanks for the words of comfort and wisdom!

Good luck to all of you. My average heart rate's a bit higher now...

oh man im so nervous

Remember remember this mid of December,
Big tubes, decisions, and fraught.
I see no reason why my MIT decision,
Should ever be forgot.

We all just have to remind ourselves that Saturday will not be Armageddon, Doomsday, or anything of the sort, however the decisions turn out.

Ahh nervous!

I also have a quizbowl tournament on Saturday, but I will hopefully be able to check the results during lunch...

I guess not knowing the release date took some of the nervousness out of me.

Now that I found out...Oh God. What was once calm is now a calamity.

Best Wishes to Everyone! :)

I'm sooooooo nervous!!!! Good luck everyone! *cross your fingers & hope for the best!*
Thank you, MIT, for giving us these blogs - Though I haven't really commented much, I've read every single one of them... it made the MIT admissions process memorable :)

Good luck everyone. And I have yet to get my papers postmarked. Gosh, what a procrastinator am I.

Definitely agreeing with Duane. I don't think I'm going to be able to think straight until Saturday!!! Gah!

Is that 12 noon or 12 midnight? Thanks!

Believe me, what I'm about to say will definitely be easier said than done, but..

Maybe it would be better if all of us clicked that little 'x' on this screen and stepped away from the computer. By focusing on other things, be it homework, other applications, friends, whatever, it may make the time go by quicker, while at the same time lessening the anxiety.

Now I just have to find out if I have the self control to do such a thing.

My dad said he'd be biting his nails until then. I, however, will be biting into Christmas cookies.

AUGH I wish I could just fall asleep and just dream for the next week.

actually...I guess all I'll be doing is dreaming even when I'm awake...

computers have it so much easier

int days = 6;
try
{
Thread.sleep(6*24*60*60*1000);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}

there's some java for you guys, hope you enjoy

**my bad, replace the single "6" in the Thread.sleep line with "days"

You have no idea how happy this makes me :)

Except, at 11:00 CST I will be in the middle of a Student Congress session! AAAH!!! Maybe our sponsor will let me check my decision on her laptop while we're there...

// **** MIT ADMISSIONS DECISION COUNTDOWN **** //
/*
Time Left until 12:00 PM, 15 December 2007
*/

////////// CONFIGURE THE COUNTDOWN SCRIPT HERE //////////////////

var month = '12'; // '*' for next month, '0' for this month or 1 through 12 for the month
var day = '15'; // Offset for day of month day or + day
var hour = 12; // 0 through 23 for the hours of the day
var tz = -5; // Offset for your timezone in hours from UTC
var lab = 'tzcd'; // The id of the page entry where the timezone countdown is to show

function start() {displayTZCountDown(setTZCountDown(month,day,hour,tz),lab);}

// ** The start function can be changed if required **
window.onload = start;

////////// DO NOT EDIT PAST THIS LINE //////////////////

function setTZCountDown(month,day,hour,tz)
{
var toDate = new Date();
if (month == '*')toDate.setMonth(toDate.getMonth() + 1);
else if (month > 0)
{
if (month toDate.setMonth(month-1);
}
if (day.substr(0,1) == '+')
{var day1 = parseInt(day.substr(1));
toDate.setDate(toDate.getDate()+day1);
}
else{toDate.setDate(day);
}
toDate.setHours(hour);
toDate.setMinutes(0-(tz*60));
toDate.setSeconds(0);
var fromDate = new Date();
fromDate.setMinutes(fromDate.getMinutes() + fromDate.getTimezoneOffset());
var diffDate = new Date(0);
diffDate.setMilliseconds(toDate - fromDate);
return Math.floor(diffDate.valueOf()/1000);
}
function displayTZCountDown(countdown,tzcd)
{
if (countdown else {var secs = countdown % 60;
if (secs var countdown1 = (countdown - secs) / 60;
var mins = countdown1 % 60;
if (mins countdown1 = (countdown1 - mins) / 60;
var hours = countdown1 % 24;
var days = (countdown1 - hours) / 24;
document.getElementById(tzcd).innerHTML = days + " day" + (days == 1 ? '' : 's') + ' + ' +hours+ 'h : ' +mins+ 'm : '+secs+'s';
setTimeout('displayTZCountDown('+(countdown-1)+',\''+tzcd+'\');',999);
}
}

The countdown script at
Rainbow Arch

ooohhh goodluck all of you. Just... wait and make sure you're sleepy and then click the button and close your eyes and open them and... you'll know. MIT defers a lot of their EA applicants (like me!) so it doesn't necessarily come down to this one day guys. Believe me, the wait gets easier if that happens. But as I said, good luck all.

Just got done making a program countdown which will open up firefox 1 hour before decisions are released.

w00t

I think they rejected 500 of the early applicants from last year. :-X *runs away*

AHHH finally!!! except ill be in a practice and will have to wait an extra HOUR AND A HALF to get on and see. oh my. this is traumatic. i had a nightmare last night already. not gooooood.

Thank you Admissions Staff for working through so many apps and pulling through for the 15th. All the best of luck to the other prospective '12s.
(Now to focus on my last high school Final ever)

Agh... well, this is just another decision in life, and why worry when it's not even in our hands...

Very nice scripting up there, personally, i think a little:

System.out.println("YOU GOT REJECTED");

is enough for me =]

I'm so glad we're going to find out soon! *kyahhh*

well, you should worry cause it is NOT in your hands(!)and it is a very important decision in our lives....Good god(!)....I am getting nervous.

lol hey amit, you said

"Just got done making a program countdown which will open up firefox 1 hour before decisions are released."

how...?

I'm fascinated and I'd be able to do it in Java but what language are you using?

first post!

Wowee... this is getting intense...
Saturday Noon Eastern time would be 9 AM California time (if my time zones are savvy today)... Wow...

