MIT (2024-2025)

[waxen cloak]

I love theoretical comp sci

[long spruce]

Hyper-Moore's law is crazy lmao

[fresh mirage]

me 2

[waxen cloak]

I applied as ai tho

[fresh mirage]

thats my main project

i wish MIT had a major similar to symsys at stanford

with like theoreitcal CS, math, and linguistics/phil

ig a course 18C and 24 double would serve that purpose tho

wtf ling+phil doesnt even have a real website 😭

[sharp stag]

W

[fresh mirage]

wait its split

lol

[waxen cloak]

Algos is kicking my ass

How does ford fulkerson work

[fresh mirage]

where r u taking algos

t

[sharp stag]

https://cp-algorithms.com/graph/edmonds_karp.html

[waxen cloak]

UW madison

[fresh mirage]

dub

[waxen cloak]

I'm low-key ass at graphs tho

[fresh mirage]

man i wished i tried on USACO

i did two rounds and gave up

[waxen cloak]

Same

[fresh mirage]

focused on my programming language project

[waxen cloak]

It's this weekend actually

[sharp stag]

you know

[waxen cloak]

See urs is cooler

[sharp stag]

mit actually moved its decision date

so it wouldnt coincide with usaco contest

!!

[fresh mirage]

💀

[waxen cloak]

Wait lmao

Based

[fresh mirage]

yeah but the compiler is like

really unfinished

[waxen cloak]

Hey hey hey

At least your program didn't shit the bed in front of 150 people on twitch

[fresh mirage]

wait does MIT take independent research for its research supplement

[fresh mirage]

😭

[sharp stag]

u need LOR tho

[fresh mirage]

o

cuz i want to use my maker's portfolio for this

[sharp stag]

mit doesnt even take music without LOR 😭

[waxen cloak]

My chess engine missed a mate in one

[sharp stag]

WHAT

[waxen cloak]

Wait did you already apply

[fresh mirage]

no

RD

[waxen cloak]

Phew

[fresh mirage]

i didnt like my essays 😭

[waxen cloak]

It like

Crashed

[sharp stag]

LMAOOO

[waxen cloak]

It started returned that it was getting mated

[fresh mirage]

chill im not that cracked PERIOD 😭

[waxen cloak]

While it was a mate in one

Btw this was at tcec

[sharp stag]

it did the chatgpt thing where you rotate the board 😭

[waxen cloak]

No it didn't

[sharp stag]

o

just a bug?

[fresh mirage]

are all the TCEC top contenders just stockfish offshootds

im a phoney

got into chess with the gotham chess wave 😄

[waxen cloak]

Nah that's wccc

[blazing hamlet]

mittens

[waxen cloak]

Mittens is just sf

I think

[waxen cloak]

Idk there really isn't good info Abt chess engine out there

If you have any questions hit me up

[fresh mirage]

gotchyu

imagine if these factions started warring

the great boston civil war

[waxen cloak]

Mit

Wind

Wins

[fresh mirage]

MIT creates a nuke that blows Tsar Bomba out of the water; accidentally detonates it on campus

[waxen cloak]

Accidentally?

[fresh mirage]

💀

[long spruce]

It is kinda crazy how concentrated Boston is with higher education

[fresh mirage]

yeah

its the ultimate college town 🫡

boston shoudlve annexed cambridge, brookline, and somerville

[idle pumice]

we have a strategic position along the riverfront and the only nuclear reactor

[long spruce]

Oh really

I thought at least Harvard would have a nuclear reactor smh

[fresh mirage]

wargaming @ MIT

club idea

[waxen cloak]

Nah but does mit have a fission reactor

[fresh mirage]

sure MIT has most strategic position and the best infrastructure

however i think the soldiers there are most likely to friendly fire by accident

or friendly-bomb

[idle pumice]

https://mitnano.mit.edu/facilities-and-infrastructure

An 8,000-sq-ft concrete “bathtub” in the basement will protect eight high-performance imaging suites against vibrations and electromagnetic currents. Reinforced by epoxy-coated rebar, the 4-ft-thick tub’s 1,000 cu yds of concrete were placed in a single eight-hour stretch. Bulović says orchestrating the 90 trucks to systematically deliver concrete was “an incredible feat of engineering in itself.”

Specially designed plinths, or inertia blocks, to be installed under the microscopes, will also defend against stray currents and vibrations. These 20-ton concrete pads actively monitor and absorb subterranean vibrations and can be elevated to further isolate the equipment from disruptions. “You are basically putting it on springs,” says Samir Srouji, a principal at Wilson

[idle pumice]

yes https://nrl.mit.edu/reactor

[waxen cloak]

Oops I mean fusion

[waxen cloak]

Damn thats cool

Do they give outside tours?

[idle pumice]

ya

MIT has also put in for a federal grant for a small modular reactor to power the campus https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/high-fidelity-digital-twins-bwrx-300-critical-systems

[waxen cloak]

Damn nice

[long spruce]

That's pretty sick

[waxen cloak]

My uni doesn't

😭

[long spruce]

I don't think most unis do lol

[waxen cloak]

I do have a nice photo of a fusion reactor tho

[long spruce]

The only one I know of is MIT

[sharp stag]

those exist?

[waxen cloak]

Ye

See the torus

[sharp stag]

I thought we were like 100 years from fusion wtf

[long spruce]

Ooh that's cool

[waxen cloak]

Experimental

[long spruce]

I would love to tour one

[sharp stag]

what's the catch

[waxen cloak]

I don't think we've had a net energy gain from fusion

Afaik

[sharp stag]

oh 😭

[waxen cloak]

I'm not very well connected

But from what I've heard

You need a superheated plasma

[long spruce]

Yeah it's hard to keep a stable fusion reaction

[waxen cloak]

And the cost of heating it up take more than the energy you get out

Someone pls correct me

[long spruce]

No that's basically it

I believe at least

It's 1. Hard to sustain for a long time and 2. We aren't able to capture the energy efficiently enough yet

[fresh mirage]

DAMN

bro there's gotta be multiple SCPs on campus

[idle pumice]

fingers crossed for 2027 https://cfs.energy/technology/sparc

[waxen cloak]

I wonder what would've happened if lk99 was real

[proven reef]

we’re actually 1 AU away from it

[waxen cloak]

Which is 8 minutes

[long spruce]

Petey really making me want to study nuclear physics as well

[lavish scroll]

north korea already has it tho

bc theyre simga

[wise glacier]

What about country?

