FIRST... OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am taking my own first post. Hah.

Yay!!! Got there before you Ben!

OMG, I'm not even fast enough to get my own first post. I give up. ;-)

OMG, I'm super excited!

Lol, its ok Ben :) Dont give up just yet... It just happened to be a case of being there at the right place at the right time ;)

Haha -- not quite, Ben. But thank you sooo much for the news!!
The wait is almost over!!

Iam so excited that I cant even complete what I wanted to say at once... Sigh, thanks Ben!!!

~Starts crossing fingers very very anxiously.... ~

Hahaha, this was really funny. I was just checking out Ben's most recent posts including the one he made in December regarding the EA guys. I navigated back to the front page and WOW, an update? I had to check the date several times just to make sure I wasn't fooling myself.

Yay for desicions!

Yay for _decisions_ grr

Oh... My... God... I am feeling like I have a cyclotron in my stomach... (Bad, but did ya expect any worthy humour from someone in my condition ?)

Any Indians here planning to take the JEE ??

If u get admitted, will u still be taking it ?

OMG YES YES YES!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!

JEE? Urgh....I am never going to take it whether I am admitted here or not!

Gaaaaah 6 more days... Next week will be the longest one ever... Thanks for the info Ben :)

Btw, sorry for double post... but you missed the Pi day :(

OMG, I'm so anxious...
Good luck everyone!

OMG!
Anyway, my anxiety will end soon!

Oh yeah... I still can't use myMIT. I tried creating a new account, and it wouldn't let me (can't use the same info for 2 different accounts). I can't delete the old account either. Should I call SFS to make sure they have my financial aid paperwork?

I might take the JEE.. I think I will... I dont know man, seriously.... OMG!!!!!!! (My vocabulary has been woefully restricted to these few words as of now)

OMG

YAY! ( i suppose !)

I can barely type!

This will be the longest week of my life.

Now i have to wait for the chem exam to get over and for decisions
*sigh*

A real paradox as i was hoping for this blog to come and was reading the notification for EA, the time this blog was posted. This will be a real nerve wrecking week for all the hopeful's. Thanks Ben for the information and we eagerly await your return to the " world of blogging ".

yeah... a recommendation for the MIT '13 applicants.. Never make a deal with your friend to wait for snail mail to find out are you admitted...

god... i have to wait till thursday now or something..

are you going to use FedEx to notify internationals about admission?

Oh. My. God

So Aditi you too are giving the ISC Board Exams?

It will be a real challenge to keep your mind on the Chem Exam with your mind only thinking about 15th 15th 15th 15th 15th ..............

LOL....my chem exam's over :D

I got in EA but I'm still really stressing out for all my RA friends. Thanks for the update Ben.

Good luck everyone!

THANK YOU BEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!

Well...I've been looking forward to this post for a few weeks...and now that I know the day I kind of want to run away and hide. *anxious EA deferred*

And this is why you should never listen to me.

Or. . . you can assume that I was preparing you for the worst and now you can be really happy!

Or . . . I just had no idea what I was talking about.

So everyone.......
dis is it........
fingers crossed

Thank you Ben!Best of luck to all!

Finally.Oh, the ambivalence abounds.Soon we'll know where we'll go.By God's grace we shall all end up in an institution apposite to us.The wait is nearly over.

AT LAST (I know how you feel rachel)!..now that decisions have probably been made, i can say this without sounding like a kiss a**, but seriously, thank you to all bloggers....we wouldnt have known 90% of what we know about MIT without you guys...thanks for telling us your stories, your failures, your successess and everything you go through.....thanks for making us feel like people instead of applicant # wxyz...youve made the months of waiting fly by....thanks Snively, Paul, Ben, Matt, Jess K the rest of you!! all of you ROCK!

Ahhh!!!
Every year you guys set the date to the Saturday of the FIRST Silicon Valley Regional.
There is no free access wifi at that university.
There will be at least 20 of us stuck there till 6 PM waiting for our decisions(9 PM EST).

I can't believe decisions are just around the corner after all this waiting....
I'm ambivalent about March 15th. I want the day to be here now, but at the same time I don't want to know because it will be the end of a dream for so many of us...
Good luck to everyone.. I wish we could all get in.

So begins the longest week of my life ...
:p

Finally!!! :D

So Ben, do international applicants get mailed as well?

Wow. I was completly set on decisions coming out on the 22nd (yeah Snively, I'm looking at you :P ), so this is amazing news - Thanks Ben, we know how hard you guys worked for this!

OMG!!!ppl around seems so xcited while i'm freakin out....literallly!!!
MOG!!!plsss plsss may it be that i and alll the others whu realllly reaaalllly loves MIT lyk me gets in...
*fingers crossed real tyt*

Here they come.....

omg...6 days, 8 mins, and 28 secs left!!!
good luck everyone!

I guess I willl wait for snail-mail.....I don wannna kno!!
btw, does intl students get express mails letting them kno the decisions?
GOD!! i hv my DS awards that day.....what am i gonna do?!?!

Wow, this is a week earlier than I was expecting. Yay for pleasant surprises! Boo for the lack of a "skip chapter" button on life.

Thank you, Ben!
This week will be one of my longest...

Guys relax I just realized that it is more important that we relish these moments until Saturday and not let anxiety take over us (as curiosity killed the cat) for we no matter, we get in or not, will one day remember these days and will revel in them.

To quote Paul " It is more important how we play the game ". Sorry for double posting

@AA
Why such an aversion to the IIT's ?? They are not far behind the best in the world. And do remember that while MIT is on the top because of the astounding amount of stuff going on at its campus (research nd stuff), IIT is ranked pretty high, solely on the strength of its graduates (which is what we are all trying to be)
@ Shruthi
I can understand... Been OMG'in ever since I read this one. Must be a real pain with ur boards on... Nice that I got rid of this little inconvenience an year ago :-)

Thanks Ben for the post!

