Graduate School Admission Results

2a/0w/3r/4p

0a/0w/5r/5p

Email to check portal.

GPA is grad. Ah well. 1a/2w/4r/17p

Philosophy Minor, not really qualified, still stung a bit 0A/2R/6P

Email to check portal. 2a/3w/2r/8p

Interviewed by a professor two weeks ago.

Received email notification to check portal

Heehee

Got an email telling me to check my portal. Syntax

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No GRE

Chemical Biology, official offer of admission through portal. This is an absolute dream come true!!!!!

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!