I can't wait! And the tubes have not died! Good luck everyone!

yay tubes.

that's all i have to say.

First?

Thanks Matt!

...wait...I thought we got our shredded application in a tube...or are you being facetious when you say "necessary materials" and you actually mean the shredded application...*head spin*

yay for tubes!!!

i'll be taking my calc exam while the decisions come out... how fitting!

i'll be studying for my calc exam when decisions come out.

i'll be wishing I had a calc exam to distract me when decisions come out.

Yay tubes, i can't wait to freak out my mom by showing her the tube.

Best of Luck everyone!!!
I know that 5,000 people applied Early so the rates will be low as usual, but I hope most of you get in! And three months later, I hope I get in too :)

@Matt A.
I'm pretty sure they don't shred your app and send it to you. Wait, let's rephrase that, they do not shred your app and send it to you.

I was about to exclaim "Aw, no tubes!"
...until I saw that last line :)

Best of Luck everyone!!!
I know that 5,000 people applied Early so the rates will be low as usual, but I hope most of you get in! And three months later, I hope I get in too :)

Yay tubes! Although I seriously doubt I'll be receiving one, being the eccentric idiot that I am....

Ah, well. Best of luck to everyone!

I'm so glad we will never have to do without our tantalizing tubes. Thank the gods.

omg... I'm so nervous even though I'm not an EA applicant haha. EA applicants, try to relax..

Thanks so much Matt! I'm nervous! Can't wait until Monday night. I'm a little upset that refresh (F5) doesn't work. Very clever!

TUBES! YES!!!

It's nervewracking to think that there's a chance may be accepted to MIT in just five days. I'm excited, even though the prospect of being deferred is statistically high.

Also, I haven't heard of the tubes before... maybe I'm just not good enough of an MIT nerd... yet. :D

Should I be worrying if I haven't received the e-mail? My e-mail is usually quite fast...

relax, take it easy.

relax, take it easy - mika

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6jlCuMvVQ

Tubes!!! Oh, thank you so much Matt M!! I was, honestly, quite concerned about losing out on an MIT tradition. Thanks again for the reassurance. :)

It has been a lot of fun! The entire process, the application, the waiting, the stress, the laughing...regardless of the decision, I would do it all over again in a femtosecond.

Don't forget to open a bag of Rofls!

I read that part with ever widening eyes and sadness at the thought of no tubes (provided I got in) but then I saw that they were coming and I was happy again.

*takes deep breaths*
*hides all time-telling devices except to set them to ring at 9 on monday*

@Sam ('13?)
The tube is what admissions decisions came in for several years. Apparently now they'll just contain everything but the letter, but I talk more about it here:

Click

You know -- the days before decisions are all so surreal. Things are out of your hands, you've done all that you could, and the outcome is uncertain.

You're certain you studied for all the right tests and did all the things that you wanted to do. You jumped higher than your own head, and maybe admissions will recognize that. Or maybe they won't.

The race to get into college encourages everyone "to get As, to get good SAT scores, to join clubs". Is it stressful and artificial? Hell yes -- Marilee Jones certainly thought so. Unfortunately the message is malinterpreted as numbers, letters, and club names on your application -- that's not what it's about. It's about growing up. Every day we reach for the "green dock light" that's always out of our reach. And every day we get a little bit taller.

I hope Monday's lonely letters on decisions.mit.edu aren't as important to you as the process you've taken to get there. You've been striving for nearly two decades of your life to discover yourself, your interests, and to develop your passions. Accepted, deferred, and rejected are only 8 byte words. You are not an 8 byte person.

Congratulations to all of you on Monday!

Bah...I got the e-mail and all I saw was "We are pleased to announce that MIT..." and freaked out :(

But it's okay...in retrospect, it was an amusing thirty seconds in which I scrambled to my gmail.

Got my email, but I have a question about an email that I, rather than MIT, sent, in regards to a letter sent by MIT, rather than myself.

Two weeks ago, I received a letter asking about my Native American heritage (although admittedly there isn't much; in "normal terms I'm 12.5% Cherokee). Two days ago, realizing that the letter response probably wouldn't make it in time, I sent an email off to MIT with what the letter would have contained; I meant to send it sooner, but I have been extremely busy, and Yahoo ate my letter several times. I then checked this site the net day (yesterday) and realized that the admissions results were already decided. I'm curious, will not having gotten this form in negatively affect me? I mean, to have gotten it in in time I would have had to sent it off the day after I received it in order for it to not have been late, assuming it wasn't delayed in the mail, which seems strange. Did I get the letter late, or were they not really expecting it to arrive on time?

Anyway, good luck to everyone... Well, that's the nice thing to say, although since only a limited amount of people can get in, wishing you good luck is also wishing bad luck upon myself, and wow I am overthinking this. Good luck, don't die from wait-induced stress, hope to see you at MIT, as that means that both I and you have gotten in, whoever you are.

@Timur -- Nice writing, I agree. Maybe you'll get a blog if you get in haha.
However, was the F. Scott Fitzgerald reference really necessary?

I wish people would stop caring so much about decisions. You've (hopefully) honestly represented yourself; that's all that you've got to worry about, let admissions officers from schools everywhere take care of the rest.

That being said, best of luck to everybody.

Haha, Timur, I hope you do get in and get a blog. I'll be happy for you :) Thanks for that.

I basically spilled my possibly incoherent, quite likely melodramatic soul onto my app, so we'll see what happens.

Good luck EA peeps. May the force be with you.

No but seriously, don't stress, just enjoy the weekend. Happy holidays to everyone.

Like everyone else I went "D8 No tubes?????" Then I saw the last sentence. XD

Only 4 days, 23 hours, and 6 minutes to go!!!!
(Like my excessive punctuation?)

Count down to the rest of our lives.

meh

@Timur

Regardless of what may come on Monday, you just made my day a little better. :)
Thank you.

I think that everyone read the email and exclaimed "NO TUBES???" Good luck all my fellow EA'ers!

Timur - I really hope you get in.

@Snively

Haha, thank you very much. I hope I'll be getting my own 'sexy blue' or whatever color it is this year in the mail in coming weeks. :D

Of course, I'm referring to the poster, heh.

@Snively
Wow, I feel dumb now *fail*...I know someone mentioned it to me. Guess MIT has a little mythical aspect to it or something...

I'm RA and reading this is getting me way to excited...

uhm.. yea.. my 3rd grade teacher told me that should have been spelled "too" not "to" :P

*refresh refresh refresh refresh refresh

Seriously, ctrl and 'r' keys are going to be worn out come Monday evening.

I'm seriously getting anxious. Four more days in 59 minutes! 4 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes (by my time) until decision time - unless I get deferred.

G'luck to all of you as well!

My heart almost stopped when I read read the title of the email in my Gmail. But, nevertheless, at least we have something to look forward to *cough*. Hopefully my finals will distract me from freaking out too much, which would have been ironic during my junior year. =P

JieMin, try F5. =]

My biggest regret? Not applying Early. My second biggest regret? Not sending in my regular application faster. What would have been my biggest regret? Not applying at all.

Can I just say,

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Just had to let that out.

@Dane: I got the same letter, but I got the impression that it was only meant to supplement your application. I doubt it would negatively affect you in any way. All the same, I was nervous too that mine didn't get in on time. I only received the letter last Tuesday when I got back from Thanksgiving break, so I sent the letter and faxed a copy the next day.