[sharp stag]

suuuure they do

[long spruce]

No

I don't believe so at least

I remember reading something about it

I think they try and keep the international percentage to around 10% though

[long spruce]

Petey what is it like being a blogger

Idk if you're going to read the chat before Tuesday but I'm curious

[proven reef]

blogging seems so fun:D

never done it before but the admissions bloggers are all so cool lol

[long spruce]

Ikr it actually seems like a blast

[stark fox]

wait what share i wanna figure out if i know them

[manic imp]

MEEEEEE

[stark fox]

oh yeah i'm 1 degree connection from them

i'm also 1 degree connection from crimew

sorry who do you think i am? (/j i do not do illegal things)

[wise glacier]

guys mayst i be bles'd with one mit acceptance?

if i get in, ill withdraw my other applications

think about it, its a win win

[stark fox]

yes i shall bless you if you bless me with a caltech acceptance

[wise glacier]

i shalt

[stark fox]

lol

[wise glacier]

wait didn't you already get into mit?

bros defecting

[stark fox]

actually wait

maybe harvard is better

do you think it sounds better to get into caltech or harvard

since i wouldn't want to go to either

[wise glacier]

def harvard

no one knows what caltech is

[stark fox]

holy hell you're based

[fresh mirage]

quantum hooper

[stark fox]

parm where's your early again

[fresh mirage]

it was supposed to be mit/uchicago

but i didnt like my essays

💀

so im RDing there

[stark fox]

fair enough

anywhere early?

[wise glacier]

tbf ea is usually the same as rd for mit

[fresh mirage]

uiuc gtech ut tamu

[wise glacier]

with that high deferral rate

[fresh mirage]

• udub and ucs

technically my UT and TAMU r RD but theyre earlier

but UT is being stupid with my residency

[wise glacier]

i can't explain it but for some reason i dislike caltech

[stark fox]

yeah it's not really worth imo, strategy wise better to rea somewhere

[waxen cloak]

rea doesn't give a boost lol

[stark fox]

the only thing was that when i went to tour everyone seemed depressed

[waxen cloak]

at least to most schools

[wise glacier]

yeah i just wanted the small probability of having no rd apps to do

[fresh mirage]

i mean pton/harvard rea are also p much the same

[stark fox]

if you're legacy it foes

[wise glacier]

also its hella small

imagine you fall out with someone

its joever

[stark fox]

but also slight boost without legacy at stanford i think

[waxen cloak]

If I'm legacy I'm also not Ea's mit

[fresh mirage]

stanford/yale rea seem to actually give a boost but that could be statistical noise

[stark fox]

lol

[stark fox]

yeah

[fresh mirage]

cornell/penn/dmouth ED i think have a demonstrable advantage

[stark fox]

i think strategy would be rea stanford and ra everywhere else

but i personally don't believe in EDing any school that's not your top school

[fresh mirage]

true

[wise glacier]

i can't afford ED 😭

[stark fox]

what's funny is i did things randomly and i think it technically corresponds to optimal strategy

[fresh mirage]

fax

ED CMU/cornell/penn wouldve locked me into 80k a year 😭

[wise glacier]

im not wealthy or unwealthy enough to be able to do it consciously

[stark fox]

i didn't ed cuz i like having choices

[fresh mirage]

true

[wise glacier]

tbh i literally dont care anymore

[fresh mirage]

like yeah i want to shoot for mit/stanford

[wise glacier]

which is abd

cuz the rd apps

they needa get done

[fresh mirage]

dub

i got so many holyyyyy

[wise glacier]

please mit save me from the rd apps

🙏

[stark fox]

parm please submit something to mit i need to meet you

[wise glacier]

FR

[shy girder]

It only benefits colleges

And rich ppl

[fresh mirage]

i might be a supervillain for suggesting this but

[stark fox]

rea is better at least

[shy girder]

P2W 💔

[stark fox]

literally

[fresh mirage]

what if we did the residency match algo thing

publics and usc

[wise glacier]

does region play any role in mit decisions

like if in my school not many ppl did ea mit

would that advantage me

[stark fox]

publics, you can apply publics

honestly i think rea is fine if it gives a boost

[fresh mirage]

yeah, they fs want the class to be geographically diverse

and you'll be compared with people from ur region

so

[wise glacier]

well i live in florida

but like from competitive ppl ik irl

they didnt do mit ea

[stark fox]

like it's like, you show your top choice that you like them the most and you get a slightly higher chance for telling them you liked them most

seems fair

[fresh mirage]

most of the comp people there are from american heritage iirc

ru broward

[shy girder]

The problem is

[wise glacier]

i hate those ppl even tho ive never talked to one

[wise glacier]

no

[shy girder]

HYSP dont give Rea Boost

[wise glacier]

i can dm u

[fresh mirage]

bet

[wise glacier]

dont want to dox myself in every single server

[shy girder]

Only notre dame

[stark fox]

i still think mit ea is based

[fresh mirage]

true lol

[shy girder]

Aura

[stark fox]

stanford slight boost, esp if legacy i believe

[stark fox]

i mean like, not having rea is based

[fresh mirage]

i need to get my PL documentation together for MIT maker portfolio

[stark fox]

they're not about gaming students

[stark fox]

when you do, send me the doc

[shy girder]

Next yr legacy is gone for stanford tho

[fresh mirage]

bet

[stark fox]

oh true

rip

[shy girder]

Oh nooo what will the rich ppl do

💔💔💔

[stark fox]

honestly it's wild how much my high school popped off

[fresh mirage]

does my dad's cousin being a stanford MD count as legacy 💀

my friend told me to put him as an "uncle" bc he technically is my second uncle

[shy girder]

