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MmmQuarks

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  1. Thanks @CavityQED. You're right I have no bad options, I just feel like I'm making a decision for the wrong reasons. If I made it about the work and nothing else, I would go to Berkeley. They are the best at this stuff. MIT still has people doing it, just fewer (and literally all of them did their PhD or Post doc at Berkeley). Of course I have never done DFT so it feels silly to make the call just based on that, but Berkeley is so strong in everything so it wouldn't matter. Basically Berkeley seems so much more prudent, but MIT is where I want to go. It would probably behoove me to remember that A) I can transfer if I need. B ) there is not a huge difference!!!!!!!!!!! jesus I need a drink. Feel like such an asshole for being so unhappy with these amazing options.
  2. you should get on the phone ASAP. It is probably an administrative oversight but still.
  3. The term freak out week is so appropriate. Facts: - I want to do Ab initio calculations in condensed matter. - Berkeley has the best groups on the world for this. Also way more than MIT. - At MIT I will have to work at an Astro lab for the first year or find another lab to fund me (making progress in doing this) - Havingn visited both, think I would be much happier at MIT. I liked the people and the atmosphere better. Also the money - the fact that MIT is MIT is definitely biasing me. Basically, I think I will be much happier at MIT and it makes much more sense should I leave physics. But for what (I think) I want to do, Berkeley is better and the path will be easier. Am I crazy if I go to MIT?
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