Anyway, best wishes fellow nervous EA applicants!!

@Timur,

Accepted, deferred, and rejected are only 8 byte words. You are not an 8 byte person.

Hear, hear. I sincerely hope you get in. Good luck to all EA applicants!

Just to make every other EA applicant freak out even more:
http://www.DidIGetIntoMIT.com/

:) Sorry.
Best of luck to everyone.

Dude, check this out: http://mabuhaynet.com/mitcountdown/

it is much cooler than the one in the upper post.

@timur that was a good post

I'm cheering for all of my senior friends who applied ED; I'm sure Tuesday will be fairly exciting. :)

Best of luck to the '13ers! You'll be finding out your admissions decisions as I tackle the final of the hardest freshman class, so hopefully it's a happy ending for both of us ;D

All the best to all EAs! Hope you all make the right match..

Hi Matt,

To beat the anxiety of the big day, my daughter prepared a comedy skit that has turned out to be awesome! It's about a security guard in the american prison who has the habit of sneaking into the interrogation room. I never knew mathematical minds have other shades too. It's a great quality, when you can make others laugh in such trying times. May be I will try this when I get fired from my job.

Regards,

Frittos.

@navdeep

yours isnt a dot com, and it doesnt have links to all of the useful pages... brandon wins

@snively
eeeh get the intl RD's a tube to? in the case they get accepted.
***the tube is soooooooooooooo kawaiiiiiiiii!!!!!!***

kawaii means cute in japanese

Oh and by the way I forgot to mention, she will be going today to the Russell Peter's show and I, will be watching Jodha Akhbar uninterrupted! Finally moi will be having the remote control for the entire evening.

Congratulations Frittos.

Wow, good luck to all EA applicants, includuing myself. When you get your decision, just make sure you keep yourself contained. WARNING: may cause mental as well as physical instability.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Good luck to all EA applicants!

do the internationals get tubes too if we are accepted? we can't apply early..

4 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes and 2 seconds

Do the transfer applicants go through the same procedure? Thanks!

"4 days, 6 hours, 55 minutes and 2 seconds"

hahaha..wowww good luck everyone!!! and those of you lucky ones who get accepted..please post your essays on a student blog or pleaseeeeee pleaseeeeee email me copies!!! email add: sehreen_74@hotmail.com

im extremelyyyy nervous about my essays so plz help me! i wont copy them of course..just need to read them to calm my nerves =)

@Everybody
Unfortunately, international students and regular action accepted students do not receive tubes.

The thing that bothers me most is that I have stuff to send in if I get deferred T.T I'd feel a lot better about how I presented myself in Early Action if I felt like I had covered everything important. On the other hand, that would make getting accepted feel that much better since I still had a little to add.

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought my EA student the equation version of the MIT shirt from the Coop, to counter surprise should the news be favorable Monday night. You should all feel so proud of yourselves, congratulations on your many achievements.

As a transfer applicant for Spring 2009, when should I expect to find out about the admissions decision?
Sorry if my question is not in the right blog. It is just the waiting...
Thanks!

@Ahana
Well, that all depends on what type of encoding you use... :)

I would think that the blog would be much more saturated considering that there are ~5000 applicants... I wonder what prompts the lack of blogging...?

And the agony is prolonged....

can you put my rejection letter in a tube? I paid $65 for it.

@Navdeep ('13?)

That's a cool page.

I was going for more simplistic, and I wanted it to work well on my iPhone. I also borrowed the color scheme from the MIT homepage for consistency.

http://www.DidIGetIntoMIT.com/

I really hope the early admission rates are higher this year because there were so many early admission applicants. Best of luck to everyone who applied!

I'm kind-of worried as an EA applicant about my SAT score. I'm confident about my writing and criticle reading, but I don't feel that a 710 math is very competitive. Does a 780 Math SAT IIC offset this? Thanks.

And argh, I meant to say "critical reading".

Any SAT score in the 700 range is competitive.

Well, MIT does care more about math than the other two, so while competitive, his concern is at least reasonable. But yes, I'm sure the SAT II score supplements that!

My SAT scores are almost silly, though, like, "If you had 2200 points to distribute on your SAT, as a tech nerd, what would you do?" 800 math, 700 each in critical reading and writing. I know they're "competitive", but I still worry about my 700s ;.; I probably should've taken the reasoning test a second time, at least.

i only have one thing to say, and that's
T.U.B.E.S!

I just hope the SAT scores didnt factor in as importantly as the rest of the application since SAT stands for nothing and measures nothing.

I won't say they stand for nothing, they're not the best measure of ones success in high school, there i will agree. but if u do good its not luck, u actually have to perform. if u don do so well, it doesn't necessarily mean u didn't perform, there could be a whole other list of reasons why your scores aren't what you want. its in inaccurate measure, but not entirely bad

I think SATs are rly useful. It provides a fair comparison between the applicant who attends a really good school and one who attends a mediocre school.

Its incredible how much you rationalization this whole admission thing. You start to think that you have a good chance, and then u start comparing yourself to other people which makes you feel like garbage. This whole things is just one big roller coaster of the mind.

It isn't that "rly useful" because not only can you get the practice test and read it religiously from any school, wheter good or mediocre, but also, at least the math, only goes up to algebra two and maybe some trig. There are many people who take alg 2 in 8th or 9th grade so the SAT math really doesn't measure how good you are at math, but how bad you are: if you get a low score (below 600) it means you have a hard time with math. The english is another deal...I personally didn't do so hot in it :P

I am such a big dork that I had to get on here and figure out what this early action thing was. Alex, let me know when you find out! Good luck everyone!
PS- Go tubes! :)

I can't wait..I have to say, I was disappointed when I heard the decisions wouldn't come out this saturday, but now I'm OK with it and am really excited!!!

oh yeah...MY FAVORITE SONG :)

"relax, take it easy - mika

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6jlCuMvVQ

-Timur"

Best of luck to everyone! It's quite hard to believe that the day of reckoning is almost finally upon us ;) An approximate 1000 applicant increase certainly makes me nervous....

Best of luck to everyone. I know this weekend will undoubtedly be stressful (at least it will be for me), but try to enjoy it. Just think, after Monday night, there is nowhere to go but up. Good luck and congratulations to all those who get in.

i thought the comment:

"There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu."

was excellent advice.

With all the people posting up their "own" MIT countdowns, it almost seems like a rickroll is in order =P Would relieve my stress a bit, anyway.

Well now nobody is going to post one, now that you've mentioned it. Any youtube link from now on in this blog entry is going to be suspect. :P

My good friend got into Caltech today

Don’t know if she will be going that way

But now I have become oh so disturbed

For Monday from MIT I’m deferred

Nightmares this week have me made so dreary

Springing from dreams I’ve long held so dearly

Maybe come Monday I’ll be very sad

Hopefully I won’t be feeling that bad

Worst come to worst, reality I’ll take

For worries - frowns don’t a sane person make

I hope made you smile have these poor verses

For on lips I’ve seen excessive purses.

Good luck to the applicants one and all

I do dare to hope, to meet you next fall

I am insanely nervous.

AHHH!!! Good luck to everyone!

Cylindrically? I see that M.I.T. is still keeping it quirky. I like. :)

Haha nice poem! It pretty much sums up the way I'm feeling right now.

