<p>I'll join the ranks of people who will be clicking the very second the decisions are released (I have zero patience :o)</p>
<p>I'm glad at least a few people are with me on my plan! I just... I dunno. I can't picture myself sitting on the computer, clicking, and then finding out I've been accepted. Too anticlimactic. Making it complicated kicks it up a notch, and I can actually picture myself sprinting to the printer to find out my result. It just... seems right! Or something. Somebody out there has to understand something in that mess I just wrote. ;)</p>
<p>But what happens if your printer breaks or jams??? :eek:</p>
<p>no, dtown i totally get you on that.
who knows, we might be close enough to eachother that when the decisions are out and we print them ill hear you yelling and youll hear me yelling lol.
if i get rejected ill just go to montco. haha.</p>
<p>I have two printers! I will turn on the monitor, squint my eyes in a creative fashion so that I can only see the little printer window, and switch to the other printer--then try again. ...In other words, let's just hope that doesn't happen! :o</p>
<p>Oboe, I was thinking the exact same thing. :D</p>
<p>yay for Montco.</p>
<p>Awesome plan...really, flawless :p</p>
<p>If I get accepted, you guys will TOTALLY hear me screaming in Philly...in fact, I think those of you in Singapore might hear me too...</p>
<p>Remember checking SAT scores...</p>
<p>For many or most of the people in this forum, those scores were vitally important and likely caused significant stress leading up to their release. Compare the importance of the scores with the Yale decision:</p>
<p>1.) Your SAT score was from a short 3 hour test (and perhaps a few dozen hours of preparation).</p>
<p>2.) That test could them be retaken.</p>
<p>3.) It was in a scale. Someone who could get a 750 would not likely get a 450, and could then retake.</p>
<p>4.) All that it mattered was as part of an application that included other, more important factors.</p>
<p>For the acceptance:</p>
<p>1.) This is the last 4+ years of your life that led up to this decision.</p>
<p>2.) It was a one time shot (except for defferments, which gave a small second chance).</p>
<p>3.) It is all or nothing in the end.</p>
<p>4.) This is the next 4 years, and then the rest of your life.</p>
<p>I hope that I haven't frightened anyone, but I can't even imagine how nerveracked we will feel.</p>
<p>For my own part, I will probably aproach the computer and log in, but take days to scroll down, until I tear off my ignorance (and perhaps hope) like a used bandage on a scab.</p>
<p>I also will probably avoid this site (and possibly depressing results, although I hope the best for all) until I have checked.</p>
<p>You guys should not get so worked up over checking the decisions, despite how important they are. We need to take a healthier approach. Think about it like this: when you sit down at that computer your result is there, it's final, and it's not going to change. Even if you wait for the mail to arrive, even if you wait for a while freaking out before you check, that decision is not going to be any different. So just type in your information, click log in, and open the letter confident in yourself and your accomplishments.
As interesting as these elaborate schemes are, you really don't need to trick yourself into being comfortable when checking this decision.</p>
<p>remmiak,</p>
<p>That is the perfect solution. Sadly for many of us their is one major obstacle in the way-- the human psyche.</p>
<p>that IS good idea. I don't know. I do hate clicking buttons and seeing things... SAT scores.... lol I might try the printer thing.</p>
<p>Make sure to turn down your sound. The suspense of not looking could be destroyed by circus music, the national anthem, the funeral march... I've heard some schools play music.</p>
<p>my dog chewed our speaker cords. hahaha but we're getting a new computer before then. lol</p>
<p>my dog chewed my computer cables.... ... thats genius, i could get out of homework that way... why didnt i think of that
:)</p>
<p>My all-time best homework excuse:</p>
<p>"My tree frog hopped into my printer and got stuck there, so I couldn't use it."</p>
<p>No joke--this actually happened. I couldn't print anything off for a week (until we had someone come over and take the printer apart) because it could have squashed the frog. You should have seen the looks on my teachers' faces; it was classic.....</p>
<p>that has to be the coolest excuse ever</p>
<p>
[quote]
3.) It is all or nothing in the end.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>kinda reminds me of that song "All or Nothing" by O'Town from that show, ahahah I can't believe I watched it</p>
<p>Making the Band! Man, I hated that show and watched it anyway :o</p>
<p>O-Town is history. lol I don't like shows like that, You can't put a band together like that...</p>