<p>I will not be brave enough to check my online status! I will just wait for the rejection to arrive in my mailbox.</p>
<p>I dreamt about getting accepted to Brown U...
I hope my dream comes true :)</p>
<p>Based on my experiences in the last 4 years, my dreams and ambitions are usually ridiculed, flattened, incinerated, and then promptly disposed of on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I think that my imminent rejection from Brown will be another nice addition to the my massive landfill already collected on BBD. I'll need to have clean-up crews readied soon. </p>
<p>But I do hope my next 4 years in college go a lot better, just like it did in middle school. Middle school was awesome. Hopefully I'll be walking down another Boulevard of Fulfilled Dreams.</p>
<p>Then again, life may just be an epic tale of suckiness that has not reached its climax.</p>
<p>(Sorry usually I'm a little less pessimistic, but I'm just in a really terribly sour mood today ...)</p>
<p>^ i feel the same way :/</p>
<p>why does my birthday have to be on the 31st....</p>
<p>ugh oh well, I'm not really expecting to get into any of the ivies after I got deferred from ED anyway.</p>
<p>i hope you all realize that self-deprecation doesn't really win you any karma points.</p>
<p>have some self-confidence for christ's sake.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but sometimes self-confidence is overrated. That also doesn't earn you any extra points ...</p>
<p>Not saying that getting into Brown is the end of the world because it really doesn't matter that much in the end ... I'm just saying life in general is very sucky ... it throws all kinds of crap at you and you have to find a way to deal with it.</p>
<p>Maybe that crap is what helps make life more meaningful...</p>
<p>i think your "view on life" speaks volumes in itself. i would recommend speaking to a professional before your self-esteem problem gets worse.</p>
<p>self-confidence may not help you get into brown but it certainly goes much farther in helping to soothe the sting of rejection-- which is really only exacerbated by the ridiculous wallowing in pity and the woe-is-me attitude that everyone has been adopting to psych themselves down.</p>
<p>it becomes kind of disgusting when every post is "OMG I'M SOOOO NOT GOOD ENOUGH 4 BROWN BUT I HOPE I GET IN!!~!@# and yet these kids are great students with above average everything and interesting extracurriculars.</p>
<p>You actually misunderstand my view on life slightly. Really I feel that life is crappy because life is sooo mundane and routine -- work, work, work, relax, work, work, work, check CC (lol) ... Self-confidence doesn't make you feel better in this.</p>
<p>All I really need to take a break from the cycle ... I need a vacation badly ... see new things. (not that I have senioritis ... you learn new things everyday ... it's just same things, same people, same place, same old same old)</p>
<p>I hate being stuck in the same place for long stretches of time (aka here in Michigan for 17 years). I applied to Brown and other places out of state because I wanted to go somewhere else, somewhere "new." (Well Brown isn't exactly new b/c I've been there for Summer@Brown, but I really enjoyed my time there) </p>
<p>Plus, it's so miserable here in Michigan, because everything really is downright crappy here. (The weather lately makes it worse, hence my more pessimistic mood than usual)</p>
<p>I was just saying that life is 90% crappy, because then you'll treasure the 10% even more.</p>
<p>But yea, maybe walking down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams view on life contributes to my pessimism. That I'll admit.</p>
<p>ok. best of luck in all of your endeavors, college and otherwise.</p>
<p>same to u2! (one of my fav bands ever btw ... coldplay's #1)</p>
<p>Only two months left. yay!</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>This thread is ancient… ?</p>
<p>itz the countdown thread</p>
<p>Haha…it would be funny if this thread keeps coming back annually.</p>
<p>guys, u only have to wait a little while longer!! It was killer waiting for ED decisions and I can just imagine what you guys are going through. I wish all of you the best of luck getting in!! Hope to see you guys on campus next year :)</p>
<p>^^^Show off! JK</p>
<p>When I went to the link for Brown Admissions that someone posted, it said the decision will be released on April 1st. Do they release the decisions March 31st anyway???</p>
<p>No. It’s 5pm Eastern Time on APRIL 1ST.</p>