<p>So, anyone else slowly realizing that even though they possessed the potential and capability to utilize it, they somehow let the important times in high school slowly slip through their fingers? Particularly here at the end, while waiting from news concerning acceptance. Ah yes, the tender jab of life that pierces you with the broken cage that held your spirit, leading to a slow leak of your vitality. The trickle of a once great and vibrant force now paints your aching sides a brilliant crimson as melancholic laughter disguises a creeping insanity; an insanity borne of the deliberate smirk adorning each and every drop of hope that pours out of you. </p>
<p>I am/was bored. </p>
<p>More to the point,</p>
<p>Anyone else have that feeling of crushing defeat when you realize you won't end up where you need to be in life? Mostly because of poor judgments that are not to be placed upon any person's head?</p>
<p>If so,
How do you deal with it? Do you deal with it? What causes it?
Why is he asking so many questions? WHEN WILL IT END?!</p>
<p>Sorry, I get carried away easily.
Anyway, anxiety caused by the feeling of failure.
Go.</p>
<p>Edit: I'm aware that my writing is meh. I am also aware of the high possibility that my message contains a multitude of errors, some of which may or may not spark comedic events. Double meanings. This thread should be fun and informative. Fun because we're open to not taking ourselves too seriously (The posters being ourselves of course) and informative so we might have a better understanding of how common the feeling of stress/anxiety is amongst people who are waiting for an important factor in their lives to be revealed. Not to mention the obscene wait these people are also subjected to; a wait that only provides time to stew over and lament any and all inadequacies-- real or perceived.</p>
<p>This thread is stupid.
Since I can’t figure out how to completely remove/change it I suppose the best I can do is hope people will skip the first post and come here.</p>
<p>So I don’t waste the space, what do you do think is the best way of dealing with the stress/wait for responses from colleges? Apart from putting it from your mind, what else can you do?</p>
<p>As an addition to the question, what do you do when all of your colleges reject you? (This is assuming that safeties were either not selected/did not accept/were unable to accept for various reasons.)</p>
<p>Making threads to whine about your despair with other overwhelmed teens isn’t going to solve anything. </p>
<p>What you need to do is reassess your situation. How many ECs do you have? Are you struggling under a heavy courseload? My advice to you is to drop every EC for this remaining semester, unless you have one commitment you can’t possibly quit. You’ll probably find that this hiatus is a lot easier than you anticipated. If you’re in a rut, your contribution to your clubs is probably lethargic at best anyway, so the best thing you can do it to back up and reassess your interests.</p>
<p>Then, when planning courses for next year, avoid AP Overload Syndrome. Don’t. Do. It. Take APs in the classes that interest you and that you know you can succeed in. This will allow you to master those few advanced classes that you do take without overextending yourself (which, as you’ve realized, leads to absolutely nothing good).</p>
<p>The final ingredient: Sleep. When you quit all of your ECs, you’ll find that you actually have time to get your work done. This will involve you doing focused work. NO Internet. No Facebook. No TV. But if you get yourself over to a library or a coffee shop with the right amount of white noise (aka no friends, no eavesdropping on other people’s conversations) and haul a** for a few hours each day, you’ll get your work done fairly early. That leaves you evening hours to read, go to the gym (endorphins!), chat with friends, and get to bed on time. There are countless studies linking sleep and mood, and you’ve seen the effects of sleep deprivation firsthand. Reverse it. ASAP.</p>
<p>While I know that sleep is important, part of me dealing with waiting to hear back from colleges is to enjoy my ECs. I’m only in high school for another 5 months, I might as well have fun working for my respective teams/clubs.</p>
<p>The painful and forced prose in the OP makes me want to stab something. Florid use of OTT imagery, bizarre disconnect in lines… It reads like a really pretentious attempt at “literary writing” in the form of a bildungsroman.</p>
<p><<Anyone else have that feeling of crushing defeat when you realize you won’t end up where you need to be in life? Mostly because of poor judgments that are not to be placed upon any person’s head?</p>
<p>If so,
How do you deal with it?>></p>
<p>There’s no such thing as a place “where you need to be in life”. Go to college somewhere that’s far away from home–the other side of the country or even overseas. Don’t go to college hoping it’ll be the “best four years of your life.” Instead approach college as just a way to get a diploma so you’ll find a decent day job to support your writing career. But keep open-minded and welcome surprises as they come. Just be smart, be charming, be adventurous, take risks, and have fun.</p>