So most of us only have 6 more days of dreaming of MIT. One more OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@anonymous person , yes i am. =(

OMG!
(again)

@Snively , maybe now would be a good time to revive 'a shorter wait'? =)

Less than a week away! Is it possible to be even more excited now than when I was getting my own decision? Hehe, we'll finally be able to welcome the rest of the '12 class! Good luck to everyone! You guys can do it! =)

wow, here we go again! It's been an amazing journey to go on for me, all the people I've met along the way are truly brilliant and no matter the decision, I look forward to the changes our generation can make for the future, for ourselves, and for posterity.

OMG! i can't believe that time is almost here. guess this week is going to be long. and on saturday, 12 hrs going to feel like 24 hrs. i'm so anxious. Good luck everybody!

good luck RDers! look forward to seeing you in the MIT12 chatroom :)

*heart pounding*

All the best, guys! I can't believe one whole year passed so quickly.

@Yuzhi: Each year, it's on the Saturday of the Midwest regional, too! We have WiFi, though, and this year they moved the regional to week 1 :) I can totally sympathize with your plight, though - you're exactly in the same place as our programmer from last year. He got in - good luck to you :)

Good luck to everyone else! I'm off to put down a housing deposit at University of Illinois, just in case the 15th doesn't bring good news :)

Best of luck everybody!

Woah... I wasn't expecting the 15th! wow, this is my spring break... so I guess it's going to be even longer? I need to find distractions maybe?

Finally! I was kind of hoping that they would be released on pi day, but Saturday is good enough. I didn't think I would hear about any colleges until almost the end of the month, but it turns out that I should find out about CalTech tomorrow or tuesday and MIT on saturday.

This is exciting...

Good luck everyone.

hi...Im an Indian...and Im taking JEE whether i get through or not....im not gonna go there...(not like im definitely gonna get through too...its JEE!!!)...

I've also got through Imperial...but ill just give it so that theres somewhere to go to if the money gets messed up...but an honest suggestion to people aspiring for MIT (Indians)...if you get through..forget IIT...

i'm scard.. good luck everyone

Wow, just one more week?
It's so close it's almost surreal now
Good luck to all RDers!

i'm about to have a heart attack! I guess i better hurry up wit my thank you notes (i remember some post saying you should hand em out BEFORE the decisions, makes them more heartfelt)

Ugh... I'm going to be at a winterguard competition all day Saturday, and I know I'm going to be freaking out from this and the anticipation of competing.

I anticipate this not going well.

Good luck, all!!

OMGGGG!!!!!

I nearlyy slipped off my chair when I glanced at the RSS feed!

This izzz itt!! The moment of truth....

Love you Admission folks for alll the great work you've put in!

And to all the deffered as well as my fellow RA applicants -

GOOD LUCK!

OMG!!!!!!(IN JENACE's way as in FRIENDS show)

OMG, Caltech on 11th and now MIT on 15th!! I'll surely be down with a nervous breakdown before seeing the end of it.

Best of Luck to all!

~Donald

I can not understand how i m feeling at this moment...im so scared...im excited...i dont wanna know wat the decisions are gonna b....i m eager to finish this long wait....im so confused...

I just got wait listed at Caltech.Now I have to worry about MIT.Best of luck to everybody...(!)

Ben,

Thanks so much for all of your hard work that went into this year's admissions process. No matter what the outcome turns out to be for me, this has been the most exciting experience of my life. This next week is going to be a lot of fun.

Thanks,
-Danny

omg good luck to everybody!! The wait is almost over!! I can't wait to find out who my fellow classmates are (but i bet im not as anxious as most of you waiting on your decision)!

*crosses her fingers for all her friends, and, why not, everyone else too.:))

Just how many Indians are there? My God.....15th.....It's make or break...or whatever you wanna call it! Hanging on Ben..Hanging on.

Good luck! I can't wait to meet everybody at CPW! For all of you who can't get your decisions at noon, don't worry. I had a speech tournament the day EA decisions came out and didn't get home until seven, but everything turned out fine. :) Again, good luck and stay busy so the time passes by faster!

Good luck to all international applicants!

Round 2...

Good Luck!

Don't really know what to say...

GOOD LUCK GUYS!!!!!!!!!

Wow, thanks to the admissions committee for reading all the apps and getting decisions out. All I can say is that I, like so many others, am anxiously awaiting the opportunity to join the MIT community. Good luck to all!

Oh god, waiting the second time around is even harder!

If I get in party at my house. Good luck everyone!!!

Ack, so nervous right now....

Any other applicants from the Caribbean?

@Javal

Yes. Dominican Republic, and you?

@ Ben, at the top:

PWNED! PWNED! haha :)))

And yay, I guessed the decision date right! Oh well, kids, you guys don't have to wait anymore...lol, enjoy. =p

Anybody care to interpret the fact that decisions will be released on the Ides of March?

On an entirely unrelated note-how should we going to celebrate pi day? Snively better put something on his blag!

Oh well, GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!

anyone from spain???????????????????

OMG My heart just started beating so fast when I read your post ! I am waiting for saturday to some quickly yet not that fast...OMG !
Ben Jones, do not worry, you will get FIRST POST one day, although I've never had it I think...

Hey Ben!

Thank you so much for the news. I have been checking the website everyday for the final decision date. And yes, its finally here! I can't wait to get my eyes on the acceptance! :) Just hoping for the best! MIT woah!!!

The final countdown! Keep track if you like:

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=3&day=15&year=2008&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p0=43

Good luck everyone!

Sorry! The website link got messed up in the last post!

love the link!
thnks ben and all the admissions staff for doing this...it must have been real hard...lets see how it goes! gooood luck once again!

NICE!!!!!

OH man, this is going to be longest week of my life, all culminating to noon Saturday. Can't wait. Good luck to all!!

