Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (2025-2026)

[lethal pike]

probably

[vague yoke]

lol

[ocean garden]

I'm planning on doing CS and comp bio

[vague yoke]

So meow

My partners comp bio !

[hybrid frost]

anyone that applied to CMU dietrich for econ and politics? or anything in the dept of poli sci?

[shadow bridge]

guys when is CMU coming out

[stone shore]

I'm transferring to tepper

[cedar turret]

last year it was out march 14th

i’m assuming they will release around then this year again

unfortunately they are incredibly secretive about when they release decisions

[robust creek]

Why

[stone shore]

Cause I am a bum

[vague yoke]

Stop

[gritty patrol]

Better be computational finance

[robust creek]

What were you in before?

Also you’re most defo not a bum

If you are able to survive CMU

[vague yoke]

Yep

[vague yoke]

LMAO

[junior cradle]

is there a way to check what standardized test scores CMU got?

like on my portal

[pastel ice]

didnt u just report it on common app

[gritty mirage]

I was about to say

[cedar turret]

you can email them

ngl their portal sucks ass

compared to other schools

not helpful at all

[gritty mirage]

their fin aid portal is easy tho

compared to others

[novel rose]

zero-sum portal game right there

[cedar turret]

yeah i really like that one
where am i in the process does NOT tell you where you are in the process tho

[gritty mirage]

true

but I could find it easily at least LOL

[tranquil jasper]

Hi engineering school

What do I do here

It’s this

[gritty mirage]

what are you trying to even do

[sharp mortar]

this is a good question

@tranquil jasper what u want do

[tranquil jasper]

i wanna make it semi functional

like not take ur money functiona;

but light up w the transit org

my friend did his like that

[autumn wasp]

why did i think it was a soap dispenser at first

[cedar turret]

did you try turning it off and back on?

[tranquil jasper]

idk if it even does that yet

[cedar turret]

oh….

what does it do

[astral thicket]

looks PoE powered?

these ports look like you could hook up a psu to them

so you could try that

see if it powers on

[stone shore]

💀

we are not beating the stereotypoes

[vague yoke]

Definitely PoE

How did you get this

[vague yoke]

Don’t do that if you don’t know the exact Pinout

[tranquil jasper]

The Internet

Friend sent me a link

Said “trust me bro”

And I did

[vague yoke]

eBay ?

Best way to boot it then, is a POE injector

https://ebay.us/m/iixH4m

Ie like this

technically you need to tell whether it is the old passive PoE standard or the active gigabit PoE

Or find an injector that can do both idk but idk if that exists

Passive poe uses 2 of the 4 Ethernet twisted pairs as dedicate power lines

Active poe injects voltage into all four of the gigabit Ethernet twisted pairs and is more complicated cause all the pairs are used for data and power at same time

[cedar turret]

@tranquil jasper fyi, from what we are being told the current admission plans is:
march 12th - decision drop
april 1st - fin aid offers go out

[tranquil jasper]

Told by who

And by what method

[cedar turret]

dms

[hazy bramble]

if that’s the case is it too late to send an update 🫩 gah

[stoic relic]

i mean u can always send an update

it’ll still be considered

or at least, they will probably read it

[hazy bramble]

i guess

[hot seal]

WAIT WHAT

[robust creek]

hol up

what

[runic stratus]

When did cmu drop decisions last year for rd?

[cedar turret]

14th

[robust creek]

holy shit im aboutta see my fate

😭

pls cmu i need this

[cedar turret]

best of luck yall on the 12th

[hot seal]

bro i was prepared for april 1st

[hot seal]

matt its our day o reckoning

[gritty mirage]

is cmu like max win cs school

i see

gl yall

adn me

🥹

[hot seal]

🥺

[gritty patrol]

what does this mean

[vague yoke]

^^^^

I’ll be here checking on the results and herding you all into the CMU community lol

[robust creek]

Put in a good word for me

🙏😭

[vague yoke]

I can perhaps try…

[rigid linden]

When is it releasing?

[tranquil jasper]

We believe the 12th

CMU is a school that doesn’t confirm in advance you just see it when it happens

I have been told info that at least sounds more credible than the usual “my dad’s friend is an admissions officer” abt the 12th but even with Northeastern where my guesses are almost always right I usually don’t make a huge deal out of them bc of how they don’t announce ahead of time so I don’t wanna worry people

[astral thicket]

CMU loves scaring students

last yr was so diabolical

same day as like 5 other schools

😭😭😭

[cedar turret]

and mit, where 99% of the cs applicants that got into cmu also applied to

[astral thicket]

less

ik a lot of ppl in cs that didnt apply mit

[cedar turret]

oh wow

[cedar turret]

erm my dads friend is also an admissions officer

[astral thicket]

according to CMU poll ~50% of students had it as first choice for cs at least

[cedar turret]

damn

[stone shore]

I had these motherfuckers gaslight me saying "they were sure decisions weren't going to release on 3/15"

and then they dropped the decision

[cedar turret]

i swear cmu loves to fuck with students

mentally

this school is one big data collector and pain inducer

[unique token]

is cmu actually as depressing as they say

ok nvm i just searched through the channel

[hot seal]

lemme in

[gritty mirage]

PAUSE

what are we saying

[hot seal]

💀

[cedar turret]

erm no out of context

[gritty mirage]

yeah bro lemme go the epstein school

[astral thicket]

It’s not

it’s a hard school but you can find your crowd

even if you’re social and outgoing

and the courseload creates a sense of camaraderie that makes it fun

[cedar turret]

i mean some people i know are depressed, but the majority of the comments saying “omg im so depressed this school sucks” is caused by the intense workload

while you absolutely can become depressed here, you can at any school

[cedar turret]

we all trauma bond!

