CMU (2022-2023)

[honest vale]

i'm asain female but im not sure if that changes anything lol

[tulip rune]

wistem

[honest vale]

SCS doesn't seem to lack female applicants

[whole goblet]

wistem will help but then again youre also international which might hurt u

[honest vale]

ACT doesn't even let you send score reports across different exams in one go

90s software infrastructure

[tulip rune]

yeah fr

[whole goblet]

regardless, im sure you still have a good shot; idk anything about you and for all i know you're cmu material so good luck!

[tulip rune]

you have to purchase each one separately

[honest vale]

i mean i think i have a shot at least

[tulip rune]

same to all of you

[whole goblet]

literally every portal

[honest vale]

bc my scores are in their 25-75 percentile

[tulip rune]

lol for scs

their 25th percentile is a 36

i think

[whole goblet]

DAMN

[mighty berry]

?? isnt it 35 at least

what

wait where are you getting percentiles per college

[honest vale]

i think it's 25% 35 and 75% 36

for SCS

[mighty berry]

if its 36 im crying LMFAO

[tulip rune]

lemme send a screenshot I took from their website a bit ago...

[honest vale]

CMU used to have a page full of brutal stats of SCS

[tulip rune]

i think they took it down cuz I can't find it anywehre

[honest vale]

they removed it for some reason

[whole goblet]

out of curiosity what was the sat percentiles?

[tulip rune]

oh

[whole goblet]

im not doing scs im just wondering

[tulip rune]

that might be what I had screenshotting lmao

[honest vale]

yeah it's 35-36

[tulip rune]

i looked this up when I toured the campus around Feb last year

[whole goblet]

the math section 💀

[honest vale]

i have a 36 so i'm pretty sure i'm in the interquartile range

[tulip rune]

tfw my highest ACT section is reading and english

[tulip rune]

sheeesh

[honest vale]

but even if i "have a shot" it's just 10% chance or something lol

[mighty berry]

bro im like

forever kicking myself for taking the act once

[tulip rune]

whyyy

[random sky]

don't ed then?? its not like cmu gives any boost for ed

[tulip rune]

they slightly do

they say they don't, but the numbers suggest otherwise

[honest vale]

well you can't really know for sure

[mighty berry]

or at least not earlier bc i just took it sumer before senior year and got 34 and was like "not worth it to retake" bc knowing me i'd throw the second time

[whole goblet]

1. too late 2. its a slight boost and i like it enough to ed it

its in my top 3

and the other 2 (brown and mit) are hard reaches so its not worth

[tulip rune]

for me it was like:

1. My other choices were JHU, Tufts, or WashU
2. CMU has a lot of boba 👍

[tulip rune]

those don't have ED2

[whole goblet]

thats the point

[tulip rune]

ah

[whole goblet]

its not worth chancing rd

[mighty berry]

also this is the overall from the 2021-22 cds so ?? but idk

[whole goblet]

LMAO THE BOBA

[honest vale]

i bombed it the first time because some dude kept clearing his throat next to me lol

[tulip rune]

the CDS combines the scores from the theater kids

[honest vale]

i wanted to shout at him to just stop

[tulip rune]

the smartest theater kids in the country lowkey

[whole goblet]

idk man i live somewhere where theres so much boba but like... i dont like boba that much

[random sky]

the only reason the numbers are higher is cuz ed pool is self-selecting also can't you usually change within two weeks of submitting?

[whole goblet]

and my friends judge me for it

[tulip rune]

(I bombed one math section cuz my calculator died.... I'm surprised I scored above a 30 in the math on that test lol)

[whole goblet]

bro im not changing it

[honest vale]

CMU's apartment living doesn't even give you separate bedrooms smh

[whole goblet]

let me make my own decisions

[tulip rune]

I was quite ashamed to send that score in...but whateevr lol

[whole goblet]

i think this is right for me leave me alone 😭

[mighty berry]

yeah but based on this there shouldnt be enough to lower the 25th percentile by that much?? but thats just looking so idk

[honest vale]

what's the point of apt style living if you still share bedrooms with other people

[tulip rune]

tbh I did a 1 month long summer camp where I had a roommate... and the experience isn't bad (maybe I got lucky with my roommate)

but imo it was much better than having a single

but also it depends on the person

[mighty berry]

lowkey thats fair

[honest vale]

yeah i would really hope i get a good roommate if i get into CMU

[whole goblet]

ive never had a roommate before

[tulip rune]

I'm like super extroverted so singles make me feel depressed

[mighty berry]

like sat i straight up didnt study and forgot my calc so i bombed really bad LMAO

[whole goblet]

but like i dont think i would mind having one

as long as the person is someone i can vibe with

[tulip rune]

the thing is that I didn't feel like writing the 150 word essay about it bc I didn't want to sound like I was complaining or anything

[whole goblet]

actually... no... theres the concern about my sleep schedule

or lack thereof

[tulip rune]

:lmao:

[mighty berry]

its cmu

who's making it there and having a healthy sleep schedule

[whole goblet]

no no no its not like

me staying up late

half the time i get home and pass out

and do work at 3am

💀

[mighty berry]

i mean

[honest vale]

i mean calculator died is a pretty fair reason to complain about it

[mighty berry]

lowkey same or at least i wish

[tulip rune]

My sleep schedule and my roommate's matched up perfectly pretty much
I'd go to bed at 12-1am and wake up at 7:45am
He'd go to bed at 9:30pm and wake up at 5am

[whole goblet]

i dont think it would be optimal for my roommate

[mighty berry]

like im 10x more productive at night but my parents are like

very against napping and me waking up at 9pm

[honest vale]

more understandable than complaining about a dude having a cold next to you

[tulip rune]

but I should be the calculator

jk

[mighty berry]

so im just tired as hell until like 2am and crash daily LMAO

[tulip rune]

LMAO

[whole goblet]

have a friend whose calculator was broken on the ap calc exam
to integrate he used eulers method like 10 times...

he somehow got a 5

[mighty berry]

TO ? whats that

[honest vale]

the integration or the exam score?