Stephen - haha, is that the counter i pasted in the chat room. i think it is!

decisions come out on my birthday. Will be that much more awesome if I get in.

Good luck to everybody who, like me, has awaited the MIT decisions for years. It seems silly, but sometimes a college can be love-at-first-sight.

OMG (again)

This Saturday will really be a defining moment in my young life - there will be the "age of pre-noon" and "the aftermath", or the "age of post-noon". Will I begin planning and move to a new country next year, or will I enroll in the air force and go to Afghanistan for a couple of months? (That is my current backup plan). Then I'll have plenty of time applying next year.

GOOD LUCK!

I'm so scared!!

Agh! I'm so nervous for all of my friends that applied! I really hope they get in so we can stay together for another 4 years!

Good Luck everyone!

Whoa, Ben's a day early with the announcement!

Good luck to everyone! Wow, the wait was a lot shorter than I thought it would be. But I'm overjoyed (and nervous as hell) that the day is coming. In less than a week. o_O

I'll probably write an app to automatically launch my web browser to decisions.mit.edu at noon on Saturday. Or work on some cool project like that. Much better to while away the time coding than stressing out about decisions. =D

Damn you MIT for being so magnificently appealing!

Thanks Ben,
Good luck to everyone who's dreaming about this...special prayers for all who've had nightmares.

OMGOSHH THANK YOU BEN! i've been checking this page constantly.. im so excited. i'm scared. i feel like i'm falling in love. aghhhhhdfjeoawiptu. i'm so lucky that i'm going to be in DC checking out museums all week which will totally distract me. hopefully.. cuz i am so impatient and excited and woooooo. YAYYY.

Any applicants from Latin America? I'm from Venezuela.

Ahhhh! Just 6 days.

Another one from Spain

@asm:
$ crontab -e
0 0 15 03 * DISPLAY=":0" /usr/bin/x-www-browser https://decisions.mit.edu

if you are in an other timezone, you have two choices:
1°/ translate the time to EDT's one
2°/ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime (be sure to restart cron after that. yes, it's the glibc which manages timezones)

(using debian sid)

@Javal

I'm from Jamaica. Where are you from?

Btw, I'm French (that explains my very bad english ...)

Hey Ben, can you make a special post about transfers?

So will it be 12 at night that they are released?

lulz I can't read

Ha! We will be accepted :)
Is here anybody from eastern Europe? I am from Poland.

where from spain¿¿¿¿¿????

Best of luck to all RD applicants! I am eagerly counting down to Saturday.

That's the day we hear from UCSC, so even if I don't get into MIT (which would make me very sad :( ) at least I'll get into my safety school :/ stomach twisting into knots. can't... think... !!!!

How exciting...and nerve-wracking...

Good luck, everyone!

OMG... these 6 days would be the longest ever.... >-
Good luck everyone =]

Decisions should come out on pi day. :D

but OMG...so soon...so nervous!

My magic 8 ball said I'd get in though. (Unfortunately, it's usually wrong.)

Good luck, everybody!

Angela W, just keep rolling your 8 ball until it says you'll be rejected, then you're good to go :)

Are there any statistics on how often people deferred from EA get rejected (as opposed to waitlisted) from RA?

Taylor, you can find that here:
http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml

Haha...We're going to be playing "Shipping Up To Boston" on the 17th - it'll be so tight if I can sing it and actually have it mean something...

im going crazyyyyyyyyy. help! heart(beat, beat, 30bps)

I hope the committee had a fun time selecting students despite the fact that the committee had to turn away many great students. Personally, I am ready to accept any decision MIT makes, whether it is rejecting, waitlisting, or accepting(hopefully) me. I can accept rejection because I know many great people are applying to MIT and MIT cannot accept all of them. I can accept waitlisting because I'll still have a chance. It is obvious that I am going to accept being accepted.

Just wondering... I had been considering sending in an email or fax to admissions, talking about what I'd been doing since I applied, to kind of say "Here I am! Look at me, look at me, I still want to go to MIT! Look at all this awesome stuff I did!" but then I considered, that seems like something that a lot of people would do, and it'd only sound derivative and unoriginal - so I ended up not doing it.

So Ben, did a lot of people do this type of thing, and at what point would it not have mattered (i.e., did you already have pretty-much-final decisions about people March 1)?

Good Luck to all of my RA peeps!! I can't believe I'm getting alll astressed all over again, but hey, it's the tvte!

OMG It's official, thank you, Ben.

7 days to go.I won't be able to find it out until Saturday night, due to the State Science Olympiad competition. I will not be able to access the Internet or use the phone. I wish I could find a PC somewhere during the lunch break that day at the West Point. Good luck, everyone !

I applied early and got deferred...so I've been waiting for a looonnnng time! Me and a friend made a deal to wait for the mail...but knowing that the decision is just waiting on my computer might be too much for me. This time its final...no deferring until a later date! Unfortunantly its hard to be excited, because I'm pretty positive that I will be rejected : (
Good luck everyone.

Oooh, how clever! Only a day after pi day!

@ Carlos

Lol, I'm from St. Vincent and the Grenadines...small English caribbean country.

:D Caribbean People!!

I'm in this state of hope and pessimism. Lately, I have been seeing a lot of things concerning MIT in my everyday life without me looking for them. Maybe this is a sign? Silly things like that get me hopeful. Maybe if I want it bad enough, it'll happen or something. Good luck to all with waiting. I'm going to find the nearest SSBBrawl and wait.

Oh, lol just noticed Shauna's post. It would be awesome if we all got in!!

Lydia you could always be wait listed. That's what Caltech did to me, deferred then wait listed. I also got deferred at MIT so hopefully they will see the error in their ways and let me in this time.