[ocean garden]

~~https://discord.com/channels/786557653924708373/1400588583005458592~~

[gritty mirage]

dint epstein study at nyu

[cedar turret]

yes nyu

[flat heron]

didnt he go to cooper

[vague yoke]

lol

[gritty mirage]

is cmu known primarily for cs

thats insane

[gritty patrol]

No. It’s most famous for drama

[gritty mirage]

could eb real

[gritty patrol]

Well cs in this discord

[gritty mirage]

i applied for mat sci LOL

[gritty patrol]

CMU drama basically guarantees broadway. Unfortunately they accept 12 acting major a year iirc

[gritty mirage]

true bro

oh wow wtf you arent lying

aight

i was not aware of your game

[gritty patrol]

Lol

[gritty mirage]

hmmm thats nuts

[vague yoke]

It’s so wild

[gritty patrol]

Look up famous CMU alumni. It’s like all Drama

[cedar turret]

nuh uh

while it helps, a lot of our alumni don’t go to broadway

tbh a lot of us think broadway is overrated

you don’t make enough to have it be sustainable in nyc

this year our acting acceptance rate is 0.005

as a fyi

[vague yoke]

lol

My big one is Tamara Tunie

SVU

[vague yoke]

Where do the rejects go

[cedar turret]

there are a ton of other great acting schools

a good amount of rejects that passed pre screens but don’t go in attend nyu

i think their acceptance rate is about 15%?

for acting

they accept like 100

and aren’t a cut program

[vague yoke]

Wow

[cedar turret]

yeah cmu drama is the hardest drama school to get into, except for DP (all DP schools are pretty easy) :(

our acceptance rate is about 10%

[tulip granite]

cmu is coming out on the 12th/

[cedar turret]

did they confirm it to everyone?

[tulip granite]

no im asking

?*

[cedar turret]

oh

as a student worker that’s what we’ve been told

of course it can change

but expect it to be around the 12th

[tulip granite]

oh ok thanks

[hazy bramble]

omg 🤑 (i might get rejected soon but it’s okay :,) )

[cedar turret]

at least it’s in you’re file

[robust creek]

Were you able to add an update??? They said I couldn’t

wtf

[hazy bramble]

didnt you get deferred

[hot seal]

i did

bro what matt when did u send

thats unfair

[errant cedar]

isnt it rolling? or will they all come out on the 12th

[cedar turret]

kinda? last year they did it over 2 days

starting at 4:30 on the 14th

[errant cedar]

oh thats pretty reasonable

[robust creek]

Yes

[robust creek]

I asked like in late jan

[hot seal]

wait wth

i sent like last wednesday and they took it

[robust creek]

Fuck

Rip CMU

[hazy bramble]

maybe you can just straight up email them 😼

[hot seal]

wait oh did u ask them whther you could? i just sent it

[robust creek]

I should have

Can I still do it

I doubt it will change anything

[hot seal]

my freind did like yesterday and they didnt take it

try ig if u have it

ye result is in 10 ish days

[robust creek]

I see

Yeah I’m not getting in

[versed spade]

i thought it was 27

28

[foggy pumice]

Anyone know when regular decision being released? Thx

[versed spade]

nvm

[versed spade]

diff school im tweaking

[tranquil jasper]

they dont announce ahead of time but theres speculation aroudn teh 12th

[versed spade]

dang so u just get an email saying theres an update on a day

😭

[tranquil jasper]

Yeah

[hazy bramble]

well well well 😹

[robust creek]

I’m gonna crash out

Ts is just not fair

I do the right thing and ask the ao and they say no

All while other people could update

And they take the updates

[hot seal]

life lesson dont ask just do

[astral thicket]

tours?

[cedar turret]

drama

[astral thicket]

imma see if i can work in the admissions office

next year

[robust creek]

🙏

[lethal pike]

what kind of speculation

[tranquil jasper]

decision date

[lethal pike]

i know i meant whats the reasoning behind the speculation

[robust creek]

nothing has been confirmed yet, correct?

[lethal pike]

yea

its not

[robust creek]

im cooked anyways

[lethal pike]

no

[tranquil jasper]

correct and it wont be

they dont give advance notice

[robust creek]

december 12th. it was so random lmaooo

i got cooked

[vague yoke]

💗rooting for you

[hazy bramble]

thank you :(

[vague yoke]

💗

Class of 2030 discord server is busy preparing for all of your arrivals ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[hazy bramble]

please cmu i need this if my bf’s bum friend can get in surely i can 😹😹

[vague yoke]

ono relatjonsfio before college

obligatory question of whether it will be ldr or not

what was the bum friend profile

And what are you applying for

[hazy bramble]

idk but he also applied computer science and i think he has a few research papers

meanwhile i have no research experience 😁

[vague yoke]

NOT bum then

[vague yoke]

bruh I came from a middling Florida public hs it’s gonna be ok

[hazy bramble]

i know but he’s so locked out sometimes but ig that’s js senior year

[vague yoke]

u do NOT need research

that is such a myth

< 3

[hazy bramble]

i know i don’t even think it does muchhh but then again since everybody is like rich then ofc i should’ve been making more use of my opportunities

last year i thought about eding to cmu actually but my dad talked me out of it

[vague yoke]

yeah I am from like public hs no parental involvement and not rich or privileged so I guess I am a bit of an oddity among a2c I admit an CMU as well

is your profile like upper middle etc?

