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A friendlier MIT decisions page

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Nice to see I'm not the only EA MIT-hopeful on HN! :-)

I like what you did. It's cool to make the stressful process a bit social. I understand there's not exactly a ton of data to work with, though.

As a general rule with bookmarklets, however, it's good to put the bulk of the source in an external file that you can update: not only does it make the bookmark smaller, but it also allows you to push updates seemlessly.

By the way, I was really impressed that they sent out an an email exactly (down to the minute) 1 week before the decision date. They said they'd give us a week's notice, but who knew it'd be so precise... All of this is causing way too much anxiety.

Good luck!

Likewise :) Yes, I actually tried a load-script-into-head bookmarklet, but it didn't seem to want to work on chrome (though it worked on safari). If you can get a snippet working, I'd gladly implement it.

Good luck to you too!

You do load in jquery, why not replace that script URL with your bookmarklet script?

Script tags aren't subject to cross-domain policies, so you shouldn't have trouble there. Plus, if they were, you would have seen issues alread.

I tried loading the script, but what happened in Chrome is that the whole page was replaced with the url to the script. In Safari, on the other hand, it worked perfectly.

nvm, got it ;)

Dude! the school colors?!

Eh, they change everyday on mit.edu anyway :P

Try the logo lab, or if you don't feel like it, the direct download

http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/logo/forweb.html

You can't go wrong with blood on concrete, though!

http://mit.edu/graphicidentity/colors/index.html

Hm, blood on red does look good. I might change it then, soon.

OK, well now he's definitely getting in.

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