I'm so incredibly excited and nervous. It just so happens that on the date the decisions come out online I'll be in West Point for the New York State Science Olympiad competition (referenced already by HappilyNerdy88). I also really hope I can find a computer somewhere so I don't have to wait until we get back at roughly two in the morning on Sunday.

Talk about a nerve-wracking weekend!! :D

Of course, as so many of you have pointed out, it's right after Pi day, so that makes it extra special.

Best of luck everyone!

Travis, I noticed that too! Ides of March...this is definitely an omen. We are all getting rejection letters! :(

i wonder how many other jamaicans applying. well, good luck to the other jamaicans applying, as a matter of fact, good luck to everyone. don't want to be pessimistic or anything, but i think i got rejected, so i guess i won't catch the mit joy fever. bracing myself for the rejection.

Heh Anonymous I'm doing the same. I just have this feeling that I didn't get in. Which part of Jamaica are you from. I'm from MoBay.

Beware the ides of March! I hope too many of us don't feel like we're being betrayed here.

@ Sam: My english teacher, for some odd reason, said that the Ides would be a good sign! I'm going to have to ask him about it.

At any rate, when that fateful decision-releasing button is pushed, some of us will be rejected, others accepted, and a few waitlisted. I guess that's life. (Personally, I anticipate crying regardless of my decision- THAT'S how much I love MIT!)

Whew. I thought that the decisions would be only sent via mail and I was devastated at first because my mailing address is not the same as my permanent address. Considering that I'm on Spring Break, I would have had to wait another week. ToT Yay for online decisions!

Thought really, it would've been highly ironic if MIT did NOT release their decisions online, ey?

I haven't posted here before but oh my god. I am feeling the most awful combination of utter terror mixed with a bit of excitement and a TON of adrenaline. I can't imagine the next six days will be any different...

OMG!!!!!(This phrase has bacome quite a cliche as of now...but tats exactly what I m able to utter out in this state of quandary)....Mah heart's pounding sooo fast...brain has frozen....Ohhhh God!!!...this anxiety is killing....

BEST OF LUCK*ALL THE BEST*GOOD LUCK TO ALL YOU GUYS OUT THERE....MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALL!!!! & me too!!!

It's funny.
As I read through this post I started freaking out, but as I reached the comments I couldn't help but grin.

It seems all of us are in the same boat and I'm finding a little comfort knowing that this state of "freak-ed-out-ed-ness" is perfectly natural.

Being the umpteenth post, I'm sure this will never be read but nonetheless: Good luck to everyone!!! I'm SO stoked!!!

My friends and I are joking in statistics that the only way I will be accepted would be if a type II error occured in my 95% confidence-rejection-interval.

Well good luck to everyone. Horray to DayLight Savings, which means we get our decision one hour earlier than the rest of the world that isn't on day light savings :D

WHY NOT ON PI DAY!? C'mon that'd give us some luck right?! The almighty greek letter for 3.141592... (ok I'm too lazy to type all the digits I know out) ...would give us some luck!!!
>.>
Good luck everyone!!!

Hi Dawid,
I am also from Poland, Cracow, and you? Good luck and maybe see you one day:)

Snively to me a few days ago: "srsly 22nd..."

Me to Snively today: "srsly 15th..."

Haha woot for me!

Well there is still one week to go!! ugh.. i just wanna get this over with.. its even worse to have exams going on!! damn... nways i wish everyone all the best.. may the best men and women win..

Hopefully(and by some major stroke of luck at that(reference is to myself)), i'll see some of u at mit next yr.

Yahoooooooooo!!!! Just 5 days more!!!!!!

Oh GOD. HAHAHAHAHAHHA. This is just FUNNY. HAHAHA. My anxiety is making me hysterical.

Well..YAY!...I'm a bit excited, not much.....it's going to be okay everyone!

Hey... i cnt log in to https://decisions.mit.edu/

I can't log in to... I guess we will have to wait for Ben to wake up :)

I'm positive I'll be accepted!

Finally, after months of waiting...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm... I can't log on to the decisions page either =/ It'll probably be up later today though =D

Good luck everyone. I am from HK and am now studying in the UK. I have already been rejected by Caltech(got it today) and Cambridge(early January). If I get rejected by MIT as well, I am not entirely sure I can survive the third shock in less than 3 months. 15/3..... My boarding house is organizing a ball that evening. If I get in, I will dance all night. If not....... I don't want to think.

hey everyone....best of luck....

btw..how come the link is not working...it keeps redirecting to the mit admissions homepage..??

Isn't this just terrifying? Why does life have to give us such 'treats'...I wonder...

Good luck everyone.

decisions.mit.edu should be live (for login verification, not decisions!) around noon today.

-B

good luck everyone

its do or die ... just 5 more little days of waiting
so anxious and yet so nervous ggaaahhh !!!
thanks for the hard work admissions office and good luck to everyone !

thanx ben

finally!!!!

i actually heard my heart beat get faster when i read your post Ben.... lols
I wish good luck to all applicants(myself included...hehe)

Kem is sure anxious... cross your fingers Ken the countdown has begun.....

@ Soaham
There is no research in IIT.It is alright if you want to do an IIM MBA later and start a company.I
am not interested in the 'get rich quick' stuff.I am interested in science and research.

well folks... here we are....
lets hope for the best and brace ourself for the worst.... its the best way to go abt the next few days...
GOOD LUCK!!!

decisions.mit.edu -- the link is not there yet! it keeps redirecting to the mit admissions homepage...

it sure does..... hope it gets right soon....

This is it. The big one. All we have been waiting for....Yaaahooooo

got it now

The link is good... Checked a couple of minutes ago... God, I so want to read accepted after the log-in...

No, really, Sanja?

