weill aspects

originally posted december 14, 1998

oh, MIT!

At 9:15 AM this morning, I phoned the admissions office of Massachusetts Institute of Technology to inquire about the status of my application. I was greeted rather quickly (I had anticipated at least some hold time) by an admissions counselor, who informed me that my application was deferred. Essentially, I received a "maybe" answer; my application will be subsequently considered as if it were a Regular Action application. All three of Syosset's MIT applicants were deferred.

Congratulations, though, to the students accepted to Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard. The rest of us, like it or not, are now playing the waiting game.

Happy Chanukah. Unfortunately, my system was out of commission for all of last week, so I was unable to post all the updates I would like. Additionally, now that I'm deferred, I really need to concentrate on my studies so as not to jeopardize my Regular Action applications.

By personal request, though, I have updated the Citizenship Test's segmented-name lists. I hope you're happy now.

Back to December 1998, or to the year 1998.

Where am I?

This is Weill Aspects, the official news archive of Jason Weill Web Productions. All articles posted to the front page end up here. This page was generated automatically by a series of Perl scripts.

Articles in Weill Aspects are organized solely by date. You may find the Google search in the left column to be useful if you are looking for an article but do not know the date on which it was posted.

Weill Aspects is composed of static web pages generated as appropriate when a new article is posted. It was developed in May 2001 as a way of managing the content on this site. I also used it extensively while in Japan, during which time I did not have continuous access to the Internet. I was able to write daily updates during July and August 2002, pack the files onto a CD-R or memory device, and upload them from the Internet-connected computers at school.

These scripts are all hacked together in less than elegant fashion, and I don't plan to release them. Some of the design that went into Aspects also was used to develop Livestat, a suite of Perl scripts to process statistics for academic competition tournaments. Livestat is available freely.