[hazy bramble]

yeah

[vague yoke]

ahh

yeah

I get the pressures and comparisons s then

[vague yoke]

:( naur

im sure youve done cool stuf tho:)

What are you applying for

[hazy bramble]

comp sci 💀!!

[sour kelp]

Has anyone been receiving the finaaid emails? I had been getting the Action required emails but suddenly they stopped, not sure if my emails just bugging

[vague yoke]

STEM AND CREATIVE WRITING AND CLAIRO

Holy shit

Ur carrd is so cute

friend compatibility is off the charts 🤣💀

get in pls

[hazy bramble]

omg thank you

i’m ngl i’ve probably been burnt out from writing

[vague yoke]

💀this is extremely real

i was too but now various events have happened to give sm fuel for poetry 💀

[hazy bramble]

and yes!!! i love clairo’s music i was listening to charm all summer in 2024

[vague yoke]

So so peak

My fav is sofia

[hazy bramble]

i mean not that i don’t listen to it still but it helped me get over my ex lol

[hazy bramble]

cuteee

[hazy bramble]

OKAO

LMAO

maybe something traumatic needs to happen to me.!! that’s not related to math or physics ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡

[robust creek]

Wait can I still update

Ya know what I’m gonna try

Anyone else apply statML

Or Dietrich

[hot seal]

i literally told u to try like a few days ago

[robust creek]

Dawg they were closed

I couldn’t talk to them lma

Timezonrfucked with me

[vague yoke]

lol wait is the bf the ex or are you guys still dating

[hot seal]

airing out the relationships in here

[vague yoke]

hello hi this has been my entire crazy life like im the person everyone told needs to write a book abt their life at 17 and yes it gives insane unbelievable fuel for writing but the damage also takes years to repair 🙈💕

[vague yoke]

at leats 5 relationships have been discussed in vv the last 24 hours

[hazy bramble]

LMAO!! no i have a bf rn and i have an ex

[hazy bramble]

i hope you’re okay

omg i used to write stories 5 years ago and i found some of them and even though it was kinda cringe sometimes it was lowk funny

and that was the time i had never been in a relationship but i was a delusional hopeless romantic so i kept writing stories about like that stuff

[runic stratus]

Did you submit your documents?

[sour kelp]

No but I had been getting them repeatedly and they just stopped

[gritty mirage]

whast vv

[vague yoke]

nice nice hope you guys like decide ldr or like end on good terms

tough one

[hazy bramble]

he’s my 4lifers 😹

[vague yoke]

Working on it! Ehehe

[vague yoke]

I hope it works out, then 💗

[hazy bramble]

thank you!!

[vague yoke]

💀

verified village

you can talk in it once you’re admitted somewhere

[hazy bramble]

ohh…

wait it’s for prefrosh+?

[vague yoke]

lol writing abt smth you don’t know yet about is peak

yearning core

[vague yoke]

yes this is an equivalent statement of the requirements I believe

[hazy bramble]

me

[vague yoke]

me

[hazy bramble]

oh cool

i yearn for colleges that don’t even know me 🥀

[vague yoke]

Wait no you must enroll somewhere

so you can’t until you commit and enroll

[vague yoke]

ahhh nothing like Shakespearean unrequited love

[hazy bramble]

yea i think that’s prefrosh (?)

welp

[vague yoke]

yes

Ya sorry I just slept badly today

[hazy bramble]

i probably won’t decide until i hear from every school

[hazy bramble]

me too it’s okay

[vague yoke]

Ultimate strategy

It’s what I did

[hazy bramble]

i stayed up late doing 30 differential equations

[vague yoke]

lol diffeq in hs is nice

Dual enrolll or hs

[hazy bramble]

hs

although we won’t be able to learn the entire course so there’s no exam

[gritty mirage]

hey im admitted

☹️

actually a lot of places

[vague yoke]

lol you have a2citizen and a2c ‘25 you are committed to the bit

[vague yoke]

Must enroll

[gritty mirage]

i see

[hazy bramble]

i wish i had the a2c 2024 role

[gritty mirage]

like I have to be prefrosh or smth

[vague yoke]

Yeah

[hazy bramble]

yea

[vague yoke]

Pace slower ?

[hazy bramble]

it’s like umm we spent time studying for the multivariable calc exam

and then we had a week off frok school

maybe pace too idrk

and we won’t even be here in june

[vague yoke]

Crazy

which exam like

No ap multivar?