Ben, or anyone else, IF you are admitted, will you be able to see your financial aid package right away?

the decisions page is available now arryt!!but i wonder if i wud actually be able to face the thing....sooo scared!!
but anyways....the great admission ppl of MIT do deserve a Thanks (with a capital T) for their job and bein perhaps the most helpful nd friendliest ever admission ppl i hv met so far.....

p.s. i hope theres a miracle and we all gt accepted decisions....just imagine how fun it wud be:D

Hey! I'm just as crazy for saturday as the rest of you. Any word on the percent of applicants accepted yet? Or anything to ease the mind of a poor MIT applicant?

Can't wait. Goodluck everybody for their dream school

Hey,
I think I am the weakest International applicant of MIT. But believe in MIRACLES. Also know that Miracles Indisputably Terminated at MIT. I am still proud of my courage for applying in this GRAND place. May be I am the only ppl here who is sure about the result. That is "DENIED".
Best of luck my fellow APLICANTS!!!!!!!!
IT WAS REALLY MY DREAM

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

I AM ABOUT TO DIE

nMAD, I like your spirit! Don't worry. I am no better than you coz I have already been rejected by cambridge and caltech. BUT, who knows? Third time lucky perhaps.....

5 days...

OMG!!nMad, U so sound lyk myself talking.....but anyways, we believe in miracles so lets pray for the best!!
may we be future buddies at MIT!!(not wen we do our phds or wen we see off our grand children off...i mean now)
AMIN!!

Oh!!!!!!! This SOOOOOO SCARY!!! It's MIT and this is it. Do or die.....good luck to all!!

Time to get hysterical! 5 more days... and time is passing SO slowly!!....

nMad...jajajaja i feel the same way. u r probably not as weak as you think you are. grades are not all that matters, they are also looking for tahta spirit! or i hope they are! i am an international too, n im scared! i desperatley want it...well see...good luck guys! i think you are all amazing, no matter what happens!

hey...just wonderin.....how many of u r frm south-east Asia?!?!I bet there are a lot of Indian friends:D

I am from HK, but studying in England.

hi.............
i want some confirmation about admission in MIT(MS(operational research)through GRE

just 15-20 students from India come to MIT each year. all de best

and i forgot to add more than a 1000 apply

ahh!
my fortune cookie 3 months ago told me i would hear good news on the 15th !
i hope it was right.

Is anyone from Africa ? I am from Benin.

200!!

and from spain?? how many apply....and most importantly....how many get in??jjajajajaja aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggg!!!

Omg, finally it is to be released this Saturday...wow, MIT releases decisions very early :P

@Javal, Carlos, Shauna

Trinidad and Tobago.

BTW, any other applicants wrote the Asian Pacific Math Olympiad today?

Sorry. That was me.

I'm from Madrid, you?
Almost four days here and counting down.

How many people from antarctica get in? Its cold down here...

im algo frm madrid....school you go to?aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

C'mon people! Stop wasting your time counting the seconds until Saturday. Life goes on with or without MIT and it is out of our hands really. Let us all just enjoy life and...uhm...do whatever we usually do.

And 406713 seconds aren't that much anyway.

Ben you rock. I'm excited! Good luck everybody.
p.s. I'm seriously going to miss MIT Admissions blog next year... you guys are so much fun.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…

this will make or break my Spring Break. wonderful.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh...

How many three-time applicants get in? This is my third application to MIT [yes, undergraduate]. I can't afford to apply UG again, so if I'm rejected again I'll try to transfer. Seriously, I am too obsessed with the school to let it go so easily.

Sceth,

So are you just applying every year? You haven't enrolled at another college yet?

This is making so hard to concentrate on anything else! Not good considering this week is last one of the second trimester so teachers decided to pile on tons of projects, but I'll manage. Oh..some part of me can't wait, and the other really just wants to stay in limbo forever ;)

I didn't even apply to MIT and I'm freaking out!!

Anonymous - 15-20 Indian students each year is too high. I don't think more than 3-5 get in each year. I read somewhere that there are something like 19-20 Indian undergrads in all 4 years combined.

Anyway, good luck everybody. Whatever happens on 15th, you guys all rock!

oh my god I'm screwed and won't get in

^_^?

HELLO!!!

Two things for all of you...

1st... Physics Physics PHYSICS!!! Physics is SOOOOO AWESOME!!! YAAYAYAYYYAAAY!!! Physics ALL THE WAY!!! WOOT! Physics Rock This World!! :P

:) 2nd... BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed--March 15th, Ides of March! Yet another day of fate, to be sure!!

Again, good luck to everyone, and hope to see y'all at CPW!! :) :)

~ PS ~ Haha, sorry, I was testing out the "name" bar... and if you keep on typing, it actually kept on going...

But as you can see, my "name" (after "Posted by:" is cut off...)

Haha... okay, my bad. ^_^"

6 years of waiting come down to this saturday... good luck to all!

Any other Samoans or pacific islanders out there who applied? (I actually live in Texas)

OMG! I am so excited!
I cannot wait!!!

*dokidoki* my heart just increased in speed!!

lol... It's fast... right after the Pi Day haha~~ Let's celebrated the 3.1415926535897932384626 first~~

I'm from south east Asia :)

Awww...aww...

I thank all of the Admissions Staff, bloggers, and fellow pre-froshs...All of you have made me believe that there are actually people with dreams and spirit...And whatever the results are, I will continue to dream and run forward...

It's because of a brief experience of MIT you have given me. Thank you...Thank you... :) :)

Go future scientists!!!! ^^

I lurk these blogs a bit, but I figure it's high time to post a comment!

There's no way we can change what that screen says on Saturday, so why get pent up about it? What'll happen is what'll happen.

Best of luck.

I have to say, it's a bit of a surreal experience being this close to a decision. I've been wanting to go to this school ever since I realized that it seems to be a haven for those like me. (Id est, those freaks with a masochistic affinity towards math and science ;D) Six years I've had my heart set on this school, and that drive alone has pushed me to become the sort of person that sits at a keyboard today typing the disjointed ramblings of a high school senior. Now I come to the end of a very specific journey in my adolescent life, four and a half days from finding out that it was (probably) all for naught.