[whole goblet]

test optional

[tulip rune]

I work best from like 6pm-9pm
then I basically enter sleep mode at 9:30, and actually go to bed at 11 typically

[mighty berry]

oh

[whole goblet]

the exam score

[honest vale]

that's pretty impressive

[tulip rune]

a 5 on the ap bc calc exam is like a 60% accuracy right

maybe less

[mighty berry]

doesnt it depend on the year? like its around there but idk

[whole goblet]

57%

[tulip rune]

I think it has one of the nicest curves

yeah that's amazing lol

[honest vale]

i can't study well at school bc the condition is just too miserable

but i can't really study well at home either because too many distractions

[whole goblet]

my school is really good to do work in so i get as much work done in school as i can

[mighty berry]

the pain

[honest vale]

at least I do better at home than at school i guess

[whole goblet]

unfortunately i also have a 1 hour commute each way

so that sucks

[mighty berry]

thats so relatable like if you stay after and dont have a club you get yelled at my every teacher ever

like even if they think you arent in a club

[tulip rune]

tbh I just don't study :run:

[whole goblet]

LMFAO THIS

[tulip rune]

maybe that's why I'll get rejected lmao

[whole goblet]

i take such good notes just to not look at them-

[tulip rune]

interesting

[mighty berry]

like i had to make a phone call and this lady 3 separate times is like "YOU SHOULDNT BE HERE. GET OUT" like ma'am im on the fucking phone did your mom not give your privacy growing up

[honest vale]

I only take notes when i desperately go over the textbook at the night before the exam

[whole goblet]

i think taking good notes helps me with not having to study

[mighty berry]

^^^

[whole goblet]

its funny how i make sure my notes are aesthetically pleasing but then dont look at them tho

😭

[tulip rune]

I found the best way I perform in school in 2nd semester junior year... basically I just take super super brief notes to jog my memory in worst-case scenarios, but I try to participate/pay attention as much as possible in class

and it works well for me

[honest vale]

Do you handwrite or type your notes

I always just type

[whole goblet]

oh that was my ap stats study guide

[mighty berry]

THIS

[whole goblet]

handwrite for stem, type for humanities

[tulip rune]

I type my notes for everything except math

and physcis

[honest vale]

If you use LaTeX you can type for stem too

[mighty berry]

lowkey i just gvae up on notes after covid and just type things to remember in history

[mighty berry]

like i only wrote notes in math last year and physics this year and otherwise i just write nonsense onto docs i never look at and cope with the textbook if im down bad LMAO

[tulip rune]

I do know latex but I am faster at writing than dealing with all the formatting (or maybe my brain is too slow to type in latex fast)

[whole goblet]

i only use latex for like reports and papers

im not fast enough with latex to type with it

[tulip rune]

yeah same

[mighty berry]

wait ok with latex

which version do you even download

[tulip rune]

well I don't do reports or papers :run:

[whole goblet]

well, like lab reports and stuff

[honest vale]

I just use katex and overleaf

[mighty berry]

like i was looking at the site and i think 2 were no longer supported? but i dont remmerb

[mighty berry]

okok i'll try that

[tulip rune]

I use overleaf and the html integration of latex

[tulip rune]

ohh

[mighty berry]

hopefully itll be easier than word for equatinos lmao

[whole goblet]

how do you even like

type matrices

and shit

[honest vale]

My notetaking tool of choice is typora

10x better than notion

[whole goblet]

oh also my teachers prob wouldnt let me type out notes anyway

for stem classes

[mighty berry]

?? they care that much

[whole goblet]

eh im sure they wouldnt care that much but like

itd have to be an exception

bc like

[mighty berry]

no laptop rule or

[tulip rune]

\begin{bmatrix} a&b \ c&d \end{bmatrix}

[whole goblet]

typically nobody uses their laptops in those classes?

[whole goblet]

ok that would be a pain in the ass

[mighty berry]

my school mus tbe weird then

idk

[tulip rune]

yeah fr

[whole goblet]

i dont plan to use latex

[honest vale]

I use obsidian on my ipad

[whole goblet]

💀

[honest vale]

at class

[whole goblet]

dont have an ipad

[mighty berry]

like half my physics class uses their laptops to read the notes bc the teacher is just like

2 minute explanation for 5 minutes of reading

next slide

[tulip rune]

I handwrite my notes through goodnotes tho on ipad

[mighty berry]

"do the example!"

[honest vale]

I don't really listen to humanity classes

the pacing is just too weird i much prefer just reading the textbooks

[tulip rune]

I dropped all humanities this year :run: (mainly cuz of scheduling conflicts)

[whole goblet]

i dont understand how to handwrite notes on ipad

[tulip rune]

invest in a stylus

[whole goblet]

like i need the desk to lean my hand on

[tulip rune]

aka apple pencil

[tulip rune]

yeah imagine just taking notes on a notepad with a glossier surface

but with much more capabilities

(like graphing utilities etc)

[honest vale]

do you not use notebooks? they're also elevated from the desk

[whole goblet]

nah but like

when you write on a tablet

can you rest your hand on the tablet?

[honest vale]

yes you can

[whole goblet]

idk maybe its bc i have an old ipad

[honest vale]

the tablet has this smart detection functionality

[tulip rune]

Depends on the software of the notetaking app

yeah

[honest vale]

that ignores your hand

[whole goblet]

its probably this then

💀

[tulip rune]

goodnotes ignores your hand when the stylus is activated

[honest vale]

yeah get a new ipad

[whole goblet]

i probably wont

[tulip rune]

lol easier said than done

[whole goblet]

i like handwriting notes

[mighty berry]

you dont want this?

[honest vale]

it really useful as scraping paper

[mighty berry]

or you do

[tulip rune]

it's like a $999 investment... and maybe not worth it

[whole goblet]

untrue

[honest vale]

a $999 scraping paper

[tulip rune]

I just use ipad notes cuz my parents got one as a gift and didn't end up using it, so they gave it to me :run:

[whole goblet]

why would you use a small tablet screen

when you can just like

scribble over a large piece of copy paper

[tulip rune]

lmao

[whole goblet]

yall do not want to see my scrap work...

