<p>Okay, so the Buddha's hand is definitely majestic and grandiose, but would we be committing some kind of sacrilege by sacrificing a Buddhist plant to the patron saint of college admissions, who I'm pretty sure would be Catholic?</p>
<p>We may be tangling with forces beyond our control here.</p>
<p>Nonono, we shouldn't look for a grandiose vegetable; that could potentially be construed as ELITIST, and we wouldn't want to appear elitist, now, would we? :P</p>
<p>I say we sacrifice the most INTELLECTUAL vegetable we can find. I think a Buddha's Hand would only work if we were trying to, say, get into divinity school or something. Hell, let's just each sacrifice an owl to Minerva. I mean, she's the goddess of learning/wisdom/intellectual stuff.</p>
<p>Yay for paganism!!! =D</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure sacrificing an owl to Minerva would be a sacrilege. Sort of like eating Helios' cows. Just not the thing to do.</p>
<p>We could all show our devotion by fasting until the admissions decision. No one argues with self-sacrifice.</p>
<p>But doesn't it say in the Bible that your body is a sacred temple (or something along those lines) and you shouldn't be mean to it? Fasting is kind of mean, IMO. LoL.</p>
<p>And yes, my bad. If we're sacrificing to the patron saint of college admissions, we should still go with owl (preferably pure white or golden), but if we're sacrificing to Minerva herself, we should find pure white bulls (and gild their horns!) to sacrifice =D</p>
<p><em>goes looking for pure white bulls</em> Oh wait, I'll have to build a shrine first...</p>
<p>I read somewhere that sometimes admissions officers read the posts here on CC. What if they read all this and decide to release the admissions decisions at a really random time?!</p>
<p>Like NOW.</p>
<p>or NOW!</p>
<p>or maybe NOW.</p>
<p>^^ lmao.
my heart skips a beat everytime I check my email and I notice a (1) besides my inbox, thinking it's Chicago telling me it's time. It never is.</p>
<p>*Edit
What's up with the post sequence. Mine is in regard to jay123's post.</p>
<p>^^^ Umm calm down. I'm on the same boat as you, nervous and stuff, but just think of it like this, you've done everything you can up to this point, panicking and being a nervous wreck isn't going to help the cause. Just relax and when it comes it comes.</p>
<p>Ugh, I mean don't get me wrong, I would love to get my decision from Chicago ASAP but I don't want to be at school just randomly checking my email and then all of a sudden have the email pop out on me! I just wish they would give us a definitive date!</p>
<p>And according to my friend who is a Columbia applicant, Columbia even has a specific time that they notify their applicants. (I'm too lazy to go to the Columbia thread to see if this is true because all I care about is Chicago!)</p>
<p>ticktock-- I feel the same way!!</p>
<p>It depends WHEN I get my decision!! lol. They really should just tell us for crying out loud.</p>
<p>This is slow and tortuous. I think i had a dream about finding about last night. Damn my stressing subconscious! At this point, it's like a combination of early on-set senioritis and college-induced ridiculousness. How can a girl expect to get her bio lab finished by first period tomorrow? She can't, i tell you, she can't!</p>
<p>I think Columbia sent around an email saying that ED applicants will find out on Thursday, 5 PM time. Now if we only got one from Chicago...</p>
<p>that would be nice :)</p>
<p>The best move is just to delete the email, like I did with my Stanford decision, and wait for the letter.</p>
<p>^^ are you kidding me? I would go hunt it down in my trash folder after just several minutes.</p>
<p>Hahahaha, that's so true!</p>
<p>Dartmouth's ED is Thursday at 4 or 5.</p>
<p>Gah, we should just constantly clog admissions phone lines until they tell us...</p>
<p>Almost ALL the Ivies have told their applicants not only a specific date, but a precise time on which they'll post their decisions (i.e. Dartmouth: Dec 10th at 4 pm, Columbia: Dec 11th at 5pm [omg that's me aaahhh], UPenn: Dec 12th at 3 pm).</p>
<p>AND CHICAGO WON'T EVEN GIVE US A DATE.</p>
<p>Although, getting decisions back wouldn't be quite the same if we didn't have the excruciating wait, would it? It would seem less of a rite of passage and more just meh....</p>