[hazy bramble]

umd offers an exam for us to take for credit

but lowk i think i did really bad

[vague yoke]

I missed that year too im so sad

[hazy bramble]

i slacked off during vector calc

[vague yoke]

Ohhh

[hazy bramble]

wait wai

[vague yoke]

Your background seems quite good

[vague yoke]

I have a2c 23 and 25 but not 24

[hazy bramble]

wait i would be so mad what

😭😭😭😭

[vague yoke]

I am mad

I am coping

LOLLL

maybe one day Carly will give it to me out of pity

[hazy bramble]

real

petition for a2c 2024 role

😪😪😪😪

[vague yoke]

maybe if I ask nicely in vv…

[hazy bramble]

i feel like i did the survey or smth to get the role or am i hallucinating

[vague yoke]

Citizen is from the survey

[hazy bramble]

i’ll never know

[vague yoke]

The ‘24 is a role react

for one day

If you miss it it’s over

[hazy bramble]

ohh

omg

😭😭😭

[vague yoke]

💀

I got cooked

[hazy bramble]

sigh

whatever it’s just a role

[hazy bramble]

idk i lowk should’ve taken more aps or maybe not

[vague yoke]

you have more math than calc 2 u are okay

[vague yoke]

lol yep ppl go crazy for much smaller things than this on the interest

[hazy bramble]

i guess 😪

[vague yoke]

What did you take

[hazy bramble]

that’s true

i only took 7 aps + 2 this year

i think my school has abt 40 maybe?

[gritty mirage]

that’s not even bad

oh

wow that’s insane

[hazy bramble]

i mean

a lot of them are art

and the languages

[gritty mirage]

our schools got 20

yeah we don’t got that here

[hazy bramble]

ohh

[gritty mirage]

i think we have 2d art and spanish

[hazy bramble]

ic

[gritty mirage]

i’d why you’re worrying abt background

calc 2 is nuts

and more?

[hazy bramble]

i’m not sure

i’ve heard of a lot of people taking so many aps and getting all 5s on them too

and ig it could help me knock out a lot of credit

[gritty mirage]

i promise you that math is impressive

shits hard bro

well not multi lowk that class is easier than lin alg

[hazy bramble]

oh definitely

[gritty mirage]

point still stands tho

any college level class in hs is impressive

[vague yoke]

Not bad at all

[hazy bramble]

i guess

i think the worst thing about my app is my sat score it’s lower than averages at top schools

well only ebrw is buns

😹

[gritty mirage]

low you got mud

umd

so it’s all good

[hazy bramble]

yes mud!!!!

my top choice rn

cuz i could probably graduate in 2 years maybe!

but it’s so close to home i’m not even joking

so i wanna go oos :(

[gritty mirage]

!!!!!

[vague yoke]

the most ridiculous people are the loudest

[vague yoke]

^^

[vague yoke]

LMAo I still swear I got in bc I had amazing ebrw but mid math and maybe they wanted to flip

[gritty mirage]

whast ebrw

[vague yoke]

Evidence based reading and writing

maybe they wanted an engineer who had 780 ebrw idk

[vague yoke]

awe if u got CMU would you come over umd?

the college park campus is so so beautiful I was semi interested back then

[gritty mirage]

oh sat?

i didnt take sat

😛

[hazy bramble]

maybe! cmu is ranked higher for cs after all

[hazy bramble]

LMAO

[vague yoke]

MEOWWWW

COMEE
need more Sanrio characters

[vague yoke]

ACT?

[hazy bramble]

RAHHH

plz cmu 🥀

[vague yoke]

manifest… manifest so hard…

if anyone gets in I’ll host you for carnival if you visit and meet you

offer is good through the week before carnival to make plans

[hazy bramble]

when’s the carnival

[vague yoke]

April 9-11 2026

It’s like the biggest CMU tradition I guess

transform campus into a carnival and alumni and like lots of really big ticket performances

a lot of admitted students visit during carnival

[hazy bramble]

ooh

wait it’s not even spring break for me anymore

i’ll find a way to get excused from school 😡

[vague yoke]

also I heard through the grapevine that CMU admin response to AA was to be as conservative as possible at first then become more progressive once it blew over

[autumn wasp]

that’s me!

[vague yoke]

the grapevine says they’re trying to get back to 50-50 gender ratio for scs this year

[autumn wasp]

cmu please 🙏

[vague yoke]

it was like 70-30 for 29 it was absolutely devastating

[hazy bramble]

wait wdym by this

[autumn wasp]

wow

[hazy bramble]

oh yeah i’m getting in

[vague yoke]

LMAOOO

[hazy bramble]

so far stanford and uiuc are sexist 😡😡😡

[vague yoke]

What’s ur major ?

[autumn wasp]

meche

[vague yoke]

exactly they’ just hate women and nonbinary people if we get rejected

[hazy bramble]

yes 🗣️🗣️🗣️

i think berkeley eecs is also trying to improve their ratio too

[vague yoke]

ooouu you’re not ece and they’re doing direct major admits so since you’re not part of the ece sheep ….

[hazy bramble]

or at least my dad found some proposal online 💀

[autumn wasp]

huh

[vague yoke]

I got in for “meche” before they had returned to direct major admits and then declared ECE…. I legit thought id do meche but im part of the problem guys 🥀

[vague yoke]

So like they are admitting people into their specific major I believe but in the past you’d get into general CIT and could declare any engineering major

[hazy bramble]

oh wow

[vague yoke]

Naur is he involved in ur college apps

[hazy bramble]

yes 😭

[vague yoke]

yea I was part of the problem for Ece too many ppl took Ece 💀

[hazy bramble]

LMAO

at least you got it question mark

[vague yoke]

Even got some merch

someone offered me 4 figures for it and I declined

[hazy bramble]

omg

[vague yoke]

they do legit want ppl who are more balanced ! I talked a ton about creative writing and like I legit continue to do it here

[vague yoke]

💀💀

[autumn wasp]

got it

[autumn wasp]

that’s good i’m choir president

[vague yoke]

PEAKKK

[hazy bramble]

really do i have hope 😹

[autumn wasp]

still not that good at singing but i like doing it

[vague yoke]

have hope….