Before this blog, I was more along the lines: "WHEN WILL WE KNOW!!! MUST KNOW MUST KNOW!! WHEN! WHEN! WHEN!"

Now, I'm simply: "Do I REALLY want to know? I mean... I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to know!! But then, I don't... But I DO!! wait... what??"

Whatever happens, BEST OF LUCK to EVERYONE, EA and RA.
And infinite tokens of thanks and kudos to MIT Admissions for all their hard work.

Most importantly, whatever happens,
PHYSICS ALL THE WAY!!

yup, practice is from 9-12PST on saturday, so I'll get home, check it, then go to sleep.

(my stomach is balling up. If it were bigger, it'd be a small black hole... and then I'd never be able to go, cause it wouldn't be there...)

Please post a link for that program.
That is a must have!
Good luck to all and may we all have a great gift for Christmas/the Winter Holidays from MIT!
PS: MIT has just made me lose track of whatever events I have this week because of the distraction of anticipation.

I did not even think about that. We eastern time zone people have to wait longer than the west coast! No fair!

I'm actually running a server on my linux box with PHP 5.2 and running a cron job to execute

system("firefox");

^typing firefox in BASH Shell opens firefox.
system is basically Windows' start command (or whatever Windows uses in DOS to execute program, haven't been on Windows in awhile).

I'll probably post the code later, but not a lot of people are running a linux server with PHP on their home boxes !

YAY!!!!!!!!!!! SOOO HAPPYYYYYYYYYY :D

not going to cry, not going to cry....

soooooooooooooo freaking nervous. i don't think i can wait another six days. crap.

To all of those who have a Quiz Bowl or other competition that Saturday -

Oddly enough, I also had a Quiz Bowl competition when (regular) decisions came out. Personally, I didn't even try to check my decision, despite having access to the Internet. I made that choice because my focus that day was simply the competition, whose outcome I could change - and not the admissions decision, which was out of my hands.

So of course, ultimately it's up to you whether you want to check or not; but my personal advice would be to wait. :)

Wow, it's great to see so many applicants eagerly awaiting their decisions (myself included). I hope we all end up together come next fall.

Good luck!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Saturday!!!
Cant wait!!
im sooooo nervous....i have dreaming of MIT since i was in 8th grade...

AHHHHH!

i have a speech competition that day! I get what Paul is trying to say, but i feel like i would not be able to perform as well with this on my mind! This should be interesting...

I'm bringing my laptop to the competition...

Yeah, I've totally been compulsively checking the blogs for the past two weeks hoping to get news of a decision date. Now that we actually have one I'm getting even more nervous! I just wanted to wish everybody the best of luck and thank the Admissions Committee for all their time and hard work. Hopefully I'll talk to some of you Saturday on that online chat thing!

Ben

Good advice, Paul. However, I do not feel like it would really affect the outcome of the competition because we have done our best and performed well under strange circumstances in the past. At the same time, I would be able to wait a few hours to find out. Part of me wants to actually wait until I submit all of my regular applications just to make sure that my early results do not either give me too much pride or make me worry too much about those other applications.

Oh man, I'm so excited to hear the news. The past five weeks seemed to pass agonizingly slowly but now the final days are upon us. Best of luck to all the other EA applicants.

omg!!!
I'm so scared... this is going to be THE moment...

and thanks for letting us know about the date and time... I was braced for a 12/20 decision or something, heh.

Hahaha, love the java
Waiting is killing me... or to put that more mathematically, my stress level is inversely proportional to the time until the deadline

T- 401220 seconds and counting...

AHHH Good luck everyone....and remember even if you don't get in there are other colleges out there (I have to keep reminding myself this) and also don't be insulted the MIT applicant pool is SICK and even amazing applicants get turned down.

Yay! I can't wait!

Thanks to all the admissions staff for working so hard to get these done!

And, of course, good luck all!

Hrm...I'm volunteering at that time this saturday. Nothing my iphone cant solve though! I'm gonna be on that bad boy checking all the way up until 12...

Hrm...I'm volunteering at that time this saturday. Nothing my iphone cant solve though! I'm gonna be on that bad boy checking all the way up until 12...

Good luck to my fellow applicants. You’re a great group. Stay positive no matter what happens Saturday!!!!!!

Also, I'm glad the admissions office did not rush the EA decision. With all the additional EA applications this year, we can be assured each application was given its fair share of attention.

what were the stats for last year anyone know? applied/admitted/deferred/rejected....

and how many applied this year?

just wondering :P

This is the moment,
When all I've done -
All the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Become one!

I felt that some Jekyll and Hyde lyrics were fitting. = ) (Nimu's post got me going.)

ARE YOU READY?

(and the girl screams, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I DON'T KNOW.")

Do you guys realize how crazy we are? This post has only been here for a little over 8 hours and there have already been over 100 posts. I can't believe how excited everyone is. I just want it to be Saturday so we can all find out and have this all over with.

Good luck to everyone.

Say what you like about "if you've got the grades and the extracirriculars, then you'll get in," and "it's not all about the numbers," and "you're a *special* person, MIT or no MIT." But one can hear only SO MANY weeks of that before simply going nuts with anticipation and coming to the cold, cruel, realistic conclusion that many, many, MANY people with the grades and the extracirriculars and the otherwise spotless records will not be accepted to MIT. I reckon they're turning down about 2,000 pending valedictorians a year. The odds are slim.
But the odds are there. A glimmer of hope lies in those odds, and it is that small stream of random photons that we, the prospective body, must cling to. So, cling, ye relentless pursuers of greatness, cling on and cling proudly, because you've gotten this far, and that means you've got ambition. And ambition will stick with you forever.
Was that too dramatic? And I say "you", but I'm one of the number. Fingers, toes, appendages, even down to every DNA strand crossed for the best candidates to win! And me, please... ;)
GOOD LUCK!

these next couple days are going to be the most grueling days ever.- i'm so nervous

@E Rosser: the biology nerd in me can't help but point out that the majority of your DNA is crossed for much of the time, luck or no luck :)

Can you get into MIT with medicore socres say high 500's?