And that doesn't bother me one little bit.

That's because the most important thing I've learned over this blind drive to achieve is one pure and simple fact: At the end of the day, all of your goals and all of your dreams are for one person ... yourself. At this point, it doesn't really matter whether I'm accepted or not because I realize that I don't really need some sort of validation from anybody but myself. I know that I've not only done my best, but elevate that definition of "my best" to encompass characteristics above and beyond anyone could have predicted from me.

So thank you MIT. You've done a lot for me, even if you don't know it.

@ anon way up in the blogs:
(yes, I read all of the comments)
I pestered one of the coaches a ridiculous amount hoping that it somehow helps me to get in. Not as an annoyance, but everytime I had new news, he got it.

Oi. I'm so nervous. I went through this EA, and this time is no better, knowing that if it isn't a "pleased to offer you admission" than there are no more chances. I know that wherever I am meant to go, I'll go, but I truly feel like MIT is the best fit for me and I hope that the admissions officers feel the same (I even wrote an essay on that!) Anyone who is considering applying to MIT or any other school in the coming years: I strongly suggest visiting the school and getting the feel. I took a college trip (in February! COLD!!) last year to Harvard and MIT. After Harvard, I thought nothing could compare. I began the next day sitting in on an MIT chem class and knew that no college could EVER top MIT for me.

Hence my nerves.

Good luck to all, even though there is really no such thing as luck. aka I wish you well aka may the statistics and God be with you.

Wow, this is so exciting! The class of '12 have been selected! I got in EA last year but this is so exciting to think that it's been more than a year since I got my tube!! Good luck everyone =] and come to CPW!!!

I had NEVER seen 2 2 9 responses to a blog entry ever in my life... WOW! Saturday will be FUN!

i can't help but think..." Beware the Ides of March "

Good luck everyone!!! Even I don't get admitted I think it was worthwhile trying. Crossfingers!!.

MIT admission staff is unique =)

MIT is LOVE!!!!
regardless of the results.... its been a great experience for me with you ppl and the admissions staff......
the MIT admissions staff really deserve a big THANKS from everyone.....

I have been waiting for this week to come for so long and now that it is here,I can't process any other thoughts or feelings.

Thank you MIT admissions staff and good luck to all!

I am just a bit curious, but is admissions done with all the applications at this point and doing a final check before posting results?

Or, is committee still finishing up the very last bits?

It was a merry-happy experience....I still love MIT!

AHHHHHH!!!!!!.....
OMG OMG OMG....
I just hope that the internet here will work on the blessed day and moment!!!
(GULPS)
You never know what will happen in Nigeria...
Hey, is there any quotas for international countries ie. only 6 Indians, 5 Chinese... ect...? What if you are an indian in Nigeria, are you considered as an Indian or Nigerian?

Hey Libin,
I am Alias... heh! Well Good Luck Y'all...

You are right Aditi!!!
Beware the Ides of March... holy smokes... some Julius Ceaser will be stabbed in the back... OMG this is just racking my nerves... Wow!
Your post is not helping calm down my nerves man...

Wow, the tension is just killing me.

I think I've visited the MIT Blogs in the past two days more than have previously!

*Jumps up and down*

@ Rahul Jain....ADITYA...not ADITI....nd u frm ICSE ???

so many posts, nobody will get to this so maybe there's no point...

Did you know that Tax Day is also Brunelleschi's birthday?

Come on, you can figure it out...

whoops, I meant deathday

OH!!!

MY!!!

GARFUNKEL!!!

@Richard, you're not lazy, only Chuck Norris has ever written all of pi's digits.

@anon9 physics: YES!

@God, sorry, but even if I get in I will still be an evolutionist.

@Ben, will you admit me if I promise to do Hercules' 12 tasks?

@all yalls guys
e is so much better than pi.

alpha=e^2/(hbar*c*4pi*epsilon[0]) is even better!!!

PICKLES!!!!!!!!111111one11eleventyone!!!lim(sin x, x, 0)

Oh man, I need to calm down.

lets all pray that the website screws up nd give the "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer you admission..." to all of us after we press the SUBMIT! button on Saturday:D:D....nd then of course, instead of breakin our hearts they admit all of us!!

@P: hahaha!!
GOD!!I am visitin the blogs perhaps every 30min now....i m sure thats preety much the case wth all of us!
GOOD LUCK!! to all of us...

Hey SAbreena, I am from south east asia too. Actually I am from Bangladesh.

@shauna

I am some hours from where you live. I am from st.mary. I've been visiting the blogs everyday since i saw the post that decisions will be released on saturday. i wish i had not seen it so early, so i wouldn't feel so nervous already. although i think i've been rejected, i hope i am wrong, but if i am right, life goes on and i am still gonna be a physicist anywhere i go. i'll just let fate decide where i'm supposed to study to become one.

GOOD LUCK!

Yeah, it does seem like Indians make up the largest pool of international applicants...

But seriously yaar, Buri tarah fat rahi hai... dimag ghoom raha hai, dil ghode ki tarah daud raha hai anur aatma gale ke raste bahar aane ko machal rahi hai...

(No body bother reading the second par. Not in english anyways... Just random ramblings in a state o hyper-excitement)

I guess here now comenting only international students :)), I am from Central Asia

oh my God! I have just droped out from Job only to see that results will be out on saturday. "fingers ultra-highly amalgamated" lets wait and see. hope i qualify

The gates to the destiny which was in mystery for so long are finally going to be flung open.Hope march 15th unveils the future I have always wanted for myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Soaham
Mila to mila.Nai mila to bhi kya hai.Relax man MIT is not the end of the world.

