<p>Hey guys!!! :)</p>
<p>Have fun!
Good luck1
I hope you all get accepted! :D</p>
<p>Good Luck - think positive! My DS applied (we are from Canada…likely chance is about 2%; but if you don’t apply your chances are 0.0000000000%).</p>
<p>In Canada, we had this incessantly positive politician named Jack Layton. He was a Toronto Counselor, and tried his hand at a variety of political spots; mostly losing, but never giving up and sometimes his new tries actually stuck. Always positive and always cheerful and pleasant. And you know what??? several years ago his left wing federal party (NDP) came pretty darn close to winning it all. Sadly he soon died from cancer and the whole country mourned, but this enthusiasm was a lesson learned by me and my son. Take risks, keep trying, never give up. Because sometimes, the odds maybe in your favour and you will take it all. </p>
<p>@kidsteph, that’s pretty deep man. It’s true that even my chance of getting in is 1%. That certainly is a better chance than 0% if I don’t apply at all. @Mitdreamer, it looks like that you stole my name idea :D. I thought I’m the only dreamer here. If you get accepted to MIT then don’t forget to give me some credits HAA. Even though Harvard is my top school, but MIT is also my dream school. I would have a hard time deciding which one to go if I get accepted to both. </p>
<p>I have a perpetual struggle going on inside my head atm. </p>
<p>1.) I imagine myself staring at the screen in shock, I jump up, run downstairs, almost tackle my mom, tell her, immediately phone my dad at work not caring what the hell he’s doing, I facebook my sister, etc.</p>
<p>2.) I stare at the screen blankly, promptly log out, close the browser, go to my room, sit down, stare off into the distance, and who knows what I’ll do. </p>
<p>cpraf, Hoping for your #1, but if it is #2, then I hope you will have other great choices.</p>
<p>after all, there is always MIT for grad school…</p>
<p>I’m totally prepared to be rejected/ accepted. Ice cream for brain freeze if I get rejected. I’d still eat ice cream if I get accepted. As an international it’s sooo hard to be optimistic. :(</p>
<p>On this Pi Day, many hearts will be… </p>
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<p>Sliced.</p>
<p>i already know im getting rejected, but i’m not going to say the same for the other top schools i applied to. i made a major mistake on my application and it was too late to go back and change it. also some of my essay responses were weak. </p>
<p>Hey guys!
I’m an EA adMIT so I don’t really belong lurking in your countdown thread, but I thought I’d give you this:</p>
<p>When I applied last November, I was also 100% sure that I wasn’t getting in. I had obsessively posted ‘Chance me!’ threads (horrible idea) and consistently got ‘scored’ “generic super-reaches.” I had taken 0 APs, I had no outstanding (or even non-trivial) achievements, and I had had to email the admissions office to correct my application because I apparently can’t do enough math to figure out what year I entered high school.</p>
<p>But despite all that, somehow, MIT saw something that they liked. So don’t kill yourselves with rejession (‘rejected’ depression) just yet. Suspense can be fun if you use it as fuel.</p>
<p>@jerryaeroastro lol</p>
<p>“No matter whose name is called when I open this envelope tonight, I’m leaving here a winner.” – Robert Downey Jr. at the 2014 Golden Globes. </p>
<p>something for you guys to remember on Friday</p>
<p>I don’t have a single top choice, but MIT is certainly up there. It’s just so nerve wracking to think about, especially because we can count down the days, hours, minutes seconds… Also I will be on a field trip when the results come out and I will have to wait until I get home to check because I don’t want to get rejected in front of my friends. Anyway, that’s depressing, but I’m trying to stay positive I guess. Good luck to everyone! All we can do now is wait.</p>
<p>@kidsteph: “sometimes, the odds maybe in your favour and you will take it all.”
…and then die shortly thereafter.</p>
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<p>I was leading a community service project when decisions came out. They came out literally at the time the project started, and I didn’t have a smart phone. Had a hard time concentrating that day… though I was convinced that I was going to get rejected anyway, so when I got home, I took a shower and stuff before I checked :)</p>
<p>What’s the ideal way to open the decision? Assuming that one will be rejected…</p>
<p>(MIT has grown to mean the world to me over the last couple of years, and I don’t even know how to handle the fact that all this effort will converge into a letter that is 4 days and 21 hours away from ruining my life)</p>
<p>(ruining my life was an exaggeration btw, I’m already expecting a rejection so I won’t really go into a crisis lol)</p>
<p>It will be online, so the best way is to create a macro that records your screen for say 30 seconds and 30 frames per second. After you have created this macro, which will be call M for the sake of this discussion,
-go to the decisions website and enter your login info
-press enter and immediately shut off your screen
-launch M and scroll slowly down the page
-after 30 seconds, alt f4 or ctrl w to exit the page.
-go to your video and print each frame
(make sure that you have one of those legacy slow, line by line printers.
if not, use the highest possible settings on your printer to slow printing)
-print all 900 frames and slowly wait for the results
(hopefully, MIT made the site so that the decision is not immediately available, but requires some scrolling, else it will be on the first printed page).
If you printer prints at a pathetic 8 seconds per page, you could literally spend 2 hours waiting for your decision.</p>
<p>That’s the best way!</p>
<p>HAHAHA… Funny thing is, I actually do have an extremely slow printer</p>
<p>But, in all seriousness: I should probably open it by myself, right?</p>
<p>I have work that day until 9 PM.
I’m gonna open it with my family just so I have someone to cry to when I see the decision…
I wish the committee thinks I am unique enough to offer me acceptance to my dream school.
Best of luck everyone!!</p>