@doihavetoentermyrealname?
shakespeare would have been proud

Oh applicants don't you fear
Even if it seems it's too much to bear

If you're deferred come a few days
There's still RA, the admissions officer says

Even though MIT may seem to be your dream
There's more ways to college than it seems

Of course, I wish you the best
As you find out the results of this test

Shall you be admitted, see you here next spring!
Shall you be deferred, it probably will sting -

But don't give up hope! never despair!
For some of us don't even know why we're here. :)

That's great perspective, and well conveyed! Thanks.

@not so poetic '11
"Even though MIT may seem to be your dream
There's more ways to college than it seems"

so true ^_^

I have never been good at rhyme,
so I'll try this just one time.
Good luck everyone!

I really need to learn how to be poetic sometime.

I added a new feature!
Hopefully everyone is as nervous as I am...

http://wvw.DidIGetIntoMIT.com

Half my senior class is waiting for EA decisions from one school or another. I'm just glad I know when we find out. Poor people waiting on snail mail.

Good luck everyone!

Deferred Caltech... come on MIT, don't leave me 0/2 !!!

My friend got accepted into CalTech...I haven't heard back yet.
I'm trying to accept being deferred (and hopefully not rejected) from all my EA schools - that way anything better will be a nice surprise. :)

@ Zorayr Khalapyan
I disagree. The majority of EA apps are probably serious students with many outside activities who likely have little free time to spend blogging.

I'm starting to feel that parts of my app were pretty weak and doubt myself...

The more I think about it, the more I get nervous.

But I can't help it, so I'm just basically given up trying to not be nervous, and accept there's not much I can do.

I mean, it doesn't exactly help (I'm still way stressed), but it's a consolation of sorts, I guess.

Not really? I don't know; just trying to reassure myself.

3 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes, 5 seconds.

@Angela
thats my strategy as well, id rather be surprised than let down

hey guys, i'm sorry how stressed you are all about this, but dont start countin down how long till you get the decision.

you'll just be more stressed out and if you dont get in you'll be THAT much more disappointed. so go outside, watch tv, study for upcoming exams, do SOMETHING other than sit at a computer for hours posting on this blog.

here's a sonnet i wrote about a week or so ago when i wasn't feeling too hopeful:

December 15th

Creating scenes that have not yet occurred
Imagining what has not yet aris’n
Afraid of hearing what is not preferred
Entrapped in mind’s own agonizing pris’n

Conversing with the ones who understand
Enduring stress with comrades all around
Fatigued from an imperative demand
Submerged in Hell and trying not to drown

We fear the day approaching furtively,
Who holds in mighty hands our destinies.
Our futures he’ll declare assertively
Then leave our dying souls without appease.

Dreading the outcome unbeknownst to all,
We hold each other’s hands…let go…and fall…

p.s. good luck to everyone!!!
i hope the situation doesn't turn out as dire as my poem made it seem...

Tubes FTW!

@ Brandon
I was just RickRoll'd
Thank you, I needed that.

@gayle

Well, still. All of us are serious people; no question to that. And all of us are involved in numerous time consuming activities; I am sure you agree with this claim too. However, being the kind of caring student you are, do you actually believe that busyness is an excuse for not wishing luck to fellow applicants? Filling out a form with one line wish will at most take thirty seconds. That's about four times less time than it takes to brush one's teeth.

Anyhow, it was surprising to me that out of 5000 only about 1/100 blog. My theory to explain this relates to the nature of blogging in a college application environment. It seems that applicants would feel rather insecure to blog considering that their thoughts and writings might be read by the same students and officers who would be reading their oh-so-important college application. With these thoughts in mind, we can draw a conclusion that lack of blogging is because of the actual nature of the website and not because of the lack of time.

Of course, time is still a factor in determining any taken action. However, compared to the previously mentioned thought, time becomes negligible enough to be excluded from the general theory.

Don't you agree?

Zorayr - that's why I choose to be anonymous. :P

Technically, I suppose the site administrator could pull my IP address and trace it to my general location, and correlate that with the address on one of the applications, but I don't think they really have that much time on their hands. Besides, I've not said anything of particular interest that would really affect my application. Nobody here really has. It's unlikely they'd take interest.

Sweet, only 3 days til I'm in.

One thing to remember

IHTFP

search it up

Here's a good tip
Don't get too attached to anything
remember
you have
to smile to cry
to know the truth to lie
to live to die

you can't do anything now what is done is done
simply accept it

good luck everyone. i wish everyone the best!

Here's a good tip
Don't get too attached to anything
remember
you have
to smile to cry
to know the truth to lie
to live to die

you can't do anything now what is done is done
simply accept it and move on

No matter how much I try, I can't stop thinking about the cylindrical beauty that might come in the mail.

Man, I think the only why I'm going to get through this weekend and Monday night is my watching "Chuck" and working on my quarter paper.

I'm already freaked out even though I'm not EA!:s
and guess what! march 21st is our new year here!!! Will 'The Tube' be my new year's present?! :D Can't wait!

I'm an international applicant and so ED doesn't apply for me. I just checked the stats of last year admissions and my heart got caught in my throat. Less than 4% of international applicants got in?!!

Ahh well, I guess life's all about pushing for the extra edge. I'll know in March whether I have it or not...All the best to all those expecting their results on Monday!

The stress level is at a new height. As nervous as I am, its really exciting at the same time. The whole process is definitely a life changing one. I'm looking forward to Monday and really hope for the best for all of you. Thank you to everyone who posted and kept us updated on one of the most important decisions for us at the moment. Everyone keep your fingers crossed. Just remember (this is what everyone has been telling me) there is a place for you. If you don't get in somewhere, there is a reason for that. Don't let it discourage you, let it make you work harder and learn something more about yourself. I know this isn't going to stop those who are deferred to be upset, but just remember how many people are on the same boat. Everything at this point is out of our hands, we did what we could. Now all we can do is wait...

Good words niki. Good luck u guys!

Good luck everyone!
I seriously wish that everyone could be offered admission, because MIT is an awesome place with so much oppotunity!
P.S. It's okay to scream madly and run down the street when you find out you get in...I know I did =]

@Arash, Are you in Iran?! Anyways Eid Shomah Mobarak (for the future!)

Good luck to everyone!

@Arash, unfortunately "The Tube" is only for EA applicants. I wish it weren't, because in my opinion everybody that can get in deserves one. Oh well. Good luck, though! I know I'm nervous for Monday myself.

...oh no. I've fallen into the trap of looking at all the numbers and trying to figure out what my chance is as a woman, early action applicant, deferred applicant.... I hate numbers! >_

woah... my post got cut off... what I meant to say was:

>_

ahh! >_

›_‹

:P

@mites '08
really? you hate numbers? haha

hmm... I think I was triggering an html command. Anyway, I have a question: are we not going to get phone calls eiter?

I'll be playing hockey against the team that we lost the state championship to last March. Way to take my mind off of the decision. Good luck to all.

Decisions are going to be released right as I would normally be going to bed as I have to get up insanely early tuesdays to skate. There's no way I'm going to be falling asleep, whatever I find out. Hopefully it's good news and I'll still be so excited by it in the morning that it'll keep me awake despite lack of sleep :P.

What's better then one tube?
A series of tubes. That's why the decisions are online.

Eh?! There's no way they would seriously look at someone's blog comments when reviewing their app, right? -.-"

@ MITES '08!