You want this… you want this so badly…

[hazy bramble]

omg

LMAO???

this is random merch 🗣️

[vague yoke]

GIGGLING they were remodeling and threw it out dw

[vague yoke]

merch is rare at times especially major specific

[hazy bramble]

omg wait i saw cmu had snoopy merch

[vague yoke]

OKG YES THE NEW ONE

[lusty lynx]

I want the tartan scarf

[hazy bramble]

it looks cute 😪

[lusty lynx]

lowkey cmu has a reallly good merch selection

[hazy bramble]

sounds like it

[cedar turret]

damn

this channel is active tonight

[hazy bramble]

i’ve never heard of other schools having snoopy merch 🤓

[cedar turret]

purnell signs are better

[vague yoke]

do you have

[cedar turret]

i dont but my big does

hell bro has a fucking campus map

he found in the dumpster

[vague yoke]

INSANE

[vague yoke]

but far more niche

[vague yoke]

ur welcome

[vague yoke]

it doesssss which is why you must comeeee

[cedar turret]

when are u opening all the chats in cmu 30

i wanna talk to the new folks

esp after the 12th

[vague yoke]

possibly RD but ask in current students

problem is we need the prospies to talk

rn it’s a disaster

[cedar turret]

oh

[vague yoke]

it’s just current students talking

[cedar turret]

just wait till o-week, that chat will be blowin up

[vague yoke]

so we will track the ratio of contributors after RD drops and then go from there to allow some people to get unjailed

[cedar turret]

cuz they scared

in pittsburgh

[vague yoke]

Mass unjailing will prob occur over summer

[vague yoke]

Oh absolutely

Also we don’t have many drama people so

[cedar turret]

yes im cool

[vague yoke]

if you asked for unjail we’ll 100% give it to you

[cedar turret]

ik a few of my friends who are stalking the instas might join

we are trying to make a drama gc

on insta

[vague yoke]

2030?

[cedar turret]

29's trying to connect with 30's

[vague yoke]

like join the server or the CMU class

[vague yoke]

Yep the nonstem majors often have less discord presence anyways but feel free to send them to the discord

[cedar turret]

SOD has a tradition where the current DPs (sophomores) take the new DPs (freshman) under their wings the first week

during o-week

[vague yoke]

We can unjail you so drama has a resident current student specialist

[vague yoke]

I heard

Do you know theo

[cedar turret]

c/o 28?

[vague yoke]

originally 26 but took time off I think

@cedar turret but yeah ask to be unjailed in 30 and we’ll give it to you

[cedar turret]

oh yeah they are a 26

i've seen them around

never talked to them tho

[vague yoke]

Yes

[cedar turret]

they are a SM

and they scare me

[vague yoke]

I know them from way back then

[vague yoke]

oh damn

I swore they were DP

[cedar turret]

they are a dp

[vague yoke]

lol why

[cedar turret]

design and production stage manager

[vague yoke]

They are very competent maybe

[vague yoke]

hence you should comeeeee

[cedar turret]

im a to-be technical director (declare next year), but i do not follow some safety regs, and get yelled at for them

by safety regs i mean the ones that wont get anyone hurt/killed and dont have potential to

[vague yoke]

Lmao

Average drama

[vague yoke]

Exactly

[hazy bramble]

that’s up to cmu 😹

[cedar turret]

if you get in

are you gonan come

[hot seal]

yes

[hazy bramble]

hopefully

[cedar turret]

its a good school, other then the damn food

fucking HATE IT

[hazy bramble]

oh…

[hot seal]

food is food bro

[cedar turret]

@vague yoke do u still live on campus

[hot seal]

cant be worse than my hs food

[cedar turret]

cmu food is prison food

[hot seal]

oh

[cedar turret]

"made to order" my ass

hate it

so much

yet im forced to eat it and have a meal plan

@hot seal @hazy bramble if you get in, join the block market

like the day school starts

[hazy bramble]

what’s that

[cedar turret]

you can sell your meal blocks for venmo/zelle payment

[hot seal]

tell me abt it if i get in

[cedar turret]

i've used it a lot

[hazy bramble]

weow

i love money

[cedar turret]

AND GET RED

DO NOT

GET

ANYTHING

ELSE

RED ONLY.

[hazy bramble]

????

[cedar turret]

cmu has a bunch of meal plans, all of them are scams except red

and yet ppl fall for the scam

every year

[hazy bramble]

ohh

[cedar turret]

so before u see all the bright colors

u know to pick red

[hazy bramble]

yes bc cmu is red 🤑

[cedar turret]

hopefully this time next week you'll have your decision

🙏

[lusty lynx]

yayayayaya red

[lusty lynx]

I hope so too

[cedar turret]

it should release march 12th at 4:30

from what i was told

as a student worker

[lusty lynx]

being about 1 day before everyone else makes the wait worse

[hazy bramble]