@Karen: Gosh you really spoiled an amazing moment (referring to what E Rosser wrote) haha. It's alright though.

E Rosser, your statements are the epitome I have been feeling ever since I entered high school. MIT has, and always will be, a dream school for me, and even though multiple times I was told by people I was not fit out to go there, I kept hope, and now its time for the truth to be revealed.

Thanks :).
Good luck again!

System.out.println("Rejected. Loser.");

Disp "REJECTED. LOSER"

println("Rejected. Loser.");

printf("Rejected. Loser.\n");

keshav P- very cool poem!

egads! i have a soccer game that i have to be at at 8:30 WST (11:30 AM EST).... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

g.drawString("Rejected, loser", 500,400);

ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon("Rejected_Loser.png");
Image i = ii.getImage();

g.drawImage(i, 600,400,this);

lolz

Absolutely not

I can't wait....!!
Whatever happens, happens. Don't worry too much about it.
MIT is a great school and I really want to go but it's not the end of the world if not.

"You got your passion, you got your pride,
but don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on but don't imagine they'll all come true..."
- Billy Joel, 'Vienna'

Hey, good luck to all, don't stress too much over it!
Relax, it's okay to dream and be excited but don't make it hard on yourself.
Worrying doesn't accomplish anything, so do something else.

Ah!! I've sprained my ankle and now I won't be able to do a jump out of happiness or sadness!

I'm going to be in a rehearsal at that time, and I could get my mom to check it, then tell me; however, there is no way that I would be able to do that and still make it through the rest of rehearsal, no matter the decision. Also, I feel the need to see the results myself before anyone else.

AHHH! Almost here!

This thread has been up for less than 12 hours and it's already got over 100 posts. =D

And also, "Vienna" is my ABSOLUTE favorite song. =]

I applaud mike for reminding me of that beautiful song...it is particularly appropriate for times like this:

"where's the fire what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out
You've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day

But you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you can just get old
You're gonna kick it off before you even get halfway through"

How about:

"So far away we wait for the day,
For the light source so wasted and gone;
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days-
Through the fire and the flames we carry on!"

Lawl, GH3 FTW

I think I'm going to have a heart attack...MIT admissions has become my most visited site...5 DAYS!!!!!!! but sadly, I'm working...I'll secretly log on from on of their computers ;)

Monday is almost over....

And Tuesday is almost here.... :)

So it seems that I had some free time on my hand

Remember remember this mid of December,
Big tubes, decisions, and fraught.
I see no reason why my MIT decision,
Should ever be forgot.
Applicants, Applicants, 'tis our intent,
To MIT student status, ascent.
Scores of thousands of seconds away,
And writing this, I spend my day.
By God's providence, we all will go,
Together, we will climb this plateau,
Deeper and deeper into greatness, we shall delve,
But for now, just wait, the class of oh-twelve.
[Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!]

Then Wednesday...

... Thursday...
... Friday comes after Thursday, does it not??...

... and then...!!!

(sorry for the suspense-building :P)

I AM SOOOOOOOO NERVOUS! AGHHRRREEEHHHHGGG!!!

Yeah, 'Vienna' is probably my favorite song. I love Billy Joel, he always says it just right.
Anyways, Good luck!

E Rosser...thank you. That was beautiful.

Gah...5 days till decisions come out. In some ways, it really was better not knowing...then you didn't have a specific date to wait for. Anyone else feel like they're waiting for Christmas Day?

Haha I love the MIT version of "Remember Remember..."

not really- i definitely don't anticipate christmas as much

Well if we're going to go with lyrics from musicals, how about this one:
God I hope I get it, I hope I get, How many people does he need?

depends. Are you terrified of Christmas day? Cause I've never dreaded Christmas...

Good luck everyone!!! :)

if (acceptance=true)
Console.WriteLine("Amazing-ness!");

else
Console.WriteLine("O_O");

Console.ReadLine();

HA thats C#!!!!!!(I think)

NICE!

A Chorus Line!

and I hope he needs ME.

OMG. I can't believe I used "ascent" as a verb. oh well, hopefully no one notices.

On another note, thanks a load, Omar and Anonymous :).

Now back to learning evolution, international finance, and paths of heat-seeking missiles.

Think of it this way, folks:
You may not get your MIT tube in the mail Saturday, but you will get your decision via the Internet -- which we all know is just a series of tubes!

haha... but what if those tubes are clogged up? I heard that sometimes it takes days for the internet to get sent places!!! I don't want the internet that MIT sends me to be filled and delayed!

ooy.... friday night is going to be like waiting for SAT results + PSAT results (ok maybe not since i didn't know we were gonna to receive them the next day + siemens results + RSI + anything else that has ever mattered... times 100,000

!!!!!

I was so happy when I read this.

Then I realized I'd be a wrestling tournament until like 4:00 PM. Then I realized, a guy on my team has an iPhone. Then I was very happy.

Good Luck to all of you, I hope to see yall all on freshmen orientation!

Approximately when are we to expect to receive mailed decision letters?

Good luck everyone! (I like to say it although it will do no good... :( )

Anyways, take it eeeaaassssyyy and don't stress too much, there will be plenty of time for that later on.

i am not spending $300 for more applications. i better be in >_

@ep i second that mate

saving my common app till i hear from MIT.

whooooo!!! a date! i dont kno if that makes me more or less anxious now! lol

good luck all

Wow, a year ago...