Or maybe your left eye just exploded in excitement? :P

Regarding serious things, I think that Matt said that there weren't going to be emails or phone calls.

eh don worry bout them lookin at blogs while reviewing apps, its an inaccurate system in that respect. You can post under any name, so in reality you could post stupid stuff under the name of somebody u don't want to get in. id say jus post wat u feel, i mean its a blog anyway.

Almost two das exactly! Im so excited!
Posting from my new blackberry touch!!!
Goodluck to every one.
Just think~senior year second semestre should be so much fun

I am so nervous and I sporadically check the decision website in case there is some mistake and somehow the decision got posted. Is anyone else doing this? I absolutely love math with a passion and (of course) out of all of the schools I liked, MIT had the best math program. It would suck to not get in but my chances are just as low as everyone else's....

Oh, and even better, I have a 6 hour calc BC exam the next day, my teacher is nuts and gives inhumanely long tests. I will either be ecstatic or disconsolate during my marathon of a test...David, if you are reading this - yes it is me. For everyone else reading this, one of my close friends also applied EA and is constantly updating me on the latest blog. I thought it would be very eerie if he were reading this and wondering if I was actually posting on the blogs that he checks so religiously (as if any of you care). Oh well, I hope the people who deserve to get in get in.

@ Alex: How do you define deserves to get in?

1 day 21 hours and 56 minutes.

@Tiffany
By deserve, I mean people who really want to go there and are applying for the right reasons and who can survive at MIT. I meant no negative connotations by it. I am sorry if my comment offended you.

@Watson Ladd
Thanks, that made me smile.

@Navdeep,

Your countdown site seems to use the clock on my PC and assume it is EST. It tells me 1 day 22 hrs now when actually there is only 1 day 19 hours.

I am on the West Coast 3 hours behind MIT time.

Good Luck my son. And everyone else too.

@anothereaa

Mine doesn't do that. :)

http://www.DidIGetIntoMIT.com

@Anonymous

nah, I dont hate numbers. My original comment got cut off because of the smiley thing. I was gonna say, I hate numbers, but I love them.

:D

1 day 10 hours 44 minutes...this is so nervewracking! i'm trying so hard to keep myself busy and not think about it, but that's near impossible. i'm sure all of us are freaking out in some way. i hope we all end up where we're meant to be!

i do believe everything works out for a reason. i'm sure we'll all be happy at whatever college we go to, even if it's not MIT. there are so many great colleges out there (of course, none of which compare to MIT, as we all probably think right now). but somehow we'll all make it through.

good luck to everyone!!!

For all who are looking to kill some time, I recommend this game that I learned of yesterday evening. Its called contraption and waaaaaaay too much fun. Real nice for all those engineering types, but sometimes I cant agree with the physics engine (I broke it >_

http://www.bored.com/games/play/270/Contraption.html

And how uneventful a day Monday is!
1) OCPS wont let me out of school till 5
2) after school I'm wrapping gifts for a Christmas charity program
3) After that I have a FIRST robotics meeting

I probably wont get to see decisions until about an hour later or 11pm or something ridiculous.
-Jamo G.

@ Alex: None taken. That's a good definition btw.

@Jamo G

that game is awesome! it totally helps me stay busy. thanks!

No problem. Lemme know if you beat Unpossible. It's the only one I cant seem to manage, lol

@Alex

Hey, I also abortively but passionately tried to find that bug that would reveal the decision a little earlier than the set date. But no - it's MIT. They don't bugs over there... Although there is a small security flaw in the MyMIT account log in page...

@Anonym December 12, 2008 10:50 PM

I completely agree with you. However, there is still that level of uncertainty which makes bloggers like you take that extra step of caution and declare as anonymous.

MIT is not only an educational mecca, it is a community, a family. To be a part of that family would be a blessing. Best wishes to students, families and all of those who anxiously wait.

To get your real address and match it with your MyMIT account would be impossible; your ISP wouldn't reveal your address without a subpoena (that's why RIAA needs to sue you to get your address). Much easier would be to crossmatch your IP from when you log onto MyMIT with the blogs: but what about kids who log in from the same school? What about kids who share their accounts... etc.

Admissions staff are people too; they remember kids from school visits, tours, presentations... But remember that 10+ people weigh in on your application before you get admitted, so no one person has too much influence on your application.

college decisions are like "the game"
you're winning until you remember

and you all just lost the game

@Zorayr
I see you understand my logic haha. I don think anything I say on here will affect any admissions decision, but eh, can't hurt to remain anonymous

I'm just glad that us West Coasters get to find out at 6 PM :)

I appreciate the distracting game, despite it physically preventing me from attending to my take-home AP Biology test that's due tomorrow! ;P

And to the very same person who posted that game, I will also be late to check my results because I have an interview for Georgia Tech's Presidential Scholarship program scheduled for a half hour starting at 7:40!! It was his only open slot, so I had to take it even though the date for releasing online results had already been set T.T

(gyaah, I wish I could delete my comments and repost them in a single, larger post, but no delete button or edit button... *sigh* a downside to "comments" rather than "users" and "posts")

That's 7:40 central time, btw. I'm not just being stupid XD

@Narce
good luck with that interview. I too am a semifinalist, yet havnt been contacted about my interview yet.

Ohh, don't worry about that too much. They told me that more than half of the interviews would be conducted in mid-January. Good luck with your progress in the program too, though I'm sure we both feel like the luck is better spent getting into MIT ;P

*ahem* Brute force?! Who would ever want to solve a problem by anything less than a beautiful algorithm? XD
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=4950646
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=4950885
They both work... EVENTUALLY.

Wow really? We are all President's scholars semifinalists? lol, that's pretty awesome! I haven't been contacted about my interview yet either but I emailed Randy and he said you will be contacted by phone or email (or both).

Good luck to all!
-Jamo G.

Hahahah, you too! I suppose it's only natural that many people trying to reach MIT would also rely on Georgia Tech for a backup, since it's still a great engineering university.

Hmm. I seem to have forgotten my name in the post. And it also seems I need to update with flash player 10 (can't view on main site). If you you beat all the levels (I finally got unpossible!) there are tons of cool contraptions others have made. check em out!
-Jamo

It's okay, we know who you are because you always sign your name :3

It's my first time playing this game, actually.

@ Timur
Heh, I really hope they don't remember me, because I switched an Independent Study class that I talked about with them, and they'll be like "Wait a minute, wasn't she taking...?"

In other news, I'm rather lucky to have Internet right now, and might not have it tomorrow evening if the lines aren't back up. Ironically some parts of Massachusetts might be the last to get their decisions.

In other news, I really need to get off this site (>>>>homework). See you all Monday... maybe. :P

(Drrr... that second other was s'posed to italicize, and yes, I know Monday is tomorrow, and... I am getting incoherent yet again.)

That reminds me, I've heard people on the blogs from past years be like "Yeah, all of my friends already got their tubes... I'm getting really anxious"... are there really schools up there with not one, not a couple, but SEVERAL accepted students every year? And are any of those public schools?!

Because I'm at the largest school in my state which is also the 2nd best in the state academically (public or private, but it's a public institution), and we've only had 3 accepted in history, 2 of which were in the same year.

Err... and by "up there" I meant the boston area specifically, though if it's an occurrence anywhere in the northeast I'd like to know.