👀👀👀👀

wtf wait

[lusty lynx]

it’s 5.30am 13 march for me in local time

[cedar turret]

oh god

are u intl

[hazy bramble]

i’ll be at work

[lusty lynx]

ya

[cedar turret]

they come out in waves, so i'd just recommend waiting for that email

[hazy bramble]

oh okay

[cedar turret]

like last year it was every 30(?) mins

a new wave

[hazy bramble]

ugh i’ll be so antsy

oh that’s interesting

okay

[lusty lynx]

it’s okay I’ll just wake up at 7 and see if it drops for me

but knowing my ed decision experience

I might be up at 530am again

[cedar turret]

honestly, i get it, i was in ur spot and literally every decision i got, i'd be on that portal spam refreshing for 15 mins before it came out

what got me to stay calm and not pay attention is: minecraft

[gritty mirage]

36

😛

36 36 36 36

[vague yoke]

💀

[vague yoke]

PEAKKK

[vague yoke]

YEAHHH

[vague yoke]

Arguably yes

[vague yoke]

It definitely isn’t

I went to Florida public hs don’t worry it can be good

[cedar turret]

nice, i got a fifth and clyde single next year

idk if its good or not

it looks like a shoebox

[cedar turret]

okay so for cmu need to be in the top secret range of 38-40

[vague yoke]

yep lol a bunch of stuff is or will soon be on our new website https://cmu.guide

[lusty lynx]

I love how it’s on GitHub

[vague yoke]

YESS

[vague yoke]

my proposal was Wordpress for easy visual editing and the other admins proposal was GitHub with markdown and I was outvoted like 8-2

[gritty mirage]

☹️

[vague yoke]

Even our design and CFA admins know markdown 💀

[gritty mirage]

tbf im not applying cs so im lowk not that worried abt cmu

[vague yoke]

Peak single is amazing

[cedar turret]

@vague yoke add united to this, https://cmu.guide/MoochingOffCMU/

actually a rlly good perk to have

lemme get the link

https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/mileageplus/young-adult-discount.html

[vague yoke]

maybe but like it’s 5th and Clyde

and i have to be honest a lot of people who complain about CMU have had very very privileged upbringings like I didn’t and CMU is a massive upgrade to anything hs

[vague yoke]

Yep I will

[cedar turret]

tyyyyy

[vague yoke]

I literally used United youth to visit

Boston

it’s so cheap

[cedar turret]

yeah

its awesome

i fly united too much

[vague yoke]

same now

they offer basic economy at frontier or cheaper prices

id always pick them in that case

They. Learned a good market to penetrate

[cedar turret]

my dad is global services so i've been forced to fly them, but i love them so much more then any other airline now

[vague yoke]

but yah honestly this ^

[cedar turret]

esp southwest

[cedar turret]

yeah thats fair

[vague yoke]

SWA was peak before venture capital bought them

it’s fucked now

[cedar turret]

fr

i refuse to use them

[void prairie]

im a d1 southwest hater now

[vague yoke]

Which are you

[vague yoke]

As you should be

They’re literally more expensive than United

[cedar turret]

everyone needs to be one

[vague yoke]

Enshittified

[void prairie]

im not a united fan either - i hate the monopoly they have at newark airport

[cedar turret]

it would've costed me $900 to fly home for break with them, $450 to fly home with united

[vague yoke]

soo meow

[cedar turret]

literally united FC is cheaper then southwest

[vague yoke]

Wow that’s amazing

I am a bit of an avgeek and did nyc round for $39 x2 with spirit at Newark once and then like Boston for $110 total

[cedar turret]

holy shit

[vague yoke]

you could say im a bit extra about flying

[cedar turret]

thats amazing

[gritty mirage]

aero

[cedar turret]

i gotta get to nyc, a bunch of my friends go to school there

[gritty mirage]

i got rejected my number 1 choice but I got into number 2

gt purdue

[vague yoke]

To be fair let me introduce you to any legacy carrier with fortress hubs I mean AA at DFW DAL at ATL UAL at DEN lik tis just hub and spoke model

[vague yoke]

Uh doesn’t exist at CMU

[cedar turret]

we have an aero program?

[vague yoke]

only meche

[gritty mirage]

well no

i applied mech to cmu but I wanna do aero

i appied aero everywhere else

[cedar turret]

fair

[vague yoke]

Yep

[void prairie]

fair but i like the competition that exists at airports like jfk and lagaurdia

[gritty mirage]

and its like lowk the closest thing

[vague yoke]

I did this then I accepted my computer hobby and did ECE

[vague yoke]

There is yeah for sure true

[gritty mirage]

i see

my friend goes cmu for cs I believe

[vague yoke]

But if you’re NYC you can always just use the other airports anyway

[gritty mirage]

hes crazy smart

[vague yoke]

Ahahhahahaha

[void prairie]

i love laguardia it's just 2 hours away from me 💔

[gritty mirage]

hes the one who wanted me to apply

[cedar turret]

cmu engineering is actually really good

all the profs are so nice

[vague yoke]

GT rejects a lot OOS me as well

Purdue is amazing

[gritty mirage]

yeah and the building looks incredible

[vague yoke]

sobble

you’re jersey then?

[vague yoke]

Which

There’s many buildings

Scaife?

[gritty mirage]

scaife?

was the one

yeah

[vague yoke]

It’s brand new

It is amazing

[gritty mirage]

when I trried finding the me one thats what I found

[vague yoke]

but yu won’t be in it that much for first two years

[cedar turret]

@vague yoke have u ever taken an EPP class

[gritty mirage]

💔

[cedar turret]

taught by Deanna Matthews

she is the fucking goat

[vague yoke]

YAY

[cedar turret]

kindest prof i've ever had

[vague yoke]

who is it if you don’t mind me asking

What year scs

[void prairie]

yeah i love my country new jersey

[vague yoke]

oh no

[gritty mirage]

firs tyear>

?

