<p>im sooo nervous!~!! EVERY1 ive talked to has said "ur right on the bubble" im gonna die waiting all ive wanted 2 do since age 4 is go to ND!!!!</p>
<p>which essay did you decide on?</p>
<p>Good Luck Jvon!!!</p>
<p>Hope you get in bud......
Dont stress out anymore
whats done is done......
Good luck!</p>
<p>Since I was in the same situation (unfortunately on the wrong side of the bubble) I can definitely relate. The best thing I can tell you is that regardless of what your decision is, it won't impact if you are going to graduate from ND or not. Think about that. I was rejected and I am still going to graduate with honors from ND in 4 years. Hopefully everything will work but if not it doesn't have to be anything more than a bump in the road unless you make it more.</p>
<p>I hope that helps. Good luck!</p>
<p>My prayers go out to all of you applying, my daughter included. My husband correctly concluded that what our daughter would really prefer is not early action in December, but admission sometime this week. It's just not the way it works. We're used to instant polls, early access test scores, midnight shopping with overnight shipping...the notion of waiting for something this long is antithetical to the culture we are in...</p>
<p>The one good thing about being a middle aged codger like myself is that life experiences teaches you something. Some things just take time. Biggest inaugural lesson most of us get in this is having kids. Everything else may be 24/7 and instantaneous, but a baby takes nine months to join the world--from the mom's perspective, I can tell you that not all nine of those months are pleasant, not just physically, but the emotions of being so excited you want the baby tomorrow...and so uncertain about what's ahead to wish you had another nine months to go. </p>
<p>Just remember, everything happens for a reason. Absolutely everything...
God works in mysterious ways, but it always works out in the long run somehow... Always.</p>
<p>I love the serenity prayer here: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. You high school seniors have spent the last many years doing the work, getting the grades, accomplishing what you have. You've spent the past weeks and months gathering what you need to apply to ND, writing essays, getting others to do the same. At least you've been doing something. Once you hit that send key, you have done all that you can, and it's time to switch to serenity mode.</p>
<p>I am the furthest thing you could be from a holy roller, spent most of my time at ND as an agnostic, wishing I could have more faith. Yet I have learned over time of the power of prayer...sometimes the rote ones, the memorized ones, work best when you can't even put your anxiety into the words. Pray the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Serenity Prayer. And then go out and enjoy your senior year of high school, cherish your friendships, seize the last year of high school with a gusto...</p>
<p>In the past six years, we've lost both our mothers and my husband's father to cancer. The battle against cancer is a long and arduous one, an endless chain of hopes created and dashed. My brother was of a mindset to brace himself for the worst, to not succumb to hope that could be dashed. My view was to keep hope alive for as long as it is there, and to cope with disappointment when it came--rather than pre-emptively anticipating it. No amount of bracing one's self "for the worst" makes it any easier to cope if or when the worst happens. It just keeps one down for a longer period of time. Hope while hope is still an option--if hopes are dashed, deal with it then. You will be no more or less equipped when it happens than if you'd fretted all along. But, if hope bears fruit, the time you spent keeping hope alive versus being fraught with anxiety over worst case scenarios was time well spent enjoying the gift of life with a much better perspective.</p>
<p>On the one hand, once you hit send, there is nothing more you can do. Then again, once you hit send, there is nothing more you need to do. Pray a lot, keep hope alive, realize you are not alone. And realize that even should the worst case scenario unfold, what appears at present to be a worst case scenario in hindsight will prove to be the best thing that could have happened.</p>
<p>Again, I'm no holy roller. Like most people my age, I've been through some stuff in my life--more than a lot of people, less than some. I'm a hard-headed soul, but I've witnessed these truths so often they have even gotten through to a skeptic like me: Trust in God. Pray. Don't squander today worrying about tomorrow, when you've done all you can do. </p>
<p>God bless you all. And when you're praying, pray for my daughter, too, who is as anxious as the rest of you... And for your parents (and me), for whom worrying about kids is wired into our programming...the college thing just being the latest chapter.</p>
<p>And--have a great weekend! :)</p>
<p>One of your best posts yet dd, and it is great advice as well. I will be praying for you all!</p>
<p>Just had to add that your post is absolutely corect, dd. And while those who are going through the process don't see it, as a parent of a Notre Dame freshman, I also agree that things do work out for the best!! Trust and belief that it will work out may be hard to see right now, but you will look back and know it in the end.</p>
<p>thx for all the posts-- i chose the essay on my changing from alcohol experiences with some changes thx for every1s help</p>
<p>Good essay choice. Good luck. Enjoy senior year.</p>