College Acceptances

[gorrilla]

Anyone else going towards Embery-Riddle? (Daytona)

I'll be applying soon, going for Mech.Engineering, and trying to get an AirForce-ROTC Scholarship...hopefully

[mikelowry]

Originally Posted by gorrilla

Anyone else going towards Embery-Riddle? (Daytona)

I'll be applying soon, going for Mech.Engineering, and trying to get an AirForce-ROTC Scholarship...hopefully

One of my good friends is going there for aerospace engineering. I had never heard of it before he told me though.

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Unless something drastically changes, I'm heading to Carnegie Mellon for mechanical engineering.

[sparrowkc]

Admitted to MIT '14. FIRST is good stuff.

[tim_reiher]

Originally Posted by sparrowkc

Admitted to MIT '14. FIRST is good stuff.

Nice, congrats! Do you know what you're studying yet?

[sparrowkc]

Its between pure electrical engineering (6-1) and EECS (6-2). I'm leaning towards the latter, because I want to do everything

[Ice Berg]

Originally Posted by sparrowkc

Admitted to MIT '14. FIRST is good stuff.

I'm also MIT 2014.

I've been looking into teams to mentor in the Boston/Cambridge area. 97 seems to be the official MIT team, but I know that 125 and 88 are in that area as well. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

[JeffChan]

Originally Posted by Ice Berg

I'm also MIT 2014.

I've been looking into teams to mentor in the Boston/Cambridge area. 97 seems to be the official MIT team, but I know that 125 and 88 are in that area as well. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

MIT '14 here as well. Probably will be studying Course 6.

Not sure about helping a specific team yet but definitely will volunteer at the Boston Regional.

[n_ambrogi013]

I will also be MIT '14! I'm pretty sure I'll be pursuing course 2 (mechanical engineering).

[darkangel]

Originally Posted by n_ambrogi013

I will also be MIT '14! I'm pretty sure I'll be pursuing course 2 (mechanical engineering).

MIT '14 - Course 7 (Biology)! I confuse so many people when I tell them I've been in robotics for three years but I still want to be a bio major.

I also want to mentor a team, if possible. Seems like it would be a lot of fun.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Ice Berg

I'm also MIT 2014.

I've been looking into teams to mentor in the Boston/Cambridge area. 97 seems to be the official MIT team, but I know that 125 and 88 are in that area as well. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

97 is sponsored by MIT and uses MIT resources, and 246 (BU team) and 125 (Northeastern team) are also nearby and easily accessible. I'm not currently with a team because I've got plenty of other things going on at MIT right now, but volunteering at the Boston Regional is amazing!

To all of you MIT '14s in this thread, feel free to PM me to ask any questions that come up. I'd love to help out!

[Josh Fox]

Purdue College of Engineering for me.

Major is undecided at this time.

[ketaki_shashank]

Originally Posted by Abra Cadabra IV

Unless something drastically changes, I'm heading to Carnegie Mellon for mechanical engineering.

Thats exactly what I'm doing! Go Tartans!

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by delsaner

Despite the fact if there will be a team close by or not, I will go back and mentor 1676.

Heh. You gotta get through your senior year still, son.

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I am amazed (but not surprised) at how many FIRST folks end up at MIT. Please, please take it from an old fart like me and get as much education at the finest technical school on the planet, and don't screw up by playing with FIRST (unless you are already getting straight As). Your job is to get educated, and anything less than an A means you need to work at it more.

(By the way: Most of you are probably straight A students in high school. College is harder. A "C" at MIT is nothing to be ashamed of.)

Good luck Class of 2014, see you in January 2015 at Kickoff.

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

Good luck Class of 2014, see you in January 2015 at Kickoff.

Perhaps one of the best things about college is that FIRST isn't the only technical extracurricular around! It seems that solid technical extracurriculars are a huge plus on the resumes of job seeking undergraduates, so you might as well pick one up.

But FIRST is *far* from the only thing! There's Formula SAE, Formula Hybrid, Design/Build/Fly, Solar Car Racing, AeroDesign, Steel Bridge, Concrete Canoe, MATE ROV, and the list goes on. Do something else for a while, you can always come back to FIRST.

If any of you are heading to RPI in the fall and have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them.