Dear Avinash,
The Admissions Committee has completed its review of your application, and I am so sorry to tell you that we are unable to offer you admission to MIT.
Please understand that this is in no way a judgment of you as a student or as a person, since our decision has more to do with the applicant pool than anything else - most of our applicants are not admitted simply because we do not have enough space in our entering class. This year we had almost 13,500 candidates for fewer than 1,600 offers of admission, from which will come our 1,000 freshmen. Since all of our decisions are made at one time and all available spaces have been committed, all decisions are final.
I am very sorry to bring you this disappointing news, and I wish you the very best as you continue with your education.
Sincerely,
Stuart Schmill
Interim Director of Admissions
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
I replied, so I reposted
Just for fun people, dunt take it too seriously! Leave a comment if you want!
1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression?
8. Do you still think that way about me now?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. When's the last time you saw me?
13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
14. Are you going to post this in your notes and see what I say about you?
1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression?
8. Do you still think that way about me now?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. When's the last time you saw me?
13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
14. Are you going to post this in your notes and see what I say about you?
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The gun is never loaded
Ever wondered why the gun is never loaded? Have you thought about that one moment where the gun is pointed to the head. The next thing to happen is not for the gun to go off, but the pistol to be cocked. The (wo)man with the gun puts his thumb across the back of the revolver, and slowly cocks it. Ever wondered why?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day
So today is Valentine's Day, and I'm not going to wish you, now because I am a spoilsport or I don't have a Valentine, I couldn't care less especially with my finals round the corner, but because I think the whole concept sucks. Don't get me wrong, I'm quite a sucker for celebration, but I think the concept sucks. Here are a few reasons why.
1) You're supposed to give gifts, and these are the kind that no one would accept at any other time of the year ( chocolates as always are an exception, i'd take them anyday)
2) It's a bad excuse to make good money
3) It makes you look bad if you don't have a "valentine"
4) It makes it seem like this is the only day in the year when we can celebrate "love"
Call me weird but I don't think today is the day to tell your friends and sweethearts you love them, its everyday. Why can't you just go and tell them the same thing that you would today? because today is "the day"?
Instead of wishing people a "happy valentine's day" why don't you just tell them you love them. Your friends may not be around forever, and today is a "good" day to tell them you love them, you might as well do that. Thats precisely what I'm going to do.
Thank you for being who you are, thats just the way I like it.
I love you. I hope you don't think I'm weird. Even if you do, I still love you.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
I don't actually believe I could be asked all this ... but
I don't actually believe I could be asked all this ... but
Next time you get asked an annoying Indian question, answer it like
this...read on, it's funny!
Q. What does that red dot on women's forehead mean?
A. Well, in ancient times, Indian men used to practice archery
skills by target practicing by aiming at their wife's red dot. In
fact, that is one of the reasons why they had many wives. You see,
once they mastered the art of archery and hit the target....
Q. You're from India, aren't you? I have read so much about the
country. All the wonderful places, the forests, the snake charmers,
the elephants. Do you still use elephants for transportation?
[note: This one we were actually asked in August '93 by a real
estate agent when house-hunting in Boston.]
A. Absolutely. In fact we used to have our own elephant in
our house. But later, we started elephant-pooling with our neighbors,
to save the air. You see elephants have an "emissions" problem.....
Q. Does India have cars?
A. No. We ride elephants to work. The government is trying to
encourage ride-sharing schemes.
Q. Does India have TV?
A. No. We only have cable.
Q. Are all Indians vegetarian?
A. Yes. Even tigers are vegetarian in India.
Q. How come you speak English so well?
A. You see when the British were ruling India, they employed Indians
as servants. It took too long for the Indians to learn English. So the
British isolated an "English-language" gene and infused their
servants' babies with it and since then all babies born are born
speaking English.
A variation to the above is a compliment ---
"You speak very good English."
Response: Thanks. So do you.
Q. Are you a Hindi?
A. Yes. I am spoken everyday in Northern India.
Q. Do you speak Hindu?
A. Yes, I also speak Jewish, Islam and Christianity.
Q. Is it true that everyone there is very corrupt?
A. Yes, in fact, I had to bribe my parents so that they would let me
go to school.
Q. India is very hot, isn't it?
A. It is so hot there that all the water boils spontaneously. That is
why tea is such a popular drink in India.
Q. Are there any business companies in India?
A. No. All Indians live on the Gandhian prinicples of
self-sufficiency. We all make our own clothes and grow our own food.
That is why you see all these thin skinny Indians -- it is a lot of
hard work.
Q. Indians cannot eat beef, huh?
A. Cows provide milk which is a very essential part of Indian
diet. So eating cows is forbidden. However in order to decrease the
population of the country, the government is trying to encourage
everyone to eat human meat.
