received notification at 6:15 EST

Strong extracurricular leadership experience, worked as a technician in a research lab, no research papers published, few internships from strong semiconductor companies; applied for focus in computer architecture, only really relevant experience was senior capstone.

It finally happened—MIT has decided to accept reality and let me in. Rumor has it that the faculty held multiple emergency meetings, debated using a reinforcement learning algorithm to decide which lab gets me, but in the end, they figured they’d just let me choose. A little about me: Robotics is my playground, and top conferences are my playground logs. So far, I have 14 first-author papers: • 2x Science Robotics (because journals make things “real”) • 3x TRO (where experiments meet theory and both suffer) • 4x RAL (where every review says, “this work is incremental”) • 2x RSS (I may have reviewed more papers than the conference chairs) • 3x ICRA (because is it even robotics if you haven’t published at ICRA?) Funding? Apparently, they’re already pulling in industry sponsors to make sure I don’t go elsewhere. My future PI told me they’re clearing out lab space and getting extra robots just in case I need more. Research focus: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Robot Systems, Reconfigurable Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Things I do better than you: probably building robots, but let’s find out. This keeps the bragging + humor balance while making it entertaining. Let me know if you want any tweaks!

It finally happened—MIT has decided to accept reality and let me in. Rumor has it that the faculty held multiple emergency meetings, debated using a reinforcement learning algorithm to decide which lab gets me, but in the end, they figured they’d just let me choose. A little about me: Robotics is my playground, and top conferences are my playground logs. So far, I have 14 first-author papers: • 2x Science Robotics (because journals make things “real”) • 3x TRO (where experiments meet theory and both suffer) • 4x RAL (where every review says, “this work is incremental”) • 2x RSS (I may have reviewed more papers than the conference chairs) • 3x ICRA (because is it even robotics if you haven’t published at ICRA?) Funding? Apparently, they’re already pulling in industry sponsors to make sure I don’t go elsewhere. My future PI told me they’re clearing out lab space and getting extra robots just in case I need more. Research focus: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Robot Systems, Reconfigurable Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. Things I do better than you: probably building robots, but let’s find out. This keeps the bragging + humor balance while making it entertaining. Let me know if you want any tweaks!

Email around 4pm.

10 minute interview with PI

Does anyone in the wl get rejection or acceptance?

No Interview. Was expecting it. DREAMS SHATTERED.

No interview, no Master's, MechE background, no GRE. Expected a rejection by this time. congratulations to everyone that got accepted!