Time-sensitive! Deadline has passed, but it's not midnight!

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Hello!</p>

<p>Slight issue here; I'm applying for the Johns Hopkins Summer Internship Program. It's an online application and I'm about to submit my application. However, I log in and it tells me the deadline has already passed!</p>

<p>However, even now on the website, it clearly states the deadline:</p>

<p>APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1st (midnight EST). All items must be postmarked by January 28th. Supplementary materials should be mailed to: Summer Internship Program c/o Office of Graduate Student Affairs 1830 E. Monument Street, Suite 2-107 Baltimore, MD 21287</p>

<p>February 1st (today), midnight EST. It's only 7:40PM EST right now. What the heck?</p>

<p>A bit scared. I've spent six days working on this application and scoured hard to get the very best references and now I'm doomed?</p>

<p>I've emailed the contact person...I'm tempted to include my statement and resume (already attached in the online documentation) as an attachment to her email to show that, yes, they are finished and I'm not going to make any changes. </p>

<p>Ideas??</p>

<p>~Ibrahim~</p>

<p>P.S. It's true; I should not have waited until these last few hours, but I found out late and really spent some time on getting this together before the deadline. And now, for whatever reason, it's already closed?</p>

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<p>I’m Really sry it must not have been clear but 12:00am on feb 1st happens right after 11:59pm on Jan 31st meaning the deadline was last night not tonight. Midnight tonight will be 12:00am on feb 2nd.</p>

<p>Goodluck with getting the lady to overlook the date confusion.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply! :)</p>

<p>Hmmm…I thought of that just recently, but I’ve never heard “midnight” used like that. February 1st, midnight EST.</p>

<p>But, the application was open at 5:30PM today before I left for university. And it was closed at 7:30PM. That doesn’t make sense. </p>

<p>Either they closed late or they closed early…I had thought of this midnight confusion before and emailed them, but no reply. I then researched a bit and the use of midnight was generally accepted to be the entire day, so the NIGHT of February 1st.</p>

<p>Weird…we’ll see in the morning, I guess.</p>

<p>~Ibrahim~</p>

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<p>Whew, OK. I got an email this morning, stating that there had been a glitch in the system. The application system is now re-opened and will remain open until tonight at midnight. Submitting it now! :D</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

<p>~Ibrahim~</p>