<p>I would say go for it. MIT would understand (if you mentioned to them) what the purpose of the site is. Anything to show off your web dev skills.</p>
<p>Getting things done is an art that you really should learn. It takes drive and management skills to see a project through to completion, but when it does it is worth it. That skill is very much in demand by companies as project managers becomes an increasingly common job title, and the job becomes increasingly harder.</p>
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<p>One thing I’ll have to do is disable new registrations for a few months, because you never know what the admissions people’ll think of both incoming and current users (considering that I have no control over them) and temporarily make it invite-only. </p>
<p>The reason why I usually can’t get things done is because of coordination, as people have other things to do which usually grinds progress to a halt. For example, we were packaging our own Debian-based distro but the two main people leading the project had a lot of personal stuff going on so it’s been discontinued.</p>
<p>I can only get personal projects done if they’re relatively short to complete, as if it’s a longer one I usually get mired in a lot of other things and it never comes to fruition. I don’t have the support of a large organized group- I’m on my own, and it doesn’t exactly help when my parents are derisive about them, usually asking whether it’ll make me rich or help me get into colleges.</p>
<p>I checked out your website. I’m an MIT student in EECS. I’m impressed. </p>
<p>I also started programming at 10 and had similar experiences with CS as you have, and you’re doing well. Keep up the good work, and try and use your game programming as a platform to explore interesting mathematics, physics, programming and AI concepts.</p>
<p>I hope you get in.</p>
<p>I consider myself quite intelligent but I really didn’t get a word you guys were talking there LOL.</p>