<p>So what are everyone's favorite methods for dealing with the ridiculous stress of college admissions in general and the imminent arrival of our early decision decisions specifically? I guess I'll start it off:</p>
<p>1. Eating: particularly oatmeal with whole milk, shredded coconut, and pears. totally unhealthy, completely delicious. 2. College Confidential: not a good coping mechanism at all. it really only increases stress, but i love it anyway. 3. Doing other college apps: for months now i've been working hard to convince myself that rejection is certain. one of the best ways to do this is to think about other colleges to apply to, write other supplements, start apps, etc. honestly, i feel like i've already been rejected. it's great! 4. Convincing yourself that Columbia totally sucks: go through the Columbia forum and try to find all the posts with long rants about Columbia's lack of community and Core (apparently, Columbia simultaneously fails to socially engineer to the standards of those who would rather be at Yale or Harvard, but academically engineers too much when it comes to the Core! Columbia students just have too much freedom to roam around New York...but not enough freedom to roam around the course catalogue! I guess you just can't win). read them religiously. you need to truly believe that Columbia is a noisy, dangerous, crime-filled, over-structured, under-structured, top-tier Ivy wannabe, generally horrible education. I mean, come on. it only got fourth in the USNWR rankings. what a ***hole! besides, who wants to go to school it a *city?!?!</p>
<p>well, oatmeal administered the right way is healthy. oatmeal with whole milk (maybe even some half-and-half [sounds kind of gross, but it’s great]), several handfuls of coconut, and sugar is not really. i mean, i guess it’s not that bad. but the calories rise quickly.</p>
<p>^Trying to convince myself everyone at Columbia are stuck-up, rich snobs. I’ll be WAY better off at UW Honors, and I can go study abroad…so what if it’s 30 minutes from home.</p>
<p>Not even allowing myself to CONSIDER the possibility I’m accepted…but it didn’t work so well last night when I dreamed about getting accepted. -___- I literally THOUGHT IT HAD HAPPENED. I woke up grinning my face off, and then I realized we still had a week to go. :(</p>
<p>I’d just like to point out to everyone that a good possible “coping mechanism” (although I’m not sure this falls under that category) is to NOT keep a countdown in your brain about when you will find out. I know the previous years tell us that we should find out on the 9th, but considering the switch to CommonApp and the slow pace of Columbia sending everyone news/emails/updates, I’m not pinning my hopes to that date!</p>
<p>…cause if I do, and then I don’t find out on that date, it will just make me even more stressed/nervous/anxious</p>
<p>^That’s so true. However, I do want to know the date of results as I think I would be better prepared. I so won’t like to wake up some day to only know results are out today. I would be in a mess!</p>
<p>Sorry to burst into your little Columbia party but I applied to Yale SCEA and had the EXACT SAME THING happen to me. I woke up so happy. And then I realized something was off… I was crushed!!!</p>
<p>Ahahaha quomodo, this college admissions thing is making us loopy.
And nice idea Silver, hah. That might help me stay off CC.
Actually on that note…I think I might try doing some yoga, I haven’t in a while…and that can be really good actually.</p>
<p>@ naomikt… hahah, where did silver come from? the college admissions process making us “loopy” just playing xD </p>
<p>The more that I distract myself, the better off I am. Then, randomly, I’ll remember that it is December 5th (as I’m doing homework or something) and spend the following 20 minutes focusing solely on “speeding up time.” Oh well, it will be the 9th before we know it!!!</p>
<p>1) doing other college apps
2) saying to myself that i’m a failure at life and that i had no chance at columbia in the first place, and who the eff was i trying to kid
3) eating raman noodles addictively</p>