Wtf

We have 3 cornells and thats it 🙁

[stark fox]

cornell good tho

[shy girder]

Yeah we threw for Harvard Pton tho

[stark fox]

like this is insane to me cuz it's a relatively chill school too. it's not a pressure cooker or ultra competitive

[fresh mirage]

this year we have a few cornell deferrals, my friend got NYU

[shy girder]

Literally everyone ik at Stuyvesant got Cornell😭

[stark fox]

holy hell

[fresh mirage]

(relatively competitive north dallas public hs)

[shy girder]

Wait furina ru pub or private hs

[stark fox]

so my schools ratio is still p good-

i'm waiting for stanford and mit i need them to get even more kids

[fresh mirage]

last year we got a bunch of UT (bc we're a TX school lol), a few penn and cornell admits, and one stanford/harvard admit

[shy girder]

Yea same

[fresh mirage]

and also rice/emory/jhu admitx

wa

rnt u a freshman

wtf

[shy girder]

uhidk

[stark fox]

GOURE NOT ACTUALLY A FROSH?

WHATTTT

PLALTS HOW COULD YOU LIE TO US

[shy girder]

Hey maybe ill see u on campus next yr!

[stark fox]

oh true you better be pulling up to cpw

[stark fox]

is this why you knew mech and bc

[shy girder]

Yeah sorry

I was trolling 💔

[stark fox]

it made me sad i hadn't done mech freshman year...

me vibes except i'm a girl

tuesday

that's when i need to have the discord server set up by

[shy girder]

It couldve been tomorrow

[stark fox]

you obviously

[shy girder]

But no

Its a tuesday

[wise glacier]

we don't have to say all the thoughts we have

[stark fox]

deferred

[shy girder]

Ok sorry

[fresh mirage]

did MIT tell u to set up the '29 server 😭

[stark fox]

or like

[fresh mirage]

deferral

[wise glacier]

bros using dictionary definition

[stark fox]

committed and deferred enrollment 😭

[fresh mirage]

eyah

[stark fox]

no

i'm just trying to snag it for funnies

[hidden axle]

Can you change to your proper grade then

[fresh mirage]

o

[shy girder]

Ok sorry

[stark fox]

poor plalts

[stark fox]

carly we got played

[fresh mirage]

i got played

i think im going to get a B in ap lit

its over 😭

[stark fox]

petey said no official server too

[hidden axle]

Immediately set on the competition I see

[fresh mirage]

wait so thats two mit/stanford crossadmits on this server

[stark fox]

so i'll make one and '28 people said they'd help me get identibot functional

[fresh mirage]

u and oats

both of yall chose MIT 🤔

[stark fox]

there's nore

more

[fresh mirage]

oh yeah

[stark fox]

too much work for them

[fresh mirage]

two people that i know lol

[stark fox]

😭

[stark fox]

fair enough

[fresh mirage]

tbh i kinda wish MIT was a bit more well-rounded too

like stanny has good humanities/econ, decent sports, etc.

[stark fox]

but yeah i saw oats at cpw and then i saw oats at stanford admit weekend and we were like "so where u choosing?"

[fresh mirage]

also MIT doesnt have SymSys

[stark fox]

mit has decent humanities and econ iirc

[shy girder]

I browsed their HASS catalog and its actually cool asf

[stark fox]

sports no tho lol

[shy girder]

Im pretty satisfied w the selection

[hidden axle]

Petey saw this year’s megathread and decided this year was not one he wanted to take into his own server

[shy girder]

Air pistol 😍

[cursive hazel]

should i apply for polisci mit

[fresh mirage]

yeah true

[long spruce]

If you want a poli sci with a stem emphasis yeah

[stark fox]

what will forever surprise me is that my stem+philo/classics/humanities friend chose stanford

[shy girder]

Asstech

[stark fox]

and then switched to mit post commit deadline

[long spruce]

University of Massachusetts Cambridge 🙏

[stark fox]

😭

[shy girder]

The allure of brass rat was too strong

[stark fox]

he was too drawn to boston i think

[shy girder]

Huzz tech

Finding a man in quant

[stark fox]

😭

plalts i cannot get over the fact ur a senior

i've been thinking of u as a really cracked freshman this whole time

[sharp stag]

plalts is a senior???

no way

[shy girder]

I hate ugs

[stark fox]

interesting mutuals we have

what server?

[sharp stag]

lmao mit mutuals but im not getting in 😂

[long spruce]

We'll get in have faith 🙏

[stark fox]

lethan is stanford

lol

[shy girder]

The EA crashout dooming server

[sharp stag]

oh damn orz i never knew

[stark fox]

can i get an invite so i can swipe up people for the '29 server post ea?

[shy girder]

Wait what

Did u actually

[long spruce]

Wdym swipe up for people haha

[shy girder]

I al confused now

[shy girder]

Its just everyone talking here LOL

Exceot jeni 💀

[stark fox]

oh alright lmao

[long spruce]

Caltech '32 is wild

[shy girder]

🥱🥱🥱

[stark fox]

why are u stanford reject results aren't out yet for another hour and a half right?

ikr

no i'm just doing timezone math wrong 😭

i accounted wrong direction

fair enough i support it

play the rejection simulator before you open, it makes you less nervous

😭

[wise glacier]

I LOVED BOSTON

[sharp stag]

even a 90% is worrying cuz theres 10% 😭

[wise glacier]

except how expensive everything was

[stark fox]

me too...

[wise glacier]

yeah thats why shorter ppl have an advantage

[stark fox]

LMAO

[sharp stag]

wait really?

