<p>Ok so I wanted an excuse to post this: Customized</a> counter , something nice to keep you all busy with. Also, this can be a nice thread to get anxious and hyped up for decisions until saturday. I also wanted to say again that i called making the decisions thread :-) haha. I'll make it friday night.</p>
<p>Thanks for this one. I will be able to have a clean calendar on my wall now:D</p>
<p>Haha no problem. Only 508700 seconds left!!!</p>
<p>ahhhh! there was one for the early decisions and that counter kept terrorizing me.</p>
<p>Lol, same exact counter I used! I made myself wait until the very last second before I clicked into the website… when in reality decisions were out… five six minutes before? =)</p>
<p>484983 seconds</p>
<p>We are sooooo close…so where will everyone be. I’m gonna be doin something at school, but I’ll probably leave early to come home. I dont really feel like checking on my phone w/ everyone around me.</p>
<p>for EA i think they were out about a minute early since i kept checking >.<
AHHH!! IWANNA KNOW NOW!!</p>
<p>i think i got mine at like 11:53 EA.</p>
<p>interesting… ahh i got mine 11:59
I’ll have to run from the arena place for FIRST robotics to this public library to check my decision… and then I have to run all the way back… either emo or not. Worst thing is , I won’t even get any moment alone if I needed.
only like… 5.5 day ish left… ZOMG!!!</p>
<p>^^^That sucks. I would want to be alone for a bit.</p>
<p>^^ rainynightstarz: I did something really similar! RAN from music theory to the library, didn’t even sit down, read the first sentence or two of my decision, FREAKED OUT, ran upstairs and told my music theory class I got in (lol, I was really excited), called my mom, etc. Then I realized I should probably finish reading the letter, haha, so I went back to the library and read the whole thing… I didn’t have any alone time either… good thing it was good news. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone for RD.</p>
<p>My advice, tell no one that they’ll be online. If you get in tell anyone and everyone. If you are rejected or wait listed you have some time to think it through before the letter comes. That is what I did EA so when I got the letter about deferral I already knew and had thought it over.</p>
<p>Well like everyone at the robotics place kinda knows, and there is most likely a mob of us ditching the open ceremony for the library >.<
and @lalaloo6: that only works if you got in! XP</p>
<p>i put a counter on my desktop to count down til 3/15 at noon and also to 4/1. this is utter insanity.</p>
<p>Utter utter insanity. And yeah…lalaloo6 that would have sucked at least for me if I hadn’t gotten accepted in your scenario.</p>
<p>@yanners - you should do something so you don’t have to sleep. I’m going to an all night fest so that I do not have to. Do something like a lan party! Resist!</p>
<p>I have to agree with the whole keep-the-fact-that-decisions-are-online-on-the-down-low thing. I definitely had 5 voice mails when I got off work the day EA decisions came out with groups of people calling to see if I got in or not. At least half my class knew that a) I’d applied early and b) was getting my decisions that day. My grade’s pretty close-knit, so it was really cool to have everyone be excited and everything, but had I been deferred it would have royally sucked.</p>
<p>So, in short: make sure you’ll have time to digest whatever decision it is you receive, because life doesn’t always work out the way you plan.</p>
<p>^^^yea exact reason why you should check alone. It’s sorta hard to keep it secret (most my school knew where everyone is applying), but I do not think you should check online with everyone watching. Last year the seniors had decision checking parties. All of them got deferred…toegether…Haha…so idk. MIT even says on the decisions website: make sure you are alone. I had people calling me…and IMing me. I totally ignored them haha.</p>
<p>It’s impossible to keep college decisions secret at my school because we’re tiny (my graduating class has about 100 people) and the minute decisions come out, facebook statuses change to variations of “class of '12 or deferred”. We joked that it was a sad day when you found out through facebook and not through text messages or actual phone calls, heh. For some reason, none of us, or at least none of my group of friends or I, minded though because we liked having emotional support, even if the decision was deferred. But we were all physically alone while checking. </p>
<p>One of my best memories of decision day came later when a friend told me that she had found out through facebook and she texted another one of my friends who was en route to a recital. The second friend freaked out in her car, and she later showed me the text message that she said she would save for as long as possible, lol. It meant a lot to me, knowing that my friends were all so happy for me just like I was for them when they got in. But even if I had gotten deferred, I would have still been able to cry on their shoulders 
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<p>So don’t be afraid to share the news. Take as long as you need to let the decision sink in, then go out and face the world knowing there are people out there who care insane amounts for you, and that whatever happens, you’ll always be amazing. I’ll stop being sappy and sentimental now… time to get some sleep :)</p>