"Mila to mila, nahin mila to na sahi... "Yaar bol to main bhi sabko yahi raaha hun... Lekin dill janta hai kya beet rahi hai... MIT ke alawa kahin apply bhi to nahi kiya... Yahan nahi hua to phir bas JEE pe tik jaaegi saari ummeed...

OMG! The decisions are being realeased on 15th, just a day after my birthday....... n yeah...just a day after Einstein's too...

Clearly, this place is becoming multilingual.. Cheers to being able to understand hindi :D

Ne he pita mein!

OMG!! I've got my biology board exam (CBSE) on the 15th! However am i gonna survive through that??

I'll be taking the JEE.. It's not the getting in part.. its just a challenge!! I mean you're at the top of your school.. everyone thinks you're a 'miss know it all'.. Here's a chance to finally prove what you're made of.. (and it only tests your cranial capacity)

Dunno how i'll do .. but looking forward to it..

I will have an exam on 15th too. Hope to see some good news after that! Good luck everybody!

Mmmm...I have nothing to do this week except worry and wait...worry and wait...

(however pointless it may be)

it seems like most of the ppl who are posting here are international applicants....
aren't any locals anxious???

According to quantum mechanics, in one universe i'll get in and in the other I won't. I hope i'm in the one that gets in... but at least one copy of me will be happy...

I'm from San Jose, CA - 4 more days --- good luck

Oh my god. this is going to be the longest week ever. I am going to Greece tomorrow and I won't hae access to internet!

Good luck to everyone! I really hope everyone gets in. But in the meantime I think I may read every blog on here trying to calm anticipation.

Haha leko...well said!

@Shruthi
sankat kaal me maatribhasha hi yaad atti hai... Sach kahun, to filhal angrezi a ek bhi shabd nahi yaad aa raha... sirf hindi hi nikal rahi hai...

To Kathryn: That's actually a good thing. At least you won't find yourself on the internet 24/7.

I wish I missed this blog entry. What's worse it that I have exams! I should be studying!!

I have a regatta at UCSB on Saturday. That means I'm going to be on my friends iPhone sitting on a sunny SoCal beach in a swimsuit when I read my admissions decision. That way even if I do get the big reject I still get to enjoy the nice breeze and sunny day. :D Have fun on your computers on sat. Just know I'm right there with you getting some sun... by the way, what's the temp in Cambridge right now? Why its a balmy 35... hopefully i get to experience that next year.

Good luck guys, have fun this week. Try not to sit with your head banging on the keyboard looking at the decisions page. That's gonna be a challenge for me.

peace

@ Fatin - See that's what you think, you know? What common sense tells you. But the really funny thing is that I will seek out internet in order to try and see if they leak information earl, knowing full well tht they won't.

And what's even worse is that I will have my mom seeking out the information that won't even come out till saturday. Aaah!

@nMAD...WOW!!!I am from Bangladesh too!! so r u goin to the DSA on the 15th??...I sure think I am gonna skip it.

@shruti....yea it sure is becomin a mutilingual one:D I was getting ideas of putting in some Bengali in the mix too....Just imagine poor Ben not getting any of the comments on his own post!!

Can't wait till the 15th. four more days away ppl. Cross your fingers and your toes.... Hang in there everyone....

Good luck to everybody!!!
May all of us get admitted!!!!!!
To Sabreena:Hey I'm from Sri Lanka and my middle name is Sabreena too.

There are more Indians here than any other grp...lets jst hope the numbrs are the same on sunday..
caltech decisions cmng out 2nyt...

Rahul Jain Aka Alias...Good Good!
And what is the hindi ranting all about. Kasam se, dimage ke bati ka fuse udd gaaya aur ovrevoltage ke karan garama garam hai ab. My best efforts for being funny in Hindi.
Translation- Brain's bulb has fused out and due to over voltage it is hot..hot..hot.
There are already more than 22 applicants I know...5 would get in. % acceptance....mid single digit numbers..

@Abhijit
That's news to me because when I mailed them they said that they won't be able to tell the date now.
You got a mail from then?

wel der will be a tad more than 22 applcnts..
bt jst 5...its not right
obv..i wdnt care if i gt in

@Libin> see www.admissions.caltech.edu

they said they will email all decisions on march 11...so pbbly b/w 9am n 3pm local time
wt part of the world are you in?

Besides Pakistan and above Sri Lanka..Apna India.
I am going nuts...and wanna vent out my tensions..by cracking stupid jokes( if they are).

and i kno dats a pic of a f16 on ur page

Ahh, you are hurting me.
It's a machine that is an epitome of relentless efforts by mankind to further their knowledge and reasons for existence. It is something that had added wings to the human race. ;) ..LOL..
As long as vortices are there on the model, I don't care if it is F-16 or F-17..lol.
BTW, those who had to get admitted to Caltech might have got in because FedEx doesn't take 6-7 days to reach India from US...as far as I know.

Optimistic people say FedEx (courier n d tennis player) screw[s] up sometimes.

i MEANT FedEx doesn't take 6-7 days to send a letter to India from USA.
Lol.....still hanging there...very badly.

haha...i know its too late to ask..bt wts ur sat1/2??

its excrutiating to know tht for all in the Subcontinent ..its going to be late saturday night and not saturday aferrnoon....

@Aditya
lol..wel it adds to the excitement..
btw wts ur sat1/2??

Got into CalTech, hoping MIT says yes too.
:)

me from Bangladesh, anyone else here?

Didu get a FedEx packet>
Or an email??

Saturday is coming ! Good luck again to everyone !
And apparently I've only seen someone from Kenya. Anyone else from Africa ? Ou bien qui parle francais ?

@Sarah: Congratz!!I am from BD too:)

@Rozaine(the other sabreena):Lets cross our fingers for all the sabrinas out there!!

Lord!!I am getting more tensed by the min...

