Now that applications are done and dusted, I’ve never been able to shake off the feeling of emptiness inside of me; with so many months dedicated to SSAT’s, interviews, essays and whatnot, I do feel like I miss it. I just hope that when M10 comes and goes, I can go on with my life, no matter which direction it goes.
On a funnier side note, I remember seeing this thread a few months ago and thinking ‘YES, YES YOU ARE. WHO ON EARTH WOULD MISS THAT??’
I procrastinated on my essays so much that the last two days prior to the application deadlines were extremely stressful.
Same, I procrastinate on pretty much everything. I hope BS will knock that habit out of me 
@altablue I thought the same thing, but looking back, I loved the campus visits. Revisits sounds more fun than interviews though so I hope I can go to one of those!
Totally relate-especially to the “amazing adventure” comment. I was doing something that is, in my town, largely unprecedented. It felt magical.
Now that there are only 12 days until M10 (and I’m going crazyyyy with anxiety) I miss having the applications to distract me. That being said, like most people, I absolutely could not WAIT for January 15 to pass, imagining all the things I could do in my free time once I was done applying… except now I spend my free time on this thread instead of being productive as planned, lol.
Procrastinating makes me more successful! I have proof that starting your homework 3 hours before it’s due will get me a 110% instead of doing it 2 days before the due date and receiving an 80%.
haha @brassarrow same… except for me it was the day that applications were due… when I found out that the schools use GMT time, it was definitely a crazy rush to finish and submit. Other than that, I undoubtedly miss all of the interviews, and my personal favorite was probably taking the SSAT’s (am i the only one?)
I loved the ssat’s too @willmo. Actually, I love tests in general especially standardized ones. (I know I’m weird 
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I’d say I miss bits of the application process; my interview was actually a lot of fun, and I enjoyed writing the essays, but there are other parts (studying for, taking, and waiting for results of the SSATs, filling out a ton of paperwork/forms, nagging my dad about finishing the parent statement, being nervous about my application all the time) that I can’t say I’m too sorry to leave behind. Mostly, I’m glad that I won’t have to do it again!
@Ravenclaw3 I kept asking my parents to do the parent statement. After numerous protests, I filled it out by myself. I think I did do something illegal by doing my parents esign, but it worked and I’m getting FA!!
@snapchat, hahaha, I kept telling my parents to do it, but they did it at somewhere around 11 o’clock the night before they were due.
There are definitely things about which I’m glad. I learned a lot about myself, truly learned to be productive, and (!) I got to talk about myself to a bunch of people who actually wanted to hear about me. My social confidence has gone through the roof… at the beginning of the school year, I was pathetically shy and my legs got wobbly when I did my speech in English class. About nine interviews later, some more formal than others and some with panels, I am a lot more outgoing and less socially anxious, and I did a presentation on clubs for all the rising sixth grade parents at my school without an ounce of leg-wobblyness, and I was apparently the star of the night. And clubs! - if it weren’t for applications, I wouldn’t have started a club and joined a bunch of others. Clubs are so much fun!!
If yo asked me, even the kids who aren’t interested in boarding schools should do applications just to have done them, because they really got me on the track on which I wanna be.