Oh man, I know what you mean. I'm from a public school (roughly 4500-5000 students?). Only 2 have gone to MIT in its history. So I share your anxious feelings. I would also be willing to share some of my calculus homework :P

Or just find more things to do. I'll be playing my guitar. Anyone here like Muse?
-Jamo

Wow, other states have much larger student bodies than ours XD We have grades 10-12 at our school and that's about 2100 people. It would be just under 3k if we were a "full" high school. Our school is only 10 or so years old, but only 3 ever making it in is still depressing! (oh, and one of those three dropped out 2nd year or so)

I ran out of math at my high school, and Dual Enrollment classes are already finished for the year (like two weeks ago). *ahem* I love math, but I've had enough Calculus for the semester, thanks ;P Though I was surprised that I got to use Calculus 3 at the most recent math competition I took my team to >.> *sigh* I don't want to have to teach college-level math to my sophomore and junior minions for later competitions!

Sorry to say that I don't really listen to western music....

I go to a magnet school, and some of the most genius people i know have been rejected or waitlisted by MIT. So good luck to all, if I don't get in, it simply means someone even more amazing did :)

on the music issue, im kinda the other side of the spectrum i think...Linkin Park anyone?

I don't know how acclaimed your magnet school is, but we don't have a magnet school in my state better than my public school (not bragging, that's honestly how the rankings go), so believe me, in my last two years (remember, only 10, 11, and 12 here), I've seen my share of qualified individuals.

Two of the ones rejected from MIT ended up getting into Cal. Tech (in different years... but still, that's ridiculous considering Cal. Tech's class size), and another one went to Princeton (she was nerdy enough for MIT, but she was going to let the admission process decide for itself what she would major in... so when she got into Princeton, she picked Economics).

I see your point...I don't really know how we're ranked in my state, bcuz since we are a magnet school inside a regular high school, all our scores get averaged in with everybody else, thus making us not stand out so much.

All those who have went to MIt from my school have been asian (no offense, just stating a fact), which doesn't exactly bode well for me, being not asian.

Good luck everyone,
I want a tube!

Two of the 3 I just mentioned from when I was here, that I called qualified applicants, were asian, and the last one white.

Two of the 3 I mentioned BEFORE that, who did get in, were Asian, including the one who dropped out of MIT around his second year. The last one... was white XD

I'm Hispanic... I know that MIT ends up accepting a lot of us, and my dad made it in too (I'm actually only half puerto rican, and that half is from him), but from our school, there are no Hispanic kids who even have had the grades to get into MIT, much less anything else. So I'm not sure where I stand relative to the rest of the United States' Hispanic applicant pool in this day and age....

But I, too, really want a tube!

Lol, and by "much less anything else", I meant test scores, activities, etc., not other universities XD

My heart is beating out of my chest. Oh my gosh. I'm sure all of you are extremely nervous. It's crazy: 1 day, 2 hours, 11 minutes left.

Good luck to all of you.

I see I'm not the only one doing a massive countdown.

THE WAIT IS KILLING MEEEEEEE

1 day. 2 hours. This is almost too epic... 26 hours.

Oh and btw, only none of the students have made it into MIT from my 100 year old private school. Oh no! :P

~25 hours left...

In the mean time I'm going to pass time with Project Euler and study for my M371 final. Anyone Project Euler do that here?

I go to a public school of over 4000 kids in the Midwest which used to be one of the nation's top high schools (featured multiple times in multiple large magazines, books, etc) before they started basing rankings on how many kids take APs.

Every year there are at least 15-20 kids who end up going to Ivy League or their equivalents (MIT, Stanford, etc.), if not more, though only one person went to MIT last year.

Lol.. I go to a high school that sends around 7-10 kids to MIT each year, out of a senior class of roughly 800, and that's considered really few... seeing as around 50 kids apply EA. Everyone's all scared, running around, "OMG only 7 kids got in last year! I'm not making it in!" and then I see these comments and it's kinda funny.

Also, I just recently started doing Project Euler. Yay Project Euler! It's really fun. :D

advice to all:
I know its nerve-wrecking to wait, but try to control urselves. the more hyped up you get, the more its going to hurt if you don't get in. i wish we could all go, as MIT is friggin amazing, but i know it isn't the case. good luck to all!

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I see everone's saying "good luck to all" as kinda dumb. Everyone knows that everyone can't get in, so wishing luck to everyone is pretty pointless. It's not like "good luck on exams" or "good luck with the surgery" or anything like that... it's "good luck" to a group of people when good luck to each individual person is a bit of bad luck to every other person in the group.

Tomorrow is going to be a nightmare. How can I possibly get through an entire day of school, an after-school deadline death march for newspaper, a chicken-soup-making for my boyfriend, a cooking dinner, and studying for finals? My mind is going to be on nothing but the three silly letters that have dominated my life for the past six months. And then after 9 I sure as heck won't be able to study at all, regardless of the decision. Strangely enough, a cold sweat and nausea have the same effect as pure, unadulterated elation when it comes to getting serious work done.

@Samara
I would agree on the cynical. We all understand that only a select few of us will get in. common fact. I simply wish all good luck in a generous gesture, because I'm a nice person. I could come on and be like "I hope I get in and none of you do", but that would simply not be courteous in any way. But thank you very much for your obvious statement.

Very true

@Samara-
maybe we are all just trying to be nice, optimistic and supportive. You are right- we won't ALL get in, but we are all going through the exact same experience. Maybe "good luck" posted on the blog is really supposed to mean "good luck getting through the next few days without jumping off a bridge."

Furthermore, our acceptance/rejection/deferral has nothing to do with what we post here, so why not be nice? why not hope for the impossible? why not encourage other people's success?

hope to see you at MIT next year

and good luck to you Samara, since you don't appear to be so fond of it.

You guys are so cute when you get your knickers in a twist.
Sorry to upset anyone.

did anyone else mysteriously get their midyear grade report box checked off recently? I don't think my college dude sent my mid year grade report to MIT, so just wondering if anyone else got their box checked off without sending in anything yet.

thanks...

What's wrong with wishing people luck, Samara?! When I say good luck on the blogs, it's in the most sportsman way possible! Before a match in some sport, one person will almost always wish the other good luck, along with some kind of handshake or whatever (like in tennis...).

I'm saying "Good luck" and thinking "We've tried our hardest for this moment, so luck shouldn't help you beat me anymore."

Oh, so Samara just feels like screwing with people to make her(him?)self feel better during this period of nervousness.

While understandable, it's not the least bit admirable.

@samara

lol ur forgiven. i only argue principles and ideals. i still love all :) and... good luck to most? :)

@Narce

i think you should cool it. ragging on people via the internet is not admirable either.

I like the MIT blog b/c most ppl who post here are so nice. So Samara, plz don't ruin that by bringing in the bad-feel vibe.

My school is a public school too. Last year 13 ppl got in EA. I don't know how many of them ended up going to MIT though.

@to all
so...on to happier thoughts...anybody have suggestions on music they like? music is amazing...?

Whoa, everyone. I definitely did not mean to start a big fight. You're right, Narce... I am basically just messing with people. And cat in the hat and Narce - I guess I was thinking of "good luck" in the most obvious of terms. So good luck to everyone in the two ways you spoke of. And also good luck in the sense I originally meant it to the 11% of people or whatever who deserve to get in the most. I suspect I'm not in that 11%, so if I don't get in, so be it.
Narce is right - I am just anxious. Sorry everyone.

Justin - I happen to be a big old fan of R.E.M. Other bands I like are the Moody Blues, Oasis, Belle & Sebastian, and Jimmy Eat World.

