Say Hi to PI !!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Well the day has finally arrived for which we have been waiting for almost a life time now ...</p>

<p>MIT is gonna release decisions in couple of hours from now ... And I know how are we feeling for that ==== Anxious==== Scared====Excited====Want to get over with it once and for all==== Confident (Just kidding in this one !!)</p>

<p>So Lets talk our guts out for one last time .. </p>

<p>What was our experience ... What are all we doing right now .. What'll we do after getting our decisions ..</p>

<p>Any last prayers ?? .. Vote of thanks !!?? .. Any messages that you wanna give .. (or take) </p>

<p>What are your expectations (Without any kinda modesty) ... What is your Gut saying to you ..</p>

<p>In all and in short .. What you feel like doing or saying in these last hours !! ?? Share it up !!</p>

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<p>Deferred early, not expecting the best. I honestly don’t have all that much math/science stuff going for me, and I’m a totally unhooked Asian male. On the bright side, I get to eat pie today.</p>

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<p>Lucky man … We dun have any sort of pies over here … Well I am an Indian male with kinda Computer Science on my side … Well I am hoping for the best but not expecting I guess !! So what r u doing to pass time ?? I mean besides eating pies !??</p>

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<p>(I don’t think >15 hours is a “couple of hours”…)</p>

<p>Anxiously awaiting my rejection. So far, my predictions of my decisions have had 100% accuracy. Don’t fail me now, MIT!</p>

<p>Seriously, I definitely do not expect an acceptance or even a waitlist. I’ve come to terms with the fact that my application is just weak compared to many stronger applicants. Best of luck to you all.</p>

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<p>I wish, so wish I could gear myself up for a rejection. It’s impossible that it’ll be any other way, I know that. I got rejected from a tier 2 school that hankers after internationals, ffs. Yet. Yet, I cannot <em>feel</em> the disconnect from MIT that a rejection necessitates. Will need to go through proper chronological mourning. Thanks a lot, Freud.</p>

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<p>Just watched three episodes of BattleStar Galactica in a row (only 11 left before the end :(), and on to one more now! Checking my big countdown clock in between each episode and refreshing mail and CC to see if anything new has come up with regard to MIT.</p>

<p>Going bowling with some friends tomorrow, and three of us, including myself, applied to MIT. I want to say with almost absolute certainty that at least one of us will get in, judging from the past 4 years, but I don’t know who. After picking up one of my best friends for bowling tomorrow, I’m going to make sure that he knows that no matter what happens what we have as friends won’t change for me.</p>

<p>It’s stressful and at the same time surreal. Like all, I’ve been waiting for the day to come for what seems like years now, ever since finding out about MIT. After being accepted to UChicago EA, I was unsure as to whether or not I would choose MIT over it, but I think I’ve rediscovered my love of this great university once more. I keep telling myself that even if I don’t get in I’ll still be at a great place, and I know that I’ll love it there, but then again I can’t shake the thought that I’ll always have regret or wonder, “What if I had gone to MIT?”</p>

<p>As the day gets closer I keep vacillating between “I have a great chance” and “Crap, please, please, please don’t reject or wait list me.” I’m going to ignore modesty and while I’m on the upside train of thought say that I think I’ve done the most that I could do and that out of all those applying I ought to have the best shot. Realistically, I think that my aforementioned friend will absolutely get in, and I’m just worrying about myself.</p>

<p>Scary stuff. Trying to rationalize and internalize all of the great advice on the blogs. That it’s silly to give up on everything if you get rejected, or that the rejection reflects on you as a person. I know deep down somewhere that that is true, but I can’t find where it is. If I get rejected, I’m going to have to persuade myself to trust the Admissions staff both at MIT and at UChicago, and trust that they made the right choices. Maybe I wouldn’t fit in at MIT, maybe U of C is where it’s at.</p>

<p>14:52:40 now. Freaking out. Hopefully I’ll be able to show this to my kids when they apply, so they can see how much I was freaking out. On that same note, I have a screen video capture program that I’m going to use to capture me opening the decisions site and to capture my reaction (the audio at least).</p>

<p>I’ve also got Science Fair and a research paper competition coming up on Friday and Thursday, respectively, so this week is rather eventful. If I make it to ISEF this year then it’ll be my 5th year in a row. And if I make it into MIT today then I’ll feel a lot of pressure lifted. On the other hand wait listed would make me feel like I have to win to get off of the wait list and on the admit list. The speed with which things are coming to an end, last Science Fair, school, etc., is rather alarming and emotionally distressing to some extent too. We’ll see, we’ll see. Tomorrow all shall be revealed.</p>

<p>I suppose I’ve rambled enough here. Probably just my sleepiness. Well, off to one more (last one for tonight, maybe) episode of BSG. Thank you Jain for the opportunity to dump all of this off at CC, and I wish everybody the best of luck today!!! To quote the oh so popular rhetoric, “We’ll all end up great places. Don’t sweat a rejection!”</p>