[tulip rune]

you can zoom in

[mighty berry]

ok but like

[whole goblet]

no but zooming in is work

just like scribble scribble

[honest vale]

because erasing and undoing is better on tablets than on actual paper

[mighty berry]

the drawing in class with a touchscreen goes crazy

[whole goblet]

erasing...

💀

so... about that...

[tulip rune]

Like my math notes which are technically 1 page in size contain like 20 pages worth of stuff cuz I zoomed in to the max :lmao:

[tulip rune]

Oh yeah that too

I am a pencil hater

[mighty berry]

are yall the type to have 8173410924 pens

[tulip rune]

sorta

[honest vale]

eraser sucks because it just produces a gray blob

[mighty berry]

not even different colors or anything useful just all black pens

LMAO

[tulip rune]

YES

[honest vale]

and also prone to rip your paper

[mighty berry]

I HATE YOU

[tulip rune]

I have like 50 of the exact same pen

[mighty berry]

jk im like 10 minutes awya from being you

[tulip rune]

[mighty berry]

that one brand of pentel i think

guvlonh

[whole goblet]

so about that erasing thing...

[honest vale]

cute sheep

[tulip rune]

I used to use the white pentel pen (I think 0.5mm)

but I found an even better pen

[mighty berry]

i have the .5 and .38 of that one pen everyone uses and i hate how much i like it ive bought like 4 packs of it LMAO

NOT PENTEL

t he pilot g2

[honest vale]

my .38 keeps drying out before the ink runs out idk why

I have used .5 ever since

[mighty berry]

.5 superiority

[whole goblet]

this is the best example of my scrap work

[mighty berry]

what class is this???

[tulip rune]

is that a castle :lmao:

[mighty berry]

what is goinfg on

[whole goblet]

i straight up draw over diagrams that i wrote in pencil with red pen

[whole goblet]

oh its scrap work

my normal notes are much more tame dw

theres this one thing i was planning for my physics lab (the bridge, we had to make a cardboard cutout of smth and find mass experimentally using simple shapes)

[tulip rune]

Best pen imo

[whole goblet]

and then there are a bunch of like amc/aime problems

and then theres a physics problem

and then there are mareeps

that i felt like drawing idk why

normal notes are much more tame heh

(yes, i write in all caps. dont judge.)

[tulip rune]

what math is this

[mighty berry]

i am very close to judging

[whole goblet]

linear algebra

[mighty berry]

your notes a re v nice though

[tulip rune]

sheeesh no wonder math major

[mighty berry]

yoo

im taking that in liek

6 days LMSAO

[tulip rune]

have you already taken multi?

[whole goblet]

im taking multi too 💀

like

[tulip rune]

damnn

[whole goblet]

together

[mighty berry]

wait

bro im doing the same

kinda

[whole goblet]

linalg doesnt require multi prereq tho

[tulip rune]

I'm in calc cuz my school forces us to take a year of geometry

[mighty berry]

same semester but the multi is a 7 week course starting in march

[whole goblet]

oh i had to take geo too

[tulip rune]

oh

[whole goblet]

i just took precalc + calc combined

[tulip rune]

did you skip precal or something

ah

nice

[honest vale]

i have always wanted to take linalg at high school

[mighty berry]

bro lucky

omg

[whole goblet]

oh

[honest vale]

too bad my school doesn't offer it

[whole goblet]

wait so is it one semester each?

[mighty berry]

no ite slike

[whole goblet]

we have full year for both courses

[tulip rune]

I hated first semester of calc since I already did it in precalc... i wish my school just merged them

[honest vale]

linalg looks so fun compared to multivar or de

[mighty berry]

in the spring semester which starts 1/17/2023, i take lin alg (full semester) but starting march 21 i also take calc 3 aka multi over 7 weeks

[whole goblet]

multivar is fun too

[mighty berry]

with a cc

not at school

[whole goblet]

i think i just like math too much tho

[tulip rune]

my school has this:
9th grade - geometry
10th grade - algebra II
11th grade - precalc
12th grade - calc or stat

[mighty berry]

mine has a similar progression

well lke

[honest vale]

do you like abstract algebra

[mighty berry]

through middle in hs it goes
alg 1 -> geo -> alg 2 -> precalc -> whatever you want (presumably calc but some people switch to stats assuming they dont stop at precalc)

how far you get depends on how many middle school classes you skip bc theyre like

"the area of a triangle is 0.5*base*height!"

[honest vale]

our goofy ass british-patterned system is like

you get 2 big packages of classes

[whole goblet]

whats abstract algebra im a bit stupid

[honest vale]

{alg + geo + trig + calc 1} and {stat + calc 2 + intro linalg}

[whole goblet]

oh yeah same here

[honest vale]

things like groups and monoids

[tulip rune]

yeah my school technically offers classes above calc (like multi/linear algebra/diff eq), but you need to skip classes in middle school to get there

and as a 7th grader, I was not motivated enough to skip a math class lol

[mighty berry]

damn

[whole goblet]

i hated that like i couldnt take stats after going calc track tho

so i just self studied last year

it was brutal

[honest vale]

i really don't like stats

[whole goblet]

grinded it all out last 2 weeks before the exam

[honest vale]

feels just like momorizing all the stuff

[mighty berry]

mine just like gave a test randomly to some 5th graders to know if we were 2 years ahead or not but i dont think they were supposed to do that

[whole goblet]

agree

[tulip rune]

ap stats is boring imo (tho i didn't take the class so idk) ...but we did all the probability, expected value, and std dev stuff in precalc

[whole goblet]

math stuff was fun, conceptual stuff not so much

[mighty berry]

bc normally they use the state exam scores and its max 1 year ahead if you do well in elementary

[whole goblet]

altho that might be because i had experience with the probability and computational stuff from alg2 and amc/aime

[mighty berry]

yo lowkey i only learned abt std dev in alg 1 for some reason and have never heard abt it since

like lowkey i would fail a stats class so hard its not even funny LMAO

[tulip rune]

did you take biology?