@Justin

Yes, music is amazing. Currently listening to Bloc Party. Muse is good too. Anyone play any instruments?

@MITES 08
naturally, play the oboe and percussion. good oboe players are hard to come by. im not one, and ive only seen one or 2 in my life.

@Samara
its all good, and as im just not realy getting into any type of rock, ill have to check those out...where i live, everybody goes crazy over rap and r&b...

I'm the first at my high school to apply to MIT ... ?

No problem, Samara, I don't hold grudges. But what did you think would happen if you antagonized someone in an entire group of really anxious people? ;P

(and woahhhh, or whatever you go by when you're not making up a clever name to fit what you're saying... ;P to you too)

@Justin my favorite music is all Japanese... Tobira no Mukou E is my favorite song of all time. As for western music, the only song I have any particular attachment to is Viva la Vida.

Narce - I don't know... I guess I assumed you all were a lot more mature than I am.

I'm the second person to ever apply from my high school, the only other person applied RA 3 years ago and got accepted. I can't believe we are only 24 hours and 23 minutes away.

Wow.

Regardless, the experience has been great and I feel like I have learned a lot about myself through it. Good luck guys!

I play acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, violin

I like Muse (XD), the offspring, my chemical romance, hoobastank,lostprophets, anberlin, classic crime,sugarcult, three days grace, sum 41, plain white t's, and more. OMG variety, dosen't really match at all, lol.

@Justin. I've got some bloc party and Linkin Park also. Awesome bands.
-Jamo (I need to go to more concerts, haha!)

sweet, big time strings player. I listen to stuff like soundtrack music (john williams, hans zimmer, danny elfman) as well as drum corps (DCI is amazing!!)

I'm the second person from my high school to apply. The first one applied in either 92 or 94 and got accepted.

I like the songs they play on ipod commercials: 1234-Feist, Bruises-Chairlift. And other songs I currently like: Breathe Me-Sia, Viva la Vida-Coldplay, Love Song-Sara B., I'm Yours-Jason Mraz, Wordplay-Jason Mraz, Suddenly I See, and Float On- Goldspot(?).

chairlift is so cute.
kt tunstall is great too.

There is a light a the end of this MITunnel! That's the good news. The bad news is that there's only a 10 percent chance it's the other side. The other 80 percent (with 10 more percent for those who get in RA after being deferred) is an on-coming train. Forgive my cynicism and less-than-perfect metaphor, but there is still hope left!

Stay away from mainstream a little. Try The Shins(Australia and Turn on Me are good) and Interpol(listen to Heinrich Manuever first!). They are indie and their music isnt complete crap like whats on the radio today. These are other great bands I would recommend: A Perfect Circle, Disturbed, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Ladytron, Keane(I LOVE them), Brett Dennen, Alice in Chains. Happy youtubing.

yay, string instruments! I play guitar. I'm into rock and classical. I mostly play classical, but listen to rock. I won't even bother naming bands, because there are way to many to list, but I like indie, pop rock (as in not popular rock, but pop rock, like Head Automatica and The Strokes), and metal. I know, they're sort of opposites, but it works out some how. :D

Float on is by Modest Mouse.

My MIT admissions theme song is Time to Pretend by MGMT.

response #230, this has to be a record, or close to it.

@ Samara there are currently 231 responses (counting this once) Among those, there are repeated users, non-EA applicants, non-2013 applicants. Therefore, I say that we represent a separate class of MIT EA applicants who are clearly devoted and could all feasibly get in

@anonymous: Yes, but I think Goldspot did a rendition of it.

Good luck everybody! Just one day left!

I second Cookie Lady's suggestions, particularly The Shins and Interpol. Great bands. I would suggest The Strokes and Bloc Party, also great bands that are not mainstream and are very good. Indeed, most, if not all mainstream rock more or less sucks. ^_^

@Matt A.

I think it's the adrenalin rush - so many people posting!

My admit song will definitely be Bollywood

The Shins are definitely mainstream.

I agree...i don't think we're gonna stop...even after 9 pm 2morrow

especially not after 9pm 2moro
though matt might post another blog

true...then we'll just switch over to that

Trying to write a 6 pg paper for AP english is really difficult knowing that in less than 24 hrs I may get accepted into THE BEST school ever.

Good luck to ALL!

Mainstream where?

Cookie Lady - I concur.

By mainstream, I mean like Fall Out Boy/Paramore/Jonas Brothers. The Shins are definitely not on that status, at least in the US. Are you in another country?

Nope. Just in NYC

@Justin

Most of us are probably the ones who are going to get deferred and although I have no experience in these type of situations, I believe that will probably take more than just few hours to get recovered from the extreme traumatic stress. In other words, d(blogs)/dt 9.

Moment of truth in less than 24 hours.....

Man doing page long analyses for 39 poems is so much harder when there's a countdown running on the side of my screen where the days are at 00...

I wasn't asking you that, I was asking "Uhh..." that. Sorry if I wasn't clear...

Hey - decision are up! Just joking!! :)

you have a very good point...ive been mentally preparing myself all week to be deffered, as statistics tell me i will be. well, this is my last post b4 2morrow. so good luck, and if u stop posting after 2morrow, it was good talkin to all u guys!

@ Samuel M: Six pages may be hectic, but my class is so used to writing long papers that my AP English teacher recently restricted us to two pages maximum. It really forces one to think about what they are saying as you can't add on the useless information you are used to adding on.

So I'm trying to decide what to do if I don't get in. What are you guys planning to do? Cut school? Gorge on chocolate? Big, expensive dinner? Sappy movie marathon? Jump off a bridge(jk)? Karaoke?

Gorging on bread and Ramen to pass the time.

Writing poetry analysis for school tomorrow.

Hard to concentrate.

22.39.29...

One person from my school got in three years ago; I have no idea if anyone else has got in or even applied. I'm kind of amused at the people talking about their "small" school sizes, though; 700 in one grade? That's bigger than my entire school xD. There are 161 kids in my senior class.
I'm not going to bother listing off the bands I listen to, as they're all obscure celtic/quebecois/contra dance/etc and no one would have any clue who I was talking about :P
The anticipation is making it very difficult for me to study for tomorrow's linear algebra final...

Hi… I am Niroshni, from Sri Lankan..... I hold a Green Card!!! :) yet... my admission @ MIT is quite doubtful coz’ have studied in a NON-US based syllabus... and I really don’t know how it will affect the decisions!!!!

I seriously CAN’T play this WAITING GAME any more.....to make matters worse.... I have to wait an extra day to get my decisions... coz’ of the time difference!!!!! :( :( :( Hopefully, I will get in....we all will...!!!

And yea.... back here, People are SCARED to apply to MIT... Mainly coz’ English is NOT our mother tongue!!! I am the first to apply from our school…… **yay**

I am just toooo nervous to even write!!!! Hmmm………

Gud luck 2 all u guyz!!!!!

For your convenience, I've initiated the MIT 2013 Facebook Group. Hopefully the official one.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/create.php?success=1&customize=&gid=41040127333#/group.php?gid=41040127333

Join!

161 in your senior class? We have about 80 kids in our senior class....

Oops, I appear to have ruin the page layout by posting an overly lengthy URL. Sorry Matt, feel free to delete my last comment.