Good luck to everyone who applied!

Anxiety, A, is represented by the following formula:

A = (10,000 / (15 - d))

Where d is the current date in December, 2007.

lol, programming and poems, that's different than what these blogs were like last year. I daresay, yall may be geekier/smarter than last year.

Oh, btw, for those interested parties, decisions typically come out about 15 minutes prior to noon. This means on the west coast you should be checking around 8:45 am and on the east coast you should be checking around 11:45 am.

Good luck all, try to find the comment limit on this blog post!

Dear MIT admission team,
Thank You for working so hard over the past month for us applicants.

Thank You for changing our lives.

Best of luck to all applicant,
MIT is a dream we will achieve in six days, all together :)

Stephy.

haha Snively i don't think they wanted you to say that. Now the server is gonna crash before they even upload the data. :P

I don't think I'm even going to be awake by 8:45 Saturday morning… probably because my anxiety would have kept me up late Friday night! (or would it early Saturday morning…?)

I think this is the perfect definition of PASSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol

jiayou (good luck) people (:

Hi Ben.I have a small problem.My application essay is 600 words long.Will the kind-hearted admission officers at MIT have the time to read an extra 100 words?

Wow, GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!!

I'm applying RD, so I can sit back and relax right now :) Except for finishing up my application... but I feel for all of you. So keep your DNA strands crossed ;) and try to do something to keep your minds off decisions... but know I'll be thinking about all of you.

For I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

Good luck everyone! May the best get in early ;)

"programming and poems"

yay for alliteration!!! Welcome to the party, snively!

1197738000
The UNIX timestamp for our decision date.
Good luck everyone. I'm super excited for this. :)

A couple of observations:

- You have the grades, test scores, and ECs to warrant admission at MIT. Think of this as a really, really good (relatively speaking) lottery ticket - 1 in 10.
- Which would you prefer? MIT puts you out of your misery and turns you down? or defers you (like they do the majority of non-ED admits) to the Spring pool, thereby prolonging the anticipation/agony?

Hmm.. I'd want to get deferred just so I could have that 2nd chance. However, a nice sized tube in my mail box before Christmas would be excellent.

Buena suerte, todos!

The suspense is killing me. ;)

My body is shivering I will not be able to stand the poisoning taste of failure again

I thought of a haiku:

Admissions come out
Stronger than gravity
They pull me onward.

This is SO EXCITING!!

I've found a distraction to pass the time between now and decisions: I've finally begun to scale down my Vista usage in favor of Ubuntu, which leaves me plenty of customization and learning to do. And when I'm done with that, I'm going to begin (for a second time) teaching myself Python via tutorials.

Oh, and even though I thought knowing the decision date would mean I didn't check the blogs again, clearly I was wrong.

I agree - even though I now know the exact moment decisions are coming out, I'm still compulsively looking at these blogs like every hour

Just one thing we all have to understand (and I know this is going to sound repetitive), is that even to be applying to MIT, we are all excellent students with bright futures. Think about all that we have accomplished to get here. No deferral/rejection letter (even one from MIT) can change any of that, and it certainly cannot stop us from achieving more in the future.

@Anon

...word

The anticipation and second guessing is killing me. It's awesome to know I'm not the only one!

Man oh man, the wait is horrible... gulp! Well good luck to y'all, oh boy... well I'm just gonna take it easy, not get my hopes high and if I'm accepted WOW!!!!!

Less than four dayssssssssssssssssssssss.

So far no one from my school has been rejected from a school they applied to early. Dare I take this is a good sign?

Hey guys ! I'm sure you are stressing like never before ! Like Star said, we're with you ! (like Avril says too). I'm already stressing and I'm RD so I can't imagine how it is for you. Don't worry.

I'm so much more relaxed now that I know what day we'll know! Before it was just so intense because I never knew if, when I logged on that day, I would find out such an important decision.... now I can wait in peace because at least we know when it will all be over...or all begin!

I've been visiting this blog about once a week to see when the decisions would be posted and every week I would see everyone's comments and just think how weird they all were: "OMG I have to get in" or a person posting his/her credentials or....a program to countdown till the 15th. But I've come to realize I am just as excited (and nervous)....and weird and by god....ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS!!!!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!! and for those of you who haven't...thank the admissions officers for their work; we put them through lots of applications and annoying questions! GOod luck

I think the reason we are all so nervous is that we cannot use math or science to predict what will happen on the 15th so we all feel out of control and don't know what to do so we become nervous. This means that all the advice that disagrees with this nervousness will, for the most part, be ignored and people just get more hyped up. So to counter this intellectual fault we should all relax and prove that we are smart enough to know to relax. I wish everyone the patience to not get an ulcer before Saturday.

HAHAHA NICK I LOVE YOUR COMMENT

I had a dream I was DENIED because I had too many Fs in English (even though I've never gotten a F in english)

Adrenaline can do weird things....

Yall are all crazy.... My brother is the only one getting in!!!!!!!!!!!! Muahahahahahahahaha!!!

Thanks now I'm going to have that dream.

Psh, you think your dreams are weird?

http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/some_cpw_thoughts.shtml

Matt had a dreamt about me, now that's weird.

Sorry Matt, lol

*Had a dream

Well you could have not been MIT class of 2011.

I think you'd rather have the dream and the acceptance than neither.

My birthday is on the 15th...
O well...
an amazing birthday present or ....

Anusha, that would make a wonderful birthday present!

Man, reading all the comments just makes it worse. I think I was more zen about it until the code monkeys started posting up script for Java printing "YOU GOT REJECTED."

Regardless, thinking about it before Saturday has no bearing on what happens, so it's best not to think about it. Besides, the week will go more quickly that way, anyway. Despite the fact that it's basically impossible to do, it's worth a try, eh?