<p>Why is it so hard to follow your own advice?</p>

<p>Good luck once again all! I hope to be able to see some of you in Boston come August :)</p>

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<p>Hoping it all goes well and I can join my mites family. If not, well, I’ll rebound. MIT 16! Let’s get it guys</p>

<p>Sent from my SPH-D710 using CC</p>

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<p>@energize … Well the couple of hours is like , relative if u see it that way …
And well … All I can say is that I too hv that coupled feelings … So I guess we are on the same boat … My heart is gonna pound right outta my ribs in yeah a “COUPLE OF HOURS” , :D</p>

<p>@Canhazphysics … I know the feeling man … Gut says yes statistics say no … And we dun hv a thing against ourselves saying that this won’t get me in… If we could get one more chance … But it’s gonna be over on a few hours I guess so no sweat there huh ?</p>

<p>@AstroPhy … My pleasure to help you ease up man … All that you wrote up over there is pretty much everybody’s life in parts but nobody had it in them to write it out … So thank you for sharing all that … And man really dun worry … At least you hv UC … I had only enough ,well … umm …sources, to apply to only one college and I chose MIT … So I am on a pretty downward side as it is … My life depends on whatever happens in the next few hours and I am like submerged in the sea of … Every bad feeling you can possibly imagine … But still talking it out makes me feel way too good … and even though I am telling everyone that I am surely not clinging a bit to the thread of hope that I MIGHT get in … Somewhere , no , everywhere inside of me I literally screaming on GOD to plzz do this one right thing in my life !!! So BEST oF Luck to you and to anyone else reading this … and as Tiny Tim said at the end of the Christmas Carol … “MAY GOD BLESS US ALL” …</p>

<p>@lolToasty … Brilliant confidence over there … Alright guys … LETS GET IT !! (I dunno what but who cares ) … Gotta catch em all … sorry this was the most enthusiastic line I can think of right now !!!</p>

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<p>Aman, your phrase “Gotta catch 'em all” and my username have a very strong connection. </p>

<p>Kudos to anyone who can find the connection. </p>

<p>And best of luck to all of you who applied! I’ll be applying after “a couple of” years ;)</p>

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<p>hahahahah … yeh … so watch out cuz someone’s gotta catch you too … heyy does that mean I get the Kudos ??? and yeah thanks and Best of Luck to you too !!!</p>

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<p>^^ Pokemon :D</p>

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<p>MIT announced that they will be officially releasing their freshman decisions on 14th March at 6.28pm EST. It’s an end to a wait that will be objectively futile for many and yet subjectively enriching for everyone who applied with their hearts. Long nights answering long questions about our personalities, digging deep into our past, as if looking into a mirror, we all wrote what we felt right, not realising that we were learning about ourselves more than filling out an application for MIT. We learnt what we loved doing the most, we learnt what we liked about ourselves and most importantly we all learnt why we matter to those around us. It was a heart wrenching experience just applying to MIT. Perhaps that’s what is best about it, even completing its application, you learn so much that you won’t anywhere else.
A lot of people, mostly that would include me, would be disappointed to know they won’t be going to MIT for this year. But instead of lingering over of how we couldn’t make it, we would have gained so much more- knowledge about ourselves that is going to stay with us for the rest of our lives, compared to what we would get from the hose at MIT in those four years! I wouldn’t be wrong in saying that no matter what would happen on Pi day, I would keep loving MIT, for it is a place that made me realise of who I am, what I am and most importantly why others matter in my life. That’s so much more any equation at a blackboard in one of the numbered classrooms at MIT can teach me.
So as this brief journey of joy, self-realisation and adventure comes to a close, I want to thank every thing, living and non living for helping me :D</p>

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<p>^So well written dude … awesome really … That’s the vision that many over here (including me at some point) have been lacking … Although I might add that My love towards MIT will never be lost … But yeah … I’ll be completely devastated for some time … Cuz I dunno how selfish I am while writing this … I was actually hoping to get it … Not expecting … just hoping !!</p>

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<p>Well, when I came here on this forum three years ago, I didn’t know what MIT was. Then I decided to apply as an international, with the aim to get at least a rejection letter from the best school in the world.
Today, I can say that I did it.</p>

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<p>Good luck everyone.</p>

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<p>Are there any incredible stories about MIT admissions that can keep me up?</p>

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<p>Well one of the internationals got selected last year with incredibly low SAT scores, no medals … just passion, hard work, bunch of ALL GOOD HUMAN QUALITIES and yeah LUCK too !! He is from Asia …!!</p>

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<p>^ Could you link me to an article on that person? :D</p>

<p>@phr34k, absolutely right! Kudos to you :)</p>

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<p>Ummm well I hv to find any related article … I came to know about him because of a friend of mine !!!</p>

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<p>6 hours 20 minutes my friends … WHATTT UP ???</p>