[shy girder]

How tall is jeni

Sry not everyone is 7ft tall

OMG TWIN

❤️

[vivid tulip]

Boston really do be cute tho

Photo I took a few days ago

[shy girder]

Ok what if you practiced mindfulness and peace in the world

[sharp stag]

bruh ur (prolly) taller than me and im a guy 💀

[long spruce]

I love it

Ngl your Boston photos have been really cracked

[shy girder]

Sunny and warm the air is crisp and cool and happiness can be felt

[wise glacier]

i think ive been to this exact place

[stark fox]

holy crap i'm so excited-

[vivid tulip]

Yeah this is next to the Old City hall in Boston

You can see "City Hall Ave" in the photo

LMAO YEAH I SAW THAT ONE

It's near Downtown Crossing

[shy girder]

It can be sunny and cold

[vivid tulip]

I haven't gone there yet 3:

[long spruce]

The golden raising Cane's?

[vivid tulip]

There's like a raising cane's in downtown boston that's like, entirely gold

[long spruce]

Lmao that's hilarious

[vivid tulip]

I walked by there a few times before it opened

[long spruce]

What makes it even better is that we have a hot pink raising cane's here in Utah

[pale sierra]

they have cane's in boston

[long spruce]

Yeah I was surprised by that and the Golden

[pale sierra]

that's awesome

[long spruce]

Every time I mention it with someone east of the Mississippi they look at me like I'm crazy

[pale sierra]

honestly I didn't expect there to be cane's locations outside of the south

[shy girder]

I do not get the hype

[pale sierra]

i have a cane's 12 minutes from my house and I've never been

[shy girder]

Bad opinions once again

[long spruce]

So I just looked up the golden canes and wtf

[vivid tulip]

LMAO I FOUND THE PHOTO

[shy girder]

Ohio 😂💀

[stark fox]

bro i wanna go sneak into harvard to get a veritaffle

my cousins go to harvard i should ask them to get me one

[shy girder]

Abuse abuse help help

[wise glacier]

disgusting.

[pale sierra]

the plan as soon as i get to massachusetts

[stark fox]

😭

[stark fox]

oh based

[stark fox]

where r u applying

[pale sierra]

im committed to wellesley

[stark fox]

no cross enroll freshman year 😔 so i'll have to wait for a year

[stark fox]

BIG W

[wise glacier]

my mit interviewer told me that people take harvard classes if they want an easy class 😭

[pale sierra]

it'll be a bit of a drive to get to cambridge but i want the waffle

[pale sierra]

where are you at rn

sneak me into harvard jeni 🙏

i want to join their eating clubs

nvm thats princeton

[stark fox]

gap year committed mit

[pale sierra]

W

[stark fox]

LMAI

[pale sierra]

!!!!

[stark fox]

what

[wise glacier]

bro isnt finals club from that one movie with zuck

[pale sierra]

destined for harvard

[stark fox]

oats is it possible to join a final club

as an mit student

[pale sierra]

we were misreading the tarot cards, the licking meets was supposed tk be a harvard

[vivid tulip]

I have no idea

I haven't ventured to Harvard all that much

I usually just go to Harvard Square just to get food

[cursive hazel]

lick

[vivid tulip]

They have a ton of great restaurants around Harvard Square

Imma be fr Harvard's campus is boring af

Red brick buildings ahh

Harvard is fenced in

[pale sierra]

if you want a bubble can i recruit you to a certain school

[vivid tulip]

MIT you can literally just walk in

Like, on most weekdays most of the doors on campus are just open

I've seen my boss (I work part time) walk through campus 😭

[stark fox]

mits campus looked really cool imo but i think that's an unpopular opinion

[stray plume]

Hello :3

[stark fox]

HO

HI

[stray plume]

:))

[vivid tulip]

MIT's campus looks silly but it's very interesting to explore as a student

[stark fox]

😭

[stray plume]

Hope I make it on that campus

[copper scroll]

mits campus is really interesting, id say it isnt as grandiose as some other campuses but its very sleek and modern :0

[vivid tulip]

There's neat things to explore everywhere

[stray plume]

Finding out Tuesday 🤞

[vivid tulip]

The architecture is also pretty diverse

[copper scroll]

im so nervous for tuesday!!

[stray plume]

I wanna see the big dome

[pale sierra]

unpopular opinion i think brutalist architecture is really cool

[stray plume]

Anyone been there with photos or anything?

[stark fox]

ask oats

[stray plume]

It can be cool if its done well but I find that in city settings it is super depressing

[vivid tulip]

It's an eclectic mix of architecture styles

[stark fox]

stanfords is unbeatable. literal resort

[vivid tulip]

Some Neoclassical, some Brutalist, some modernist

It's neat

[vivid tulip]

Oh yeah nothing beats Stanford's Campus

[stray plume]

Oats do you have any photos of the MIT big dome :-)

[vivid tulip]

Legit feels like a movie set it's that pretty

[copper scroll]

i want to visit stanford but cant afford plane flight :( applying anyway tho

[stray plume]

Colorado capitol building :)

[pale sierra]

i literally saw your admissions letter

[stray plume]

I really enjoy big domes

[copper scroll]

tysm

[pale sierra]

that looks eerily similar to the new hampshire state building

[wise glacier]

i will dislike stanford unless something unfortunate occurs on tausday

[copper scroll]

tyty

[stray plume]

All state buildings look super similar

[stray plume]

Ive seen 3

[stray plume]

😭 gah dayumn

[copper scroll]

peak. now to imagine myself here at 4am while cramming for a test.