So, to begin the great process of diversion, I'm sure there's a lot of different types of people applying to MIT, so I wouldn't be surprised to hear quite a few languages on campus. So, any of you guys bilingual? Trilingual? Quadralingual? n-lingual, where n is large? (As for me, I speak French pretty fluently, but my Spanish is sadly rotting. Le sigh... err, suspiro...)

And on another diversion related note, if f(n) is defined as the probability that any given person is n-lingual, what kinda probability distribution do you think we'd have? (Here, I have no clue.)

There. Two topics to keep you busy. Now, GO!

f(n) should be right skewed, meaning that the mean is larger than the median. This is since MIT requires 2 foreign language classes many will be bilingual, some will have forgotten much of what we learned and truly be monolingual, others will know large numbers of languages but as n becomes larger f(n) should become smaller. Also f(1)=1 because we all speak at least one language f(2) should be very near 1.

note:
f(n)=0 if n>the number of languages in existence.

Nick, you've successfully made me feel incompetent.

I don't know how many of you guys use facebook, but we should have a MIT COUNTDOWN group or something. There are two groups on FB for MIT 2012 (potential I think) but neither are super-active...
just a thought! ;D

I would agree with Nick, most people learn 1-2 languages, and then there are those geniuses who've mastered 20+. Hooray for stats! on the other hand, the distribution of the mean number of languages of a sample of posts should be approximately normal! Which is bad, since MIT does not like normal things...

Plaudits to Amit up there who runs a Linux box!
echo zomg! 3 days until decisions!

Heh, you crazy language loving people. I know only one language, even though I took Latin for 2 years. I learned almost nothing in that class. People who actually learn languages in High School amaze me.

@ShenJing
I assumed that f(n) is defined as the probability of knowing at least n languages. The statistics on knowing exactly and only n languages would be different, but I disagree because the definition of a normal distribution is that it is a symmetrical distribution. The distribution, even assuming exactly n, would be right skewed because there is a hard limit at 1 and a limit at all and most people are closer to 1 but some are likely to be closer to all.

Good luck to you EA folks--I wasn't smart enough to apply early. Hopefully I'll be bringing up the rear in late March.

I have a dilemma. I realize that MIT only requires an Eval A and an Eval B form. I have an Eval B done. I have two teachers who actually want to evaluate me. One is from my AP Chemistry class and the other is from Calculus. I believe that both evaluations reflect me as a whole together. Is it posible to submit two Eval A forms and an Eval B as well.

@Nick (This is OP of math/language comment)

I guess we als have to define "language." Are we working off of interpretable information, or simply a method of communication between humans? If the former, n could very well be unbounded (at least for computation purposes; there's no such thing as infinite anything in reality anyway); if the latter, the upper bound of n would have to be around 4,000. Also, we have to figure out how to count the fuzzy little grey areas. Where would Esperanto go, and other conlangs? How about Klingon? Or, as another issue, if you speak French and German, you may be able to communicate with someone who speaks the Alsacien dialect. If you speak Polish, you may be able to communicate with someon who speaks Czech. Does that constitute partial knowledge of a language? (Perhaps, then, we should extend the domain of f to the rationals instead of only the positive integers.)

Anyway, most high school language classes also don't teach to a reasonable level of competency in the language. So, we're all probably most nearly monolingual around here--or, if we extend f to the rationals, perhaps we're 3/2-lingual :)

I'll still agree with f being right-skewed, since the number of people who are not monolingual will add some decimal points. Something like a mean of 1.3 versus a median of 1, for example. And f is surely asymptotic decreasing. But what I'm curious to know is, at what rate is f decreasing? i.e., what is it asymptotic to? Perhaps it's something closer to exponential, since you're going to be experiencing successively greater drop offs after each n. (I.e., significantly less people speak 2 languages than they do 1.)

Oh dear.....oh dear....OH DEAR!!!!! Reading these comments just makes everything even crazier. I shall take deep breaths, perhaps even try to take in a mol of O2 at once....even though I'm sure that's humanly impossible...and will try to calculate how frequently I can check a single website in one minute and still keep the computer from crashing....then apply that frequency to my clicking finger on saturday starting at 11:00 am........

Also, to R.A.Applicant, you need to send to evaluations, one from a Math/Science teacher and one from a Humanities/English/etc teacher...but I sent in three, because I couldn't choose between my Physics teacher and my Precalculus/Calculus3 teacher....So basically, you can submit two, even three, recommendations. ^__^

Actually you could even submit more evaluations than that! Since I go to a small school in Utah I know all my teachers on a very personal level and so I asked five of them to write evaluations for me. I emailed MIT Admissions Office to ask if this was okay and they said it was no problem and the more information the better!...Though I'm sure if you submitted say...20 evaluations they probably wouldn't be quite so enthusiastic about the thought! :P

@Will
I agree that the rate of decline would be an interesting project, but as of now I have no idea (exponential does sound like it could work). I think that it would be asymptotic to n=0 because I would find it hard to believe that someone knows all languages. I would define knowing a language as the ability to communicate with someone knowing only that language in a conversational manner. Languages like Klingon can be decided by the end user because I treated any language equally(this is why I said all rather than finding the number of languages spoken on Earth). This is all I would feel safe saying now (I applied 18 not 24):)

Now as we slowly count down the seconds to when the decisions come out,

I'd like to thank the admissions office for all their incredible work and for answering all our questions.

and wish everyone GOOD LUCK!!!!

4 more days everyone! i think we should all seize the time for a little indulgence and relaxation before one of the most anticipated moments of our college application process

I'm not sure what Klingon is, but does this mean that languages like Pig Latin and Ubbi Dubbi and - of course - the Elven tongues are included? Because, if so, then we would have to include languages that people invent just for fun, even if only the inventor and one other person - for purposes of communication - know of the language's existence?

