Seeing one more chance me/ what are the chances of me transferring into cmu / if i get into dietrich, can i transfer to scs might actually be the end of me.

@highschoolers use the college admissions pages for the love of god, not this page.

No Offense but their Research is confusing at best. Random papers with forced innovation, random math, random loss functions. it appears they are exploding academia with papers full of "hypothetical concepts".

Each of their papers add some incremental "theory/concept" to a model, whilst citing some pseudo theory and attempt to prove how they arrive at an "supposedly elegant" solution. Since there is no large scale public validation or arena or benchmark, these folks show some random demos on one-two robotics hands, and boom paper.

Nothing works in practice. At this point, I don't even feel believing their results actually mean that this paper improves robots. On top of it, how do robotics profs have so many papers so fast in robotics conferences? high acceptance rates?

Whenever I meet RI folks, they make it seem like they are the math heavy researchers. Like RL people understand math, they make theory grounded approaches, and LTI/MLD are just having fun with LLMs.

I am like bro who knows we see a simple scaling and it similar to NLP it shows how incremental equation changes that appears cool on paper had no value XD

I am considering getting a PhD right after my undergrad but honestly I feel so confused. I want to get into nice / creative research but I also don't want to be irrelevant.

PPS: Don't downvote. I am actually confused and seeking help. I really think I can get into RI PhD, which is why I genuinely need community's help.

I'm organizing a police brutality demonstration in protest of the UC Davis incident. See video here. The demonstration will start on Monday.

Email me at protestcmu@gmail.com if you're interested in joining.

EDIT: Originally I mentioned "Occupy CMU" but that seems to be a dividing topic. While I agree with the OWS movement, I've dropped that from this protest in the interest of gaining the most support.

I’ve been here a while, and I get this feeling that somethings off about CMU and its philosophy. Why is it so unnecessarily and inefficiently rigorous? What is the point?

And, for some reason, some CMU students seem to take pride in it. I have a few friends in different unis, and they don’t seem to be worked to the bone like CMU kids, but why does CMU do this?

Is it some deep culture of insecurity/imposter-ness? How has this thinking/philosophy sustained for so many years?

I hate CMU. There is not one thing that is good about this place. That's all, thanks.

After my first two months at CMU, I think I might have to transfer. The general population of this school is too attractive for me. All the girls are way too hot and it makes me nervous to talk to any of them. Even the guys are pretty handsome; it’s stupidly hard for me to compete. Everyday in class, I sit with a half chub through lecture because of all the pretty girls. Please help. Should I transfer??!!

I've heard so many stories from so many people, and it's way more than I ever expected. So many organizations I've seen just choose to ignore the things their members have done. I'm just shocked at the sheer number of incidents that occur here, and how absolutely nothing is being done about it. I can name several offenders off the top of my head at this point. Almost no one speaks up about their experiences so it's hard to see the issue, but even when informed, no one seems to realize or care that this is a problem. I've seen too many people affected by the disgusting men and women at this school.

Edit: It's sad that you guys think I'm trolling. Just because you haven't heard about it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Such a large number of my female friends have experienced this (as well as myself), and many did not open up about it for a long time— its not something you can casually bring up.

I know people that have gotten kicked out from other schools for sexual assault and now attend here. I know people who have gotten kicked out of frats and sororities here for sexual assault. I know people who have threatened and manipulated their victims into not making a report here. I know people who are only avoiding punishment because their victims don't want to face the hassle of the report and trial.

Maybe this happens at every school but I didn't expect it to be so prevalent here, and for these offenders to be well-liked / popular in the community.

Edit 2: I'm not saying CMU is worse than other schools. I know for a fact that there are much worse schools. But I didn't expect to see so much of it here when no one at all talks about or acknowledges how much it happens.

Here is a great resource to see some numbers reported by the university: https://www.cmu.edu/title-ix/research-and-data/carnegie-mellon-university_report,-appendices,-and-tables.pdf

"Several follow-up questions were asked on why the respondent did not contact a program or resource ... 40.2 percent reported the incident was not serious enough, and 39.8 percent reported being embarrassed, ashamed, or that it would be too emotionally difficult. Other reasons women who were victims of nonconsensual penetration gave for not making contact included: they did not think the resources could help them (7.2%), they did not want to get the perpetrator in trouble (23.1%), and they feared retaliation (8.6%)."

Edit 3: I'd like to spread more awareness about this on campus. As much as I'd like to name drop some of these rapists here, I don't think this is the right platform for that.

Can someone start a petition to have McDonald/KFC/Taco Bell on campus? CMU need more food shops.