@Isshak. Ah, je suis pas le seul qui parle français alors :) Apparemment j'ai pas vu de Français sur ce blog. Serais-je le seul à postuler ? ;)

(English translation : Ah I'm not the only one who speak French :) I haven't seen anyone from France on this blog. Would I be the only one to apply ? ;) ).

PS. Thanks Firefox 3 beta for forms saving :D

Moi, je parle francais!! J'ai passé 1 mois a Carnac, en Bretagne (Vive la Breizh!!!), alors là je suis tombée amoureuse de la France!!

I think now would have been a much better time to announce that the decision will be released on Saturday. I only hope I will be able to propose that to Ben personally.

@ Kathryn: Its terrible how that always happens. Good luck trying to remain sane! ;)

@ Isshak, Alexis, et Caro: Je suis francophone aussi

@Alexis, @Caro

Alors y a des autres qui parlent français ici :) je dirais pas que je suis courrament ms c'est assez que j'ai pas de problèmes quand je suis en France...

Va falloir qu'on se voie à MIT ! (assumant sûrement l'acceptance :P )

Hmm... any Arabic-speakers out there?

We can make this the "Most International" blog entry ;)

MIT ki kam JEE, CBSE, ICSE ki jyada baat ho rahi hai. yeh saala sirf intl blog entry ban raha hai jab ki hum ayenge sirf 5-10

ok, there's this song that has been annoying me for almost a year because I couldn't figure out what it is. I just was lucky enough to hear it on TV, and within 12 hours of finding out that decisions will be released, I discover the song is "Don't stop believing." Coincidence? Actually, this is freaking me out in other ways too that I couldn't explain here.

omg omg omg

4 more days....

300!!!

THIS....IS....MMMMMIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!

lol...

Anyone from Jamaica or the Caribbean??

Ramiro de Maeztu, you?

Why is it so hard to wait the last days?

Like Achilles and the tortoise

These days are so long.....

thanks for reading all the applications. really appreciate the time you send on us.

Best of Luck to all applicants(including me) on Saturday.

יש עוד ישראלים פה?

mater salvatoris.
por algun casual hiciste el sat el dia uno de diciembre?
this is nerve-wracking!!!!!!!!!

Viva la francophonie; je suis kenyan. je parle le francais mais pas tres couramment.

I am Kenyan, but I speak some French. (I bet that's what I was trying to say). So, Isshak, you have some African company right here!

Good luck everyone.

@ Fatin

Hey, you got an arabic speaker over here, I am from yemen, what country are you from?

Well, I can't participate in the search for people outside the US, so is anyone from North Carolina?

@hopeful'12

I am from Jamaica. Where are you from?

Ah, "beware the ides of March" said the Soothsayer, but foolish Caesar did not listen.

@Fatin
bon alors,il y a un autre francophone ici.
y un hispanoparlante, por si a alguien concierne..
and an English speaker, of course.

It doesn't matter where we are from. All that matters right now is whether we can meet each other at MIT.Right?
@Sabreena So am I... Tension and excitement. can't concentrate on anything else.

By the way did anyone get good news from Caltech?

314th!

Still waiting for the damn email....

To help ease the wait...I suggest having a pi day party, with your favorite type of pi with all of your favorite fellow nerds.

^ I'm kind of doing that! Me and a friend are making pies for calculus class. We're thinking about raspberry.

Someone up there said this was surreal and that is exactly the word I would use to describe it. I just can't fully comprehend that in [way] less than a week I will either have obtained what has basically been a life's goal for me or you know...have to go to another school. Which would be okay, I guess.

Heh, here's a story: My parents work at MIT so I've been around the campus my whole life and I've always owned an MIT sweatshirt. Around application season [so, December] my sweatshirt started to get really ratty and not nearly as soft as it used to be.. but I haven't been able to justify getting a new sweatshirt until I hear back.. I think the thing I will be most upset about is not being able to justify an MIT sweatshirt any more. =[

Which blog entry has the greatest number of responses in MIT history?
May be this one.

@Domenzain
Tu peux me compter como alguien quien es also a trilingual individual :)

@Rozaine
I was accepted EA. Did you apply RD?

^^ That's me. Sorry.

@ Martin:
Not sure, but we have to give it a run.

Anyone else in AP Spanish? We have to read a bunch of poems for tomorrow. I like how this is turning into an international thread of sorts. Pretty cool to see how much diversity has just applied to MIT. Anybody repping Italian (I wish I knew how to speak it) or Spanish?

L'annee derniere j'ai bien parle francais....mais apres neuf mois sans le langue j'ai commencer l'oublier.

mm. I tried. there's another thing I'd like to take up at college....(HOPEFULLY AT MIT)...

I am not from India neither my mother language is Hindi, but I can understand Hindi. Let's look at the meaning of what anonymous wrote on March 11, 4-59pm:
"We are talking more about JEE,CBSE,ICSE than MIT. This rubbish is becoming an intl blog entry whereas 5-10 among us will get in."
I second you dear indian.Now personal message to you-
Ab mere bat suno- India se to kumsekum panch ahe jaega, lekin mera country se kabhibhi ek se jyada nehi lya.Tum hare pas IIT (+ragging)hai, bhagwan se shukria gujar karo.(Mera nam Martin nehi hai)

Mistake in translation-
"5-10"="Only 5-10"

c'est marrant, il y a du monde ici qui parle plusiers langues! ma famille est d'argentine, entonces yo tambien hablo castellano y frances!

*Spazzes* I can't wait to find out, but then I'm sure I'll be too nervous to check the day of...*tries to keep stress down*
Side-note, Tambien hablo Español, English, et un petit peu de Francais, parce que j'etudie cette langue maintenant : D

Thanks for everything admissions officers, you guys are not only awesome, but a week ahead of expectations to boot.

Unfortunately I'm going to be at Orchestra from 12-4:30 EST, so hopefully I can find some place to check afterwards. Good luck everyone!