Guess what I saw as I was walking down the Infinite today and glanced into one of the Admissions Offices???

TUBES!!! Boxes filled with tubes!

Oh my God Tracy, you just saw our DESTINIES!!!!!......so, how did they look? Happy or sad? *continues spazzing*

do computer languages count? I mean they are certainly means of communicating information that require careful syntax and structure...

I only know English fluently and have a good base in Spanish (I'm 1/2 mexican, w00t!) but as far as computer languages go I'm fluent in three, and have a good base in three more

that's 4 fluents! how many and which computer languages do you guys know?

Wow.... I am personally amazed, beyond the code-monkeys and the statistians and the poets, at the amount of comments this post has garnered.... it took me thirty-five minutes to read through them all!!! Anywho, a heartfelt "good luck" to all my fellow nervous freshmen-to-be at hopefully MIT!^_^

*statisticians.. oops

I had a question... So about how many of the people that were accepted to MIT took A.P. calculus their sophmore year of high school or before?

hahaha the tubes looked quite happy.
they looked like they wanted to get out and spread the good news to you all though.

too bad you're all just going to sit there in front of your computer and hit refresh for hours on end and ruin the surprise.

hehehehe. i wont even be at home when the decision comes. ill be blasting my eardrums. ill man it up and wait. :p

@ Rutu
Klingon is the made up language that the Klingon race speaks in Star Trek. Trekkies are noted for learning this language, which is about as ugly as a molerat. The languages you've listed are all apart of a big class of languages called "conlangs," which is short for "constructed languages." The most popular conlang is Esperanto, which was designed to become the global language. It has something like 1,000 native speakers in the world, and Esperanto is about as close as they come to being a real language. (If you want to haer it, they've got a podcast of it on iTunes; it sounds kind of like Romanian, or Italian with a Slavic flavor.) Too bad it never really took off...besides, English is the lingua franca of today anyway. (Ten bucks says Chinese is up next!)

@ Matt F
Hey, if you count anything that transmits information as a language, as long as there's an interpreter, it exists, right? The closest thing I know to a computer language is LaTeX, which owns my life because of its awesomeness. Down with Microsoft Word!

Will there be an IRC channel set up the day of the decisions? I thought I heard some mention of something to this effect. If so, I think it's a cool idea, and will be sure to be there.

@Matt:
I used to take Spanish, but became disillusioned with it after 4 years, and don't remember much of the vocabulary anymore. As for programming languages, I'm relatively fluent in Basic and Scheme, and can sort of bull my way through C, C++, Python, CNC, HTML, and BASH and Batch scripting, and I'll hopefully be relatively fluent in Java and Lisp by next fall (if I'm not, I'll probably have some problems in AI ;D)

So that leaves 3 fluents total.

@Saleen: Granted, I'm a hopeful too, but I never took AP Calc; I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take Calc 1 at a local college my sophomore year. That being said, I know another guy applying who took Calc 1 in 8th grade, and there's currently and 8th grader in my multivariable ;) I don't think that it necessarily matters when you took which class, as it's not really related to your suitability for MIT. Again, I'm not actually in MIT, but from what I've heard from bloggers and when visiting, the important thing is to have a good-natured personality and not be overly boring. And of course, love whatever it is you do with a passion.

tis true, you know,
that when you spend
hours 'pon hours
and hours on end

staring at blogposts
and wond'ring what to say,
when staring at french homework's
what you should be doing today,

you're obsessed, you're panicked,
you're more than impatient,
better stop your staring now,
or your brain will take a huge dent

and you'll go craaaaaaaaazy.................
(if you haven't already, of course ^__^)

~*~

Okay, so that was the most horrible and most forced rhyming poem I've ever written, but I think it fits the mood.......hehe, must go do French homework now.....^__^

Well, in the spirit of the applicants of 2005, I would like to extend a large thank you to all of the members of the MIT admission staff (before replies come back and bias my opinion). Your hard work and dedication are truly appreciated.

To everyone who is perusing this forum... in lieu of homework, good luck. I hope that MIT truly picks the best possible applicants for the spots. How in the world they do it amongst all of the extraordinarily qualified applicants is beyond me. Don't forget to sing everyone's favorite carol ("I'm dreaming of a tubing Christmas") before attempting to crash the MIT servers on Saturday, just for luck, and of course, remember that as much as we all would like to get into MIT, it is only one institution out of many. On that note I will end with a rather humorous letter from someone who understood the "E Pluribus Unum" concept quite well: http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/hell/Bestof/mit-letter.html

Good Luck everyone!

So...nervous...

@Will - Right on! LaTeX rules! Donald Knuth is basically the computational God!

@Saleen, bunny - Just to add, I took BC Calc as a freshman. However, throughout high school I have had a real passion for number theory, and that's ultimately the field of math I'd want to go into. So, I would agree it probably doesn't really matter if or when you've taken calculus, but I think having some experience with math outside of the traditional course sequence of high school will be viewed favorably by admissions (or at least that's what I'm hoping)

Hey...has anyone got the notion that some real MIT students are posting in this thread and having us on? Just for laughs? I mean, I wouldn't know--but if I was a student at MIT, that's what I'D be doing right now. But I'm just saying--I don't know for sure, but maybe...

@bob- there are plenty of MIT students! everyone with a year after their name (besides '12), plus some of the bloggers like oasis (chris). oh, and the ever popular snively of course...

'Tis true, their just giving advice though.
Next Lyric. (modified)
MIT what you want is right in front of you, what you want, what you want, what you want is right in front of you!

Just to let everyone know, there is a new word in the dictionary that many here will be partial to:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_us/word_of_the_year

w00t!

So what do you think happens in the last two days (before EA decision)in the admissions office? I would love to be a fly on the wall in that office.

