<p>I’ll be on my HS baseball team’s spring break trip. We have a game at 5 that day, hopefully we’re back at the hotel by 9:26.</p>
<p>well, they’ll go back to 1:59, of course. Or, use lotto number again (if they’re lucky). I think the admissions decisions in 2015 (when I’m hopefully graduating from MIT, if I actually get in) will be the best (and I hope that pi day will be beastly on the MIT campus).</p>
<p>My son is laughing uproariously. He used a double rainbow reference in one of his MIT essays!</p>
<p>I’ll be in my home, or maybe tutoring someone in my home (doing it for quite a long time). Although for me, given my location, my decision comes out at 5:26pm on 3/15. Still nonetheless, I’m excited, anxious, happy, and bit nervous all at the same time.</p>
<p>11:26 AM on 3/15. I love time zones.
I was really hoping after checking EA results after my stats semester exam that I wouldn’t have to check at school again… But alas, I’ll be finishing a Physics test.
It’s okay, I think it’s worth it.</p>
<p>sorry guys, I misread the “pm” in the timing, so decisions come out on 5:26AM for me not 5:26pm… but wait, I’ll be asleep by then, I’ll hopefully have a sweet dream about acceptance, and I just hope for the best then, good luck everyone.</p>
<p>P.S – I honestly have no idea whether if I’ll be sleeping on the day or not.</p>
<p>gl guys (10 char</p>
<p>haha my decision comes out 12:26pm then for me >.< wow when im in school hahaha</p>
<p>I have my Physics mock that morning :(</p>
<p>Man sucks for you guys, im gunna be on spring break. lolol</p>
<p>I’m with michalewiggins, victory (but it also means the wait will be terrible on Monday w/o school as a distraction).</p>
<p>I keep getting knots in my stomach and serious headaches. I kind of wish that they hadn’t announced pi day. Anyway, I’ve already chosen the most splendid overpass if things don’t turn out well, so happy March 14th to all you highway drivers:)</p>
<p>ahhh less than four days!!!</p>
<p>i’m scared =/</p>
<p>Today I took a calc quiz. I think I aced it. I was ready to get a coffee, sit in a two hour musical rehearsal, and go home and start writing a research paper for my Japan Seminar. Then there was an 8.9 earthquake. I crouched under a table and held onto one of my friends. It was the first time in over 6 years living in Japan that I’ve had to evacuate. People were crying. My mom was on a plane that was supposed to land, but the airports closed. It was cold, and we weren’t allowed to go back inside to get coats. We shared blankets. They finally let us leave. I was responsible for a bus full of loud middle schoolers for 9 hours in traffic trying to get home, so thankful that I still had one to go to.
As much as I want to go to MIT, I finally realized that there are more important things.
Pi day is something that will happen, but no matter what, it won’t be devastating. I’ll still have a home to go to and people who love me. My family will still be there to send me panicked facebook messages and my friends will still be there to check up on me.
No matter what happens on March 14th, please keep it in perspective.
Tell your family and friends that you love them every chance you get, and never take for granted the people that support and care about you.
(That was a super long rant, so sorry. OMG three days!!!)</p>
<p>Cue end of thread!!!</p>
<p>Well said mochahappiness! Well said! :D</p>
<p>I hope everything turns out okay for you and your family, mocha happiness! And my heart goes out to Japan. I was in India during the Tsunami of 2004, and I know how heart breaking and terrifying it is to see your home wrenched apart by something like this.</p>
<p>Haha OGTs start next week… Which means I don’t have school until 10:30 all week!!
I refuse to let Monday ruin that. :)</p>
<p>Mocha,
Please post more about your safety and that of those close to you. The pictures showed such a devastating scene.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your concern.
When I posted that, I had made it home safe. I know where my family is and that they’re safe. My home is mostly intact, aside from a few dishes and picture frames.
I’m so incredibly lucky. Nritya, I’m so sorry about what you went through with the tsunami. My neighborhood hit that hard, for which I’m indescribably grateful. I too am keeping those who weren’t as fortunate in my thoughts and prayers.
My school is out in the suburbs of Tokyo, some stuff broke, but no one was hurt. In my apartment downtown the gas still isn’t back up, so there’s no hot water and the stove isn’t working, I think one or two dishes broke, but no one was hurt. Tokyo didn’t get it that bad. A lot of the pictures on the news are coming from sites closer the the epicenter. (Miyagi, for those who don’t know, is one of the northernmost prefectures of the main island. That’s where the 8.9 was. Tokyo, according to the Japan meteorological agency earthquake page, was around 7, depending on the location.) Aside from the fires, the structural damage in Tokyo wasn’t too bad.
My mom was supposed to land yesterday coming back from a trip to New York, but Narita airport closed, so she landed in Nagoya, where the shaking wasn’t so bad. The shinkansen trains are back up, so she’s on her way home now, she was still in the air when it happened. My friends all got home safe at some point during the night, or if their parents weren’t home, found someone to stay with.
Right now I’m sitting on my bed, the aftershocks stopped during the night and the earth is still and I’m so thankful for it I could cry.</p>
<p>I think we spend a lot of time thinking about motion and appreciating motion. You want to be that over-committed, masochistic freak who does everything and is always going from one place the next finishing something starting another school, work, home, study, SATs, essays, tests, school, sleep? probably not, friends, school, extracurriculars, home, sleep, rinse, wash, repeat and we’re always moving because we’re so passionate we can’t stop nor would we ever want to. So we forget what stillness feels like, it becomes something that makes us feel guilty, because we should be doing something, or it feels vulnerable, because you’re always moving and moving targets are harder to take down.
Take a moment and be still, completely still. Relish in the fact that you can do that.</p>
<p>Japan is certainly benefiting from being the most prepared country in the world right now. I can’t think of many other places where the trains would be back up less than 24 hours after a 7-8.9.</p>