[mighty berry]

freshmen bio yeah

[whole goblet]

im ngl ive never heard of those 💀

[tulip rune]

ah

[whole goblet]

chi square 💀

[tulip rune]

in ap bio, we got some frq question which needed us to do std dev for graph analysis or something

and that was the only other time outside of precalc that i saw it lol

[honest vale]

so a monoid is a set equipped with an associative operation with a unit

[whole goblet]

i havent taken bio since middle school state exams so i didnt know about stats stuff in bio

[tulip rune]

:lmao:

[honest vale]

and a group is a monoid with inverse for each element

[whole goblet]

but my friends were like omg ik what chi square is when i was study streaming

apes supremacy

[tulip rune]

lmaoo

the apes class at my school is a joke

it's like an elementary school level class

[honest vale]

what are apes classes

[mighty berry]

ap envi sci

[honest vale]

ok

[mighty berry]

aka "i didnt want to do ap bio/chem/physics" at least at my school

[whole goblet]

ok im ngl

i dont understand

anything past the word set

😭

[mighty berry]

i wouldnt say i really get it get it but it makes some sense if i think abt it like objects vs the math we learn befoerhand being with primitive types

like its switching from ints to mystery objects so the operations are slightly less intuitive so the workaround is w/all the formal definitions that i do not know lol

[honest vale]

associative just means (a+b)+c = a+(b+c) and unit means there is an element e such that for all element a, a+e = e+a = a

So addition is a monoid over natural numbers with 0 as its unit

[whole goblet]

ah i see

so basically unit is sorta the identity

[honest vale]

they are basically two names of the same thing

ok i guess this conversation really contributes to the nerd CMU applicant stereotype

[mighty berry]

it really does lmao

[whole goblet]

thats part of the reason i applied cmu tbh

nerd stereotype is perfectly fine with me and if anything i actually like it

[honest vale]

yeah it'

it's a fun thing to talk about

[whole goblet]

convos about things are always better when ppl are passionate about them

[mighty berry]

i feel like at my school the nerd convos are more just very technical "what if (very bad thing)"

[honest vale]

i'm kind of interested in the abstract algebra stuff bc my interested topic in CS is connected to it

[whole goblet]

at my school the nerd convos are really great bc ppl just bounce ideas around

but it depends on the class

[honest vale]

that'd be the most boring type of nerd convos tbh

[mighty berry]

like someone in my data structures class last year was asking if youd molest a child if you would become a trillionaire for that and it turns into an argument about how many issues could be solved with a trillion dollars including a rudimentary plan to "do an imperialism to africa" because of how much could be done in their economies with that much money like ??

[honest vale]

the (very bad thing) isn't even gonna happen why we arguing about it

[mighty berry]

funny

like thats it

[tulip rune]

💀

[whole goblet]

like i love being on math team and doing team contests bc like when you are working w someone on a problem

[mighty berry]

just a hypothetical to laugh at and learn that all of your peers are capitalism stans LMAO

[whole goblet]

half the time you come up with a genius solution and you feel smart

[tulip rune]

lmaoo nice

[honest vale]

capitalism is a lie

[whole goblet]

the other half of the time the other person does and you feel enlightened

actually no

both of those are a third and then the other third is we both get it wrong

[tulip rune]

capitalism is a dirty truth

[whole goblet]

LOL

[mighty berry]

my math class last year

[whole goblet]

what

[honest vale]

it is a truth in that it happens, but it is a lie in that "it a very stable system"\

[mighty berry]

"guys i have this genuis idea" and they start explaining only to be shut down by the math teacher because he spots a mistake like 20 steps before it causes a problem

[mighty berry]

I DONT KNOW

THEYRE WEIRD

[whole goblet]

would be nice if i had a math teacher to do that for me on math contests

[tulip rune]

certainly

[whole goblet]

tfw i use a terrible counting technique on a combo problem

and it results in that page of scrap paper i sent earlier

[tulip rune]

but imo human nature prevents other forms from coming into play (c*mmunism)

[honest vale]

communism always leads to authoritarianism smh

[tulip rune]

lol I used to do math team in 5th grade..... when i could literally count the answer on my fingers

[tulip rune]

well communism never happens

it's like socialism to authoritarianism

[honest vale]

i mean, attempts to create communism

[tulip rune]

yeah

[whole goblet]

nah these days the answer is like 8192

[tulip rune]

still countable in 25 minutes 💪

[whole goblet]

LOL

[honest vale]

humans too stupid to not wield power like an asshole when they do a revolution or something

[whole goblet]

just get like 14 fingers

and count in binary

[tulip rune]

yeah and that's also one problem with Marx's vision of the revolution

the proleteriat aren't exactly innocent little angels

[mighty berry]

bro with the whole "human nature prevents communism" idk how to explain it but appealing to human nature involving greed feels like saying that (insert animal here) always needs (conventional food source) when there are alternatives they jsut havent lived with

[whole goblet]

man idk enough theory for this convo 😭

[tulip rune]

tbh idek why I am planning on majoring in ChemE... especially when I enjoy stuff like polisci, govt, and this stuff :run:

[honest vale]

i sometimes think if you practice to count your fingers in binary a lot, can you do calculations with your fingers real fast

[whole goblet]

minor!

or double major!

[tulip rune]

Yeah I plan on minoring in polisci or philosophy

[mighty berry]

like bc weve always lived in a capitalist system we live with the expectation of greed -> progress (in whatever form) when you can still progress humanity be it academically or however but with collaboration instead of competition yknow?