I would guess they have the list already, no? Don't they have to print letters and insert them into the tubes?

you know what would be cool? It would be awesome if they mail the tubes today or thursday and you get a tube in your mail before you actually can check the website. Of course... then someone would post it on here and ruin the suprise and make everyone who didn't get a tube all mad...

68 hours, 12 minutes to go!!

67hrs 42min

@ Zev

Wooo, LaTeX! Glad I'm not the only one :) Why did you learn it? What do you use? I've got MiKTeX, and use WinEdt as a nice editor. It's a really good one. And I learned it because long distance communication is the only way to talk to anyone about math for me...and le'ts just face it, MSWord is awful.

And, since you're the first math person I've encountered on here, tell me more! You said number theory, but anything more specific than that? Are you a big combinatorics person in general? I can't do that stuff at all, haha. Number theory and I don't get along very well, though I've been trying to make amends with it lately. Ever tried Putnam problems? Whole new level of pain...

@ Saleen
I taught myself calc as a freshman; it's too bad they didn't let anyone take anything before "you're supposed to." It was probably good for me, though, in retrospect.

I just keep checking. Perhaps they will finish ahead of schedule and post ahead of schedule! You never know. One can hope!!!!!!!!

Sooo close.

'Twas the days before EA Decision, when all through my house,
Every creature was praying, even my pet mouse;
The tubes will be stuffed at MIT with care,
In hopes that on Saturday the mailman will be there;
Each evening I think of MIT while lying on my bed,
Last night I dreamt the Stata Center dropped melting snow on my head;
And mamma in her PJ’s, and I in my MIT cap,
Will now settled down for a much needed nap,

"Now, Matt! now, Ben! now, Bryan and Stu!
And there’s more, for which a break is overdue!
And congrats to Melis, you’re an inspiration to me!
Now enjoy Oxford, and be all you can be!"

Shortly it will be Saturday, 12 PM;
Time to Log-in, and the waiting will end.
But before I do this, I just want to say,
Good luck to all, and to all a great decision-day.

Someone mentioned seeing boxes of tubes in the admissions office earlier--maybe it was in another thread. MIT ADMISSIONS IS A SERIES OF TUBES! Lawl.

@ Chris - AWESOME POEM!! How appropriate for the season. GAAAHH---3 days left!!

good luck everyone!!!!

the gruesome wait continues...

Even I'M anxious--and I'm RA! The anxiety is contagious, almost frighteningly so. Good luck everyone--I'll probably check for exultant posts on Saturday. Or maybe I won't. That probably make my wait even worse.

I really hope I get in. That would be amazing!!!!! As soon as decisions come out, we have to start a facebook group!

^ I CONCUR.

Okay, so I remember someone saying that we need a facebook group for the countdown, so I went ahead and made one:

http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9135235604

Ummm, if the link doesn't work, try searching "MIT COUNTDOWN"....

Now, time to go crazy again....

*runs around room*

PS: I lost the game..... ^__^

LOL THANK YOU RUTU! =)

wat were yall SAT's scores

Oh wow...this Saturday...one day after U of I at Urbana-Champaign releases their decisions...what a weekend...I'll probably go insane...

chill bros, its not an idea

Awesome facebook group! I'm totally in!

John, you need to chill. SAT scores aren't everything.

If you really like MIT and you think they'll like you as a person, you should definitely apply. If you match, your SAT scores won't hinder the decision to accept you.

I'm merely speaking from the point of view of an applicant, however, so if you choose you can just ignore this msg. Seriously though, I don't think obsessing over SAT scores only will lead to anything fruitful. Just apply and see what happens!

Thank god my computer is currently experiencing some issues so I can't be on it 24/7 just waiting for the decisions to be released lol...not to mention that I need the time to study for my IB Java test on Friday~~O0O

John, don't worry so much. SAT scores are only SMAAAAALL parts of the application process.

Gah, I'm so excited that I keep coming on here/making facebook groups/making countdowns......I can't get myself to study for my AP physics test tomorrow that my teacher has said will probably be the hardest test we've ever taken......

haha i have a physics test tomorrow too.

haha i have a physics test tomorrow too.

SO WAT IF SOMEONE HAD SAT'S IN THE 1600'S WONT THAT HURT UR APPLICATION

I'm so nervous!!!!!!! Three days!!!!!!! 3!!

I WISH EVERYONE THE VERY BEST OF LUCK!!! Just remember that whatever happens happens and whether you're accepted or deferred, your decision was meant to be. Everything will all work out for the best.
Well, at least that's what I've kept repeating to myself...

@ John ~ Yes, a combined SAT score of around 1600 would likely hurt your application. I read somewhere, I forget where exactly, that a good benchmark is around 700. At 700 and above, they figure that your scores are good enough to be at the caliper of MIT. Most certainly, they don't use SATs as a means by which to put one applicant above another (although the previous statement may not be true... I was told by one student that every part of the application was assigned a numerical value... scary stuff). The bottom line is that SAT scores are merely scores, and at a school such as MIT where most applicants will have extremely competitive test scores, they only comprise a small part of the application. It is far more important that you convey in your application a strong sense of your personality, because that is what will truly help MIT to determine if you are a match or not. Best of luck with your application!

Yes, John, it would.

MAN! When I clicked preview for the first time (a few minutes after starting this immense beast of a post), six new posts pop up! o_O

Well said, Harrangatang. That pretty much covered it, but I will add my two cents as well. SAT scores are just a vague indication of whether or not you can handle MIT. (I'm sure that either Ben or Matt said that almost word for word, but I can't find any exact quote.) I think (whoever said this) also said that the reason why MIT's average scores are so high is that passion for math/science/learning (which MIT cares about more) usually (but not always) translates into high SAT scores. In other words, you should try your best, but if you don't get insanely high scores, it shouldn't hurt. (I'm not trying to downplay SAT scores, but I'm just saying they won't make you automatically accepted or rejected by themselves.)