Repost: Hey guys! Look! It's the MIT Class of 2013 Facebook Group! Add yourselves!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41040127333#/group.php?gid=41040127333

Best of luck to all EA applicants! And thanks to Matt and all the other admissions officers for spending so much time reading our applications and for making this process as transparent and enjoyable as possible. At the very least, it has been a valuable learning experience (about the application/admissions process in general; I think my other apps will be much less stressful as a result).

Tomorrow, I intend to eat cake and futilely attempt to complete my government outlines for the three hours between 6 PM PST and the 9 PM Heroes finale. Anyone else a fan?

Im up late (as always) trying to write my final paper for Honors English II,

Freakin blogs and countdowns distracting me!

To everyone that applied EA, 3 things.

GL, HF, DD!

(Good luck, have fun, dont die!)

Happy 15th everyone! (new holiday, just roll with it :P)
-J Go.

I am so pumped. Good luck to everybody.

good luck everyone!!!!!

Wow, guys. I am pretty stressed. I definitely have no focus right now. Even before the fire, the one source of calm at the moment, whose warth captures and numbs me, I burn; I ache to know. As the announcement draws closer, I realize more and more that this is truly the case; I ache to KNOW. There is a level of prestige associated with this school, but at the same time a friendly, embracing atmosphere that makes the friendly, embracing rejection message all the more sharp, biting. This message may be the last I ever post to the MIT website, it may be the first of many. All the same, no matter what poorly organized, completely incohesive ramblings I continue to jot, the hours that I despise do not ask how they ought to behave.

Good night, fellow applicants. I most sincerely hope that those who will get the greatest education and who will be happiest at MIT gain admission, even if that does not include me. And for those who do not, I hope just as deeply that you find the college that suits you.

Ditto... I can't even sleep because I'm so nervous about the decision and my tests.

@oy/anonymous
I can't sleep either. Tests...decision...
So anxious I can hardly breathe. I spent about 3 hours freaking out at people.

I sincerely wish the best of luck for all, whether it be admission or perhaps another college which may better suit you.

Good night and good fight.

So I finally finished my english paper. All I can do now is sit and wait. I doubt that I'll be able to concentrate in any class except BC. And I love heroes, it's an amazing show. :)

Woot! School was cancelled here in Missouri, although I still need to take my math final. Can't wait for decisions to come out!

Yeah, snow day in Missouri...hope it's easier and not harder to keep myself occupied for the next 13 hours...lol

So I guess in roughly 12 hours, 55 minutes, many of our lives will be "set"... haha, I know that getting into MIT is probably many of our's (mine too) dream, but hey, don't make it the only dream;

Lucky for me (or unlucky, depending on how you see it) I'm an international applicant, so I still have around 3 months of anxiety to deal with. Hope you all keep your head up high even after decisions are posted :D.

Judgement Day =) Good Luck to all. Remember that at the end of the day we have to accept the decision made by those in the admissions commitee with grace. Also remember "Grace under Pressure." =)

Decisions are out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

according to the timer at http://www.didigetintomit.com/..

Don't get our hopes up. T_T I have been waiting for a long time and today is seeming to drag on so please no false hopes. Hope fully I got in, but good luck to all. 12 hrs 14 mins left till Judgement Time.

I thought the judgment time is 9:00 AM. Oh!

Hi

Me too, Avneet! Argg. We must wait another 11 hours. I suppose.

10 hours and 20 minutes...
I'm in school right now and should probably be doing something a little more productive. The good news is I have taco bell waiting for me next period :D Haha, its the little things that make up life. Don't bite your fingernails off everyone, whatever happens, happens for a reason. (I only wish I could convince myself of that first!)

10 hours and 20 minutes...
I'm in school right now and should probably be doing something a little more productive. The good news is I have taco bell waiting for me next period :D Haha, its the little things that make up life. Don't bite your fingernails off everyone, whatever happens, happens for a reason. (I only wish I could convince myself of that first!)

btw... yay for tubes :D

9 hrs and 18 minutes!

Is anyone else having trouble getting on to decisions.mit.edu?

hahaha, my school's firewall blocked http://www.didigetintomit.com/ , how odd...

Ha, the decisions will be released one hour into my Calc. 2 Exam. Hmm...I guess I'll be finding out around 11 then. How annoying.

8 hrs and 23 minutes!

It's freeeezzzziinnnnggg in the Midwest today!
(High of 4 here in good old Ankeny, Iowa)
Gonna just sit next to the warmth of computer and wait for decisions!

To all the EA applicants who are biting their organs off one by one in anticipation :

All the best. May you get The Tube. Try listening to Death Cab For Cutie, Travis and Kings Of Convenience to calm yourselves down. Sure to work :)

8 hours 28 minutes seems like such a long time when it isn't...

Don't panic - Coldplay; It's very relaxing

Congrats to all those to make it! Hang tough

6 hrs and 40 mins!

Ahhhh....I cant wait...Just 6 and a half hours left

WOW!! I Never thought a Day could Drag on For Ever. I am wondering why 9:00 P.M.? Most Colleges give their Decision by 5:00 P.M. But still Judgement Time in 6 hrs 19 mins. Good Luck to All =)

WOW!! I Never thought a Day could Drag on For Ever. I am wondering why 9:00 P.M.? Most Colleges give their Decision by 5:00 P.M. But still Judgement Time in 6 hrs 19 mins. Good Luck to All =)

Apparently RAs find out in 3 months and -1 weeks, according to didigetintomit.com.

decisions are out... NOT!! (sorry guys, I HAD to)

wonder what the admissions people are doing right now...

4 hours and 48 minutes to go... Best of luck to us, eh?

whats done is done...

Good luck everyone!

Hopefully I'll be meeting you next fall :P

EA Applicants!
I updated the site to include a few new goodies.
Check it out, I think you'll like it.

http://www.DidIGetIntoMIT.com/

Might I recommend meditation to relieve stress?
-Jamo

Nice additions to the website!! Very cool. I wish everyone the best of luck.

wow brandon. you really deserve a spot in the MIt lol. I cant watch the video, though. not available in my country. what is the name of it?

Brandon, LOVE IT! :] Cheered me up immediately. Plus the design is beautiful.

@Anonymous - It's Mika's "Take It Easy", which has already been mentioned several times here. Semi-official song of MIT EA's this year, I guess?

@Brandon

Good choice of music! Official MIT EA theme song.

Ha, I love the video. It gave me 3 minutes and 47 seconds while I wait for the decision.

*gave me something to do for 3 minutes and 47 seconds while I wait...

I find it hard to focus on my French homework while waiting for this... listening to Symphony X helps. Three hours, twenty-nine minutes till decisions are released!

Did anyone else feel like today stretched on foreverrrrrrr?

@Brandon - great addition!

I can't handle this.... >.

Not to hassle anyone, but...

2 hours, 53 minutes, 40 seconds left.

Best of luck to you all.

Hopefully, including me.

How many people are they planning to accept, out of the 5,000 applicants?

Honestly, just looking at the # of people replying to this stresses me out. Well, I'm off to cheerleading practice now, and I'll be back around 9. Hopefully time will pass quicker. Good luck to everyone here!

@Jessica - They accept no more than 30% of their freshman class during EA, which is about 500 people.

Assuming the 13-minute early rule, only 130 minutes to go!

Time: 2hrs 21min...anyone else find today terrifying and yet overwhelmingly exciting?

@Nic
This is definitely the most terrifying, exciting, and suspenseful day of my life.

