Why Tau…classic Vi Hart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ
@cbsuth: That seems to confirm it. My other thought was that 6 and 28 are the first two perfect numbers.
(pi is still the cooler circle constant.)
Hell yea! Nothing beats our beloved pi.
Just wondering how many days after the decisions so accepted students get their tubes?
I prefer Tau because it simplifies the observing of angle measurements on the unit circle.
Date = Pi (probably because it is a very popular constant and irrational number. We were taught Pi since 2nd grade)
Time = 2 × Pi (they could prefer Pi time, but might be possible that Mathematicians at MIT are high at 6:28pm (for no reason), so they chose Tau and not Pi Time)
That moment when you know you’re going to get rejected, but still feel as if there is a ray of hope 
Anyone who is uneducated enough to think pi is better than Tau doesn’t deserve to get into MIT
jk but not really tho
When you have a vivid dream that you got accepted. Oh mind, you are playing games again.
Just about everybody here is ganging up on poor old Pi, so I thought I’d come to it’s defense. The most well-known of all formulas involving Pi is not Euler’s formula (though that might be true for MIT applicants). It’s the formula for the are of a circle. I would bet that more people know that than any other Pi-based formula. And look what happens to that formula when you substitute Tau for Pi:
Π * r^2 becomes ½Τr^2
Who’s simplifying now???
What does everyone plan on studying?
(any humanities people?)
& euler’s identity becomes annoying too–like why say root(e)^taui = -1 when you can just say e^pii = -1?
if we define coolness as 1/value, then pi is cooler than tau.
Could this nor’easter heading up this week cause decisions to be delayed?
@scarletwitchx Euler’s identity becomes e^(tau*i) = 1 if you square both sides …
@Lvillegrad There is a good argument for that too 
@ptolemycleopatra I can’t imagine so. One has to think that these decisions are pretty much ready to go at this point.
@ptolemycleopatra ^^yeah you’ll get the decision, but I suppose the physical copy might be held up in the post depending on where you live
me: do not think about MIT for the next three days
me to me: read 5000 blogs and cry