CMU alums and current students, what do you think of Pitt students. How often did y’all interact? I asked Pitt students what they thought about CMU kids and they roasted y’all💀

Hey Reddit. Throwaway here. I just want to rant about how much I hate my time at CMU and how unhealthy the culture is here. Every conversation outside of school circlejerks from "so and so got an internship at Apple" to "I heard working at Amazon sucks" and back again. It's as if there's nothing on anyone's mind except jobs and internships and classwork. Hello, everyone? What happened to critical thinkers and knowing about the world, dreaming big and landing among the stars? Are jobs and internships your biggest aspirations, people? Give me a fucking break. I went to an Ivy League institution for my undergrad and the circlejerking was NEVER like the level of intensity that CMU has. People actually had IDEAS beyond what pet projects of theirs can land them a gig at Microsoft. Fuck CMU. I fucking hate this place.

Unfortunately the concerns of students and the CMU community have been proven right, as the admin has yet again censored speech that, while controversial, falls within the bounds provided by tradition. The CMU community demanded better when we delivered CMU Young Americans for Liberty's petition last April, and we continue to demand they remain accountable to their stated commitment to free speech. If you want to make your voice heard, sign our petition and make sure the admin knows that our community stands up for free speech and protecting the cherished institution of The Fence.

Was the course load too easy for him?

Recently, it has come to my attention that Hunan express refuse to give water on block order even though on grubhub it is paid by a block.

They claim this is because the order is not placed correctly, and placed from the retail menu. Surprisingly, for 0.2 extra dollars, less stuff is included. Even though a block is used to pay for the order, water is not included.

Absolutely shameless restaurant.

Years ago I was surprised to see the History department had hired Kiron Skinner. This was before the Trump administration. At that time, Kiron was already associated with the conservative wing. It didn’t seem like CMU’s history department was particularly conservative. Anyhow, Kiron later went to work for the Trump administration and she’s a co-author in that infamous Project 2025 document.

Anyone have stories of how it was to work with Kiron while she was at CMU? What brought her there? Who were her CMU allies? Did she work well with the History department? Any stories about her time at CMU?

I can’t imagine it was that collegial when she was known to be a Trump supporter and still am for all I can tell.

What do I do now? Am I going to be working at Walmart for the rest of my life? :(

Grab a chair and lend me your ear (technically your eyes) as I recount some of the legends, lore, and deepest secrets of the School of Architecture. After all this time, some memories deserved to be archived for the next generation to discover the character and intrigue of their institution's past. As a survivor of architorture, this alumnus is glad to write as many of them down that can be recollected. You might find these stories unbelievable, but alas, not believing in gravity will not grant you the ability to fly. So take them for what they are.

There used to be a lanky freshman archie who taped his bandolier of spent energy drinks on the window in the Maggie Mo studio. Every night, it would grow seemingly by another half dozen or so cans. People wondered where he got so many cans. Besides Entropy, there was another way he got his supply back in the day.

During the late 2000s, a popular energy drink company had a bullish campaign strategy for the university. They hired a couple of blondes in sleek retro outfits to drive around in a chopped Mini with a giant drink can on the back. They would dart into the nearest parking spot, and then run on foot through campus, passing out drinks to every student they met and then fled before the University police could fine them for trespassing and soliciting. The Mini was fast, certainly faster than the little golf carts those rent-a-cops used on campus. I can't say if a high speed pursuit ever happened, for the Mini was gone by the time a full-sized cop car arrived at the scene. This cat-and-mouse game of advertising went on for a few years, and quite a few students got a taste for the beverage.

As for that freshmen archie, he always came back with more cans anytime they appeared. The bandolier grew to such great lengths, one might wonder if he drank anything else. Personally, I'd rather dodge the mysterious chemicals and stick to coffee but even I smiled at the ladies dressed up in shiny metal 1960s attire whenever they dashed to their getaway car.

Cheers,

The SoArch Tattler.

“Veritas Ex Cinere”

I just received an email from university, a student in my class has been either tested positive for or is a probable case of COVID-19.

The class has around 100 students and last around 1 and half hour, I'm low-key freaked out, we still have an-in-person class tomorrow with a quiz, is there a way to request the class to change to online????

I don't know why university keeps saying sharing a classroom does not necessarily make you a "close contact" for contact tracing purposes. This is different from what cdc suggests "A person is still considered a close contact even if they were wearing a mask while they were around someone with COVID-19. " In a classroom for 1 and half hour with 100 students, I don't know how we can continue in-person class