<p>This is getting irritating as hell...I worked myself up for it to be here yesterday when I got home from work, only to be disappointed with the fact that no mail had arrived. So I was convinced it HAD to arrive today, and STILL NOTHING (and this is No. CT). WHAT'S GOING ON?! I think the letters/tubes were definitely delayed at the MIT Post Office end. There's no other explanation. <em>&$%</em>#&%$&#*</p>
<p>Should we email our interviewers? I just don't know how to ask "did I get in?" discretely... it seems impossible</p>
<p>St. Louis, and still waiting.... oddly enough, my mailbox was completely empty today.</p>
<p>in ny, nothing here either....i know of a couple kids from nyc who got acceptances already....</p>
<p>man, i got NOTHING!</p>
<p>when can we start calling?</p>
<p>oh by "nothing" i meant i havent got mail, and i havent heard of any deferrals/rejections either</p>
<p>we can start calling friday at like 9 am i think</p>
<p>friday?</p>
<p>o man =[</p>
<p>I would think that those with deferrals or rejections would not be the first to shout out to the world about it. I did hear of one rejection in the comments section of Matt's blog. I'm not giving up hope yet.</p>
<p>well mine was hidden in the bushes since it didnt fit in the mailslot on my door, I didnt realize that until I went back to look an hour ago....</p>
<p>Hey TheRestIsSilence, congratulations!</p>
<p>I think now everyone's gonna go search their bushes...haha</p>
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I think now everyone's gonna go search their bushes...haha
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<p>I just did... nothing :/</p>
<p>Here's a better picture for ya'll.
It's a nice package</p>
<p>this thread reminds me of Schrodinger's cat. The decisions have been made, but until you actually receive them, you are both accepted and deferred.</p>
<p>If anyone here has never heard of Schrodinger's cat, it refers to a famous theoretical experiment in quantum physics. Here's a description:
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We place a living cat into a steel chamber, along with a device containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. There is, in the chamber, a very small amount of a radioactive substance. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will, in turn, break the vial and kill the cat. The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. Since we cannot know, the cat is both dead and alive according to quantum law, in a superposition of states. It is only when we break open the box and learn the condition of the cat that the superposition is lost, and the cat becomes one or the other (dead or alive). This situation is sometimes called quantum indeterminacy or the observer's paradox: the observation or measurement itself affects an outcome, so that it can never be known what the outcome would have been if it were not observed.
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<p>Nothing. Again. I can't take much more of this.</p>
<p>Me too! I still can't believe it has taken this long! No letter in Cambridge, MA.</p>
<p>Actually, I wanted to ask Mollie:
Are you sure the truck was a USPS truck? I spoke to The Next House and they said they only get USPS mail in the morning ~ 9:00AM. From your message I got the impression that mail is delivered in the evening ~ 5:30PM. Do you know if it's delivered at both times? Or is it possible you were mistaken? Maybe some days its sent out to the dorms in the evenings, while other days in the morning. It's interesting, I got the same impression that it's delivered in the evening when talking to the person who'll be receiving the decision. This is really confusing! Any ideas?</p>
<p>Also, I would appreciate any clarification from current MIT students as well</p>
<p>Yeah, it was definitely a USPS truck. And the guy said it was the first time he had been to campus today. But I didn't ask if he went to all the dorms on campus -- I assumed the same mail person would deal with all the dorms on dorm row (in which case he would go to McCormick, then Baker, then Burton-Conner, then Macgregor, then New House, then Next House. But I guess it doesn't have to be that way, I just assumed that's what he meant.</p>
<p>From personal experience, I'd say that mail doesn't seem to be delivered at a consistent time each day.</p>
<p><strong>Flash of brilliance: Perhaps USPS delivers <em>mail</em> to the dorms in the mornings, and <em>packages</em> at a different time (when I saw the postman yesterday at 5:30, he just had packages for people in Macgregor, no lettery mail, and there was already mail in my mailbox, indicating that it had been delivered earlier in the day and sorted by desk workers).</strong></p>
<p>Haha, sorry to cause confusion... maybe I just should have snuck into the back of the truck myself instead of striking up a conversation with the postman. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Maybe it was packages? I haven't recently heard from my friend at Next House--maybe a tube is waiting :). Then again, wouldn't it be extremely inefficient for them to make two rounds? I truly hope you're right--I might actually have a chance @ MIT!!! I found out that today there were no letters for me, maybe in the evening I'll be greeted with a long cylindrical shell! </p>
<p>Or... We might be mistaken and I might receive a small deferral notice.</p>
<p>If you see the postman again, please do post ;)</p>
<p>Nothing, again.
I'm going insane here!
Well, at least it's only two days until I can call admissions and find out that way.</p>