[stray plume]

Now I wish I hadnt asked cause I will be heartbroken if Im rejected lmao

[pale sierra]

mit looks awesome idk why people say its ugly

[stray plume]

I need more big domes in my life

[vivid tulip]

It depends on what part of campus you're looking at

[stray plume]

Identical to colorado lol

Thats the Georgia capitol

[vivid tulip]

We have a nuclear power plant on campus next to a natural gas power plant

[stray plume]

Oh yeah I really wanna go to the nuclear power plant

I heard about it back when I was a kid

[pale sierra]

do all state capitols have a gold roof or smth

[stray plume]

Honestly, probably

I guess Ive just only been to the ones that do

Ive seen the Iowa one too

[vivid tulip]

There's a legit railroad that runs next to the nuclear power plant

It runs through the natural gas power plant

[stray plume]

Trains :)

I might need to leave this discussion for a bit and return only if I get into MIT

😭

[vivid tulip]

There's a group of buildings on or near campus that essentially has holes drilled into their bottom floors to make way for the trains

[vivid tulip]

Fair enough

[stray plume]

Im getting too attached lol

[stark fox]

lowkey i liked mit dorms better

[vivid tulip]

You definitely can do that btw

[stray plume]

I would rather just be admitted or rejected I think a deferral would be straight up torture

[vivid tulip]

The dome is a library (also 24 hours)

[vivid tulip]

MIT's dorms are silly

Every dorm has its own culture

It's really neat

Oh yeah another part about Stanford's campus

Is that it's really hard to get off campus 💀

[stray plume]

Get trapped nerds

[vivid tulip]

My Econ teacher in HS was a Stanford grad and he talked about like, the "Stanford Bubble"

Like, Stanford's campus is physically so huge (and the neighboring suburbia so boring) that you're just kinda like, trapped on campus

Masstech's campus is right next to the heart of Boston

That's one of the neatest parts about Campus here imo

But also I know some people that have legit just not gone into Boston (i.e. crossed the river) in months

So

Your mileage may vary

[stray plume]

Whaatt

Id be exploring so much lol

Prolly doing exams tho

[vivid tulip]

It's honestly not that hard to get there

You could get there from campus in like 15 minutes

[stray plume]

golden canes?

Do tell

Holy mother of yellow

I need to go

[stark fox]

stanford dorms are personalityless, also mits felt bigger and nicer

[long spruce]

Golden cane's will literally be the first thing I do in Boston

[vivid tulip]

Take the red line (subway) from Kendall/MIT to Downtown Crossing and the Golden Raising Cane's is legit just right there

[stark fox]

harvard dorm rooms are tiny ah but the shared spaces are crazy fancy

[stray plume]

Emi how do you know so much about different campuses lol

[vivid tulip]

I can attest to this lmao

[long spruce]

Yeah I do like how each dorm seems to have it's own quirks and personality

[stark fox]

stanford and mit admit weekends + i stayed with a friend for a week at stanford + my harvard cousin gave me a dorm tour

i don't know anything about other schools dorms

[stray plume]

Crikey

[long spruce]

My interviewer talked for like half an hour about living in random hall

[vivid tulip]

I was in Harvard Square a bit ago and I was walking by some of the dorms

And so this shared spaced had like a massive glass wall, students studying etc. And the space was legit so fancy

I felt like a stray cat in the rain 😭

[stray plume]

My interviewer didnt really know much of the stuff I wanted to know about

[vivid tulip]

(I missed the bus and it was raining 😔)

[stark fox]

BRO ITS SO FANCY LOL

actually so crazy...

[coarse parrot]

damn yall are talking alot

[long spruce]

Ngl it's Harvard so I kinda expect it

[stark fox]

the room was so small tho

the smallest possible room for 2 beds and 2 mini desks

[long spruce]

Ok wtf

[stark fox]

there's not really places like that at stanford or mit btw

[long spruce]

I just looked it up and you're right

Bonkers small

[stark fox]

harvard is uniquely fancy

[long spruce]

I would just do all my studying in the group areas at that point tbh

Yeah I could see that being fun

[wise glacier]

emi i have an inquiry

did you get in rd or ea

[long spruce]

I like studying in groups as long as we all lock in

[shy girder]

They were so kind I got like 36 bananas from them

[wise glacier]

WHAT

BROS A MONKEY

[long spruce]

Banana lounge is pretty based

[shy girder]

Yeah they hand them out for free

He was like

Do u want a banana

And we were like sure

And he gave us like five bundles

Or bunches idk what u call a group of bananas

[stark fox]

true

[pale sierra]

mit banana lounge is awesome

[wise glacier]

i don't like bananas

is this a rejection

[stray plume]

i want banana

[coarse parrot]

I hate banana too squishy

[stray plume]

banana has no bones

i like my fruit boneless

[coarse parrot]

Plantain better

Taste better too

[stray plume]

ew plantain :(

[sudden dome]

@full lynx

something you're not telling us bud

[stray plume]

😂

[ashen zenith]

@idle pumice you are back! are all commitee wrapped up for EA?

i'm assuming monday is just for double checking everything, right?

[coarse parrot]

they probably work on the weekend lol

[stray plume]

we’ll get an answer on tuesday after decisions lol

[coarse parrot]

now that school ended for the week i am now focus all energy on doom

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@coarse parrot is absolutely doomed.
@coarse parrot feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@coarse parrot is truly A2Cooked.

Used 508 times.

[copper scroll]

i love this this is so real

[coarse parrot]

!mit

[sharp stag]

!mit

[long spruce]

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@long spruce is absolutely doomed.
@long spruce feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@long spruce is truly A2Cooked.

Used 509 times.

[ashen zenith]

probably not tho why would they work on the weekend lol

my understanding was moving release from saturday to tuesday this year was bc too many application and they couldn't finish before friday

[wise glacier]

SAY TAUSDAY

PLEASE

[rocky notch]

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@rocky notch is absolutely doomed.
@rocky notch feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@rocky notch is truly A2Cooked.

Used 510 times.

[rocky notch]

so over

😔

[hidden axle]

Hawk Tausday!

[wise glacier]

can someone ban this person?

[hidden axle]

Anyways I wanna make a fake a2college again but I have no one to make it

[hidden axle]

Buddy I don’t even have a leave server button I can’t escape even tho I wanna

[wise glacier]

💀

[hidden axle]

Bc I think it’d be cool to make a fake college application portal with fake decisions and fake decision emails

And then randomize decisions

[wise glacier]

Do you think it’s funny to insult the great Massachusetts Institute of Technology??? 🤨 One of the most prestigious institutions in the world 🌎, and you think it’s okay to disrespect it with a vulgar joke?? 😤

[proven reef]

hawk tausday

[hidden axle]

Maybe we can randomize a few likely letters too

But idk how to program

[hidden axle]

We could even make fake portal astrology!!!!

