I almost don’t want to get hyped for MIT results after being hurt by Caltech lol. The college admissions process is brutal
THREE DAYS LEFT!
72 HOURS TO GO!
WHO WILL PREVAIL!
IT’S THE FIGHT OF THE SEASON! PERPETUALLY ANXIOUS COLLEGE SENIOR VS. M-I-GODDDAM-T!
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More like 2 days and 18.5 hours.
So 66.5 hours.
Really scared! I have been studying for my finals for the past two days, but my heart skips a beat every time I think about MIT.
Wow!
I, as an atheist, am praying to god every 5 minutes.
Don’t want t be heart broken.
How do you guys do it? Are you even able to study properly? Have you reached the point where you say if I get rejected by MIT this few points of grade drop won't really matter anyways?
Just so you know:
I will check the decisions at Wednesday at 11pm so that I can cry by myself if MIT rejects me; I’m a guy.
Truly sucks. I realize there are a substantial amount of outstanding students.
Will I be able to win the battle if I pay twice the price? Heck, I would pay 10 times the price if you would rig the game in my favor… JK.
@peanut10 I thought I would have cried if Caltech rejected me, and it did, but I honestly had no inclination to at all. Plus family is a good support system. They have your back!
@peanut10 I think people think I’m insane at this point. I’m so stressed out about decisions in real life. I can run around online telling people I’ll be perfectly okay either way, but five minutes later, I’ll be miserable again. I don’t know…
But my finals aren’t really something to study for. Calc, physics, chem, gov, English, and computer maintenance are all too easy.
Stats, I’ll be fine if I study the period before the test. But yeah, guys, we’ll be fine. It just feels awful right now.
@peanut10 Me: I literally have 95%'s in all my courses this year, so a few points won’t hurt me XD. I took a bunch of advanced math classes (which aren’t a lot of work, and I know most of the material) so I’m figuratively on cruise mode.
I do wish decisions came out a bit earlier, though. I need to decide which schools I need to apply to.
@qwertyiop I have decent grades, too.
Yeah, Linear Algebra was not that much work, but Multi-variable Calculus definitely was. Specially when I had to do those cross products by hand at the beginning of the course!
God!
Some memories best be buried! Literally took a page to workout a simple Unit Normal Vector calculation, and then, when I sometimes screwed up the sign up in the matrix somewhere, I would just be really pissed. Seriously!
Don’t remind me of those classes!
HORRIBLE!!! I AM FINE WITH MATH, BUT NOT TORTURE!!!
:((
I have an abstract algebra and linear algebra final tomorrow. Eeek! Best of luck to you guys with finals… and with MIT decisions most of all 
Meanwhile, on the West Coast, I don’t have finals till the end of January 
I’m on the west coast and I have finals starting on Wednesday… @smartypants57
@Fireball99 awkward… Well I don’t have finals until the end of January, and I don’t know any other schools in the area that have finals this week (Greater Seattle Area).
2 days and 3 hours.
51 hours, guys!
School and I have not been getting along lately (horrible mix of depression and stress). I think I need some techniques to make sure my grades don’t go to crap when I don’t get in. Any tips?
^It’s a bit too late to tell you to front-load your grades, is it? I worked slightly harder than usual (aka actually doing hmwk) and took nicer classes to make sure my grades could take the hit.
But right now, maybe try to finish your other collegeapps before the MIT decision comes out? Might ease up the workload.
@peanut10 lol multi. I learned all of this ahead of time (I usually read and learn everything in the textbook within the first month of any math/science class), so sometimes I want to like use green’s theorem or sth so I don’t have to do massive amounts of calculations but then the teacher won’t let me :(.
Do you also use differentials to do all your work? I’m more comfortable with like reversing and combining differentials rather than like actually doing the substitutions in integrals. Non-standard analysis is fun.
Is it just me or did anyone else feel that the lack of a ~650 word essay left their application fairly bland and/or uninformative? I felt like I only answered a few short questions and input my stats. Hopefully my interview gave it more substance.
@infiniteCircle I totally agree with you. As I am submitting Princeton and Harvard apps, I am content that, rejected or accepted, they evaluated me as a complete person. The MIT app felt very incomplete
admissions stats
http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2015/c.html
@CollegeGuru2020 Yeah. I was confident about my Stanford app because I had so many long and short questions to answer so it all came down to my writing and my stats, but for MIT I felt like I just sent in a few numbers and now my fate is going to be decided on a few (mainly) arbitrary numbers! Very stressful.