<p>Haha, don’t worry about it. They’ll probably find it funny if anything. I don’t think it’ll actually affect your chances.</p>
<p>Haha, if it wasnt for Scrubs and swimming practice and that whole homework idea, id have flipped out already…</p>
<p>I did Calculus homework at home for the first time in over a month yesterday. This year has killed any work ethic I had.</p>
<p>Debate is what’s currently eating my soul. That and reading are what’s keeping my mind off decisions.</p>
<p>what kind of debate do you do?</p>
<p>i recently had 2 weeks filled with orchestra concerts</p>
<p>about a month left!!</p>
<p>Policy- the best kind. ;)</p>
<p>However, it’s also insanely time-consuming. Our team doesn’t go to camps or whatnot, so we find all our evidence (outside of Communican and Baylor) by ourselves. I made the mistake of putting off the actual writing of our case until the night before our first league rounds last week. Bad decision.</p>
<p>What instrument do you play?</p>
<h2>Ben Jones on application typos (I made 1 or 2 in my additional essay so I searched this out)</h2>
<p>Old-timer wrote: "To all of you who are - rightly - worried about your chances of getting into MIT (or, for that matter, any top schools you’re considering or applying to), think of your application experience and all the hard work that you (AND your parents, yes many kids get their parents’ help in the form of either nagging / reminders or actual help in filling out the application) have put in as a life adventure. Your application outcome is important but won’t make or break your life or career. At the end of the day, a person’s success is not determined by which school he or she graduates from but by how much a’better’ person he or she has become after four years. In 10 years or 20, when you look back, you’ll wonder why you allowed yourself to lose sleep over your college admission matter. PS: Someone elsewhere suggested that an admissions officer would stop reading your application if he or she spots a grammmatical or typing error. If that’s true, ask yourself: do you want to study at a school where perfection is not a means to an end but the end itself? You should consider yourself lucky not going to a place where they think ‘to err is not human.’</p>
<h2>Thanks for these very wise words Old-timer! Regarding the typos - a few here and there won’t matter a bit - we’re human too. Typos only matter when they’re excessive - in other words, when it becomes clear that you spent 5 minutes on your essay and that your MIT application itself was an afterthought. I’ve only seen this one or two times, and the rest of the application was dismal too.</h2>
<p>So basically, unless it is factually incorrect, it’s probably a waste of their time to even correct a small mistake. Plus it shows you’re human.</p>
<p>i play violin ^^ and also do public forum debate. the topic sucks though lol</p>
<p>What’s your topic this year? We have public health assistance in sub-Saharan Africa. They narrow it down to two every year, and they’ve always chosen the topic I DON’T like.</p>
<p>I’ve actually always wanted to play the cello.</p>
<p>november was Resolved: That eliminating United States government budget deficits should be prioritized over increasing domestic spending.</p>
<p>and december is Resolved: That the United States would be justified in pursuing military options against Iran.</p>
<p>o.0</p>
<p>how did this turn into a discussion about debate and musical instruments?
i guess ill add in a little piece of my oh-so-exciting life.
i spent the first half of november looking forward to and actually staying on princeton’s campus for PUMaC. i met some friends i got to know during katrina evacuation and had four dates with my gf who lives in princeton. to be honest, meeting the parents scared the living crap out of me and MIT application was totally out of my mind for about 24 hours.
ill spend the second half of this month sleeping, leisure reading (fountainhead and brothers karamazov are on top of the list), and skyping with gf (being asian, i am extremely good at finding ways to avoid paying for cell phone minutes) during my 9-day thanksgiving break. maybe ill catch a nice and cheap external hard drive during the post-holiday sale.
before you know it, MIT decision will be here. i will be either turning emo for three days or happily wearing my MIT sweater to my counselor’s office.</p>
<p>Tongchen, so are you not in school right now? I’m a little confused.</p>
<p>And hey, I like talking about this random stuff. It keeps my mind off of other things… like decisions.</p>
<p>Our resolution for this year is Resolved: the United States Federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to sub-Saharan Africa. I think it’s pretty cool how other debate types change resolutions throughout the year, but I still like having one that I get to know really well.</p>
<p>i am in school. in fact, i am typing this from my world history class. i just skipped four days to go to jersey.</p>
<p>Right now it is anything to keep my mind off my letter, so I am celebrating all the things that are happening from today until letters are mailed
Nov 16-The school play opens
Nov 20- My crazy grandmother arrives
Nov 22- My boyfriend and I have been together 6 months!
Nov 23- Thanksgiving food
Nov 26- My crazy grandmother leaves
Nov 30- Surf trip to Santa Barbara (yea for winter swells)
Dec 3 Lacrosse conditioning starts
Dec 8 I start really freaking out about EA!</p>
<p>lol I remember the week before EA I didn’t even think about MIT. It was very weird. I would say to myself… you know EA comes out this saturday. And then I simply wasn’t interested. Come saturday, I somehow woke up 5 min before it came out. I just went to the website like a zombie, got my result, read marilee’s letter, and the only things that were in my head for the next 60 seconds was 1337 speak. I then turned off my laptop and proceeded with my day. </p>
<p>After I realized what that meant, I proceeded to take Marilee Jones advice and took the rest of the school year off (mentally I was never in class, I still physically attended classes).</p>
<p>I’m guessing decisions will be online December 8 or 15, since they seem to come out on Saturdays and those are the two dates in that general time frame. With the increased applications, I’m guessing the 15th.</p>
<p>I’ve got to stop thinking about MIT admissions.</p>
<p>I agree with you, hec. I have plenty to keep my mind elsewhere over the next month or so. Friend of mine coming home from college for Thanksgiving and then winter break a few weeks later, Debate season, Quiz Bowl tournaments, drowning myself in books… It should work.</p>
<p>And hec, you play lacrosse? Me too! Are you playing at MIT? I’m too burnt out from high school, so I think I’m just going to do intramural or whatever I can on campus.</p>
<p>anyone else have a million other college apps to do too?</p>
<p>Just Harvard and Princeton left. I’m only doing 6 total (already accepted to UMich- I have a home next fall!) and my mom’s convinced that I should have narrowed it down to 2-3.</p>
<p>My mom: “Don’t you just want to go to MIT or UChicago? Why not just apply there, then?”
Me: “Mom, just because I want to go doesn’t mean I’ll get in…”</p>
<p>No i’m not I hope you guys don’t kick me out of this thread 
I applying early to Georgetown (SFS), but I empathize! I can hardly wait.
I am far from a math person so yeah MIT would be a bad idea.</p>
<p>did I kill this thread, now im really sorry :)</p>
<p>nah im sure impatient people like me wont be able to resist the urge to ramble on about college apps.
upenn supplement left. geez i need to start working…</p>