I need people to make it for me tho

Bc I am a communication major

[wise glacier]

Wait I just realized

[proven reef]

if the portal looked realistic enough the amt of misinformation would be wild

[wise glacier]

Are you the A2Creator?

[hidden axle]

I can write the emails for the portal I cannot write the code

[hidden axle]

Discord yes

[wise glacier]

Damn how's retirement?

[hidden axle]

Unfortunately I haven’t experienced it yet

[proven reef]

good thing theres like ten thousand cs majors here

[hidden axle]

This would be great we just need to find programmers then

[hidden axle]

But idk if they’ll help

[wise glacier]

unfortunately, i unfortunately am unfortunately an unfortunate cs major (unfortunately)

[hidden axle]

Some a2cers are allergic to being helpful

[proven reef]

sorry for your loss

[wise glacier]

not for mit though!

course 6-7 ftw (ignore the 6)

[proven reef]

rounds up to 7

[hidden axle]

Like I probably couldn’t pay if I’m being so fr I already lose money bc I pay for the website and would pay for whatever this portal would be hosted on so your payment would be getting credit on the website + a link to whatever personal profile or whatnot you have which ngl would probably get hella traffic from the website

Yesterday we had 12k users on the site

That’s why I wanna expand it

Bc while it does great during decisions traffic goes down outside of it

[proven reef]

i feel like if you made a server-wide announcement to see if anyone's willing to help you'd probably find a bunch of people who could get it running by tmr

[hidden axle]

The issue is consistency

I know people would be willing to start but would they actually finish it

We have often had issues with that

[proven reef]

oh true

[wise glacier]

make it open source

[hidden axle]

Yeah it’s not urgent but even outside of RDs

This has been an issue

Like with the A2C blog we got 30+ volunteers but only 4-5 have successfully made a post for me to review

And it’s been a couple months

[rocky notch]

I could help

I've made a few websites in the past and this sounds..... interesting >:)

however I'm not like in college or anything so not sure if you all would desire a professional level of quality

[proven reef]

feel like what we're going for is less professional perfection and more just consistency:p

[hidden axle]

I mostly would need it to be functional and usable like it doesn’t need to be the level of an actual portal

I have feature ideas I’d want but design wise I don’t need 50 million buttons

[shy girder]

Why not 🙁

[hidden axle]

Lol

[rocky notch]

ah well I could do that

would have to think about it though with midterms coming up and everything I don't want to commit to something I can't follow through with

on the other hand it sounds so funny 💀

[hidden axle]

When are midterms bc I don’t need this started asap

[rocky notch]

january for me idk about others

[hidden axle]

Ideally I’d like this complete at least a bit before March so we have time to play around with the concept

Most people will hit the website in March but if they sign up for the portal then we could push “final decisions” in April or so

Probably better to not do it during peak decision season anyways

[rocky notch]

oh thats definitely possible

if people really want it I could make a portal using google firebase or a different (free) database

[hidden axle]

One feature I’d want is the ability to email people who sign up which idk if I’d need mailchimp or what for that

I can pay a bit for stuff if needed I just would ideally not like to pay hundreds

[rocky notch]

actually I already know how to use mailchimp for my mailing list (on https://brokenpiano.org) so that actually works out

[stray plume]

have you ever considered putting up nonintrusive ads or anything

[hidden axle]

Subreddit said if we did they’d unlink everything we do

The absolute most I got approved for is donations

I only had it in one spot before for like a year and I don’t think many people saw it so we got basically nothing last year and most of this year

Then I moved it a couple weeks ago and it’s doing a bit better but we’re still running at a loss for the year

[stark fox]

the issue with programming is it's not very much fun for no money 😭

when it's not your own project

[long spruce]

This is pretty true lol

[hidden axle]

Tbf if it’s a project they don’t like I’d expect them to be less likely to finish it even with pay

Seeing the demographics of this server

[stark fox]

i mean lowkey a website is a lot of work

if you want somehting custom

[hidden axle]

Yeah I’m aware which is why this is more an idea than an expectation

In reality as much as I’d like this to happen I really do not expect it to

[sharp stag]

chatgpt 🔥

[hidden axle]

Like in reality the most I could feasibly do on my own is set up a mailchimp and do the idea solely over email but even that wouldn’t fully work for the randomizing decision aspect

[stark fox]

how many emails are you trying to send out?

[hidden axle]

Probably not that many

Depends on how fleshed out this gets

The first part would be creating the school on an idealistic level without any technical work

We could reuse #🎨-southern-rhode-island as a concept

Or make a new one

Ngl if it really came down to it I could fuse the school into the current website, add a mailing list, and just have everyone get accepted day of

Add some random lore abt why we don’t have a portal

[stark fox]

wait what is this idea

i'm like

[hidden axle]

The main thing is current website doesn’t have the ability to accept emails

[stark fox]

missing hlaf the ontext

[hidden axle]

Basically this again

Except I actually want to do the decision part

[stark fox]

just get technolutions

[rigid pike]

when does MIT drop

[stark fox]

that's what all the real portals use lmao

[stark fox]

tues

[hidden axle]

Check pins

[hidden axle]

Idk how much this costs

[stark fox]

me neither lol

i mean if you got someone competent i'm sure they could mimick a portal well

lowkey sounds fun but i don't have the time 😔

[hidden axle]

I have the link in my bio now lol

[scenic spire]

!mit

[stray plume]

Lowkey thought you owned the subreddit lol

[stray plume]

😎

[hidden axle]

Someone else does lol

#1317287827922354228

Let’s see if this works

[shy girder]

Can you donate to my wallet

Thanks

Thanks

Okay

Autocaps is cool

I only have it on my apple devices

Not my computer

[rocky notch]

lol I have no money to donate sorry

but I can donate my time and energy (I get bored lol)

the decision calendars have helped me so many times

[stray plume]

i donated 🔥

[rocky notch]

you are a real one

👍

[ashen zenith]

wait brian dean from usaco?

petey do you know brian dean?