Q. India is such a religious place. Do you meditate regularly?
A. Yes, sometimes I meditate for weeks without food and drink. But it
is difficult to keep my job, because I have to miss work when I
meditate like that. But the bosses there do the same thing. That is
why things are so inefficient there.
Q. I saw on TV that people there walk on burning coals. Why do they
do that?
A. We don't have shoes. So we burn the botton of our feet to make it
hard so that we can walk.
Q. Why do you sometimes wear Indian clothes to work?
A. I prefer it to coming naked.
Q. How do you celebrate Thanksgiving day in India?
A. By roasting an American....
Next time you get asked an annoying Indian question, answer it like
this...read on, it's funny!
Q. What does that red dot on women's forehead mean?
A. Well, in ancient times, Indian men used to practice archery
skills by target practicing by aiming at their wife's red dot. In
fact, that is one of the reasons why they had many wives. You see,
once they mastered the art of archery and hit the target....
Q. You're from India, aren't you? I have read so much about the
country. All the wonderful places, the forests, the snake charmers,
the elephants. Do you still use elephants for transportation?
[note: This one we were actually asked in August '93 by a real
estate agent when house-hunting in Boston.]
A. Absolutely. In fact we used to have our own elephant in
our house. But later, we started elephant-pooling with our neighbors,
to save the air. You see elephants have an "emissions" problem.....
Q. Does India have cars?
A. No. We ride elephants to work. The government is trying to
encourage ride-sharing schemes.
Q. Does India have TV?
A. No. We only have cable.
Q. Are all Indians vegetarian?
A. Yes. Even tigers are vegetarian in India.
Q. How come you speak English so well?
A. You see when the British were ruling India, they employed Indians
as servants. It took too long for the Indians to learn English. So the
British isolated an "English-language" gene and infused their
servants' babies with it and since then all babies born are born
speaking English.
A variation to the above is a compliment ---
"You speak very good English."
Response: Thanks. So do you.
Q. Are you a Hindi?
A. Yes. I am spoken everyday in Northern India.
Q. Do you speak Hindu?
A. Yes, I also speak Jewish, Islam and Christianity.
Q. Is it true that everyone there is very corrupt?
A. Yes, in fact, I had to bribe my parents so that they would let me
go to school.
Q. India is very hot, isn't it?
A. It is so hot there that all the water boils spontaneously. That is
why tea is such a popular drink in India.
Q. Are there any business companies in India?
A. No. All Indians live on the Gandhian prinicples of
self-sufficiency. We all make our own clothes and grow our own food.
That is why you see all these thin skinny Indians -- it is a lot of
hard work.
Q. Indians cannot eat beef, huh?
A. Cows provide milk which is a very essential part of Indian
diet. So eating cows is forbidden. However in order to decrease the
population of the country, the government is trying to encourage
everyone to eat human meat.
Q. India is such a religious place. Do you meditate regularly?
A. Yes, sometimes I meditate for weeks without food and drink. But it
is difficult to keep my job, because I have to miss work when I
meditate like that. But the bosses there do the same thing. That is
why things are so inefficient there.
Q. I saw on TV that people there walk on burning coals. Why do they
do that?
A. We don't have shoes. So we burn the botton of our feet to make it
hard so that we can walk.
Q. Why do you sometimes wear Indian clothes to work?
A. I prefer it to coming naked.
Q. How do you celebrate Thanksgiving day in India?
A. By roasting an American....
Monday, December 4, 2006
Stupid/Sensible
Sometime somethings actually make a lot of sense, but come from places you'd never expect . Check these lines from Kenny Dies
Man: [from the Make-A-Wish Foundation] I know! I'll bet you wanna meet Madonna, huh?
Kenny: [muffled] No. Fuckin' Madonna... [his words trail off and become unintelligible]
Man: What was that?
Kyle: He said Madonna is an old anorexic whore who wore out her welcome years ago, and that now she suddenly speaks with a British accent she thinks she can play guitar and she should go fuck herself. [the Foundation reps are stunned]
Madonna: [appearing in the doorway] Should I come in now?
Man: Um, not quite yet.
* Chef: Stan, sometime God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful god, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it! So he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?
Stan: But then why does God give us anything to start with?
Chef: Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like God, who gives us life and love and health, just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry. So he can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.
Man: [from the Make-A-Wish Foundation] I know! I'll bet you wanna meet Madonna, huh?
Kenny: [muffled] No. Fuckin' Madonna... [his words trail off and become unintelligible]
Man: What was that?
Kyle: He said Madonna is an old anorexic whore who wore out her welcome years ago, and that now she suddenly speaks with a British accent she thinks she can play guitar and she should go fuck herself. [the Foundation reps are stunned]
Madonna: [appearing in the doorway] Should I come in now?