[honest vale]

"benefits of a minor?" fbi is after you

[mighty berry]

me when i consider a philosophy minor

[whole goblet]

stop 😭😭😭

[tulip rune]

also like my application is scarred with my #1 activity being policy debate (stem schools fear me)

[whole goblet]

POLICY??? 😭

BRO THATS THE ONE WHERE YOU JUST TALK FAST RIGHT

[tulip rune]

(it's basically my most time consuming EC with like 2+ hours daily on weekdays)

[tulip rune]

yeah

not "just"

but yeah

you gotta be fast otherwise you LOSE

[mighty berry]

also this is a bit late but couldnt you use base 12? like with the whole using your thumb and sections of your finger for 0-11 on one hadn and the 12s on another and if you go beyod 11*(12^1) just note it mentally

[whole goblet]

LMAO

i did parli for a year and a half

before i went back to full-time mun

[tulip rune]

oh no... I feel bad for you man

parli and congressional are the mid forms of debate

[whole goblet]

parli is fun

[tulip rune]

same with pf and impromptu

policy and LD are 🔝

[whole goblet]

15 minutes of casebuilding

and then you get mauled

[tulip rune]

model UN is fun... I did it once (missed a big debate tournament for it as well)

[whole goblet]

also parli motions are great

when its a fun round

[tulip rune]

I did a crisis committee, so it was more of a fun model than a serious model

[whole goblet]

CRISES ARE SO FUN

[tulip rune]

ikr

[whole goblet]

THE LAST TIME I WAS IN A MUN COMMITTEE

well it was a specialized but

it was an nba bubble committee

i tried to establish a police state

so that james harden couldn't go to a strip club

[tulip rune]

mine was about caesar returning to rome after huge war victories ... but he's super close to the rubicon with his army

[tulip rune]

!

pogg

[whole goblet]

i also chaired a nullification crisis committee once

that was fun

until things went off the rails

[tulip rune]

did you have these things called crisis notes?

[whole goblet]

and ppl started sending crisis notes

to kill other delegates

with lobsters

[tulip rune]

I remember sending in a note to burn down a super important library

and it went through

lmao

[tulip rune]

LMAO

[whole goblet]

oh thats fun

[whole goblet]

oh theres more

[tulip rune]

yeah I ended up "winning" or whatever

[whole goblet]

one of the senators

sent a press release

[tulip rune]

👀

[whole goblet]

to accuse another senator

of incest

[tulip rune]

oop

[whole goblet]

that same senator later tried to run for president in committee

after both jackson and calhoun got killed in a crisis update

bc we got bored of lobster assassination attempts and wanted real action

[tulip rune]

lmaooo

model UN seems pretty cool

but unfortunately i could only do that 1 model bc my debate coach got mad since I missed an important tournament for it

[whole goblet]

quit debate /j

[tulip rune]

I had to this semester

cuz my partner quit

so I am just an assistant coach now

[whole goblet]

mav 😎

just talk fast but for longer

[tulip rune]

Mavs can’t break

[whole goblet]

wait whaaa

in parli they can

thus parli better

[tulip rune]

❌

maving in policy is technically unofficial cuz you break prep time rules

and in elim rounds, you can't break prep time rules (but prelim rounds are a little more lenient)

[whole goblet]

how does prep work for policy

[buoyant meadow]

ok so i figured out the ed agreement that cmu was bugging me about and my counselor submitted it, should i email the admissions office of this?

[crude barn]

kitchen

[tulip rune]

8 minutes total (sometimes 10 depending on the tournament). You can use it whenever you want as long as it is not in the middle of a speech

[crimson nest]

if i do not get in

i will (attempt to) transfer in

[radiant escarp]

Do you need to send All Scores for CMU?

[somber mango]

yes

[crimson nest]

yes

[sand beacon]

i've indicated that i wish to use my SAT scores, but i haven't sent the official score report until now (because i mistakenly thought only the commonapp reporting was required)... how screwed am i?

[high ledge]

just send now

they won’t review until ur scores are sent

[rocky leaf]

I'm doing ed2 and was worried but my counselor emailed them my pdf score report and they added it to my portal saying it was fine for now

For rd you don't need to worry

[heady parrot]

Do we need to send official AP scores to cmu?

[buoyant meadow]

when has cmu released decisions for ed2 in the past?

[nocturne storm]

Uh this is only the second year of ed2

It does say By Feb 1 though on the website

[whole goblet]

last year was a saturday

at 9 am

im going to assume that's just how cmu releases bc they did that for ed1

so rn assuming jan 28 9am est

[crude barn]

4 whole days before their last day to release EDII scores?

that's pretty optimistic

[whole goblet]

we shall see (ill probably be wrong)

[shadow terrace]

did anybody else get an email from cmu asking them to do a PASS counselor call?

[mighty berry]

Yeah i think that was a mass one

[rocky leaf]

I didn't get any email like that

Is that a bad sign?

[mighty berry]

IGNORE THAT LOL

[shadow terrace]

i have no idea some of my friends didnt get it and i cant find anything online about it

[shadow terrace]

yea i got this but from a diff person

[mighty berry]

Oh then idk

I mean if its diff people getting a list of people to contact i guess it would depend on when they write their email??

Idk though

[rocky leaf]

Are you applying ed2 or rd?

[mighty berry]

I applied rd

[shadow terrace]

same here

mine is worded slightly differently so i dont know if its a mass email

[rocky leaf]

Maybe it wasn't sent to me cuz I'm ed2 and clearly already committing to attend

[mighty berry]

Fair

I feel like it might kinda apply bc fin ajd

Aid

[shadow terrace]

are u gonna do it?

[mighty berry]

But that could also just be a separate email

[mighty berry]

Probably not idk

[shadow terrace]

i have no idea why i got it tho cause i didnt submit my fafsa or css to cmu yet

[mighty berry]

If i have free time and im not tired then ig? But thats unlikely

[mighty berry]

Fair

Similar situation for me

[shadow terrace]

lmao and im asian so idk about the underreprsented 😭

[rocky leaf]

Wdym

What's pass for?

