<p>inhaling candy like breathing air.
watching grey’s anatomy re-runs.
putting all my energy into journalism. (the december issue is coming out on thursday!)</p>
<p>O GOSH. I’m so scared. This is my dream, yknow? ):</p>
<p>@collegeftw: you aren’t a failure in life if you don’t get into Columbia. You would, however, be a failure in life if you are a pessimist who doesn’t exploit the advantages that life gives you.</p>
<p>this is kind of bizarre, but for a moment today i was actually sure that i’d already been rejected. i was discussing colleges to apply to RD with my mom, and when i said that i’d need to take the physics sat ii on the january test date if i was planning on applying to MIT, and she said that she wanted to wait to register until after i’d heard from columbia. i said “huh?” and then immediately realized that i still had a pending ED application. </p>
<p>i guess some coping mechanisms work a little too well.</p>
<p>LOL Axel, I do that all the time…not with college admissions, but when I’m waiting to find out about other things, I refuse to let my mom schedule around “tentative” things. She HATES it because then we have to rush around making last minute schedule changes, but I’m super stubborn about it. It’s my way of coping and not letting myself expect something to happen.</p>
<p>And oops, sorry Silence. 
I ammm clearly going a little insane here.</p>
<p>voraciously devouring an immense amount of neapolitan ice cream while watching depressing yet vivacious movies that concern the subtleties of life…lol</p>
<p>Playing on the iPod Touch “Eliminate”. Fun game hehe. That’s one useful thing that games do to me, they make you forget everything else.</p>
<p>“voraciously devouring an immense amount of neapolitan ice cream while watching depressing yet vivacious movies that concern the subtleties of life…lol”</p>
<p>yeah, for some reason i’ve been watching a ton of classic movies lately - chinatown, dr. zhivago, etc. good stuff. eating ice cream at the same time definitely adds to the experience.</p>
<p>Law and Order marathons are getting me through this ;)</p>
<p>good luck ya’ll…still no email from columbia huh? -.-</p>
<p>nothing…</p>
<p>I just got an email from Columbia!:</p>
<p>Dear (name),
We appreciate your consideration of Columbia University, a school that prides itself on its lack of timeliness. In order to exemplify this treasured quality, we will not be releasing the status of your application until next year. Probably February. Maybe March. Ha ha, have fun tearing your hair out, loser.
Love, your treasured #1 choice of college</p>
<p>^^^Obviously, that’s not the letter…but did Columbia actually send you an e-mail?</p>
<p>tearing your hair out! that’s a good one…</p>
<p>Lollll omg that would be so sad</p>
<p>And yes I love those movies!
I also like to watch “The Bumblebee Flies Anyway” when I’m down. It’s this psychological thriller about a teenage boy who lost all of his memory in a car accident and wounds up in a hospital for the terminally ill. So I’d probably watch that if I get rejected/deferred. :D</p>
<p>putting things in perspective i guess?</p>
<p>sadly, no real email was received. oh well</p>
<p>My best friend who applied EA to Stanford and I have decided after we find out about (our rejections) to Columbia & Stanford, we’re going to throw a pity party at my house and watch five million sappy movies on Netflix and get drunk. Haha. Fail. :(</p>
<p>OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG</p>
<p>please let us find us sometime next week, preferably by thurs the 9th, so i dont have to spend another week being completely unproductive/thinking about columbia/spend hours on college confidential</p>
<p>kthanksbye</p>
<p>^^^^^This.</p>
<p>Yeah…these past few months…well. Starting last May until the wait for August so the Common App would come out, really! My favorite coping strategy…I haven’t been coping?</p>
<p>But I also had a dream I was accepted to CC! It was wonderful and fantastic. I spend most of my time in class visualizing getting accepted, and drinking hot chocolate. Lots of hot chocolate. And I swear to god my AP Physics teacher is an enabler. She buys the stuff by the truckload and tells us every morning to “put the kettle on!!”</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I really don’t think I will get in, but I haven’t been using that as a coping strategy! Hahaha…it just depresses the crap out of me.</p>