[waxen cloak]

petey is brian dean

[ashen zenith]

wut

[fresh mirage]

i only know two deans: mike and howard

[stark fox]

what

what school is that

huh

my name backwards

LMAO?

oh are u asking cuz the mutual

huh

last year?

no i got in

sad it seems like so few a2c people got in

ah no

[idle pumice]

🐮

[ashen zenith]

wait did you go to mit w him??

or do you know all the oly directors...

[sudden dome]

yeah gotta pay mods to moderate your goofy ass

or depending how you see it donating so they don't moderate you

[hidden axle]

You’re paying for the decision calendar

I’m not running that shit on a spreadsheet again

I remember the time it crashed bc too many people were on it

And another time it glitched and put what I was writing one cell below what it was supposed to go so the entire subreddit flipped thinking UCLA was releasing that day

[long spruce]

I will donate my rd app fees if I get in

[hidden axle]

Lol

I keep the website running out of spite if I’m being honest

Really helped my ego the other week when a large consulting company’s marketing director emailed me blatantly lying to get more info out of me about sourcing decision dates

Bc why are you afraid of A2C

[sudden dome]

nah i donated to get people banned

the ban quota has not been met yet 😠

[hidden axle]

What happens if both you and someone you want banned donate

[sudden dome]

ill donate more

[proven reef]

true

[full lynx]

FUSION MENTIONED

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING 💪 ☢️ ⚙️

[full lynx]

ummmmmmm

:P

[waxen cloak]

ping?

[sudden dome]

pong

[cursive hazel]

poing

[idle pumice]

no but I went to Kazakhstan with him for IOI in 2015

[idle pumice]

mostly this

[ashen zenith]

so is it true you conact all the oly directors when reading the applications?

to verify the awards applicants put down?

that seems like a lot of work to catch a few, if any, potential problems

[fresh mirage]

i think they can just check the database or something

[ashen zenith]

yea true - so its correct to assume there's databases avaiable to AOs only but not to applicants

i.e. usamo qualifers aren't announced publically these days

[snow mist]

is it safe to assume an MIT AO would know what a vector is lol?

[ashen zenith]

also, major wise, is 6-7 (computational bio) any easier than straight up cs (course 6)?

how might 6-7 compare with something like biological engineering

i'm assuming interdisciplinary majors are more niche -> easier in some ways bc smaller applicant pool, but harder in other ways bc applicant quality is higher

^ is this reading correct?

also, i think everyone knows cs applicants are viewed more harshly, so major does make a difference during acceptnace, right?

[long spruce]

MIT doesn't admit by major

So no

You don't choose a major till your second year

[ashen zenith]

but i feel like major gotta make a difference during acceptance

[stray plume]

Re-read the message you just responded to

[idle pumice]

no

[idle pumice]

no

[stray plume]

whats the timeline look like for you guys at this point

are most decisions made and yall are just wrapping stuff up?

[proven reef]

do y’all have an idea as to how much work you’ll have to do before decisions release?

[vague oxide]

we've been 25 years from fusion for the past 75 years

[proven reef]

as in, is it like “oh we only have <10 more applicants to finalize” or “these 50 people still need a decision” or do y’all simply just not know yet

[idle pumice]

we'll probably wrap tuesday morning

[stray plume]

Is it the majority of them you need to finalize 😭

[idle pumice]

no

[stray plume]

I assume 90% of your time is spent just reading about all the candidates

[lavish scroll]

USA cow

[fresh mirage]

speaking about this, it would be cool if the major select had multiple options like Mich LSA or Pton

bc i genuinely can’t choose between 18C and 24 😭

[wise glacier]

bro it doesn't even matter

you don't pick major until your second year

[normal stag]

Honestly I'm just not gonna stress about it atp

Can't change what I put

Guess I see what AOs thought on Tuesday 😬

[full lynx]

👲

[normal stag]

That sounds like a legendary experience ngl. Did you get to spend much time in Kazakhstan doing anything besdies coding?

[ashen zenith]

wait thats really late!

i'm assuming the answer is no - but are you guys working over the weekend?

while you are reading applications, are you conscious of how many people have been accepted? or do you accept all those you see "qualified", and then you check whether you've hit the target number of admits

^ also, is there a target number/cap for EA admits?

[full lynx]

Those who know: 💀

[stray plume]

those who know 🤫

[errant turret]

If they are, then I wonder how the order they look at apps would be sorted. Do you guys think they would do it based on when submitted, last name, or randomly?? If last name, then there would definitely be some disproportion of latter letters. So I'd bet they do something like create a list with who they think is best fit to worst fit and just admit the first however many off that list

[long spruce]

Idk

I think it's hard to assign a quantitative value to "fit"

But I'm not in their admissions office so maybe they do

[ashen zenith]

do you know?!

[full lynx]

Kid named know: 😭

[ashen zenith]

this is a good follow up for @idle pumice ig

[errant turret]

The more I think about it, the less I believe it’s handled that way. They probably organize it geographically, instead of time or name. They and I doubt they'd have a linear list like that—they probably go through reviews multiple times and narrow down borderline cases until they get close to their admission target.

[full lynx]

@long spruce yurrrr few more days before we in

[quick ingot]

what are average ecs of an mit admit

[idle pumice]

we work every weekend from October through April

at least one day

[idle pumice]

ur guess would be wrong

bro respectfully the description of our reading and cmte process is literally on our website

[ashen zenith]

i see. seperately, do you try to limit EA to 50% of the class?

or can you go over 50% when the EA pool is exceptionally strong?