Man: Um, not quite yet.
* Chef: Stan, sometime God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful god, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it! So he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?
Stan: But then why does God give us anything to start with?
Chef: Well, look at it this way! If you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away! If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothing to cry about! That's like God, who gives us life and love and health, just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry. So he can drink the sweet milk of our tears! You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Saddam
Why is there so much hesitation in awarding Saddam the death penalty. I would probably be sentenced to it for a few murders, or be convicted much quicker if I killed Saddam right now. So why this double standard?
The Greatest Idea - EVER
How about a deodorant, not just any deo, but a pot deo. It would be so good that people would actually want to be with you just to get a whiff of you - no jokes. Hahahaha
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Memories
Its funny, how you slave day and nite to "mug" some chem, physics or, heck it doesn't matter. But do you remember ever having to memorise, what are now memories.
Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
Monday, October 16, 2006
i'm confused
im thinkin who my real friends are, and what i'll do abt chemistry and college and life and time and, heck does it really matter when im really sleepy?
thoughts running thru my hed at 12 last nite
thoughts running thru my hed at 12 last nite
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Free Speech and Insanity
This may be a lot late to write about this, yet this has been at the back of my mind for a long time. We had loads of news about the Mohammed cartoons, loads really and we even heard the news about the editors not feeling sorry for it and how it was to defend free speech. They MAY have been right, though I am of the opinion that they were not. Their argument about free speech falls flat on its face when one considers the fact that the widespread damage that the riots caused, not to speak of the fact that it cost a few lives.
Of course, I forget, we have been desensitised. Free speech be damned, anyone with some good sense will surely know that if their "wiggling fingers" "Right" comments cause damage, big damage, they must apologise for it. I have not seen the cartoons myself, yet I heard one of them carried the following line "Its hard to be loved by fools". Indeed, thats why those newspapers got that much coverage, loved by fools. I incidentally also heard that other papers were conducting a "Holocaust Cartoon Competition". This is utter madness, what is anybody trying to prove? And for those of you who would condemn me for writing this, let me tell you, I am not against free speech, only insanity. This is free speech, that is not. A lot of papers carried the cartoons, yet I dare even one to carry the picture I am attaching, not very well executed, but I hope it conveys what I am trying to say. I would never do a holocaust cartoon, but I would do this. And for those of you who feel that I have identified only one paper, please feel free to insert the other names that you so feel there.
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Music List: My Fave Rock Songs
My Fave Rock Songs
- : (01) Linkin Park - Foreword
- : (02) Linkin Park - Don't Stay
- : (03) Linkin Park - Somwhere I Belong
- : (04) Linkin Park - Lying From You
- : (05) Linkin Park - Hit The Floor
- : (06) Linkin Park - Easier To Run
- : (07) Linkin Park - Faint
- : (08) Linkin Park - Figure 09
- : (09) Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit
- : (10) Linkin Park - From The Inside
- : (11) Linkin Park - Nobodys Listening
- : (12) Linkin Park - Session
- : (13) Linkin Park - Numb
- : 2ndcoming
- : arabic
- Linkin Park: Cure For The Itch
- : db
- Madonna: Die Another Day
- : dragon
- MJ: healtheworld
- Linkin Park: High Voltage
- Linkin Park: In the End
- Linkin Park: In the End
- Toonami: INFOLINK
- : infolink
- : Linkin Park--Points Of Authority
- : lurker
- Linkin Park: Place for My Head
- : prayer
- Linkin Park: Pushing Me Away
- : scratch_my_back
- : strings
- Saliva: Superstar
- : tensionrev
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Fun Stuff
Omigosh, I composed a really long blog and that was lost as the computer restarted for apparently no reason, so ill compose it again. There's a lot to write, but i'll start with computers, here's some nice websites and software.
Bittorrent: Get a good bittorrent "client", eg.ABC, G3 Torrent or Bittorrent lite(this one allows you to search) and install it, then go to a website like http://www.torrentreactor.
File Sharing: Dont ever get kazaa, get kazaa lite and search for the files you want and then download it
Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com
Sodaplay Http://www.sodaplay.com
Messenger 7 Beta http://www.messenger.com/b
Evillyrics http://www.evillabs.sk
This software gets the lyrics for the songs you are playing automatically
Selective File Sharing I may have sent some of you (my good friends) invites, click on the links in the invites and then register. Then I can stream you music if I'm online - like radio and you can download CERTAIN FILES ONLY of my comp and vice versa
Free MP3 legal downloads http://music.download.com/
For physics and astronomy enthusiasts http://www.physlink.com
For your queries http://www.askearth.com
For anonymous mail
For sending emails to me just like that without opening your email account
http://www.avinash.selfhos
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