[shadow terrace]

it says "PASS is an advising network for prospective first-generation and underrepresented students who want to connect with our campus community."

and mentions fin aid

[mighty berry]

I meant that as in i think itd still make sense to send ed applicants something abt financial aid

Bc yeah youre committing but money is money and it doesnt grow on trees

[rocky leaf]

I'm fgli but jewish (middle eastern) so not really considered underrepresented

Lowkey kinda worried I didn't get that email now

[mighty berry]

Nah bro youre chill

[rocky leaf]

They have my css and fafsa already also so...

[mighty berry]

Youre not gonna get a rejection sign in the form of a lack of an email lol

[rocky leaf]

Yeah you right

Overreacting

[shadow terrace]

i think its probably cause whoevers in charge of ur region hasnt sent it yet

[mighty berry]

Its ok dw

Its literally the a2c discord

[rocky leaf]

Could be

[mighty berry]

Epicenter of everyone on the top right of a neurotic-nerd graph lol

But alas

We will get in and if they mess that up, their mistake not ours

<3

[rocky leaf]

Cute cat

[whole goblet]

ed2 squad!

i also didnt get the email 💀

[icy egret]

or like

[gaunt kite]

I’m wondering that lol I got deferred from ED 1

I don’t know anyone else that did though

[devout ridge]

I saw po Shen loh irl

🥶

Me when I forgot to have sent my SAT scores

Probably way too late

[whole goblet]

SAME!

dms

[nocturne storm]

Where? Lol (if it's a doxxy place don't answer)

[icy egret]

Yeahhh did u also get deferred for scs?

[gaunt kite]

Mellon college of sciences

[icy egret]

melon

[heady parrot]

Does CMU look at freshman year grades?

I saw a source online saying they don't, but I'm not sure if this is true.

[crude barn]

that data isn’t officially released :(

prob higher % applicants deferred in recent years due to greater variance in yield

[nocturne storm]

we unfortunately dont get a lot of data from 2018 onwards

[icy egret]

🥲

[nocturne storm]

if it isn't on the CMU website I wouldn't trust it. Thats a pretty big policy to make to ignore scores on the transcript

[nocturne storm]

wait deferred for yield? Thats waitlisted no?

[crude barn]

regardless of whether it’s used in gpa calc or not they’ll see it on ur transcript

[heady parrot]

Ok, thank you!

[crude barn]

Yee that too—I’m inferring that deferring ED students is done because they’re uncertain what % of applicants they want from RD

which arises bc RD applicant yields are really variant — they screwed up a few years back and overenrolled SCS by like 200 because of it

[nocturne storm]

by like 200? How many years ago was this

[icy egret]

☹️

[nocturne storm]

I felt like I would have remembered a 400 size class

[icy egret]

i think i gaslit myself into thinking i had a good chance for RD lol

welp ill just send in loci and hope for the best

[crude barn]

oh my bad I think that was overenroll by 200 total — I know there were some issues with SCS capacity but no way they could have doubled their class size 😂

[left copper]

Do any of yall know about the Partnership and Access Support System (PASS) network, got an email about it and see nothing online for it, not even on CMU's own website

[icy egret]

do u have esitmate or smt

do they mass defer like mit

[crude barn]

nope — I’d just be pulling numbers out my ass for that

[icy egret]

or r they clsoer to like stanofrd

hhh

u can just lie and say like

1%

[crude barn]

best thing to do is just not worry about it

[icy egret]

:)

yeahhh

[crude barn]

once you send that loci there is nothing you can do anyway

[icy egret]

true

[crude barn]

hmm Ive never heard of it either — might ask the student life department and get back to u

could be something new this year

[icy egret]

wait @crude barn r u in cmu (scs?)

[left copper]

In the email it had a link to sign up for a counseling session with Drucella Garcia a Senior Assistant Director of Admission. I signed up to have it on Wednesday but I wanted to ask if any of yall knew anything about it so I could know what to expect lol

[crude barn]

no I’m in California

[icy egret]

Thank

[nocturne storm]

👀

[crude barn]

flights this evening — red eye

[oblique oak]

CMU does interviews ?

[icy egret]

idts

[crude barn]

nope

[oblique oak]

who told you that

[chrome pawn]

Lmaoooooo

[heady parrot]

Has anyone gotten a mid year report request for ed 2?

[devout ridge]

If I say

It would also dox caramel

So no

[whole goblet]

nope, whered you get it?

via email?

[heady parrot]

Oh nah

I haven’t gotten one

I was just curious

[whole goblet]

with that being said, i also havent gotten first sem grades back yet

idt cmu is gonna look at first sem grades since they're releasing by feb 1

[heady parrot]

Ok yeah

That’s what I thought

[whole goblet]

for me, i doubt they're even gonna get the chance to see my first sem grades since our results come back like a few days before

💀

grades not decisions

[devout ridge]

Oh lmao

For me my mid year report comes out Feb 1

would that mean they can’t see it

[heady parrot]

My first semester grades came out on the 13th

[heady parrot]

Probably

[devout ridge]

Oh

Shut

Shit

Ngl

Senioritis hit a bit early

[whole goblet]

💀

ur also banking hard on

cmu admitting you

[heady parrot]

Was the second essay basically a why cmu essay? What did they mean by a “successful college experience”?

