I applied to MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, USCD (wtf is the deal with ucsd? It was my safety but it looks like they didn't want any new ee/cs grad students this year), and Cornell. I'm not entirely surprised that I didn't get into the first three, but I didn't expect to get into none of these schools.
I'm toying with the idea of just finding some research work to keep my level up and make some money in the next year, try to publish something, patent anything, and reapply next year... that or slowly sink into alcoholism
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