<p>im hoping they just sent the letters already and didnt tell us so we'll be pleasantly surprised that we dotn have to wait for the letters after they say "theyre in the mail"!</p>
<p>Right... I'm still saying the 15th at noon.</p>
<p>Remember how I was joking a while back (and maybe this was on the UChicago forum, I don't remember) about how with my luck, I would be scheduled to work Friday night (the current guess for UChicago decisions) and all day Saturday?</p>
<p>Guess the ONLY times I'm scheduled to work next week.</p>
<p>6-10 on Friday, 11-7 on Saturday.</p>
<p>WHY DOES GOD HATE ME.</p>
<p>My parents are definitely apprehensive about the cost, but I'm praying that I'll get some good scholarships. If not, then work-study and loans are in my future =/</p>
<p>I guess I have a flare for the expensive, since every school im applying to is 30,000+ besides for Rutgers...my parents are mildly panicking at this point that i haven't applied to cheaper schools....lol</p>
<p>Ducktape - at least you'll have access to a computer that weekend....im leaving for NH friday right after school to go snowboarding for the entire weekend... ill be waiting for the mail probably =)</p>
<p>No one kill me, but my parents have been saving for my brothers' and I's educations since before we were born because my mom had to drop out of college because of finances and my dad had to have his education paid for by his grandparents. My dad's an accountant, so he's been on top of this for a while, and I should actually be just fine for college.</p>
<p>... please don't wave angry fists at me.</p>
<p>so do email it out and then post or do it at the same time?
i remember last year or something they mailed it out first or something.
are we for sure going to find on the 15th noon?</p>
<p>ducktape - forget waving fists at you...its more like the proverbial bird.....=P haha no, thats great your parents stayed on top of it....im hoping if worst comes to worst ill have to shed a lot of tears at the financial aid building =)</p>
<p>If I get accepted...these kids are going to have a run for their money....
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<p>I'm in the same boat as ducktape in terms of fin aid.</p>
<p>And as far as decisions go... a friend of my mom's who is a college counselor called MIT about something and talked to an admissions officer who said that they're going to start selection committee on Monday. Which means... I'm thinking decisions won't be ready by the 15th, unfortunately.</p>
<p>This is depressing.</p>
<p>love the link jags</p>
<p>Didn't someone else say in another thread that last year, they started selection committee on Dec. 1st and decisions were out by the following Saturday? If they're done reading apps, all that's left is a quick summary of each applicant to the entire committee, followed by an accept, defer, or reject right? Shouldn't take more than ten minutes for each applicant. And if what happened last year was true, the 15th might still be a possibility. Don't give up hope yet! I'm sure MIT won't let us down :)</p>
<p>Of course, this is the I-haven't-done-any-of-my-other-applications part of me talking...</p>
<p>If it took so much longer to finish all the summaries, shouldn't it take longer overall to select, too?... </p>
<p>;) and I sympathize about the applications thing...</p>
<p>Crap. My mom is trying to help me be less stressed, and went out and rented A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting, both of which I've wanted to see for ages.</p>
<p>So I just got done watching Good Will Hunting, and I'm not thinking it was a good idea. Seriously, if decisions don't come out on the 15th, I will be seriously unhappy. I just want to know, even if it's that I'm rejected.</p>
<p>Playing internet chess is helping a bit with waiting.</p>
<p>But it's actually quite stressful, because for some reason, people are taking, like ten, fifteen minutes to move and then disappearing for hours at a time. And I'm making forty, fifty second moves. Patience...slipping....</p>
<p>I'd offer to play, but you'd absolutely kill me, I guarantee.</p>
<p>Anyone play Weboggle? We should get an MITEA12 group going there, too. Seriously, it's so much fun.</p>
<p>A Beautiful Mind was sad.. I really enjoyed it, though.
I just finished reading "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe", which was pretty light reading. It also made me more anxious, though, because I've seen the videotaped lectures from the General Relativity class at MIT, and the entire time I was thinking, "I want to be in that class someday, learning those things, living on that campus." Please god, I want to study astrophysics at MIT =/</p>
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<h2>I'd offer to play, but you'd absolutely kill me, I guarantee.</h2>
<p>Not necessarily. I'm a real destroyer if I'm focusing and paying attention, because crap like logic just makes natural sense to me, but...if I'm not paying attention, I'll be like, "Oh, this move will mess him up!" and then realize that, "Oh, there's a bishop over there that...is going to kill me. Wasted move and a queen dead without exchange!"</p>
<p>Of course, I'm usually not focusing and paying attention. Not my style.</p>
<p>See, that's my problem, too. Focusing intently for longer than about 10 seconds is not my style. If I've had enough caffeine to kill a small mammal, I'm golden. If not...</p>
<p>Hey, has anyone seen The Golden Compass yet? I think I'm going to go see it, if just to spite our religion teachers at school who are all encouraging us to boycott the movie.</p>
<p>Eat that, 13 years of Catholic education.</p>
<p>On the topic of religion, you're only allowed to see a movie made from a book if you've already read the book. Anything else is sacrilege!</p>
<p>And I need to see it, but doubt I'll have a chance to get outside for another three or four days.</p>
<p>Does the movie rule apply to plays too? I saw Les Mis in the theatre before I read the book. :/</p>
<p>Not necessarily, but I pity you for having had to see the Les Mis broadway.</p>
<p>It usually looks good (depends, of course, on the production troupe), but as far as the writing of the Broadway...it is questionable. Most notably in that there is, so far as I remember, absolutely no spoken dialog in the whole thing: They sing even the most simple things and still, most of the songs don't serve to move the plot forward.</p>
<p>Worse, because they do sing the parts that do move the plot forward, and the singing is usually operatic and broad, the plot moves at a snail's pace.</p>
<p>Sorry, my unabashed hate for the show may have biased the above message.</p>
<p>Oh, but when I say that it looks pretty, I'm not messing around. Whoever put it on when I went to see it...they had it done up so beautifully. It was incredible to look at, at least. Just...it wasn't worth it.</p>