Very well done!

See what else comes in but don't forget the value in being close enough to home to get your laundry done for nothing.

Congrats, thats a whole lot better than winning the lottery, as you have had to earn it.

Good job!

And having a home cooked meal.

Congrats, Jooseppi! Keep up the good work.

:D

Nicely done! Keep up the hard work and remember, if it's on the test its in the textbook.

Congrats man! Where else did you apply?
I'm currently waiting on scholarship decisions to find out costs but I have 5 schools to choose from. I'm probably going to major in mechanical or aerospace engineering or astronomy and minor in music but really not decided at all yet.

Good job, congratulations.

Congrats!

My advice, after starting in computer engineering and ending in packaging engineering is to take an exploratory engineering type dealio. Sample a bunch of engineering classes your first semester. Skip the "well rounding" classes the first year.

Get any and all course direct advice in writing, and sit down and plan out all 4 years before you register for classes. Make sure you're getting a BE and not a BS when you graduate.

Live on campus or away from home, but still mow the lawn for Mom on the weekends.

Make your schedule class->food->library->machine shop. Don't mix up the order :P

Get a job as a labbie in one of the shops on campus. You know how to change your oil, you're hired. Unlimited access to machine tools :D

Congratulations! Stay in school as long as you can, and then add another year or two.

Find out from your professors who they think are the best professors in the school and study with them.

Thank you -- that's what I hear! Apparently a lot of the people who actually own tool sets end up getting jobs working with those tool sets (makes sense, really). I remember my father saying that a MechE professor that he knows through work said that my work on cars would be a big asset for me when applying to MechE programs.

Whoa. That's gotta really stink -- it hadn't expressly entered my head that they would take away a scholarship if you blew it in the spring term, but it makes sense that they would. I don't even know how I'd deal with that Fortunately, I don't think I'll have to :D (I know, famous last words...).

Two big perks to staying near home :). Having to come home to face my family every night would probably help keep me grounded, too. And I'd miss having cats around me.

All of the schools we applied to are within 40 minutes of us -- one of the perks of MA is that there are many good schools right nearby -- but this is probably the only school to which I could feasibly commute all four years (traffic, etc.).

I also applied to Tufts, Boston University, and MIT. We hear from MIT Friday evening, BU on Monday, and Tufts -- rats, I can't remember. MIT is probably the only school at this point that could significantly tempt me, but I'm concerned about what it might do to my physical health. I had a concussion a little over a year ago when someone blew a stop sign and hit me that has mostly healed but left me needing to sleep at least 7-8 hours a night so that I don't get dizzy or suffer other strange symptoms, (I once got strange buzzing in my head and lost my peripheral vision out of the blue while driving on a twisty road), and my understanding is that MIT is not conducive to good sleeping habits :D. My mother said that she felt lazy if she slept 6 hours in a night while going there.

Debt is still a big concern for me, though. I wouldn't go to into debt for BU or Tufts.

In some ways, my prayer is that if God doesn't want me going to MIT, I won't get accepted. Getting rejected would make the decision about going there mighty easy.

Congrats to you! I didn't realize you were my age. So you're interested in engineering and astronomy, I take it :)? I suppose getting an astronomy degree would force you to get a higher-level degree than an engineering degree would?

Hope you get favorable scholarship decisions!

I read this far and thought -- hm! Interesting advice. Then I saw this:
Machine tools? Yeeeeeaah baby...

Congratulations! With your positive attitude anything is possible with perseverence and hard work!

Tut tut Tom - that's not the modern way! Get with the times man!