Oh, but I would like to say something about the whole "Getting a 1600 will hurt your score" sentiment. Unless it's all sarcasm (which I'm sometimes horrible at detecting), MIT really doesn't care about the exact score from around 700 up, as Harrangatang said. The only time a 1600 (perhaps y'all mean 2400?) will hurt you is if you overemphasize it and act pompous, like "Hey, grant me admission because I got perfect SAT's!" I think MIT is very suspicious of those types of people. But if you are passionate/talented about something, and also just happen to get a 2400, that won't hurt you. It just won't give you an immense advantage, like many erroneously think.

ANYWAYS...guess what's more fun than the SAT and its associated scores? Coding! Yes, I am among the legions of coding monkeys applying (though I'm RD), and I AM PROUD OF IT!

@Matt F
I'd like to note that "how many computer languages we know" doesn't really take into account the various frameworks for certain operating systems and such. I know this doesn't exist for certain languages like Java and all the scripting languages, but, for example, what if someone knew C++ using the standard C libary and using MFC, Carbon (for Macs), etc., but not using STL? How would that work out? (I mean, learning some of these frameworks is almost like learning a whole new language itself!)

Or are you just referring to just the core language syntax, in which my point is moot?

If the latter's the case (which would be so much easier =D), I'm fluent in C, C++, Objective-C, Java, HTML, PHP, and...I've dabbled in SQL and Unix shell scripting. Never tried assembly though. ARGH, IT IS DIFFICULT.

Good luck EA applicants! And once you guys get in, hope the best for us RD applicants! ;-)

Oh yeah, I forgot BASIC. Heh heh, I miss those days...

And I also forgot to add how many spoken languages I am fluent in. Sadly, I'd say it's about 1.25-1.3 right about now. ;-)

ya I'm trying x86 Assembly right now myself. 'Tis annoying. Java, HTML, php.... like the back of my hand. My SQL is a little shaky but I can hold my own with Unix shell. Good luck with RD mate, I'm digging the stress right now for EA :D

hope to see you next year!

Oh MIT
how do I love thee?
let me sum the ways...

my love is the limit of y=x, or any linear equation,
(or the lim of sin(x)/x for those of binary persuasion),
and though perhaps rash, and albeit uncouth,
I'll feel that I know you, to tell you the truth
now my rhyme be too simple, my meter a bore,
but it fills the time waiting for a tube at my door!

I bid all farewell and hope for the best,
for all EA's, RD's and all of the rest,
(and rhymezone, for help with this poem as well
without you my post wouldn't be nearly as swell!)

So to all who've read (with a smile or groan)
I say to thee a fond "adieu",
the night moon rises and once again falls,
but I've still economics to do!

~end~

well that was a fun distraction. never have Frost's words rang so true, I've miles to go before I sleep....

I had a nightmare that I got into MIT

I am dead!
I sent my sat scores to MIT a month ago! For some reason my sat 1 scores were sent but not my sat 2 results (for every other university I applied to both results got there)..so I sent them again 15 days ago!..my sat 2 results are still not here and its all over for me now..do i still have a chance of being accepted into MIT without my sat 2 scores ?(if I'm lucky they mite just get here hours before the decision..:()

CORRECTION!
Both of my scores have been sent successfully but only my sat 1 has been PROCESSED by MIT...err..is that a good thing or a bad thing?

256th post!

49 hours, 14 minutes to go!

Thank you Rutu! I have now just lost the game.

I'm pretty sure I am guaranteed a deferral. Here's why:

I asked 4 of my teachers whom I have known for quite some time to send a letter of recommendation (and yes, I gave them the PDF to fill out and everything). Although I completed everything within my power way before the deadline, I waited and waited for Evaluation B to show as received in MyMIT. Finally, it has shown up sometime between the last time I checked and now. I just am hoping that the incompetence of my teachers hasn't put me in a bad position.

Any ideas as to whether or not this will affect my application?

My understanding is that the MIT adcoms are a very accomodating, understanding bunch (they've already decided on our EA fates, so I should be able to say this without being accused of shameless brownnosing!). If there was a way to wait to decide on your app past the deadline, they probably did so. Time now to calm down; decisions are made, most will get deferrals, and most of us should consider all of our options going forward. Good luck to all (me included!).

I am just sooooooooooooo done with high school!!!! The gifted math type student is always a little out of place in high school. Even though I enjoyed relative success, was a Varsity athlete, had many friends and particpated in lots of activities I never quite fit in. I have been waiting for MIT for a long time, just like most of you. How wonderful it will be to have intelligent conversations and be fully immersed with other like-minded students! I'm sure that's why we are all sooooooooo anxious. It's much more than an admission decision it is our chance to be with soul mates for the next 4 to 5 years! I am ssooooooooo ready! Lunch is over, back to class, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

44 hours, 19 minutes!!!

I almost don't want to find out online...much rather get the notice(tube or otherwise) in the mail...

lol, who am i kidding?
the sooner the better!

ohhhhhh...I'm counting down too. Eeeeeks, I'm so nervous; my heart is pounding faster and faster. I hope I don't get a heart attack right before 12pm on Saturday. X____X My classmate and I both applied to MIT, I hope we can both get in ^___^

I did EA to MIT as well but I don't even want to go anymore. My ED was UPenn and I REALLLY want to get in. That's tommorrow night at 5:00 PM ET that I find out...I'm semi-anxious but I'm expecting a deferral so I won't be too upset. Atleast I don't have to wait that one extra day of tension :D (mine is tommorrow and the rest of tonight!!)

ONE day, 18 hours, 35 minutes, and 20 seconds.....