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By Brandon Carl, March 17, 2009 11:49 pm

Nobody I’ve met along my journey to MIT was offered admission into the MIT Class of 2013.  Not a single person.

Although I hate to say I was expecting to get in, I was sort of hoping that my situation would be unique enough, and my attitude quirky enough to fit right into the Institute, but I guess I was mistaken.  Well, now is the time to move on and pursue my future dreams and goals, and hopefully MIT and I will meet sometime in the future, but for now, I will miss the excitement, the suspense, the thrill.  It is truly upsetting saying goodbye to a long-running dream that has been nipping at me since November 1, 2008–just enough to foolishly lead me into thinking I was going to get in, right down to my Early Action deferral.  But, as Stuart Schmill said on the fateful morning of March 14, “The Admissions Committee has completed its review of [my] application, and [Stuart is] so sorry to tell [me] that [they are] unable to offer [me] admission to MIT.”  The Admissions Committee has decided my fate, and that fate does not have a place in the MIT Class of 2013.

And so, as I try to push away my dreams, and run away from my long-developed vision of my future at MIT, I have come across this video.  It was posted by a fellow MIT applicant who was also attempting to soothe the agony of the situation, and it has given me new hope for my future.  I’ve begun to view this challenge as perhaps a good thing, as in life, everything doesn’t always come so easily.

Take it away, Steve.