[vague yoke]

oh noooo oh no im so sorry

[gritty mirage]

idk

[vague yoke]

Deanna matthews has lore

[cedar turret]

what

[cedar turret]

oh god

what lore

[gritty mirage]

wait yeah why did I say idk

I do know hes a first year

he didnt tell me to apply but he applied there so i looked into it

[vague yoke]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cmu/s/Ggt7CuB3a5

[cedar turret]

i've loved her class so much

[vague yoke]

apparently she divorced him but like she did enable Scott

idk if you wanna say she has redeemed herself maybe she has

Her ex husband was a serial predator

[cedar turret]

oh

[gritty mirage]

what the hell

[cedar turret]

i mean

its her ex

[vague yoke]

my 29 friend who’s a 30 server admin also is in that intro class rn and got Girl Scout cookies

[vague yoke]

yeah but at the time people were voracious about the fact Deanna helped cover him up

Maybe she redeemed herself idk

[cedar turret]

omg yes she told us all her daughter was selling and ppl really wanted the link

[vague yoke]

Yeah

maybe she has redeemed

[cedar turret]

its 4 years old so hopefully

[vague yoke]

But title ix victims were adamant that she had helped cover it up

With her position

[cedar turret]

yeah, most of the stuff im reading like "Her attitude is always terrible when I tried to ask her questions as a student" just isnt true anymore

so i think she did

[vague yoke]

Oooh do you not know his name lol

[vague yoke]

I hope she did

[cedar turret]

i still think there needs to be accountability

[vague yoke]

I’ve never had her but I feel like it’s an important detail to mention

My first ex had her

freshen year

that’s how we found out

[cedar turret]

ah

have u had Tom Zajdel

he is fucking awesome

ece prof

[vague yoke]

Realy glad that she seems to have gotten on the right track . From a small interaction getting cookies with my friend she was very sweet

[vague yoke]

Oh my my pookie

He speaks Spanish too

oh he’s sooooo cute

[cedar turret]

fr?

[vague yoke]

🥹

[vague yoke]

i am ece!

He taught 18100 and 18220

Are you taking 18095

[cedar turret]

yep!

[vague yoke]

YESSSS

PEAKKK

[cedar turret]

its actually my fav class

and i get free shit

so im happy

[vague yoke]

There’s lore

There’s also lore on greg Kesden of ECE

[vague yoke]

YESSS IM SO GLAD 🥹

[cedar turret]

im still scared to take 18-100

but

i'll be fineeeeee i hope

[vague yoke]

I always wondered what happened to you cause you dropped off discord in 29 despite seeing you around elsewhere

[cedar turret]

taking next spring

[vague yoke]

like we collected the active ones by end of summer into a friend group but yeah always wondered what happened to you

[vague yoke]

yesss wait do you have like an ECE side interest 🔥

18100 should be ok! I promise it’s approachable

[cedar turret]

i wanna get at least a minor in it

[vague yoke]

OMG YESSS

PURNELL ECE CROSSIVER JS SO PEAK

[vague yoke]

Expected

[cedar turret]

29 discord scared me

[vague yoke]

Lots of meche labs in the basement

And meche admin in the top floors

[vague yoke]

why

[gritty mirage]

ooh

[cedar turret]

3 of us freshman dps are doing it

[gritty mirage]

okay lowk im not that into research LOL

[cedar turret]

was scared freshman

2 are rn taking 100, im taking 095 -> 100

[vague yoke]

PEAK

I LOVE THJS SO MUCH

[vague yoke]

So so valid

Wait this warms my cold cold heart awww‼️

Don’t be scared of ece!

[vague yoke]

You’re chilling

[cedar turret]

but now i get to make fun of freshman

cuz im cooler

so im not a scared freshman

[gritty mirage]

👍

rather than labs I looke dinto more like

cmu rocketry team and cmu solar racing

[cedar turret]

are you gonna do buggy

if you come here

[gritty mirage]

whats buggy is that the normal racing one

maybe

oif i can build smth there sure

thats why i chose engineering over cs LOL

[cedar turret]

so i personally didn’t do buggy because of how fucking hard it is to get on the build team

and how they treated me

but hey

[gritty mirage]

so buggy is not the move

is wha tim

you never know i guess

maybe they had a vendetta against you

[cedar turret]

personally i saw you need higher seniority to be on the build team

but i’m not a stem major

with the exception of i’m literally learning how to build theatrical sets

they also wanted me to wake up at 6am on sunday

to run tests with them

[gritty mirage]

thats lowk fine

I wake up early for a plethora of differne thtings

[cedar turret]

not when you’re on crew till 11pm

[gritty mirage]

idk how different/harder its gonna be

[gritty mirage]

eh

lowk

i think i ran 5 straigh weekends of science olympiad grinding on friday from 3-11 and then waking up at 6 the enxt morning to arrive at school for comp

and working party city I ahd to stay until 12 on friday and be back at 6:30 on saturday to blow up balloosn for th eentire month of june due to grad parties

[cedar turret]

just wait till you have cmu courseload

you’ll want to die

i got probably a max of 5 hours of sleep/night for the past 3 weeks prior to spring break

and wanted to die

had so many crash outs

[gritty mirage]

oh wiat yeah thats real

my friend sent me his schedule

genuine 5 classes per day every day

hsi entire schedule was blocked

at most he had 30 minutes of free time not including eating time

[cedar turret]

i’m taking 23 credits i have classes pretty much non stop 9-5 most days, t/thur i have 30 mins off and that’s it

[gritty mirage]

😭

mayvbe cmu isnt for me bro

[cedar turret]

you don’t have to bury yourself with credits

it’s a choice i made on my own to fit ece and engineering classes into my schedule

and tbh i don’t regret it in the long run

does it suck? yes
am i learning a lot? absolutely

this goes with any school

as long as you’re enjoying it and learning a lot, who cares if you’re deteriorating your mental health or anything!