[mild pike]

is it too late to switch cmu major lol

[devout ridge]

True lmao

[whole goblet]

yep

[heady parrot]

Ok good

[buoyant meadow]

I wrote about 2/3 of it specifically on why cmu and the rest was basically answering the question directly

[icy egret]

same ^

(but i got deferred so maybe thats not how ur supposed to do it 🥲 )

[broken iris]

for some reason, my bf wrote abt college experiences in general (nothing about cmu at all, i read his essays lol)

he got into cmu ED for cs

so it worked out for him

i, however, wrote mine on cmu so idk how that'll turn out 😭

[whole goblet]

ope

[bitter fog]

bro mine was about college experiences rather than cmu 🗿

[whole goblet]

i wrote almost entirely about cmu 🗿

[bitter fog]

hearing everyone say it was supposed to be a why cmu essay bouta make me shit

[broken iris]

it wont kill ur app, my bf did get in with no mention of a single program (nor cmu)

[whole goblet]

and for cs too 👀

makes me wonder

if it really was a why cmu essay

or a general question

💀

[icy egret]

woahhh gj to ur bf

[oblique oak]

I love CUM

[crimson nest]

same

[potent charm]

that email scare the shit outta me

the next strps one

i thought it was a decision lmao

[buoyant meadow]

I almost had a heart attack when I saw it 💀

[crimson nest]

If i get in i'll donate a kidney

[crude barn]

why can't it be both?

your definition of the campus you're interested in studying at can match individual aspects of the CMU campus

but if they'd mandated it be a why cmu essay they'd specifically say so

[whole goblet]

ok fair

[potent charm]

they say that but who knows?

maybe theyre testing ur demonstrated interest?

no clue

its also my top choice so its a no brainer

[whole goblet]

slight boost

think its 12 -> 19

i like it enough to take the shot

shrug

whats done is done

[potent charm]

u trust some random ppl online?

my counselor said that they do give a boost, otherwise they wouldnt have an option for ed2

[frozen crater]

I mean, ED is beneficial to the university since it guarantees yield

Prob helpful, but how much is very hard to judge

[valid dragon]

college aos lie all the time -_-

ofc ed gives a boost

that's like when colleges say test optional can't hurt

but no one would actually go test optional if they had a 1550+

bc then it would hurt to not submit

[honest vale]

i didn't even get this email lol

auto reject moment

[mighty berry]

Did you apply rd?

Bc it wba s an ed email

I dont have one either and i applied rd lol dw

[honest vale]

i applied ed2 i think

[whole goblet]

you think 💀

[honest vale]

yeah i checked my portal and it says ed

[whole goblet]

ed2 is like... something that you should know if you applied to

[honest vale]

because i sent my act score and they were under a different email address

[whole goblet]

😭

[honest vale]

took some days for their side to figure it out

so i think i might be switched to rd automatically

[whole goblet]

meanwhile im just keeping tabs on everyone who applied ed2 so i know who i hopefully will be celebrating with

when decisions come out

[honest vale]

ok so i applied ed2 and i didn't get the email

[whole goblet]

noooo

[honest vale]

probably means i'm rejected already

[whole goblet]

i mean

if it shows on portal

that its ed

you probably didnt get moved

might be an international thing?

[honest vale]

yeah, it's still ed in my portal

[honest vale]

that's also possible

[whole goblet]

i wouldnt stress it

like its not a likely letter or anything

[honest vale]

fr CMU didn't even care about marketing towards intls 😭

[whole goblet]

its just telling you oh yeah so portal here badabing badaboom you get decisions sometime before feb 1 the usual shenanigans

[whole goblet]

cmu has shitty marketing im ngl

they dont even like

[mighty berry]

Cmu doesnt seem to care abt markettimg domestically LMAO

[whole goblet]

post decision dates or anything

its icky

and also

i need a moment

to rant

about their merch

bc holy shit

who in their right mind

is buying this

😭

[mighty berry]

LMFAO GILDAN MERCHANDISE

[whole goblet]

im sorry i just

i cant

[mighty berry]

Iron the design on yourself LMFAO

[honest vale]

they shouldve just drawn a big melon

[whole goblet]

like ur telling me

you cant have

a better font

😭

and a better design

[honest vale]

tbh this font is ok

it's just that they didn't bother with a single bit of designing

[whole goblet]

its so... cramped tho

idk

it looks horrible to me

anyway fml if i have to rep cmu with that merch bc 💀

columbia merch looks fire tho

that blue

is so beautiful

[honest vale]

i'm thinking of a stealth design. like black text on this dark gray sweater

and also enlarge and tilt the text a bit so it covers the whole front side

[whole goblet]

ok this actually isnt that bad

[whole goblet]

oh also its the left align

that bugs me

thats the thing

ok i should stop looking at merch

and maybe get in first

[mighty berry]

I cant tell if the text is crimson or not but this ones not bad?? Idk I'd get it if it wasnt expensive af LOL

[mighty berry]

But yeah same LOL

[honest vale]

don't tell me you already bought merch

[whole goblet]

NO LMFAO

I DIDNT

IM NOT THAT CONFIDENT

IM COCKY BUT NOT THAT COCKY

[mighty berry]

No guys buy the merch RIGHT NOW

It shows demonstrated interests and the aos will be in awe with your negative balance if your card doesnt outright decline

Trust me (i have not committed to any colleges)

[whole goblet]

💀

buy me the merch

it will show demonstrated interest for you

ill give you my address too so you can ship it directly to my house

5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

ship to me now now now

[buoyant meadow]

why do mfs buy merch to schools they haven't even been accepted to yet 😭

[potent charm]

ikr

[full sierra]

saw a goth girl absolutely rocking this today

fit the outfit surprisingly well ngl

[somber mango]

this one is kinda cute

but they have very L fit options as well

[whole goblet]

IM NOT BUYING IT 😭

twas a joke but also i just like looking at merch bc no shot im wearing my hs hoodies in college

[languid thunder]

I got that. what should I do?

[mighty berry]

Whatever you want bestie

Be free!

[crimson nest]

i need to stop reading about this place because i'm setting myself up for disappointment

[wintry forum]

does anyone know what "no later than feb 1st" means

[chrome pawn]

Anytime before Feb 2nd

[wintry forum]

thats a weird way to release a time

[chrome pawn]

Yeah

[nocturne storm]

We can talk about the not so fun side of cmu if that would help

[icy egret]

no youll traumatize the kids who ED there and get in

[nocturne storm]

Naah I think the university overall is great and I do like the university (enough to stay on for an extra year). The ED kids really should have looked at both sides before EDing though

[icy egret]

fair

[nocturne storm]

That's probably true

I actually do wonder how many non CS students are in this thread though

[icy egret]

i was hoping youd say somethign like "no, actually they defer very few ppl u have a good chance of getting in!!!!!"