Oh my good grief anxiety is consuming my innards one by one, starting with the kidneys.
Shame, those were the first I was going to sell on the black market to bribe the admissions officers.

i can't even study for my math final tomorrow :(

haha no matter what happens, I don't think I'll be able to stop reading the blogs on this site :)

Good luck, everybody!

May the mit gods be with you!

special message from MIT admissions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

I've been writing a TOK journal entry since 5:00PM today about the wait, it'll be very interesting to read this in a couple of days/weeks/years...

Wow. I can not get any studying done for my exams tomorrow, darn stress. My anxiety is such that it can not be communicated with words.... I sure do hope that there are no glitches with the decisions site....

Jeez dont u guys have homework

Good luck everyone. I'm trying not to get my hopes up because I know it's a long shot for anyone, but the wait is still killing me.

I think we all just need to reaffirm to ourselves that no matter the outcome, it's not the end of the world...

...Right?

@ Ryan
I don't get in... I COMMIT SUICIDE. just kidding OR AM I

Yah we have homework but really we are trying to use this "anxiety" as an excuse. =) Actually really most of us are kind of ADD today with this distraction, but hey whatever I am trying to multitask right now. I can't believe judgement time would this exciting...NOT. =P

So close!

OMG im gonna faint even though I didn't apply

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Important info for anyone applying to MIT, EA or RA!

haha i'm glad my original mika reference played out so well :)

nice site, brandon

@Winslow
Thanks Winslow. That is just what I needed. :)

all my friends who applied to yale EA got deferred, and yale has a HIGHER early acceptance rate than regular. i am trying to come to terms with the fact that i'll be deferred/rejected. it sucks. but it's better than getting my hopes up. sorry to depress you all. you sound like amazing people and i REALLY hope you all get in. i wish we all could...i already feel like a connection with each of you just for having gone through this process too.

@ Winslow

Thank you for that. Btw I lose.

@ Everyone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBpQVhCMb8

One hour!

bah

one more hour!

only 3240 seconds left!

I'm calling a Deferred for me

OMG 45 Minutes Left!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

http://www.didigetintomit.com

I'm calling a Deferred for me too. 46 more minutes!!

Hi Kerri

I am so going to get deferred.

@Ehsan
omg that video is so sweet ^^
all the girls on here must agree, no?

"161 in your senior class? We have about 80 kids in our senior class...."

I'd just like to say, 17. There are 17 people in my homeschool's senior class.

17.

Accepted :DDDDD

This is one of those truly bittersweet moments in life. I can't wait any longer. Good Luck to everyone. Only if they could accept all 5000 of us.

^ see? there's just always someone who will top you here, lol

that was at the last anon, btw, not samule m or john smith

35 minutes to go...see you all on one side of the line or the other

It's a lie! We'll all get deferred! Haha
@ Everyone

I'm just waiting for that homeschooled kid to come and say "Oh, guess how many there are in MY graduating class? That's right, one"

Yep - I am almost sure that I am deferred!!

@Lexy
That's me

Anyone else been sitting around doing nothing for the last four hours?

nope....been studying for finals!

Does anyone here watch heroes???

I am terrified! And probably deffered. And cannot focus despite my Chem final tomorrow!

I am terrified! And probably deffered. And cannot focus despite my Chem final tomorrow!

The doing nothing sounds about right. My graduating class has 381 kids. :(

Is anyone else listening to "Push-It" by Salt-N-Pepa? Or is that just me?

YES! Finally someone did it! Thank you Winslow for RickRolling us! I haven't been properly RickRolled in way too long... only on the MIT Admissions blog.

27 mins! We made it! Good luck to all!

Luckily, finals are over, Disregarding Metals, at my school.

@Hannah
Yeah, I watch Heroes. I wasn't going to, but I might have to tonight just to cheer me up...wait sorry...think of the glass half-full...unless you're going into engineering; then it's a poorly designed container.
Oh well...21 min

haha i know! I'm definitely watching it as a cheer-me-up. And yes...I'm going into civil engineering...so the word "admit" being there is VERY unlikely.

Inside I'm still FREAKING out though!!!

19 MINUTES!

18 Minutes!!! AAHHHHHHH

18 mins

If the 13 minute rule still applies, then isn't there only like 5 minutes left

17 mins

@ Anonymous
Yep, I know how you feel...Aero/Astro for me...propulsion

Good luck everyone!

Large graduation class is great. With many people around, it's easy to experience the just of diversity that underlines the entire world...

^^^ me too dude, aerospace engg.

15 mins

sorry that anonymous was me, I forgot to enter my name :-(

16 min!!

15.........
Or perhaps 2.
Depending on which rules you are following!
Good luck to all!

It appears we are in a time machine...? ha

14 mins

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ Zorayr

I agree. My class has 505 kids and it gives you a chance to adapt to being around different people so that you're used to it later in life

Best of luck everyone!

13 mins

Good luck, all of you! If you're accepted, that's AMAZING! :) I can only hope to be in the same place next year! And if not, remember that you're still amazing awesome people, and one letter from one college doesn't change that a bit.

-cheers you on while working on physics-

12 mins

best of luck to all of U

11 mins

11 MINUTES!!!!

Good luck everybody!

MIT is my best choice.It does not matter what my result turn to be. I have strong faith in one old saying:

There is a will and there is a way.

10 mins

Is it just me, or did the decisions page just go down?

It did!!!!!!!!!!! Omfg.

9 mins omg!

decisions are up

THEYRE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://decisions.mit.edu/decision.php

Difered, Time to get my supplements together!

My F5 key broke.

Deferred!

DEFERRED...of course :-(
at least it's not rejected! :-)

Rejected

Rejected

deferred..what a suprise

Deferred! yay. Now I gotta do those stupid apps... >_

deferred

OH

MY

GOD

I am in...

CONGRATS!!! I'm so jealous

how many people got accepted/deferred/rejected

deferred. do i have to do anything now, or just wait?

deferred.

deferred. omg.

Alex, I'm with you guys.
Just wait and do the best you can this year. They consider it a lot.

Deferred

Hey Matt, could you post some stats? I'm curious.

Thanks mucho.

Deferred. the feeling sucks.

Deferred. Is there any way to edit the application? I feel like I am disadvantaged now that I applied early and all of the regular applicants have had a lot longer to finish. I'd like to add some things if possible. Also need to get some recommendations ready :-/. Congrats to those who were accepted!

Yes. You're right Sharon. C. L, "When there is a will, there is a way"

deferred

deferred

Accepted!

declined: dont even wanna go to stanford. but its soo easy to get into u of i. (from chicago)

Rejected. Drat! Congrats to all who were accepted.

deferred...very disappointed :(

Hello, Matt!! I was deferred today.
Thank you for not rejecting me.
Viva la Institvte :)

Brittany H.

I want a graph of the number of posts on this board as a function of time.

Congrats Cap ,Anna .Those who got deffered don't be upset I am sure life has something more special for you .

YAY for tube!

yeah :) Mommy, what's a tube?

A Special Message

Congrats to all Class of 2013. For those deferred and rejected, This has been a long journey EA suspense. Remember [Risk Taking] --never back down, never give up, never be afraid to fail. You have fallen, but you can get back up again. So, Keep on fighting--Keep on moving. I hope you will find your place in life. You hear that? Someone's knocking.

As for myself and many others, we are still applying, Regular Action.

"And so, the the baton is passed on from EA to RA; life goes on, another day passes. Here it comes--the final lap."