[gritty mirage]

yeah thats true

how is cmu campus

[astral thicket]

It’s not that bad

CMU students are just really bad at having lives

time management is not that hard even when doing multiple clubs

like everyone complains about not having free time and then they doomscroll for 3 hours

[cedar turret]

so i actually rlly like it, i know a few ppl who hate it tho so its rlly up to what you want, however, i really like the size of it. it's not small, but also not too big and spread out. we have a ton of space and it feels like a college campus vs a large hs campus, and doesnt take 30 min walk to get everywhere like UF.

it also is really well maintained, even with snow, we got a foot of snow cleared before the city of pittsburgh cleared their main road, forbes ave,

its also not in the city like NYU is, so you still have grass and trees, and a quad, but also not in the middle of no where, u got oakland right there and the actual city is a 20 min bus ride away.

its a really good balance

[gritty mirage]

so many active cmu students bro

every other chat i swear theres only 1 or 2

[cedar turret]

hand drafting in question:

[gritty mirage]

lowk larger the campus the better

lik epurdue is nice for that

[cedar turret]

ehhhhh its nice being able to get to class in 5 mins

[gritty mirage]

shits massive

[cedar turret]

and make those tight turn overs

[gritty mirage]

idm walking a lot i enjoy walking

[gritty mirage]

thats true though

[cedar turret]

uf campus sucks

compared to ours

[gritty mirage]

i wonder why cmu student says that their campus is better than others

LOL

[cedar turret]

cuz ours is just peak

[gritty mirage]

really eh

[cedar turret]

except the food

our food sucks

fuck chartwells

[gritty mirage]

my friend said that campus wasn ttha great

[cedar turret]

again it really depends person to person

to me, it was a perfect balance of everything

[gritty mirage]

i see

well i am very glad you enjoy it

do you think it grew on you or was it perfec tto beign with

[astral thicket]

Top tier campus if you like small ones

so architecturally diverse

and the height is nice

[gritty mirage]

thats a big thing actually

purdue is all so similarr

☹️

[cedar turret]

when i took my tour i thought it was bad, but i think its just perspective and wean hall scared me

[astral thicket]

wean is…

[cedar turret]

now that i have to walk it every day and understand where shit is

i love it

[cedar turret]

an interesting design choice

[gritty mirage]

iu dont evne know if id go to cmu over purdue

its so expensive man

[astral thicket]

No finaid?

[gritty mirage]

well

• havent been accepted*

I havent been accepted yet LOL

[astral thicket]

Also in terms of ROI CMU is def better, what major?

[gritty mirage]

we shall she what they give me but i dont think itll be muhc

[gritty mirage]

oh thats another thing I wanan do aero but cmu doesnt even have aero

so id have to do me

[cedar turret]

fr i got a well paying internship with a signing bonus this summer at a great company (for my industry)

cmu WILL get u a job

[gritty mirage]

well yeah purdue will as well

but itd be in defense

my orchestra directors brother is a raytheon exec apparently

[cedar turret]

u can always sell ur soul to lockheed

just dont pay attention to ur engineering ethics class

[astral thicket]

Aero is…

I think in engineering a good rule for UG is don’t specialize unless you need to

[cedar turret]

fr i was about to go to embry riddle for aerospace engineering until i realized how ass of an idea that is

in the long run

cuz if i get bored it makes things harder

[gritty mirage]

yeah fye

we will see after that

[shadow bridge]

when is CMU coming out?

says no later than april first but lowkey dont wanna wait that long

rather long wait time

[lusty lynx]

here

[median fog]

its really easy to get around

there isn't really anywhere on campus that's over 10 min away

but it manages not to feel cramped/suffocating

[cedar turret]

mellon institute from the hill is the only thing super far

but also just take the 61 line

[median fog]

yeah but how often do u ever need to go there

[cedar turret]

literally been there once

[vague yoke]

Omg rocketry was nice

I worked a bit for them freshmen year

[vague yoke]

lol you ascende

[vague yoke]

The move is to do booth

[vague yoke]

69 units CMU?

[vague yoke]

Yep

[manic edge]

when it coming out

[nocturne gyro]

does cmu allow updates ?

[manic edge]

yeah i sent them an email

and they accepted my update

[winter perch]

gl guys!

[nocturne gyro]

oh rly when did u send it?

[shadow bridge]

is it today?

[robust creek]

Why would it be today lmao

[cedar turret]

no.

5 days

ONE shower before results

[shadow bridge]

bet

[hazy bramble]

0.5 showers 😹

[vast dune]

0.01 showers!

[shadow bridge]

-1 showers

[vague yoke]

wow you are so so creative

[hazy bramble]

well what can i say im a cs major

[astral thicket]

zenos paradox showers