[icy egret]

prolly a good amt

a lot of ppl apply eng and math/science and stuff

[somber mango]

applied ece to cmu

[nocturne storm]

are you planning on the Computer track?

[somber mango]

hm?

what does that mean

it has tracks?

thats cool ididnt know tat]

[gaunt kite]

I dont know a single other person other than me who has been deferred

[icy egret]

me

the amt of ppl u know who were deferred has doubled

[gaunt kite]

True

[icy egret]

i only know 2 other people who applied so...

[nocturne storm]

Uhh it's called area requirements

Software systems is basically CS systems

[somber mango]

ah that thing

yeah i was looking at software systems

cause then its basically EECS

from what i understand

[icy egret]

ur website is scary

[nocturne storm]

Basically yeah

[nocturne storm]

+1 on that

[somber mango]

pls elaborate

[somber mango]

😭

[woeful forge]

My guy u legit dox yourself on your website that you linked in your bio

[nocturne storm]

Unless all those languages are barely known I think you know more front end than a lot of ppl I know getting front end internships at FAANG

[nocturne storm]

Yea thats not the best idea to doxx yourself

[woeful forge]

It’s a very nice website though, I like the animations

[somber mango]

oh thats okay lol

[somber mango]

haha thank you

yeah at the cost of my grades tho ig xD

[somber mango]

much appreciated

[woeful forge]

It hurts me that you wrote html and css as languages haha but other than that very nice

[somber mango]

loll

they are though?

[woeful forge]

Eh

[somber mango]

you cant frontend without html and css

and thats a fact

[woeful forge]

Jsx 😎

[somber mango]

babe that compiles to html

[woeful forge]

Aren’t they generally considered markup languages tho

[somber mango]

yeah

[woeful forge]

Not programming

[somber mango]

i dont think i specified programming anywhere

just languages

[woeful forge]

Oh you’re right

[somber mango]

yepp

[woeful forge]

Mb

[somber mango]

nah all good

[woeful forge]

Your projects are super cool

[somber mango]

thank you!

[woeful forge]

You got a lot of awards

[somber mango]

haha yeah

came in clutch for common app honors list bro

[woeful forge]

Yeah I can imagine.. I got stuck after like 3 lmaoooo

[icy egret]

Same LOL

[crimson nest]

yes pls

i need to stop being so obsessed with this college

[nocturne storm]

Okay do note that I'm talking mostly from an SCS perspective

[whole goblet]

👋

[devout ridge]

Hi

I applied as a physics major

[wind bridge]

I applied to Tepper but if I end up going to CMU my goal would be to get into the computational finance major

But AFAIK that's not a major you can apply for

[valid dragon]

I applied as a math major

CMU is cracked at combinatorics

[nocturne storm]

aight so 1. Commonly Friendship groups are seperated by class (and sometimes even class position eg. Students getting A's want to hang out with other A ers since they can help each other out)

[woeful forge]

Isn’t that a good thing

[full sierra]

ayyyeeee let's gooo

[somber mango]

i love cmu ece

too bad i aint getting in

🙏

i hope so bro

but im UMN bound

iont need nun else

[full sierra]

lmao I think you have more experience with js frameworks and mobile dev than I do, damn

[somber mango]

yeah i kinda went demon mode over quarantine

coping mechanism

[full sierra]

lmaoooo it's joke

[somber mango]

ye

[full sierra]

I'm doing ECE

[somber mango]

CMU is a spencillian dropout

yo what "area" are you doing?

[full sierra]

currently figuring out how to do stuff in bio at the same time without dying

[somber mango]

or whats it called

[full sierra]

but it's a process

[full sierra]

god so real lmaoooo

[somber mango]

nah bro

its wild

i tend to really focus on one thing at a time? and drop like everything else while i do that

for the last year it's been college apps

[full sierra]

everytime some socially wack stuff happens in my life I default to making apps

[somber mango]

crazy enough

YEAH THAMK UOUKJNFBGUFJIEDFN

HAHA SO REAL

[full sierra]

react native cannot be harder than dealing with this situationship

[somber mango]

no cause

THATS SO

yes

hey she broke up with me time to learn fucking nuxtjs

[full sierra]

HAHAHAHAHAA

[somber mango]

LMAO

[full sierra]

me with unity lmao

[somber mango]

so true

literally bro im so ass at relationships

like people will drop me

for clout or whatever

and then im like ok

and just keep living life

and they come back like you arent hurt??!??! you didnt care about me??!

and tryna gaslight me like that

so i tell them im fucking with vue 3 now

[full sierra]

lmaoooooo

[somber mango]

oh i have a question @full sierra if u dont mind

what focus area or whatever

are you doing at cmu ece

[full sierra]

I believe, you got this

[full sierra]

uhhhh it will probably be digital hw or software systems

[somber mango]

oh nicee

when do you have to like declare that

or whatever

[full sierra]

I was thinking about doing some analog stuff but I cannot for the life me deal with those stupid fucking equations, lots of fun stuff to do with e&m waves tho

[full sierra]

March

[somber mango]

oh i see

are u a soph?

[full sierra]

freshie

[somber mango]

oh i see

cool!

good luck ❤️

[full sierra]

we are the most annoying group on campus

thanks lmao

[somber mango]

lmaoo how so

[full sierra]

freshman are always annoying it's just how it is lol

[somber mango]

ohh that way

i thought u meant ece kids

that checks out

[full sierra]

oh man that is a good question I'll have to get back to you on who are the most annoying people on campus

[somber mango]

LOL

[full sierra]

SAE frat is def up there tho

[somber mango]

im interested now

what is sae?

ligma alpha epsilon

or sum shit

[full sierra]

lmao

yeah pretty much

[somber mango]

oh thats fr what it is

LOL

[full sierra]

SAE jokingly is called sexual assault everyday (dark fucking joke)

[honest vale]

Who is Steve Jobs

[somber mango]

LOL