[long spruce]

Fr I'm hyped to see Tim falling down my screen

[full lynx]

Yurrrrrrrr

[fresh mirage]

i doubt EA even makes close to 50% of the class

[ashen zenith]

it does - they admit about ~600 studnets EA, and the class is about 1200 ppl

i'm wondering if they would admit let's say 700 EA if there's a very strong EA pool, or 550 is a weak EA pool; i.e. there's no "goal" for the number of EA admits

[stray plume]

Probably not, Id imagine theyd still defer EA folks over that half limit

Plus everyone they want to consider

[stark estuary]

wait petey (sorry for the ping 😭), I sent in a semi-important update about extenuating circumstances/coursework and stuff last sunday but I didn't hear back.. idk should I follow up? or do I just assume u guys recieved it

[true star]

mass tech

[sharp stag]

hi envy

[true star]

hiiii

[sharp stag]

[molten mauve]

Manifesting…

[proven reef]

if i get in i feel like i’d wanna apply to be an admissions blog writer, it seems so fun and reading the blogs is such an exciting experience i can’t even lie

[sharp stag]

fr

[hidden axle]

Me fr

I’m trying to see if butter can add a blog to Aeteau College for me

So I can pretend

[sharp stag]

excited? I'm scared

for life

😭

[hidden axle]

They line MIT admissions officers up baseball batting order style to throw darts at a board. To make room for each applicant, they put your applications on different dart boards with a more favorable position based on how close your application was submitted to π time. Then, the AO who hits your application on the dart board will read it (provided it wasn’t destroyed when hit—those applications are automatically rejected). They’ll rate your application on a 1-10 scale, with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. The applications closest to 𝜏 score win admission to MIT. Hope this helps!

[coarse parrot]

!mit

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@coarse parrot is absolutely doomed.
@coarse parrot feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@coarse parrot is truly A2Cooked.

Used 518 times.

[fossil flare]

late reply but I know stanford at least used to group applicants into three tiers by test scores i think? https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3573051.3593382

[outer mountain]

Man this is suffocating

Not like in a good or bad way

[sharp stag]

fr

meow

[outer mountain]

Meow

[sharp stag]

meow is such a good word

or sound

or wtv

represents the absence of thought

and cuteness

:3

[woven wave]

real

so real

[idle pumice]

u should assume we received it and are working through insane backlog

[stark estuary]

thanks petey

[placid prairie]

guys how cooked am i if i talk about instagram and youtube videos in my educational journey essay

[sharp stag]

yt vids are a great way to learn!

[placid prairie]

Cool 🙏 that is all my essay talks about

[fossil flare]

how is that unexpected tho

[wheat bluff]

reels sound unexpected

tbh idk what youd write about

[placid prairie]

Yeah idk because I know that a lot of people could talk about that but i don’t think I have anything else in my life that’s out of the ordinary

[fossil flare]

i didnt answer the prompt that well either but ik a girl who got in that talked about an unusual interest of hers i think

[placid prairie]

Some other ppl cautioned me about writing about reels bc it would make me look too addicted to social media or something ☠️

[placid prairie]

Ah okay mine is like YouTube videos/Instagram reels/ whatever introduced me to random concepts that I don’t think would be taught in school and how I learn from those

[fossil flare]

honestly id just do the youtube thing

without reels

[quick ingot]

!MIT

[fresh mirage]

how do i add counselor/transcripts to MIT

[shy girder]

my school submitted them via an external portal

[long spruce]

Just use the lor page and invite your counselor

[simple oracle]

!mit

[knotty geyser]

MIT EA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734478080:F> in your local time
2 days, 3 hours and 13 minutes until the decision date

[long spruce]

Yikes

[untold cape]

Ruh roh

[shy girder]

shiver me TIMBERS

[wise glacier]

mit pls accept me

[shy girder]

🥶 🥶 🥶 🥶 🥶 🥶

[shy girder]

hi bum

[wise glacier]

if anyone blesses me for mit, i will bless them for any college except mit

[untold cape]

Hello 🥰

[shy girder]

ru an intl

i think u need all the blessing u can get

💔

[wise glacier]

yes

[shy girder]

bye

[wise glacier]

nah it would actually be the biggest clutch

if i get in

id be the second-worst person there but its fine

[long spruce]

Realizing that if I get rejected/deferred my bank account is about to take an $800 hit

Yay

[full lynx]

How come

Also wdym rejected/deferred

[long spruce]

App fees

For other schools

[full lynx]

Ah right

[sharp stag]

whos the worst 👀

[wise glacier]

idk there has to be someone worse than me

[placid prairie]

Me

[waxen cloak]

me

[stray plume]

Holy shit exact same scenario for me

[haughty token]

Have my essay rough drafts done (not reviewed though) and have no maker portfolio yet. How cooked am I for RD?

[stray plume]

Whens it due

[haughty token]

January 6th I think

[stray plume]

Lol quit worrying I wrote all my stuff the day before I submitted

[haughty token]

Ok that’s reassuring lol

Thanks

[stray plume]

just get it done like

today so that you dont have to think about it anymore

atleast your writing stuff

[haughty token]

Yeah my pseo classes end in 3 days so I can lock in

Gonna work on it some more today

[stray plume]

🔥

[trim locust]

I think I might spend over 2k on apps 😀

[copper scroll]

im so scared for tuesday :(

[trim locust]

Same not for mit though but another school 😭

First decision

[sharp stag]

fearful

[coarse parrot]

!mit

[woven wave]

yale?

[trim locust]

Nah Notre dame

[woven wave]

valid

[trim locust]

I don’t have the balls to do early to an ivy

[woven wave]

i do

it will sincerely come to bite me in the ass

[trim locust]

No one at my school has ever gotten in an ivy early 😭

Not trying to test my luck rn

Too much at stake

[woven wave]

shit

if yale rejects me rea

it's chill

cuz stanford got me in rd

🙏

[trim locust]

Yessir

[woven wave]

and if stanford doesnt got me

[trim locust]

Positive mindset only 🔥🔥

[woven wave]

duke got me in rd

and if duke dont got me

harvard got me

and if harvard dont got me

mit got me

and if none of them got me im js gonna cry

real

so real

real and factual

[simple oracle]

!mit\

[knotty geyser]

MIT EA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734478080:F> in your local time
2 days, 55 minutes and 47 seconds until the decision date

[stray plume]

boioioing

[woven wave]

rd in 3 months

😍

[placid prairie]

shhh