<p>@COLLEGESIRL</p>
<p>I am!!! EE!!</p>
<p>Modern Culture & Media and English!</p>
<p>High Five QuasiProfound!</p>
<p>Cognitive Neuroscience + Italian :)</p>
<p>… sigh, I get the feeling I have no chance. ANYWHERE.</p>
<p>Pessimism is good as a self defense mechanism and all, but man, it totally kills you, you know?</p>
<p>^^^ i DO!!! :(</p>
<p>Hearing back from UC Berkeley today. I’d love to get in so I have a viable alternative if/when I get denied from Brown. Gonna major in Economics, and possibly minor in political science or something.</p>
<p>I have no idea what im going to study… I applied as a neuroscience major i think, but it could be anything polysci, philosophy, psychology biology, international relations, business… No clue…</p>
<p>And in regards to pessimism as a self defense mechanism… ehh i learned that its better to try “no expectations” rather than pessimism. U should give it a try.</p>
<p>Ah, let’s just not be pessimistic. It’s gonna hurt ANYWAY if it’s a rejection, and stop hurting with time ANYWAY, so why not just let go and indulge in the wiiild hopes that induced us to apply in the first place?</p>
<p>That was a disgustingly convoluted sentence, but yeah.</p>
<p>Guys, calm down. You don’t need a Brown degree to be successful in whatever area you choose, and I promise that you’ll love whatever school you go to because you applied there in the first place! If you don’t get in somewhere, then it wasn’t for you. Just keep thinking positive and know that getting into an “elite” school, whatever that is, won’t break your life. I’m choosing to see this as a life experience! I mean, Ted Turner never graduated from Brown, and look at how well he’s doing. So stop worrying!</p>
<p>Of course, that’s true. 
But I think getting anxious before decision time is also a fun life experience. :D</p>
<p>are you all sure that decision day is march 31 and not april 1???</p>
<p>It is april 1. It was march 31 last year when this thread was created.</p>
<p>Yes, the decision is definitely April 1.</p>
<p>The e-mail stated that, and so does the website.</p>
<p>QuasiProfound: HOW CAN U CONSIDER THIS EXTREME STATE OF ANXIETY AS A FUN LIFE EXPERIENCE???
I don’t get any satisfaction out of this process, leaving everything to a group of strangers that work at an admissions office, and then waiting for a long period of time… just to see if ur judged as wanted or not (So anti emersonian btw)… ugh i hate this processs. but that may just be because I really don’t want to be rejected and am anxious and worried about it…</p>
<p>@AC711Live</p>
<p>Just remember that this won’t be the last time you experience this. While it’s not fun, its more of a learning experience. Grad school, law school, med school, job applications. We’ll pretty much have to experience it multiple times even after April 1st.</p>
<p>Don’t be pessimistic? Here’s my ideology:
If you are optimistic, you expect stuff too much. If things don’t work out the way you’d hope, it hurts, and bad, because you were expecting everything togo in your favour.
If you’re pessimistic on the other hand, you expect nothing. So if you DO get what you might have wanted, you’re happy, because you got more than you expected. If you don’t, then we, since you weren’t expecting much anyway, it doesn’t hurt all that much. Pessimism numbs the pain.
But damn, I don’t think that’s gonna work here. :(</p>
<p>There is a difference between being optimistic and expecting everything to work in your favor :)</p>
<p>^Exactly!</p>
<p>AC711, Honestly, what do the adcoms know? If we get rejected, so we’re not right for Brown. We’re right for somewhere else. They’re not really judging us so much as whether we’re as much a fit for Brown as the other applicants.</p>
<p>And what we’re going through right now happens once in our entire lives. It’s an experience. I’m going to miss it - the excitement and the anxiety and the possibilities and the anything-can-happenness - when it’s all done and everything’s certain for the next 3 and a half years and I’m safe - well, relatively safe.</p>
<p>But if I’m optimistic, does that not mean that I expect to get in?
Of course I do…
I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be feeling right now :S</p>