If you get accepted, congrats! You’ll probably celebrate by buying a Bucky Badger shirt and pretending you understand thermodynamics. (You will, eventually. Probably.) If you get rejected, remember this: rejection is not a reflection of your worth. It’s just a college admissions office playing a weird game of Tetris with applications. I once knew a guy who got rejected from Wisconsin Engineering, went to a state school, and now designs rockets for NASA. The universe works in mysterious ways.
Also, let’s be honest: half of engineering success is about surviving the courses, not just getting in. Even if you sneak through the front door, you’ve got to handle calculus at 8 AM and labs that last until midnight. So if you’re rejected, maybe the universe is just sparing you from a lot of caffeine addiction.
